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Trivial things that annoy you about TV
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Weird news interviews with celebrities
I've just watched George Galloway dressed like Colombo and accompanied by what looks like a Thai bride discuss the Scottish referendum over a curry.
What happened to sitting face to face in a studio?
I've just watched George Galloway dressed like Colombo and accompanied by what looks like a Thai bride discuss the Scottish referendum over a curry.
What happened to sitting face to face in a studio?
As a newbie here, I'm a little late to this party but its a great thread.
One of my pet hates is that, on house build type programmes, presenters, estate agents and architects, etc, have to walk for miles along the road before viewing the houses. They don't have cars or taxis, instead the poor things have to walk, walk, walk. Couldn't someone just drop them off at the front door?
One of my pet hates is that, on house build type programmes, presenters, estate agents and architects, etc, have to walk for miles along the road before viewing the houses. They don't have cars or taxis, instead the poor things have to walk, walk, walk. Couldn't someone just drop them off at the front door?
Cutting to unimportant Breaking News, like the other day when the beeb cut away from a live speech at a union conference to tell the nation that a girl was pregnant.
^ I imagine it went something like this:
Exec A: "Shall we wait for this to finish before we break the news that [the Duchess of Cambridge is] pregnant?"
Exec B: "Nah: this is more important."
Exec A: "Shall we wait for this to finish before we break the news that [the Duchess of Cambridge is] pregnant?"
Exec B: "Nah: this is more important."
Outdoor night scenes in dramas have to be accompanied by either a) owls hooting or b) foxes screaming - just in case the viewer hasn't noticed it's dark!
I don't think it's A because [insert stupid reason here] and I don't think it's B because [insert another stupid reason here]. So I'm going to go with C.
Is it so hard for people to just SAY THE BLOODY ANSWER without the stupid explanations?! Eggheads is guilty of this!
Is it so hard for people to just SAY THE BLOODY ANSWER without the stupid explanations?! Eggheads is guilty of this!
In Drama.. flaming dream sequences ..they spoil the narrative.. the actors are usually out of character playing weird nonsense and there's always the cliched ending of the dreamer sitting bolt upright in the bed
Originally Posted by GoCompareThis:
“I don't think it's A because [insert stupid reason here] and I don't think it's B because [insert another stupid reason here]. So I'm going to go with C.
Is it so hard for people to just SAY THE BLOODY ANSWER without the stupid explanations?! Eggheads is guilty of this!”
“I don't think it's A because [insert stupid reason here] and I don't think it's B because [insert another stupid reason here]. So I'm going to go with C.
Is it so hard for people to just SAY THE BLOODY ANSWER without the stupid explanations?! Eggheads is guilty of this!
”
Contestants on Eggheads are told to pad it out a bit instead of just giving the answer.
It does help if they can do it knowledgeably though.
Beginning of News programmes where you have to endure incessant noise over the headlines, again followed halfway through
The news ''where we are'' doing anything they can to make the main national news story of the day their main headline also
''As you may have seen on the national news, fears grow over ISIS...so we interviewed people in Derby, to gauge a public opinion of this evil, bloodsucking parasite group''
''As you may have seen on the national news, fears grow over ISIS...so we interviewed people in Derby, to gauge a public opinion of this evil, bloodsucking parasite group''
Probably been said in other places, but my own bugbear reared its head again over the weekend.
7.35 a.m. Sunday morning BBC1 - "here are yesterday's football highlights and results ... so if you've managed to avoid the scores and are about to watch Match of the Day in FIVE MINUTES TIME, I'd just like to ruin it for you."
The Likely Lads all over again!!
7.35 a.m. Sunday morning BBC1 - "here are yesterday's football highlights and results ... so if you've managed to avoid the scores and are about to watch Match of the Day in FIVE MINUTES TIME, I'd just like to ruin it for you."
The Likely Lads all over again!!
I know it's trivial but it really annoys me when there is a cooking slot on something like Lorrainne or This morning and the presenter clearly has no clue about the simplist of cooking. They are asked to help the guest chef in doing a very simple task and they look like they've never been in a kitchen let alone cooked something and yet they are often wives and mothers. I know not everyone can cook and many male partners do the cooking these days but in this day and age everyone should be able to do the most basic to feed themselves. I've seen Amanda Holden today on this morning helping Gino Decampo and all he asked her to do was toast some bread and grill some corgettes on a grillplate. She acted like she was having to do something really complicated. I think she would have found beans on toast a challenge!
Originally Posted by patricia50:
“I've seen Amanda Holden today on this morning helping Gino Decampo and all he asked her to do was toast some bread and grill some corgettes on a grillplate. She acted like she was having to do something really complicated. I think she would have found beans on toast a challenge!”
“I've seen Amanda Holden today on this morning helping Gino Decampo and all he asked her to do was toast some bread and grill some corgettes on a grillplate. She acted like she was having to do something really complicated. I think she would have found beans on toast a challenge!”
Maybe she reached her culinary peak digging into expensive yogurts
Originally Posted by patricia50:
“I know it's trivial but it really annoys me when there is a cooking slot on something like Lorrainne or This morning and the presenter clearly has no clue about the simplist of cooking. They are asked to help the guest chef in doing a very simple task and they look like they've never been in a kitchen let alone cooked something and yet they are often wives and mothers. I know not everyone can cook and many male partners do the cooking these days but in this day and age everyone should be able to do the most basic to feed themselves. I've seen Amanda Holden today on this morning helping Gino Decampo and all he asked her to do was toast some bread and grill some corgettes on a grillplate. She acted like she was having to do something really complicated. I think she would have found beans on toast a challenge!”
“I know it's trivial but it really annoys me when there is a cooking slot on something like Lorrainne or This morning and the presenter clearly has no clue about the simplist of cooking. They are asked to help the guest chef in doing a very simple task and they look like they've never been in a kitchen let alone cooked something and yet they are often wives and mothers. I know not everyone can cook and many male partners do the cooking these days but in this day and age everyone should be able to do the most basic to feed themselves. I've seen Amanda Holden today on this morning helping Gino Decampo and all he asked her to do was toast some bread and grill some corgettes on a grillplate. She acted like she was having to do something really complicated. I think she would have found beans on toast a challenge!”
Holden is a talentless bint. No surprise that grilling toast is too much for her. I'm surprised she can walk and talk at the same time.
Originally Posted by maycontainnuts:
“In Drama.. flaming dream sequences ..they spoil the narrative.. the actors are usually out of character playing weird nonsense and there's always the cliched ending of the dreamer sitting bolt upright in the bed”
“In Drama.. flaming dream sequences ..they spoil the narrative.. the actors are usually out of character playing weird nonsense and there's always the cliched ending of the dreamer sitting bolt upright in the bed”
Women are always dressed in white in dreams, usually Victorian style night gowns and not the Primark fleece pyjamas they probably are wearing.
Extra long soap trailers.
I couldn't give a shit about soaps so a trailer isn't going to get me to watch.
Soap fans will tune in anyway.
What percentage of people are going to watch the trailer and think "well i've missed the whole build up to this sotry line but i'll tune in to watch this 30 minutes anyway, even though I don't know any of the characters back stories or what's been going on in the show recently." ????
I couldn't give a shit about soaps so a trailer isn't going to get me to watch.
Soap fans will tune in anyway.
What percentage of people are going to watch the trailer and think "well i've missed the whole build up to this sotry line but i'll tune in to watch this 30 minutes anyway, even though I don't know any of the characters back stories or what's been going on in the show recently." ????
Originally Posted by C Horse:
“Probably been said in other places, but my own bugbear reared its head again over the weekend.
7.35 a.m. Sunday morning BBC1 - "here are yesterday's football highlights and results ... so if you've managed to avoid the scores and are about to watch Match of the Day in FIVE MINUTES TIME, I'd just like to ruin it for you."
The Likely Lads all over again!!”
“Probably been said in other places, but my own bugbear reared its head again over the weekend.
7.35 a.m. Sunday morning BBC1 - "here are yesterday's football highlights and results ... so if you've managed to avoid the scores and are about to watch Match of the Day in FIVE MINUTES TIME, I'd just like to ruin it for you."
The Likely Lads all over again!!”
That happens on Saturday nights as well.
It annoys me when I watch Dragon's Den and Evan Davies does the bits in between and often tells me things I don't want to hear, as I want to judge the pitch without his 'teasers'. You then get a him doing a voiceover even during the segment telling you that just 1 dragon is still in, YES, WE KNOW, now shut up, you're not adding anything to the show, you're either chipping in with spoilers or pointing out the bloody obvious.
When they have chefs on chat shows and they get them to do a cringy cooking segment on a portable grill with a 2 minute time limit.
It really annoys me in soaps when people pretend to drink out of empty cups. It's so obviously empty. why can't they just half fill it with water, or is it too hard to expect actors to drink and act at the same time?
Adverts that say they have a new improved formula.
How are we supposed to know what the previous formula consisted of?
There a one on at the moment with Carol Smilie and she says try our new product with less chemicals.
Less that what? How much was in the previous version?
How are we supposed to know what the previous formula consisted of?
There a one on at the moment with Carol Smilie and she says try our new product with less chemicals.
Less that what? How much was in the previous version?
1. The BBC trailing the news between programmes.... yes, we know when the 10 O'Clock news is... the clue's in the name
2. Making journalists stand outside government departments in the middle of the night when there is no-one of any consequence there. "Here outside the Foreign Office.." as if someone is going to come out and give them a cuppa or nip out and say "Well, being it's you..here's what's really happening".
3. After any tragic loss of an individual where they send cub reporters who always beign with "Yes, Huw, this is a community in shock/grief/crisis" when 99% of the "community" had never heard of the individual. Not to diminish the horror, but one of these hapless journos was covering the death of Alan Henning and rolled out the hackneyed formula, only for someone to ride past on a bike, on the pavement, eating an apple.
2. Making journalists stand outside government departments in the middle of the night when there is no-one of any consequence there. "Here outside the Foreign Office.." as if someone is going to come out and give them a cuppa or nip out and say "Well, being it's you..here's what's really happening".
3. After any tragic loss of an individual where they send cub reporters who always beign with "Yes, Huw, this is a community in shock/grief/crisis" when 99% of the "community" had never heard of the individual. Not to diminish the horror, but one of these hapless journos was covering the death of Alan Henning and rolled out the hackneyed formula, only for someone to ride past on a bike, on the pavement, eating an apple.
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