TV ads with dubbed and very poorly syncronised English

When shows are supposed to start on the hour and are still going at 6 or 7 minutes past

That all reality shows featuring a competition now have to have a panel of 3 judges - Bake off, Pottery Throwdown-Bake Off, The Sewing Bee, that House-Design-Show-Thingy that's on in the afternoons at the moment...and the obligatory pause before announcing a winner.

Trendy ads that have to have men with beards and tattoos. Car ads where it's the only car on the road in a strangely deserted city, and every bingo and mobile phone ad ..ever

It still takes me by surprise when I see the film of London getting the 2012 Olympics. "The games of the thirtieth Olympiad are awarded to the city of .. London", with the barest of pauses. No, mate, you're supposed to wait at least ten seconds; it's the law

"The correct answer is....... we'll find out after the break."

Bake Off has two judges.

In TV dramas when someone gets up to 'say a few words' over the microphone, there is always a bit of 'feed-back' before they start speaking. It''s like the producer/director can't resist putting it in. Have they never heard of sound-checks? lol.

News presenters who profusely thank their colleagues for a report or interview - isn't that what they're paid for ? Nagar Munchetty on BBC Breakfast is a prime offender,sometimes thanks people three or four times.

I've not seen her on that - three or four? That's annoying, but one simple thank you is just polite, and also confirms to both of them (and us!) know that the interview is at an end.

Adverts are annoying, but what makes them utterly unbearable is their repetitive nature. Even amusing adverts rapidly lose whatever appeal they might have on first viewing. I just record everything nowadays in order to avoid them entirely.

In sitcoms/dramas, must be a name for this trope. When person A does something to Person B to wind them up. This backfires and Person B has a great time, then Person A has to break bad news to Person B along the lines of 'you can't be happy anymore and it is all my fault'. Person B laughs it off basically saying 'kudos', when in reality their life is ruined.

More likely that Person B beats the crap out of Person A.
Hope that makes sense, my gripe is with unrealistic outcomes to serious scenarios.

When in every Soap, drama, sit com they always just get up and go out, storm off or whatever without Putting on shoes.

We assume they must already have them on but who wears their shoes in the house all day? I never do.

They very rarely pick up their coat or keys either.

Pointless - "We gave 100 people 100 seconds..."

I had one of those surveys and it was NOT 100 seconds! I was only given 30! Why do they keep saying this when it is not true at all?

And when they storm off somewhere they never bother to take their wallet or a handbag, they just go!

People who come on BBC Breakfast to talk about their new book. Same old crap every day! *roll eyes*

I always think that too. Usually takes me about 15 mins to get ready to go out!

Also characters always leave their front doors open so others can just walk in. Usually when they're doing naughty things!

This was some time ago, bit I don't doubt they still do it.

A flash looking car is careening along a (deserted) mountain road. Some graphics and the voice over are talking about xx% of Ford whatevers.

Right at the bottom of the screen in very small text, just at the end: "* Excludes model shown".



Also, why is it that, in car adverts, men changing gear always grab the gear lever as if they are giving it a hand job, as no one does, ever?

Do the producers think people are impressed by men who need to grab the gearstick in their fist and shove it, rather than gently move it from the top with the flat of their hand, as even a very small woman can manage?

Presenters asking the viewer a question just before they go to the adverts.
e.g. "Will Steve win the £1000 or will Sarah beat him to it? Find out after the break".

I don't know. Why are you asking me?
I'm sure that if you don't waste my time asking me pointless questions that I can't answer then I'll find out a lot sooner.

While we're going on about car ads, add the omni-present meaningless number plate that doesn't fit any known European pattern and always consists of a letter & number sequence that reads the same each way - 808 MTM - so that the video can be flipped for right & left hand drive as appropriate to fit the market. If it was convincing it'd be ok, but invariably the 'right-hand drive' car is being driven by a suave foreign looking gentleman in a town that quite clearly is nowhere near Basingstoke.

In soaps a scene dramatically builds up to a climax, only for it to cut to a boring mundane scene at the critical moment.

Example: A typical scene in Eastenders (The show which is the most guilty of this) a woman enters her house, talks to her partner, then finds out he isn't there, goes upstairs to investigate, opens the bedroom door and looks in, a quick shot of her partner in bed with somebody else. Then at this critical point....CUT!!! It goes straight to a scene in the pub where a couple of people are talking about something really mundane and boring.

Then after that scene in the pub has played out, it returns straight back to the previous scene with the woman and her partner after they have been caught red-handed. The other person has left, some conversation has happened which we didn't see on screen, and the woman is in the kitchen saying to her partner "How could you do this to me?".
The critical point where she entered the bedroom and we wanted to see what happened next at that immediate moment just wasn't shown.

Why do soaps do this so frequently at the prime critical moments where they could achieve the maximum drama?
They just cut away at the precise moment we want to see and the momentum has been lost.
It's like anti-drama.

Mascara ads where in the small print it states that '*Inserts have been used'
Lies.

*false eyelashes

I was watching an art programme recently, can't remember which one. The presenter was talking about a painting. Now the way this has been done since television was invented is that the camera points at the picture and the presenter stands at the side of it so you can see the picture while he's talking about it. But this one was different. The camera was pointing at the presenter, not the picture. He was standing at a right angle to the picture which was on the wall at the side of the screen so you could hardly see it while he was talking about it. Imagine a clock with the presenter standing in the middle facing the camera, the camera at six o'clock pointing at him and the painting on the wall at three o'clock and you'll get what I mean.

What is the point of it? Just to make it a bit different? All they succeed in doing is annoying the viewers.

You are forgetting that in soapland, any scene taking place in somebody's house (or indeed pretty much anywhere else for that matter) is potentially only three lines away from turning into a blazing row followed by a storming out. Either that or a spur of the moment decision to go down the pub.

The characters, being well aware of this, always keep their shoes on in the house.

It's deliberate. BBC Breakfast is deliberately designed to be so mind-numbingly boring, that people will hurry up and get off to work rather than sit in front of the television.

That Sky Sports' football on demand/catch up service is so limited. "Extended interviews" and 5 minute highlights of Real Madrid and Barcelona matches are the pick of the bunch. I presume it's due to rights issues or some such but it doesn't make it any less frustrating.

Whenever emergency services have a drill, practicing their responses in case of a large emergency incident, the news ALWAYS have to report on it, but only to dramatise and sex up their headlines.

Rather than ''Emergency crews have been rehearsing their procedures today in the possibility of a large scale incident taking place in the future'' it's always ''A scene of destruction. Hundreds of casualties, wounded, maybe dead. There is carnage everywhere on the streets of London today...but thankfully, this is just a rehearsal''.

They were at it again today, without fail.

Science fiction shows with BBC News 24 on TV in the background reporting on the alien invasion. It happens so much.
You rarely see this happen in horror type shows with the TV news reporting on vampires or werewolves running amok.