Luckily, my DVD finished just in time for MOTD. Since then, I've resorted to putting on Sky News in the background, which has been mildly amusing, as the poor newsreader seems to have been choking on and off for the last hour, and we've been treated to moments of silence whilst she gets her breath back and then she comes back on and her eyes are all watery.
Bless her, she even managed to see the funny side of it and took the mickey out of herself
I thought the TV was awful over Christmas but last night I was so bored I actually turned the TV and went back to my work! Unheard of! I hope tonight is a bit better....
I agree. Not one programme worth watching on bbc1 since Thursday. very unusual for there to be absolutely nothing on either of the main channels during a weekend.
The stupid thing about last night was that it was not a typical Saturday for most people, i.e. there were lots of people who would normally be out on a Saturday night who weren't, either because they were with family or they were trying to save a bit of money. That would have meant a potentially huge captive TV audience, had the broadcasters realised this and shown some decent quality programmes.
Never thought I would see the day I sat and watched weather programmes over what was on the terristorial channels..lol
This made me chuckle - I've been doing the same: surfing the channels and then deciding to watch the next weather report hmm, maybe that should be a instead
Gave up on the Stephen King "Bag of Bones" - just went on and on. Took to my bed with a good book instead. Rubbish TV again tonight.
Same here and yet I love Stephen King, and it was the one programme that I was looking forward to last night. Think I may have to start my box set of The Wire unless tonight's television is better.
I thought the TV was awful over Christmas but last night I was so bored I actually turned the TV and went back to my work! Unheard of! I hope tonight is a bit better....
I have a little computer program that scrapes the TV schedules. It then removes all the repeats, sports, soaps, celebs, reality, children's stuff, game/quiz shows and news broadcasts. After that it tells me what might *just* be worth watching - usually 4 or more programmes a day. It always dips down over christmas and it usually reports fewer shows at weekends, too. But a couple of times recently (including christmas day) it came up blank: nothing at all. Not even the computer thinks there's anything worth watching on telly
In the New Year, hopefully, Suits, White Collar, The Glades, Southland, Elementary, Jack Irish, Prime Suspect USA, Castle, etc., should be returning and there's several episodes of "Cold Case" I'm always willing to watch for a second time. Without the minor channels there's not a lot I'd bother to record to chose to watch or not, later.
Other half went to bed early with a book.
I watched the darts on SKY.there were two brilliant quarter final matches on.
Recorded Match of the Day,and caught up after the darts.
I agree that for a Saturday it was awful.
ITV are a disgrace.
What on earth do they do with all that revenue they get from the adverts?
Surely they could have got a decent film.
It is an insult to put on Love Actually at peak time on a Saturday.
And any excuse to put another rehash of Youve Ben Framed
Dire dire dire. I reckon it must be a device to get us all to buy box sets or get very drunk! yes I was watching episode 1 of Mentalbaldie (Montalbano) again rather then anything that was on. I have nine shows but as I'm only just reading number 6..I'm resisting the other three. Please O God of TV heaven let Ripper Street be some cop....
Yeah Christmas tv used to be the best and things to look forward to, not anymore, its just lazy tv, stuff thats been on hundreds of times like two ronnies or dads army, countdown tv, best moments of whatever, and programs trying to replicate downtown abbey. Utter garbage this year.
I watched Carry on camping for what must be the 1,000th time and now on Really Outtake TV
Where have all the good programmes gone :mad:
Yeah. I watched Carry On Camping, but they cut out all the dirty bits! I can understand them cutting out the nudist camp bit at the beginning but they also cut out bits of Barbara Windsor fighting with Anna Karen (Olive from On The Buses)
I knew times were bad - but I didn't realise it was this bad? 30 years of CITV? Talk about scrapping the barrell. I didn't even watch that as a kid. It was either BBC1 or cartoon network..
CITV did produce a lot of quality children's television which millions enjoyed. That's why it was produced. A bit like that TISWAS Reunited show they did 5 years ago. A one-off is not scraping the barrel at all.
Celebrity Wrestling and Love Island - now *THEY* were scraping the barrel!!!
You're one of the few that didn't watch CITV or its ITV predecessors.
I was more of a CBBC kid (split about 70/30 between CBBC and CITV), but in retrospect, I accept that a lot of CITV's output was better than what I used to watch.
Get Your Own Back??? Fun House was better.
Bananaman vs. Dangermouse? Dangermouse hands down. No contest.
Did CBBC have an equivalent of Knightmare, for example? Or of How/How 2?
Go back to the late seventies and you'd have Dr Who, The Generation Game, Some Mothers Do Ave Em, The Two Ronnies, MOTD and Parkinson, all unmissable shows. Now whenever I switch on it's 20 year old clips of cats falling off walls.
You're comparing a BBC1 Saturday night schedule of the 70s (in an era when ITV's Saturdays weren't very strong) to an ITV Saturday now, when it still isn't very good.
Saturday night TV has always been crap. (apart from The Two Ronnies you mention above).
I love old Doctor Who - but I accept it's still crap.
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Bless her, she even managed to see the funny side of it and took the mickey out of herself
That's my drunken song of choice.
I didn't see much worth watching over Christmas except after midnight for some reason, I've been watching DVDs
Virginmedia on demand provide pretty much anything now on nights like that.
This made me chuckle - I've been doing the same: surfing the channels and then deciding to watch the next weather report
Same here and yet I love Stephen King, and it was the one programme that I was looking forward to last night. Think I may have to start my box set of The Wire unless tonight's television is better.
Nothing wrong with a repeat sometimes.
I live a very busy life and often miss things when they are shown the first time.
The other programmes in my list weren't repeats.
Apparently that was supposed to be a three part miniseries but they just stuck it all on at once. No wonder it went on!
TAKE ME OUT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I watched the darts on SKY.there were two brilliant quarter final matches on.
Recorded Match of the Day,and caught up after the darts.
I agree that for a Saturday it was awful.
ITV are a disgrace.
What on earth do they do with all that revenue they get from the adverts?
Surely they could have got a decent film.
It is an insult to put on Love Actually at peak time on a Saturday.
And any excuse to put another rehash of Youve Ben Framed
Yeah. I watched Carry On Camping, but they cut out all the dirty bits! I can understand them cutting out the nudist camp bit at the beginning but they also cut out bits of Barbara Windsor fighting with Anna Karen (Olive from On The Buses)
CITV did produce a lot of quality children's television which millions enjoyed. That's why it was produced. A bit like that TISWAS Reunited show they did 5 years ago. A one-off is not scraping the barrel at all.
Celebrity Wrestling and Love Island - now *THEY* were scraping the barrel!!!
You're one of the few that didn't watch CITV or its ITV predecessors.
I was more of a CBBC kid (split about 70/30 between CBBC and CITV), but in retrospect, I accept that a lot of CITV's output was better than what I used to watch.
Get Your Own Back??? Fun House was better.
Bananaman vs. Dangermouse? Dangermouse hands down. No contest.
Did CBBC have an equivalent of Knightmare, for example? Or of How/How 2?
You're comparing a BBC1 Saturday night schedule of the 70s (in an era when ITV's Saturdays weren't very strong) to an ITV Saturday now, when it still isn't very good.
Saturday night TV has always been crap. (apart from The Two Ronnies you mention above).
I love old Doctor Who - but I accept it's still crap.