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I buy Radio Times every week, not sure why, it's dull as, but anyhoo, on the last page they have an interview that discusses a celebrity's viewing habits. The Q&A is so predictable every week and usually goes like this:
Q What scared you on TV as a child?
A Doctor Who!!! Ooh, I used to watch it from behind the sofa!!!
Q What do you switch off?
A Oh those terrible scripted reality shows like TOWIE
Q Who do you admire on the TV?
A David Attenborough is SUCH a hero of mine...
And so and and so forth. I think of all of them it's the "Doctor Who from behind the sofa/cushion" that bugs me the most, it's so cliched and predictable.
Anybody else care to share?
Q What scared you on TV as a child?
A Doctor Who!!! Ooh, I used to watch it from behind the sofa!!!
Q What do you switch off?
A Oh those terrible scripted reality shows like TOWIE
Q Who do you admire on the TV?
A David Attenborough is SUCH a hero of mine...
And so and and so forth. I think of all of them it's the "Doctor Who from behind the sofa/cushion" that bugs me the most, it's so cliched and predictable.
Anybody else care to share?
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Myths turned into cliches: Back in the day I remember Kenneth Wolstenholme commentating on the Cup Final and every year he would mention, at least once, the lush Wembley turf and its particular cramp inducing qualities. Nothing to do with lack of fitness, dehydration or playing extra time then.
"36000 runners running this race, every one of them running a race of their own"
Every year without fail.
It's a dreadful cliche, extremely corny, and it's enthusiasm I'm sure they very often have to fake, but they never the less still need to promote their wares. Poor luvvies.
Since it's reinvention with loads of cash being thrown at both production values and scripts, it is unrecognisable from former years. The hardcore fanboys seem to pretend that it was always like this when it really wasn't.
Yes - it was VERY funny at first I must say. But it has been shown so many times since....it has become a parody of itself!
I never understood the "hiding behind the sofa" bit with Doctor Who. I was sometimes a bit scared as a kid - but I was more on the edge of my seat panting for more!!
"The album of the year"
Every album released can't be the album of the year
Albums of soft rock like Foreigner/Def Leppard/Aerosmith compilations...PERFECT FOR FATHER'S DAY!!!!!
Albums of soft shite like Mickey Bubble, Boyzone and Westlife compilations...PERFECT FOR MOTHER'S DAY!!!
I'd disown both of my kids if they presented me with that crap of a Sunday morning in March.
Every player who ever kicked a ball with his left foot is described as having "a sweet left foot". Nobody ever runs down the wing, they go "marauding" and any goal that is scored at any time between the 40th and 45th minute is described as having been scored "on the stroke of half time." The fact that the game then restarts and play carries on for another five minutes seems to totally elude them.
Commentators clearly don't even think about what they're going to say next. They just engage mouth and let it run away with itself. Some of them must be worried that if they ever stop talking, that hole in the middle of their face will somehow heal itself up and they won't be able to use it any more.
We should be so lucky.
Sky Sports had a red button option for a couple of seasons where viewers could watch live matches with no commentary, just the crowd noise. It was sheer bliss. Unfortunately, this facility was cancelled after a couple of seasons. Methinks it must have become very popular and the commentators became miffed because fewer and fewer people were listening to them any more.
If there was any group of people in sport and / or television that I would send to Room 101, it would be football commentators.
Or it's 'The Stunning ' new album from xxx.
Who says it is? It's only just been released, we haven't even heard it yet. Bell ends.
It might be my age (I turned 24 last week) but almost all TV is horribly cliched, though I suspect it always was. There is the faux excitement and artificial tension of Masterchef, the knocking on the door of someone who opens up and is suprised to see the presenter ('Oh, hello') and, presumably the cameraman, soundrecordist, producer and I don't know who else in his trail
There are the oh-so predictable 'police procedurals' with these days a feisty, but caring women inspector, probably a single mum juggling motherhood and career and who won't be cowed by any man!
There are the bullshit Horizon one-hour programmes, when you know what the guy/gal is going to say several minutes before they say it with lots of moody or snazzy shots and mood music.
Give me a break.
I'm also immensely irritated by the overuse of the word 'amazing' to describe utter mediocrities such as the karaoke turns on X Factor. If I were ever on "Room 101" I'd put it in alongside other misuses of superlatives.
If I wasn't so self conscious I would apply, but I wouldn't be good TV fodder.
Yeah whatever.
It's much more likely the sound without commentary option was removed because it was UNpopular.
I am not annoyed about bad contestants on quiz show, I just expect them. Thus they are a cliché.
I agree, it was never even that funny in the first place.
''Join me, on an incredible adventure...''
''This has been...SUCH, an adventure''
''This is a journey for me''
''I just feel like...I've been on a journey''
''This is the biggest journey for me''
...and repeat until you feel the need to cave your face in with blunt nails and fire.
I think Richard Osman on Pointless has banned people from saying "that was before my time"