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Old 23-04-2014, 16:47
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All channels seem to have adverts on at the same time.
Said adverts being ten times as loud as the programme.
The same episodes of the same programmes being repeated time and time again.
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Old 23-04-2014, 16:57
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TV chefs who have to show us how to split a vanilla pod !
Every one of them does it !
Surely we all know how to do this by now !
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Old 23-04-2014, 18:04
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All channels seem to have adverts on at the same time.
Said adverts being ten times as loud as the programme.
The same episodes of the same programmes being repeated time and time again.
You should try using Virgin Media. Go into the On Demand menu and my speakers almost explode due to the increased volume - plus it's always playing some teenage music crap. I don't want my neighbours think I'm playing One Direction at full volume.

The adverts being on channels at the same time is annoying but fairly inevitable. If they all start on the hour and have the same number of breaks of the same length then they are going to be all at the same time.
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Old 23-04-2014, 18:13
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When British TV dramas try to half-heartedly go all CSI i.e. "Lots of flash and no meaning." (to quote Chief Wiggum in #16.14 The Seven Beer-Snitch)
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Old 23-04-2014, 18:28
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Just made a thread about sound quality / mumbling as Jamaica Inn has recieved complaints over it
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1958225
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Old 23-04-2014, 18:38
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Dramas that are filmed so dark you can't see what is happening. Jamaica Inn was completely spoiled for me.
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Old 23-04-2014, 19:57
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The amount of naked women or women being portrayed in a sexual way compared to the little amount of men that are.
I've got nothing against naked or sexualised women, but the difference is huge.
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Old 23-04-2014, 20:00
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There is an announcer on BBC. His name is Delroy Haines.
The way he speaks with an up and down inflection, and pauses in the wrong places REALLY aggravates me.
I have to mute the TV every time I hear him start to speak.
He gets on my threepenny bits BIG TIME.
Oh yeah, the constipated-sounding one. Weird choice to employ someone in that job with such a weird voice. I just Googled him though, to see if it was who I thought it was, and it seems that once upon a time he actually sounded quite normal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b2pQMLec3s
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Old 23-04-2014, 20:02
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That's the equal opportunity quotas for you..
Ugh! That's racism for you. I'm guessing that because his name's Delroy you assumed he was black, and that if he was black he got the position unfairly. I'm also guessing that you weren't even aware of how he sounds, because judging from his voice, I highly doubt he is black. Hopefully you'll never be in a position to decide who gets a job or not.
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Old 23-04-2014, 20:05
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Currently what's annoying me is BBC News reporters reading police tweets holding their phone's on air. Read it, remember it, say it out loud on telly, it's not difficult. Otherwise they look like they are busy doing something else.
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Old 23-04-2014, 20:08
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Don't they watch their own shows? Surely someone from the channel must have pointed it out.
and this has been going on for a few years now!!!
Some time in the 80s or 90s there was a Highlander TV series based on the films and I noticed that newspapers and TV guides used to describe it as being about a "time travelling swordsman". They don't travel in time, they are immortal and live forever but the only time travelling they do is one second forward in time per second like everyone else. The shows do include lots of scenes set in older times but these are flashbacks not time travel.

These days the show is sometimes on TV, I think on The Horror channel, and the EPG still says "time travelling swordsman".

So no, they clearly don't watch.
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Old 23-04-2014, 22:18
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Not just TV but Radio as well.
Strong regional accents eg reading the news.The woman from Middlesbrough on Breakfast TV and a very Welsh newsreader on Radio one spring to mind.
Regional accents are fine just dont milk it.
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Old 23-04-2014, 22:23
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Countryfile really annoys me. Every episode, it's the same format, same tone of voice, same phrases.

Some irritating phrases they use nearly every time:

"Just a stone's throw away."
"Think of X and Y comes to mind. But, in fact..."
"The countryside is supposed to be a green and pleasant land. Behind this, however..."
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Old 23-04-2014, 23:20
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Very topical but I cant stand mumbling actors. Older gent from luther did - probably for dramatic effect - but it's really cringy to hear.
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Old 24-04-2014, 09:40
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Ugh! That's racism for you. I'm guessing that because his name's Delroy you assumed he was black, and that if he was black he got the position unfairly. I'm also guessing that you weren't even aware of how he sounds, because judging from his voice, I highly doubt he is black. Hopefully you'll never be in a position to decide who gets a job or not.
People like you just cannot let a comment lie can you? you have to come in waving your flag shouting 'racist!' - how lazy that is because it is an indefensible accusation once applied. Nobody mentioned the man's colour - you did, nobody connected his name to his race - you did - so in effect you have created the stereotype .

What is it about the name Delroy in your mind that suggests one has black skin anyway...? are there certain white and black names you are aware of that others are not...?
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Old 24-04-2014, 10:14
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The over use of filters to set the tone on a view of the countryside. Sometimes what could be a lovely naturally colourful landscape is ruined by some idiot using a sepia filter.
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Old 24-04-2014, 10:36
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News reporters standing outside a building where some event has happened, but at 10pm at night where it's quite obvious the building is empty. WHY ARE YOU THERE?!

Puns. The BBC are particularly bad for this. In fact I think they have a whole department for pun generation. Homes under the hammer is the worst offender (I'm not an avid watcher - it just seems to be on when I'm making a cuppa in the kitchen). He'll say something like "The garden could use some attention" and then they'll start playing "I beg your pardon, I didn't promise you a rose garden...."
At this point I will link the Big Train sketch on puns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxIS_snYrLA (some language).

Unfeasibly long intros that are the same every week - like Dragon's Den and Apprentice.

"Coming up", Recaps and split screen credits. Been said by many already but it's quite cathartic to rant about it!
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Old 24-04-2014, 10:47
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Ugh! That's racism for you. I'm guessing that because his name's Delroy you assumed he was black, and that if he was black he got the position unfairly. I'm also guessing that you weren't even aware of how he sounds, because judging from his voice, I highly doubt he is black. Hopefully you'll never be in a position to decide who gets a job or not.
Really?

I refer you to your first two sentences.

Do you expect every black man to be using Patois, or some other stereotyped trait?

I'll give you Don Warrington for a start, but there's absolutely no rule that says your colour determines your style of speech, voice type, or even your accent
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Old 24-04-2014, 10:52
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Volume on ads that seems to be about 5 times louder than the preceding programme.
ARGHHHH!
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Old 24-04-2014, 11:02
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Why does nobody in TV land have access to an accurate clock? It is annoying to watch the end of something that is supposed to finish at 9pm to turn over to something that is supposed to start at 9pm for it to be already well underway.
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Old 24-04-2014, 12:03
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Having to record Mammon on More4 as the adverts ruin it.
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Old 24-04-2014, 12:07
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Why does nobody in TV land have access to an accurate clock? It is annoying to watch the end of something that is supposed to finish at 9pm to turn over to something that is supposed to start at 9pm for it to be already well underway.
That is deliberate so that people who flick the channels can start watching, The other channel may have adverts or trailers on so people are more likely to watch a program that is starting/started

Or so they think
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Old 24-04-2014, 12:10
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That is deliberate so that people who flick the channels can start watching, The other channel may have adverts or trailers on so people are more likely to watch a program that is starting/started

Or so they think
Unless said program is a soap or daytime TV.
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Old 24-04-2014, 13:10
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I have to record 2hr (90mins really) programmes on TV like Midsommer Murders, Lewis etc.....because I cannot abide the story being interrupted EVERY ten minutes by ad-breaks. I never watch them live!
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Old 24-04-2014, 13:16
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I have to record 2hr (90mins really) programmes on TV like Midsommer Murders, Lewis etc.....because I cannot abide the story being interrupted EVERY ten minutes by ad-breaks. I never watch them live!
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