A prime example of the series finale of Bates Motel last night.
The series usual has it's own closing credit music but for a dramatic scene last night it faded out with a song which suited the situation perfectly....... for about 10 seconds until the CA interrupted it

A prime example of that was when the BBC first broadcast the final episode of Casanova (the David Tennant/Peter O'Toole version). The last scene was of Casanova as an old man dying on his death bed and remembering his one true love, he passes away and he see an interpretation of something like heaven with him as a young man once again walking or dancing 'into the light' with the one he loved.
Lovely. Except that it was completely spoiled by squeezing the vision with an upcoming programme that couldn't be far enough from this adaptation... a screen-squashing, red-faced, angry Phil Mitchell shouting his mouth off to someone in the Vic. It took me right out of the moment from what should have been a beautiful send-off.
And as someone that works in the business it is also disrespectful to those that put hard work into making the programmes. Producers and directors often look out for the technical credits and note down the names if they've seen a particular way of lighting a certain episode or scene, or the editing, the sound mixing, composer director, etc. that they think is just right for their next project, as in this business it's very nearly 'you're only as good as your last job' a lot of the time and it's good that you can be 'advertised' as the credits are rolling!

- programmes cutting to adverts after being on about 20 seconds. Rather than do ad breaks at the usual 15 minute intervals, they'll be all over the place. When a show starred at 8 I don't expect adverts at five past!

- repetitive programme promo adverts. You're watching an hour or two of the same channel, and at every god damn advert break they just have to shove this new and exciting programme (crap) down your throat. ITV do my nut in with this, I got so sick of seeing the promo for Vicious and the new gadget family testing bobbah during the BGT final.

- the fact the BBC have shrunk the local news at dinner time and extended it by about 2 minutes late at night. Why exactly?

- on Perfection, the usual suspects often become a bunch of up themselves bum holes who get all high and mighty "oh you've definitely got one wrong" only to then find out the contestant was actually right. Ha!

- on Tipping Point especially at the end game where the player has put the jackpot token in say drop zone 1, but then has to declare this for every counter they play. Like, of course they're going to use that drop zone fgs!

- it's probably been mentioned before, but news reporters standing outside a place they're reporting about or where something happened, but it has no relevance, importance or anything to add to the report in any way. Effectively they've wasted money getting the reporter, camera crew, equipment there and set up, to do a report that could've just been done in the studio. Eg. Alton Towers crash. Park is closed, yet they still send the reporter to the entrance where you can't see anything happening.

How people just hang up on the phone, they never say goodbye - tis rude.
And they always say things like 'I'll meet you at 7pm' but never say where about.
IRL that would be very confusing.

And how at 45 mins past the hour every channel seems to be having an ad break.
I end up putting it on mute.

But by going to the scene it puts them in prime position to get news if and when it happens so they can break it as soon as it happens.

When 'Southampton' is being pronounced on TV, it's always ''SouthHampton''

It's 'South-ampton', not 'South-Hampton'! There aren't two 'H's!

Whichever idiot it was at the BBC who decided that Friday would be the perfect day to start showing new episodes of Pointless - as a fortnight later is the last Friday before the start of Wimbledon (which will wipe everything else out for a fortnight).

That bloody violin music from Four In A Bed used in several other programmes!

^ Ha ha, I know the one you mean! I think the first time I heard it was in BBC Three's The World's Strictest Parents.

Showing those Bradley Walsh Farmfoods adverts during the Chase (yeah, like he uses Farmfoods). Thought that sort of thing wasn't allowed (?)

It's been allowed for a few years now.

Thanks davads!

Just wondering (and not trolling); in a multichannel digital age, when they are no longer limited to two channels, why does the BBC continue to trash the schedules on BBC 1 and 2 (often simultaneously) for sporting events?

People asking in threads to explain to them what happened in a show - because they were busy on their phone/laptop.

If you were just wanting clarification of something that happened then fine, but if you're admitting to not paying attention to the show and then want others to take the time to explain it to you then tough luck. Go back and watch it and pay attention this time!

Note to BBC: winning a game of golf isn't "changing history". It's "winning a game of golf".

You just know when a murder victim is described as "cheeky" it means they were a knobhead.

This morning feel the need to advertise a holiday competition by sending Jeff Brazier to las Vegas. An archived video clip would have been fine thanks

That's not necessarily true.. If news is given by the company it is likely given by email, twitter etc. They're hardly gonna stick their head out the office window and shout it

When I'm going through a really bad bout of excruciating pain with my fibromyalgia and I try to explain to someone why I can't walk properly and they say "Tell me about it", in a derisory way. I HATE THEM at that precise moment!😈

The odd stock footage they use in news reports about certain topics (this has probably been mentioned before)

E.g obesity - fuzzy footage, waist-height, of obese people's stomachs with the location being a park. It looks like a Crimewatch reconstruction.

phonehacking - a close up of a woman's lips as she talks via a headset

Agreed 100%

The way TV producers think search engines work - the person goes to Not-Google, types something in and then it goes to a page with the relevant information (despite the lack of an "I'm feeling lucky" button, as it's Not-Google).

(Note - This is also how film producers seem to think search engines work.)

I hate it when they are reporting from abroad and it looks as though they are using a mobile phone to transmit the film continuously breaks up.

The amount of affairs and cheating that end up surfacing to the forefront of a storyline in a 2-6 part drama. So cliched and predictable these days.

I notice the new buzzword on the TV News is for people involved in accidents to have " Life Changing Injuries "

A useless use of English which doesn't really describe the injuries or their severity.