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Presenters who add the words "..for ever" for dramatic effect e.g. Dara O'Briain's 'Tomorrows Food': "We're going to change the way we look at food..." <dramatic pause> "....for ever."

Reporters using the cliché: "This is too close to call" when talking about elections, football matches, etc. And you can't "change history" by winning an election or football match either; unless you're living in some Terminator-style time loop, the future hasn't happened yet !

In documentaries, when the presenter tries to pretend that it is being fimed in "real time" ..as in Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's 'War On Waste' when he says things like" I'm really shocked at the amount of fresh food dumped in these bins: I need to find out more about the scale of the problem, so tomorrow I'm going to see XYZ from Waitrose". Surely the whole program has been planned, filmed and edited before it hits the screens so what's the point of telling us? Just do it !!

So-called "technical experts" describing pressure as a force without specifying the area it acts on.. for example: "this submarine can withstand a thousand tons of pressure" and then compounding it by explaining it in terms of "familiar" things like the common elephant: ("...that's 200 elephants..")

Also, I made the mistake of watching Strictly's "It Takes Two" recently, and although it looked like something your local sixth form would knock up as a lunch time project, I saw that it contained about twenty people credited with "Producer" or "Director" in their job title. What do all these people actually do and how much is it costing??

Glad that's off my chest ...

Some American series seem to have numerous ''executive producers'' but as the exec is surely the person ultimately responsible how can there be more than one of them ?

The cliché that seemed to have gone away but is now back, of a presenter fronting a report in real-time with a background scene of people going about their business speeded up to double time.

Very clever yes, but it's been done to death.

I think the title is now given to anyone who puts money into the show. A lot of the actors are now given Exec Producer status so that they get paid in profits rather than per episode, or they put their own money in.

This one has probably been done to death, but I hate talking-head shows where zelebrities in their 20s are blithely chattering away about TV shows or adverts or bands that happened 20 years before they were born. I know they might have seen repeats, but these people always talk as if they were actually there at the time. You can't have been there, you'd have been minus 27 at the time, you idiot!!!!! Arggggh!

On the BBC Breakfast programme when it goes to that woman Sally Boondock (sp ?) or that annoying American fella.
They stand there with their script in hand, waving their hands around and pointing (especially in the case of the America fella) excitedly telling us what their segment will feature and then self-importantly stride off to our left.
That American fella REALLY gets on my threepenny bits !

If you mean Aaron Hazlehurst he's Australian.

Okay then - that AUSTRALIAN fella really gets on my threepenny bits !

And I also guess that we're supposed to have never heard of the "Kids/Teens React to Old Technology" videos on YouTube.

Ferne 'I'm only employed because I can read an auto-cue' Cotton

Something mentioned earlier, I'm amazed when watching US dramas where almost everyone of them has the lead actor as a producer.

That reminds me of the annoying trend in most US Reality TV shows where footage is interjected with clips (presumably filmed weeks or even months later) of cast members talking to the camera in the present tense about what's happening in the footage of them e.g. "I have arrived at the party and I am SO excited! I cannot wait to see who's here!". I think Keeping Up With the Kardashians may have started that.

They're the investors who've put money into the show and expect to see their names mentioned in the credits.

Cookery competition shows where the judges say the main ingredient has to be the "hero" of the dish...how can a prawn be a hero? ....mainly to be seen on My Kitchen Rules Australia, but creeping into other cookery shows.

Also EVERY week on Holby City, someone has to say "I need some help here". I think it is permanentloy written into every script!

Great use of a Brummie's way of pronouncing 'permanently' there...

The talking heads on those programmes annoy me, they laugh at their own jokes and most of the time aren't really celebrities. Z-listers maybe?
It does amuse me when the job title line appears under their name, for e.g.

Jimbob McGee
Rapper/Comedian

As if to make the audience say' Oh he's a Rapper/Comedian so his opinion carries a lot more weight now', it doesn't make a difference to me.

Caron Bell, a reporter from ITV West Country local news. She reminds me of the Gail Weathers character from the Scream film series, in that she treats every story like it's her big ticket to national news anchor stardom.

I've mentioned this before myself. I don't watch many reality tv shows but watched a couple of US cooking ones and they're full of this and it's so annoying.

Probably posted this before but people posting whilst watching a programme.

Just looked at the Luther thread and it has a running commentary. Can you not put your phone/tablet down for one hour and just pay attention to what you are watching? Maybe then you won't need to question what just happened.

In soaps, when a character has big news, or a huge bombshell to drop - EVERYONE on the receiving end of this news keeps interrupting...no sane person in real life would keep interrupting big news and not let the other person get to the point!!

Along the lines of:
''Laura, there's something I really have to tell you...''
''OH Darren, sit down, I'll put the kettle on!!''
''No, listen, you don't understand...''
''Oh it's no bother, I was making tea for the kids anyway!''
''No, you really have to listen...''
''...Darren, if you don't like milk in your tea, I can just not put any in? It's fine.''

JUST LISTEN TO DARREN'S IMPORTANT NEWS, JEEZ!

Well, incidental 'underscore' music on all TV programmes for a start. This is probably my most hated and annoying thing about TV now. Sometimes it's unbearably noisy and irritating.
Another, are adventure/documentary programmes, generally shown on Ch4/5 where everything possibly dangerous is over egged in extremis, when we all know that there is probably a lot of back up out of camera.
The new programme, at the moment about walking the Himalayas is guilty of this, to some extent. I am not saying that this isn't arduous but the other nights they were struggling to get over that pass in the snow and the next moment they were in a lush warm fertile valley in Pakistan (I think) - ridiculous.
One often wonders whether these people are helicoptered off at various stages.

in reconstructed real crime "documentaries" like countdown to Murder when they do constant recaps after each advert break and show the same footage that you saw. Before the break. I'm assuming they're catering for people who channel hop or have the attention span of a goldfish

Shows about idiots ( drunks on holiday in Ibiza etc or spewing up in their town centres on a Friday night)

Adverts for bingo sites

Mother****ers sobbing their eyes out because of the JOURNEY and the CHALLENGE and THE THINGS I'VE LEARNED and it's like, calm down ****, you've just made a cake/sang a song/got paid a ****ing huge wodge to learn how to ballroom dance, you're no exactly scaling Everest or rescuing orphans, are you?

Quite agree about that one.

I also agree about the Aussie business presenter on the BBC who waves his hands around. There is a similar human windmill of a presenter on CNN but he is a Brit and probably based in London.

Caroline Aherne's narration on Gogglebox.