Points of View, that's a bugbear in itself.
It's like BBC propaganda central where they wheel out a Beeb spokesperson and plonk them on a chair to clear things up which have been criticised by viewers by telling us that the BBC are right and the viewers are wrong.

I'd just love to watch the occasional episode of Points of View where the BBC spokespeson says "Yes, we really made a right royal balls up of that one". Or "Yes, we have to apologise for making such a terrible programme".

Sarcastic and smug narration over TV programmes.
Sarcastic and smug presenters presenting TV programmes.

TV presenters, usually doing an outside broadcast at a live location talking through and at a general member of the public and aren't genuinely listening to a word they're saying.

They seem to just throw banal questions at them without really listening to what they're actually saying or engaging with them. They rush through some preset questions that they don't really need to respond to and then it's back to the studio.
The best they offer is a weak smile to pretend that they're engaging with them as they appear to be impatiently waiting for them to stop talking so that they can get the item over and done with.

I'd liken it to needing to speak to somebody you don't really like through gritted teeth for some unavoidable reason and you can't get away from them fast enough when you've finished speaking with them.

I'll add sending reporters out to places that they really don't need to be. Like Fiona Bruce trying to do a live report outside in a slum during a sand storm and couldn't be heard at all.
What is wrong with filming indoors?


Plus, as you mentioned, inept presenters who live off cue cards/autocue and don't listen to replies from interviewees. The worst cases being when the interviewee says something in their reply which the interviewer isn't listening to and goes on to ask them about that exact thing.

You just want the interviewee to say "Weren't you listening to me you stupid idiot?! I've just told you that in my last answer!!!"

The current trend for introducing an expert or eyewitness on a documentary by showing shots of them taken at weird angles, with a distorting/flickering visual effect and sound effect (usually some kind of electrical buzz). It started on the Discovery Channels, then spread to the likes of Channel 5 and now even the BBC are at it.

Referring to "VW" in the news when it uses the same amount of syllables as saying "Volkswagen" in full.

OMG the Wired World thing on BBC2 does that. So annoying.

One more in fact, surely? (unless the W is as in George W Bush )

On Eggheads, every episode they introduce the Challengers team, then say:
"Would you like to play the Eggheads for the prize money" ??

What on earth are they supposed to say ??
"Actually Jeremy, as CJ is on today we think we'll give it a miss if that is ok"

"The Eggheads have done what comes naturally and reign over Quizland."

CHANGE THE BLOODY RECORD! Jeremy still says that even though they lost the previous day!

I think you're right.

Programmes that constantly use Gabriella Cilmi's "Sweet About Me" over and over again. I like the song but I'm getting sick of hearing the same bloody section on loop all the time!

Not to mention that bloody violin music from Four In A Bed has spread to other programmes!

The now almost ever-present long pause before the correct answer / departing loser / winning baker etc etc etc is announced. Eggheads avoids this but they have the nonsensical "I don't think it's this ... I'm sure it's not that" requirement instead, which is just as irritating.
Note to producers of the Chase (where the pause seems to be getting longer by the week); if the contestant says s/he, along with Bradley, the chaser and probably the entire watching public, is certain of the answer, there'll be nobody in the country chewing their hankie due to the (non-existent) tension of the situation, and with zero tension to begin with the only thing that ridiculous pause increases is my desire to watch something else.

Or even worse.."The correct answer is".....(long pause)....."we'll tell you after the break"

When someone says something mildly offensive on live tv, the show's presenters start with their pathetic repeated apologies.

When car restoration programmes price up the cost of the project but completely ignore the labour costs. Yes, Wheeler Dealers, I'm looking at you!

Cost of purchase and parts to restore Porsche 911 = £7,700
Sold for £8,450
A "profit" of £750

I don't think so! Given that they had to remove the engine and gearbox as well as all the other remedial work with labour at arm and a leg an hour . . . what profit???

The BBC insisting on giving distances in metres and kilometres rather than feet and miles.

Bloody Phil Tufnell on flaming everything! Just turned to Channel 4 and there's his smug face again!

Millionaire Hot Seat does both of these a lot.

It took the buscuit with the episode I watched last night.
Final question to win $20k - Who is the lead singer of The Cure. 4 options to choose from. Contestant says I don't need to think about this as I know the answer.

The host still dragged it out for several minutes asking if he was sure, if he wanted to change, asking his wife if she would have chosen that answer etc.

Just tell him he's won because he knows he's won and many others do because we know it's the right answer.

They bring more attention to it than if they just glossed over it.

I know this may have been mentioned, on WWTBA Millionaire especially the charity shows, Tarrant nasalled on about absolute crap to waste time eg "tell me about blah blah blah" to a z lister - this ensured that they always ran out of time, the charities missed out every episode...

Cliffhangers like what happened on Doctor Who just now! BLOODY TO BE CONTINUED!

I don't know if this has been mentioned before but I absolutely hate property show presenters telling us the price is a hundred "grand" or is five "grand" under budget (Jonnie Irwin it's you). It's a hundred thousand pounds. "Grand" is just so lazy.

By the way, loved the programme where they took the couple to a place over budget and which didn't meet any of the criteria they had set. The man just said "waste of time, not even going inside". Presenter's face was a picture!!

They are looking into providing these figures for the next series.

The habit of quiz shows [ Decimate for one ] that contestants have to first give the answer to a question to the host , then the host turns to a big screen and asks the screen if it's right or wrong thus wasting vital seconds of my life.

Shane you knob, the answer is on your f***ing card, get on with it FFS.