And as for the use of the word 'STRONG' in everything these days,well we are well and truly infected with it now.

News reports,sports,documentaries,everything in fact on TV and radio.

A cheap word to use when talking,it's totally lost it's meaning hearing it all the time.

Please make it stop!

Agreed UK Gold is as bad for that, trailers during add breaks never used to happen, it's irritating although i use SKY+ so just fast forward through the adds.


Agreed.

When someone is being interviewed following a traumatic event, you always get a close-up of their wringing hands. This cliche shows no signs of going away; I first remember noticing it when I was a kid and that was in the 1970s.

Regarding the obesity trope, it's even worse when there's a report concerning children. Cue lots of shots of children's legs running or skipping in a playground. Perhaps they're worried that if we saw their top halves we might all turn paedo.

TV channels using the phrase 'coming soon' in programme trailers. It's bloody annoying when you want to know when said programme is coming on!

Viewer competitions with insultingly easy questions and all the terms and conditions having to be read out. The current competition during Deal or No Deal takes 2-3 minutes!

People who bang on about hobbies on quiz / game shows. NOBODY CARES!

On Pointless, when Alexander asks the person what they do and they give the reply "I'm retired" without even saying what they did in the first place.

Sky not having all episodes of a TV series. In a 6-episode series they had episodes 1 and 3-6 but episode 2 was missing.

The encroaching use of "two time" or "two times" - what is wrong with the word "twice"??

Another "picture library shorthand" is using footage of a pensioners' keep fit class alongside any report on OAPs

Oh yes - and why is it that when a "talking head" on the news is about to be interviewed, we first have to see them walking along the road past the camera?

I get irked by shows that are filmed in an empty studio but which have fake audience noises obviously added later. "The Chase" is one of the worst offenders, but the BBC's National Lottery draw was also a blatant one. Once you become aware of it, it grates even more - particularly the sudden bursts of applause like on the lottery show.

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Added to that, the current trend for wasting the first five minutes of every documentary series with repetitive summaries of what's been and what's to come. Presumably, this is to fit in with the ad-saturated American format and aid overseas sales.

I assumed it was a euphemism for losing a limb.

That's to give time for the journalist to explain who they are before they start speaking. So we get:

Reporter: Cornelius Muckbump is the chairman of the National Campaign for Treacle Pudding.
Cornelius Muckbump: The government should invest more in providing treacle pudding for our nation's children.

Absolutely, just say they've had a limb amputated, already!

Another absolute undying favourite of news programmes that correspondents can't get enough of is ''Game-changer'', mostly in political stories. I'd never heard the term until about a year and a half ago, now absolutely everything that happens in politics, no matter how small, is a game-changer.


Staying with news - Huw Edwards. A truly terrible, unprofessional newsreader. Constantly looking away or down when delivering the news to camera, and so hesitant, saying ''err'' or ''umm'' every couple of words. It's like he hasn't even seen his script until right there, right then, or he has no autocue and is just making up a story on the spot.

I once asked a friend who was a contestant on the The Chase about the "audience noises" and she said she wasn't allowed to say whether there was an audience or not!

I think with the 'life changing injuries' thing the news organisations know what the injuries are, but are not allowed to say due to data protection or somesuch.

Eg that poor young Alton Towers lady had her leg amputated. The likes of Sky news knew this but it had not been officially announced by the family and hospital so we get life changeing injuries to allude to it.

Thats why the awful Kat Burley was well out of order for trying to get it out of the Alton Towers excec. The hospital and family had not made anything public.

The way weather forecasters get all excited when there is the possibility of temps hitting 90 plus,and the way that they revert to Fahrenheit for the really big ones like approaching a hundred.I suppose it sounds more exciting than saying 38.

I don't like overly excitable weather forecasters - it's going to be sunny - wayhay everything is all right with the world. Mostly I can't stand the weather lady at breakfast on the BBC - she's got a modified Scottish accent and you can hear her breathing - someone should have a word with her about her bra choice: sometimes her chest is on her waist.......

A "modified" Scottish accent?

Tactical scoring on Couples Come Dine With Me. This woman said she loved the food and had a great evening but when it comes to the scoring she says she didn't like the food and gave a bloody 14!

They are the mob that say 'by and large' all the time about certain weather patterns,usually if it will be mainly dry or warm.

Get's my goat every time!

Yep - I'm sure her accent used to be much broader and now she's a bit nasally too - as though the BBC elecution lot 'modified' it.....

I totally agree with GoCompare about this. I also think 'Three/Four In a Bed' suffers badly from this.
I love it when they mark the bad evenings low though.

Plain black end credits to shows on ITV... Never understood.

Live action idents on TV channels. No cool CGI idents anymore.

That's a no then.

Probably just softened after several years living down south.

The scheduling of Celebrity Apprentice on BBC, its a show I feel people might actually get into in the UK if scheduled before midnight on a Sunday. Why even pay NBC for it if they're going to shove it in such a late slot.

The "live to nowhere", an event occurs but hours later a reporter is still standing live outside for absolutely no reason as no new information will appear at that location. On the Irish news they're dreadful for this at government departments, announcement made by Minister at 2pm but four hours later on the news someone still standing there for no reason with "live" news.

ITV have shown Catwoman (one of the worst films ever) on ITV2 at least 6 times that I've seen and maybe more. It always seems to pop up.

Endless comedy repeats, why is it only comedies that get this treatment on the main channels, sure some satellite channels repeat drama but there are almost never any dramas repeated on the main channels, it always has to be comedy. Friends the worst offender and now the BBC likes regurgitating Mrs Browns Boys too.

yes,another favourite one of the forecasters is "nothing to write home about",and whats with this "Spanish plume" in the last couple of years?