Was looking forward to Paul O'Grady's Animal Orphans - bl**dy music ruined it. Pop songs, jazz, piano - why? The actual programme is great without silly background music. In fact there are a lot of TV programme which would be just as viewable without music!

When people on property programmes are shown places way above budget. I was watching Place in the Sun today and a couple who had a £250k budget, was shown a place that was £312k. WHAT THE HELL IS THE POINT OF THAT?!

I have the same problem with O Grady's For the Love of Dogs, the music is way too overbearing. I guess ITV think if there are parts with no music the show gets boring? I don't think that (it gets boring) but obviously the Editor does.

Also why isn't there a For the Love of Cats or spin off based on the cats of Battersea Dogs and Cats home? That irritates me,they could use a similar format but have a different presenter instead.

Agreed. They could get Susan Calman who was captioned as a "cat lover" on "Cats Do The Funniest Things"

When the announcer at the end of an episode of a series tells us it's back next week, but when a series is being dropped for a week or two or changing days due to a live event or something the announcer says nothing!

The fact that there are numbers on the screen when you turn the volume up and down

Has only been annoying since I moved in with the other half who thinks its bad luck to leave the volume on an odd number and has got me doing the same thing now


Oh year, the BBC beepy pips noise they make when the news comes on the hour has always gotten on my wick, high time they got rid

When the person who announces the next show thats on has clearly never seen it, or taken any interest in it because they either pronounce the presenters name wrong or get some of the info wrong.

Recent examples were itv be, where the lady voiceover always pronounces 60 minute makeover scottish designer john amabile's name exactly as its spelt, am-er-bile, when its actually am-are-blay!

Theres a male voice over too, who introduced the millionaire matchmaker show, led by "patti stranger" when her surname is stanger, pronouced like rhyming with hanger.

Its so trivial but when you watch the shows and know the names you realise that these voiceover people dont really go the extra mile to know what theyre on about, just read it off a script. And why doesnt anyone higher pick up on it before its broadcast?

Loved Cats Do and Paul O'Grady's Animal Orphans last night but yep, the music was a little distracting. Still both enjoyable though, esp the latter.

Ditto


I find some people annoying on TV who expound THEIR views as though we all agree with them.

Also, middle class luvvies who 'discover' parts of England we already knew about for eg - Yorkshire - some of the twee presenters would have had my dear departed uncle pushing back his flat cap, scratching his head and muttering a few Yorkshire (unintelligible) oaths.

Also gardening or foody programmes expounding grow your own vegetables - er we always grew our own vegetables at home and didn't need anyone to tell us.

And women unable to afford childcare and having to stay home talked about on the news - wow there's a revolutionary idea looking after your own kids - would never have thought about it!

I think it's the fact they think, in TV land, it's their place to nanny us and that we're all a bit thick - er, no.

Alternatively the presenter finds them the exact house theyve asked for; 7 bedrooms, a granny annexe, croquet lawn and a south facing solar pannelled chicken coup AND its below offer by 50k but still the people dither and say they aren't interested

That annoys me too. Especially when they give the reason as being ' the noise from the road', and the presenter has to practically stick his head out of the window to hear the slight swishing of the very odd car passing down the quiet country lane.

Goldberry1, news presenters, bbc and sky esp, with their 'the question is...' and the almost sinister way they inject their own personal opinions into a news subject in order to try and influence public opinion, or make a thing happen. I've noticed in particular when an MP is in trouble, rather than just reporting the facts and standing back to let the process proceed, the pundits gather excitedly like a pack of wolves smelling blood, and then start clamouring for something to be done about it, by informing us something really SHOULD be done. Everything is trial by media, or worse, by Twitter. Dog help us all.

It's so creepy and nauseating and one of the reasons I watch most news channels with one eyebrow permanently cocked skywards.

Don't know if this has already been mentioned: I love Broadchurch and its' music but it's a shame that the announcer obliterates it at the end of the show. There are solutions, watch it on-line or on Encore when it's released to that...either of which mean me going out of my way a bit and having to download it or waiting a while. Not that big of an issue really.

I have to switch off if the presenter starts describing things that happened in the past in the present tense. 'He goes to the police and reports the crime', when it happened a year ago. That Dominic guy on BBC daytime is the worst for this but it's creeping in everywhere.

Food Network has been going quite a while in the UK and for as long as I can remember a show called Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives has been shown.

The host's name is Guy Fieri, but pronounced Fee-etty.
At the start of every single episode (several times a day) he intrdouces the show by saying
"Hi, i'm Guy Fee-etty, and welcome to ......" then the titles role.

The two voice over people (male and female - and AFAIK the same they've always had) still get his name wrong!

I agree. I don't watch many reality tv shows but i've seen it on some cooking competition shows such as Chopped.

Here is an example
http://youtu.be/8pj09JoKLgk?t=9m55s

.... and again, last night: 'Pets - Wild at Heart' on BBC 1. an excellent and sometimes amusing programme which was ruined by the music.

The fact that BBC1 and BBC2 has two animal related shows on the same time last night.

And that the BBC is trying to populate the weekend and now the week with bloody football or football catch up programmes.

Football in prime time on a Friday/Monday/Tuesday on BBC1? Put it on the bloody red button!

............ and last night, 'Winter Watch' - message to producers:

these programmes DO NOT NEED BACKGROUND MUSIC

Don't get me wrong, I love music. I present a two hour radio show full of music where I work at an online radio station, BUT ..................... there's a time and a place and nature programmes aren't one of them.

The fact that Strictly Come Dancing still tries to convince the viewer that the results show is going out live on Sunday evening, when the dogs in the street know it was filmed the night before. It's just cringey when Tess or Len start talking about 'last night'...

But it was "last night" for the viewer at home (although obviously not when they recorded it).
This is common practice for a lot of tv which is pre-recorded but then transmitted on a particular night. Graham Norton's show is a prime example of this. When promoting a new film they will often mention it being released "today" (meaning the night of transmission) even though it is usually recorded the day before.

And they've never pretended that the show is going out live on a Sunday. If some people think it is then more fool them.

Really? I can't stand him or his sunglasses poised just so or his hair, so I'm not surprised he pronounces his name according to the true Italian pronunciation.

I find him a pompous git.

Oh, and I don't like the end credits squeezed and smashed with the upcoming show to make room for a crummy advert. I'm sure commercials are the bane of everyone's television viewing, so that goes without saying. Wait, I just said it.

Almost forgot: the interminable loud inappropriate music on every single car show DH watches. In addition to the idiot cursing and shouting and whinging which these shows cannot do without.

Many more, but then I'd seem too curmudgeonly.

Be thankful you weren't watching the Cambridge version of Look East - most of it was about the Cambridge-Man United game tonight.

Is it just my imagination, or are the ad breaks on Quest and Dave getting longer and longer? If not, they certainly seem it due to the never ending number of charities trying to get you to sign a direct debit. If it isn't those it's the ambulance chasing lawyers and the no-win-no-fee compo fraudsters.