You've been watching Dave Spikey as team captain on the 8 out of 10 cats repeats haven't you? You could probably edit down that series and make a replica of his stand up DVD.

8 out of 10 cats is the worst offender for this, it's why I stopped watching it. Honourable mention to Mock the week too. Unwatchable and infuriating.

There are a group of about 10 comedians who just feature in these shows in rotation. Nameless and talentless.

He's a one liner comedian. You could say the same about Milton Jones, Stewart Francis and Tim Vine.
Doesn't neccessarily make them unfunny though.

Inconsisency in accepted answers on quiz shows. In particular when it's the name of a person. Is it surname only or full name?

Even in the same episode of a show one answer with a surname is accepted yet another is rejected because they couldn't give the first name!

The existence of The Voice, and how they thought they could barge BGT out of its traditional iconic slot.
Thankfully the ratings spoke for themselves.

Completely agree, last Sunday I heard Jeremy say this weeks was to be the last in the season and having watched every episode it really made me reflect on the fact that it is really nothing more than BBC propaganda program. This series has been the worst example of that. 15 minutes a week, a chance for the BBC to answer their license fee paying public. Most weeks we had about 7 minutes taken up talking about how great the Bake Off is, or congratulating Doctors on celebrating a Birthday, or chatting about what some random people think of the Apprentice candidates. They even slipped in a jibe about ITV's Jekyll and Hyde this week, I thought we were supposed to be talking about BBC issues!!??

I have two pet hates
First is the so called coffee handed out to most detectives on the go ..can they not weigh the cups down with water? It is so obvious they are empty

Second is.. after watching a film for instance I want to see who played who and it shrivels to the side showing a news reader reading out the headlines !!!!! WHAT? I know the news is coming on I can watch it for myself in real time Channel 5 is really bad for this
I feel so much better after my rant thanks for listening

The way that adverts for large items like TVs and furniture now give the prices in digits, rather than proper numbers e.g. rather than "three hundred and ninety nine pounds" they say "three nine nine" (without even the unit of currency).

Yes. I remember thinking "remember when stories were made of 4 episodes and weren't all wrapped up in an ADD flurry? Well, you can forget that this year."

Why do nearly all tv dramas have a love plotline ham fisted into them? Especially when the main idea behind the show is something strong and interesting to begin with.
It's like 'oh we HAVE to have a love interest', is this some weird expectation that women will watch if there is a love storyline? Cus I am a woman and I'm sick to the back teeth of it.
Just a theory

ITV production team, why do they make all these quiz shows look the same with the dark neon sets and dramatic music etc.

Irritating. Having blue lights shone in your eyes when you are in the audience. Why?

Alex Deakin and Helen Willets who try to make it a major event if we have wind and rain. Waving of hands, gritting their teeth and raising their voices.Calm down and just tell us what the weather is going to be and don't try and be the "star"
There is also a woman on South Today, Alex who repeats "celsius" so many times after every temperature.
The best?..Peter Gibbs and Philip Avery.

This mostly comes from the less well know channels but constantly trailing the same shows over and over again every ad break, usually with the same clips. Sony TV is one such offender, for week after week it was a show called Satisfaction, now that's finished it's a show called Younger.

Promos (especially on BBC1) that don't actually tell you the time of the programme they're promoting.

Constant use in news bulletins of ''downing'' (usually aircraft) when they actually mean ''shot down.''

BBC News Channel - sometimes it gives programme times in the 24-hour clock, other times the 12-hour clock. Make your minds up and be consistent.

Don't all BBC promos give the time of the programme? Unless it's the early-on ones when it's just "Coming Soon", and at that stage I don't really need to know yet.

The slow breathy twee covers are getting out of hand now!

CBS Action and Tru TV suffer from the problem although I wouldn't regard it as trivial.

Here's something really trivial t annoys me.

When a couple win Pointless and Alexander Armstrong slithers across to give them his 'congratulations' it looks naff and then he has to walk back to his podium to say goodbye.

Why not have him walk across during the closing shots.

The tune on the christmas BBC 2 logo fills me with rage (I'm not kidding)

The wine expert on Saturday kitchen live annoys me because they will congratulate the chef on cooking a marvelous dish on a prerecorded bit. It is so disingenuous.

These look back at "gadgets of last century" type programmes where most of the time is "celebritiies"
wittering on about their personal memories which are most likely scripted and are extremely tedious.

Programmes such as Place in the Sun that recap after ad breaks what has already been shown in the earlier parts.

People carrying suitcases which are very obviously empty.

Car parking spaces which are always available, even in central London.

Reporters turning to camera and talking while driving - dangerous surely ?

On the rare occasion we see someone buying cigarettes the shopkeeper automatically knows what brand they want despite the fact they've never been in the shop before.

Sex scenes with strangers when contraception is never mentioned.

Gobby announcers who insist on talking over the theme music of programmes.

(OK, I know they are told what to say, and when, but I wish the TV companies would stop it. If people want to know what's on, when, there are TV magazines, newspapers, and a multiplicity of digital guides.)