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Can ITV daytime get any worse?
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It's dire from 6:00am through to 1:30pm. Good Morning Britain Loos Women without the chairperson. Then Lorrorange Kelly with more celeb chit tat followed by the Jeremy Kyle Show and it's exploitation of the underclass. And as a reminder what time of day it is This Morning which carefully skirts around any controversy that a regular contributor may be involved in then to finish off there's Loose Women the original video drones.
Just when you think it can't get any worse on This Morning today they had a member of the public being interviewed about her lover who slept with her best friend, and why should we care about this? Because this member of the public would have empathy for Katie Price who's partner is alleged to have slept with one of Ms Price's friends!!
There was no suggestion this female member of the public knew or had any connection with Ms Price.
Just when you think it can't get any worse on This Morning today they had a member of the public being interviewed about her lover who slept with her best friend, and why should we care about this? Because this member of the public would have empathy for Katie Price who's partner is alleged to have slept with one of Ms Price's friends!!
There was no suggestion this female member of the public knew or had any connection with Ms Price.
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I did think the woman on today talking about her empathy for Katie Price was trash, she just used it as a reason to get on TV.
You can always do something else you do not have to watch it.
Ken Bruce on Radio 2 is far better and his audience figures probably beat all daytime channels combined. Daytime television is meant to be cheap and disposable as it's the least watched part of the schedule( apart ftom through the night). Mostly I'm at work and when not, I'm not sitting thinking about how awful Loose Women is as I wouldn't watch that or the antiques and makeover rubbish on BBC One at any time.
Do you have no other way to pass your time apart from watching TV? Books, radio, library, walking etc etc?
Excluding News and Emmerdsle ALL ITV in prime time is repeats, repeat of a repeat film shown five months ago and post news repeats.
BBC1/2 all new shows in Primetime!
If my Friends aren't working I do go and meet up with them. Otherwise I just like to chill in front of the TV on my day off.
Build up a backlog of recorded programmes that you like.
They could have fewer advertisements - then there'd be more of their awful programmes to watch
Just always puzzled by the number of people on Digital Spy who seem to watch TV at least 24 hours a day!
The schedule went something like this:
9:25am Crosswits/ Win, Lose or Draw
These quizzes I liked.
9:55am The Time, The Place
A million times better than any of its successors in terms of quality and subjects discussed.
10:25am This Morning with Richard and Judy
Somewhat better and less celebrity-obsessed than it is now.
12:30pm ITN Lunchtime News
It lost its way in the early-mid 2000s during the 'walking news' era but that aside, it's about the same, albeit a little too short these days.
From 1pm onwards it was regional. and this meant a mixture of Australian soaps of varying eras and quality, regional programmes like Gardening Time with the late Geoff Amos, who even then was well past retirement age (I believe this was shown in some other regions, though). I recall a regional cookery programme with a woman with an early 1990s style Deirdre Barlow perm and big, red-rimmed glasses, bought-in cookery like Yan Can Cook, cheap, and largely-forgotten quizzes, before a short news bulletin at 3:25pm, after which Children's ITV would start. Pre-school children's programmes were shown at lunchtime previously, with the main CITV starting at 4pm.
Things were probably a tad better in the 1980s with afternoons of snooker and semi-networked, reasonably good chatshows with decent interviewers like Mavis Nicholson (grossly under-used in the last 20 years in my view - she's still very sharp), but in general there was a lot of cheap rubbish on ITV daytime in the 1990s.
Yes but some channels like Yesterday, Dave, National Geographic and even Sky1 aren't all that different in the daytime than the evening so there must always be something to watch, then there's things like music video channels which are as good in the daytime as any other time, is the reign of terror of daytime TV over with all the extra choice we have nowadays? Who needs BBC ONE & ITV, when there's all sorts of other channels to watch, I do watch The Wright Stuff on Channel 5 however, that's a good daytime programme.
You obviously couldn't get enough of it though!
On my days off i thank god for my garden and internet radio. Oh sorry forgot im an atheist. Thank god i remembered that one!
It's the producers of the show I blame for inviting her on to the show.
True, but you'd think they'd try and do something better with the 7.5 hours.
I did and switched away, the whole thrust of ITV1 daytime seems to have been skewed towards an ITV2 audience.
The BBC does produce some good daytime tv dramas
The Indian Doctor
Father Brown
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