What the most annoying bit in TVshows
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I think the most annoying thing is at the beginning or just before a commercial break when they do the COMING UP! or at the end when they do NEXT TIME
We don't want to know - it spoils the program
We don't want to know - it spoils the program
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I fast forward ALL of the intros and the 'coming up' parts.
The filmic bit in sports coverage (used for highlights of a previous day etc) where the distorted colours make it very difficult to see what was happening.
YES. THIS. :mad:
The programmes made for the cheapo digi channels are by far the worst for this. I once timed an allegedly hour long episode of Channel 5's 5th Gear (Top Gear was between seasons and I was desperate) and when you took out all the COMING UP, AFTER THE BREAK (which happened after EVERY break, not just at the start) plus the £1.50 a minute phone in "competition" and the bit plugging their own website, it turned out there was 27 minutes of actual content.
I haven't watched an episode of 5th Gear since, not even sure if they still make it.
That said, I rarely watch any "live" TV apart from sport and the odd good show on BBC that happens to be on at the time I want to watch it, for everything else I use my hard drive recorder. I can't begin to imagine how much time it's saved me over the years, fast forwarding through all the ads and other sh1t.
After every advert break, the narrator will repeat the same information again and again. "Mr and Mrs X have invited renowned hotelier Alex Polizzi to help save the struggling Hotel Y. But with standards falling and guests leaving, will she be able to do it?" After the second ad break, we bloody well know that Alex Polizzi is a renowned hotelier who has been asked by a couple we're now familiar with to save a hotel we are fully aware is struggling. We've been watching for half an hour, why are you giving us the basics again and again? Do the programme makers think we forget what we've been watching after we've been bamboozled for four minutes by twee female vocalists advertising pizza, cars, butter and discounted vodka?
Deal or No Deal is guilty of this too. Noel CONSTANTLY tells us who is playing, where they are from and the job they do. He mentions it about FIVE times throughout. SHUT UP NOEL! :mad:
This usually happens when a genuinely witty person, chemistry or event happens and, over time, gets a positive reaction from the critics/viewers. Then the producers cram it in and it looks SO false.
It happened so blatantly in A Question Of Sport, Have I Got News For You is a little guilty of it too these days. Top Gear is laughably staged at times and The Gadget Show on Channel 5 has excruciatingly bad "ad-fibbing" as I like to call it. There are many other examples.
If we wanted such obviously orchestrated clowning, we'd all be watching Last Of The Summer Wine. One more wheeled machine with an old man on board going down a hill into a ditch or stream and I'll surely burst
In that case, why not turn off the volume and turn on the subtitles?;)
I think that's to give the contestant on the first podium some thinking time.
Totally agree. Whoever divised this trend should be shot. I can't stand spoilers but they've become unavoidable due to this. Are people so pathetic they can't just wait until the next episodes to see what happens for themselves?
I know the coming up/last time bits before ad breaks are aimed at reeling in the channel hoppers but it's still ridiculous and is getting worse by the year. There's not much point to watching most programmes any more.
I also depsise credit squeezing/talking over the credits/not showing credits at all. Whoever started that off is a total c**k.
Hi, I'm Gok Wan, coming up in part one we'll take a look at what's coming up in parts two three and four.
Welcome to part two. Let's look at what happened in part one and take a look at what's coming up in parts three and four.
Welcome back. In part three we'll take a look at what happened in parts one and two whilst looking ahead to what's coming up in part four.
Welcome to part four, we'll recap parts one two and three, then we'll have a sneaky look at what's happening in next weeks show.
And so say all of us, and so say all of us.
Coming up: Other people disagree. But to remind you of what was said originally.............
Both things that were imported from the US. We copy them now in terms of where we place are ad breaks, and it's really annoying.
and also a good spoof of the setup of cookery shows: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mbqHsObQ5s
They do that on X Factor - on Saturday's it's 'Last week'...and on Sunday's it's 'Last night'...:D
Having said that, it's not as new an annoyance as you'd think, every episode of World At War has this 60 second intro before the main titles.