What Do You Hate About TV?

[nwg]

This may sound stupid but, do US channels ever show up to date British shows. When I hear someone from the US stating what show they like, the same old ones turn up Faulty Towers, Benny Hill, Blackadder, Red Dwarf. Even Red Dwarf which I consider more up to date than the others started almost 20 years ago.

I like the new Doctor Who and the first couple episodes of Torchwood was pretty good.

[Kabuchan]

I grew up on Dr Who and The Benny Hill Show. Loved them both.

I don't watch TV becauselike LT said, I hate the commercials. And the worst is when they make a 2 hour movie drag on for 3 because of all the commercials!

Long Live DVDs!

[nwg]

Long Live DVDs!

TV boxsets have made my collection even bigger (probably more than 1500 now). I watch a season in one go by watching two episodes before I go to bed each night. I am about to finish CSI Miami and then plan to start my year old CSI NY DVD's which I haven't watched yet.

[toomanycats]

NWG, Yes, I think, I said I liked MI-5, that's recent, I watch the new Dr. Who. and those other shows I mentioned are somewhat recent. We are just a little shakey still, from the revolution, ya know!!!

[dazuk1972]

It's beyond time for reality tv to give up the ghost. networks are grabbing at ridiculous crap (not that they weren't before) and things are only getting worse. It's called mimetic isomorphism. If presented with the opportunity to change, companies instead will copy one another. ie Diet Coke, Diet Pepsi, Cherry Coke, Cherry Pepsi, etc, etc. Seems no one has the temerity to give up reality tv. And please, no more doctor shows!

I think there's too many real-life cop programmes. There's quite a lot of channels that have shown Cops and one channel has two episodes on in a row and about two hours later they repeat the same ones. Then they had a whole weekend of Cops one after another from morning to night. Then it was back to them repeating the same two episodes nearly every two hours. I can't figure out who is going to watch Cops for hours on end all weekend. That weekend was about three weeks ago.

Darren.

[dazuk1972]

i don't watch much tv except a few shows and the news. even that is just sickening with all the blasted commercials. every friggin commercial is lipitor, livitra, ky spray, viagra or some crap like that. i'm also 2 steps away from blowing my brains out if i have to watch another one of these congressional election commercials. may they all be shot.

I know how you feel. A lot of channels here always have the same commercials about loans, credit cards, debt busters, health insurance and claiming compensation. They all boast about there service with no hidden fees or cons and I don't believe any of them. One compensation one had somebody telling his story about him getting injured at work and he was given £8,000 and somebody else had a more serious injurey and got half that amount. What makes me laugh is when the debt busters are being advertised and next a loan company is and it's the loans that get people into debt in the first place, the same with the credit cards. These commercials drive me insane at times. I don't know why those channels can advertise something else like a tin of baked beans or a packet of condoms or something else.

Darren.

[LT. Columbo]

my "mute" button is the most worn on my remote, comes in handy!

[dazuk1972]

I only have Freeview and agree most of it is crap. I rather by DVD's of TV series I like so, I don't have to suffer from editing, adverts, DOG logos etc.

As long as somone has a TV that can accept a TV signal, a TV licence is needed. It also extends to TV cards in computers as well as watching live broadband streams such streaming the recent football world cup on the net. It is also not good enough just not have a aerial to avoid the licence. The TV also have to be de-tuned as well.

The licence funds the BBC but it doesn't matter if you dont want BBC channels, you have to have one. I would rather have more adverts and have them on the BBC channels and have no licence.

I'm the same a lot these days. I watch DVDs.

Those logos can be annoying and some get bigger and bigger. I remember when the Sci-Fi channel first came out. Their logo was bigger than a tennis ball. They did something stupid back then. Before a programme started, they had the commercials, then they started a programme after the title sequence it was back to the commercials straight after the director's name and there were three lots of commercials in the programme the way they were supposed to, when a programme was about to finish just before the end credits appeared, there were more commercials and after the end credits there were more commercials and the same with everything else. Why they had a lot of commericals straight after a title sequence and just before the end credits, too I'll never know. The ABC channel that shows the American comedies does that at the moment.

Anyway, more about the logos. I asked a channels years ago why they have them and I was told it's so people know what channel they are on when they turn over. Fare enough but they always turn the logos off when the commercials are on and I asked what happens when people turn over when the commercials are on, they won't know what channel they are on. Those "Press red" things get bigger, too. There's one on Challenge and Challenge+1 that's big and every time I press Back-up to get rid of it, the damn thing comes back about 30 seconds later.

Darren.

[dazuk1972]

I grew up on Dr Who and The Benny Hill Show. Loved them both.

I don't watch TV becauselike LT said, I hate the commercials. And the worst is when they make a 2 hour movie drag on for 3 because of all the commercials!

Long Live DVDs!

I watched Dr Who and The Benny Hill Show a lot when I was little. I still watch Dr Who at times but I don't think much of the new Dr Who. I can't remember the actors names but the doctor in the first new series was the main villian in Gone In 60 Seconds. I prefer Tom Baker out of the doctors. I remember when I was a kid, my family and me went to town every Saturday afternoon and we always wanted to get back in time for Dr Who starring Tom Baker. This was in the 70s.

I also hate it when films are dragged out when they break for the news. By the time the film is back on I lose track of it. It's like going to the cinema to watch a film, walking out on it halfway, buying a new ticket for the next showing and going back in at the same scene as I left before hand. I remember when BBC1 was showing Jaws years ago, they stopped the film for the news in a stupid place. It was when Brody tossed the chum over the side when the shark came up. When the shark did, the film stopped for about 40 minutes.

Darren.

[dazuk1972]

NWG, Yes, I think, I said I liked MI-5, that's recent, I watch the new Dr. Who. and those other shows I mentioned are somewhat recent. We are just a little shakey still, from the revolution, ya know!!!

I remember years ago before DVD came out, the BBFC had to change the classification to Dr Who. This was because a lot of parents complained to BBC Video about Dr Who giving their kids nightmares. They were changed from certificate U to PG.

Darren.

[dazuk1972]

I always wondererd about that licence you need to watch tv, ever since I saw some brit-comedy (don't remember what one it was) and someone was worried that the law was going to go by scanning for signals and give out tickets, so the licence is seperate from the cable cost? so for free tv you still need to buy a licence? hmm that just seems wrong...I say if you are going to charge me just to have it then there should be no commercials! on by the way on the topic of brit comedys I loved Bottom and The Young Ones..low brow but so funny..I have Bottom on dvd buy can't find The Young Ones...

Do you have a multi-region DVD player? If you do, make an overseas order at the English Amazon. That link will send you to the page where The Young Ones is but only on Region 2. If you don't have a mutli-region DVD player and you want to ask around again at any shops or web sites, remember to mention it's the British comedy encase anybody thinks you're asking about Cliff Richard's film. As I'm sure you know, that's where the title for the comedy came from.

I hope you manage to get the series.

Darren.

[toomanycats]

I watch Dr. Who with my 7 year old son and while he enjoys it and insists on watching it, a few episodes have left him frazzled. A couple of simple explanations straightens him right out by I could see how a child unattended and a little younger might get scared. I record it onto my PVR first so I can fast foward or just not watch any episode that might be too much. My son asked me to do this and asked me to watch it first. This means I have to watch it twice sometimes.

[blutach]

TV boxsets have made my collection even bigger (probably more than 1500 now). I watch a season in one go by watching two episodes before I go to bed each night.

That's what we do - we have huge weekends, where we watch the whole series. Last weekend was Lost 2, a couple of weeks before was Prison Break.

The advertisements just get in the way so we don't watch series or movies - we prefer to wait. Plus, I can't hang around 24 weeks for a series to be shown. Rather do it in 24 hours.

The picture quality of the cable channels here in terms of bandwidth is just horrible (VCD standard in some cases). And the stuff they show is mostly lousy old crap, too. But my wife likes it, so we (I) pay.

Unlike in the UK, fortunately, TV licences went out here about 40 years ago. They just tax all of us for having the local equivalent of the Beeb.

Regards

[dazuk1972]

I watch Dr. Who with my 7 year old son and while he enjoys it and insists on watching it, a few episodes have left him frazzled. A couple of simple explanations straightens him right out by I could see how a child unattended and a little younger might get scared. I record it onto my PVR first so I can fast foward or just not watch any episode that might be too much. My son asked me to do this and asked me to watch it first. This means I have to watch it twice sometimes.

That's the best way to do things encase something does appear that scares him. I remember when I watched an episode of one of the new Dr Who series', there was a scene with special effects that looked a bit graphic for kids. If I remember correctly, it was like the scene in Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade when the geezer picked the wrong cup and turned into an old man in seconds.

I remember years ago when there was a TARDIS in a gift shop not far from me and last year there was a Dalek in an Oxfam shop.

Darren.

[dazuk1972]

TV Series' On DVD

What annoys me is when I want to buy a TV series and they are over-priced. The rubbish or what is always on TV is always going cheap.

What also annoys me is when I go to the video shop to hire out a TV series, all they have for rental is what's always on TV.

Darren.