My God.. isn't daytime tv shit?

[London_Calling]

I suspect daytime programming isn't targetted at U75 type people, after all it would be a bit daft to put out programmes the old girls and nesting mums don't want to watch.

 

[FabricLiveBaby!]

I think it's a sorry state of affairs when the only presenters on daytime TV are convicted criminals,, Jeremy Kyle and menopausal women

^^
True dat.

I want watercoulour challenge back! That was brilliant! A half hour of painting. Much better than any of the rubbish on now.

 

[London_Calling]

Alan Titchmarsh is a woman - who knew?

 

[nino_savatte]

the history channel (now called yesterday) is a bit shite tho. Looking forward to Quest

No, Yesterday is what UKTV History is now called. The History Channel has dropped the word "channel" and is now simply called "History".

I think the folks at UKTV realised their product didn't have much in the way of history. I mean, Antiques Roadshow and Sharpe...history? Not on your nelly. But it's History that gets me: why not just called it the Nazi, Gangs and Guns Channel instead?

 

[nino_savatte]

Diagnosis Murder is watchable.

Loose Women, Jeremy Kyle, Alan Titchsmarch, Flog It, Cash in the Attic? FUCKING SHITE!

Don't forget Homes Under the Hammer, part of the reason why this country is in the state it's in.

 

[TrippyLondoner]

Talking of loose women those bloated sour hags look like they would eat yellow snow if they thought it was part of some kind of weight loss and detox programme. Watching them is like having sex with the bathtub woman in The Shining.

On occassion I have cast a critical eye over it. It is truly a tawdry showcase for embittered menopausal women. Watch it and then try to remember something about any of the issues discussed in the programme an hour later, my recollection was that it was just an hour of 'white-noise' broken up by advertisements for female incontinence products.

Exactly.

 

[FabricLiveBaby!]

Don't forget Homes Under the Hammer, part of the reason why this country is in the state it's in.

Ha!


I love the way that that programme are still showing auctions from the peak of them arket in June 2007!

I want to see Homes under the Hammer: The Reposession Years.

Who's that bladie massive twat as well?

He's an arsehole cockney "geezah" and did these awful prgrammes called "beat the burglar" and "beat the bailiff".

 

[nino_savatte]

Ha!


I love the way that that programme are still showing auctions from the peak of them arket in June 2007!

I want to see Homes under the Hammer: The Reposession Years.

Who's that bladie massive twat as well?

He's an arsehole cockney "geezah" and did these awful prgrammes called "beat the burglar" and "beat the bailiff".

You mean "Little" Dominic Littlewood? As the saying goes, "Shite floats". He also did Dom's On the Case and some other prog where he blagged bargains on behalf of others (all situations were set up, of course)

I want to see Homes under the Hammer: The Reposession Years.

Aye, I'd like to see that too.

 

[FabricLiveBaby!]

You mean "Little" Dominic Littlewood? As the saying goes, "Shite floats". He also did Dom's On the Case and some other prog where he blagged bargains on behalf of others (all situations were set up, of course)

Him. I don't use this word very often but "cunt" seems perfect for him.

 

[Gingerman]

Cash in the attic,godawfull crap,people selling cheap tat theyve found rummidging around their houses for a few quid,car boot sale is another example of cheapo daytime spacefiller.

 

[_angel_]

First make money on houses, then make more money on houses, then jeremey Kyle, then make money off old junk you have in the attic, then make more money by phoning this premium rate number and awnsering easy questions, then make more money on houses.

can't they just put a good film or doccumentary on or something?

/whinge

Pfffft come off it, they have to punish the unemployed somehow!

 

[youngian]

As for the old ripper, the one that thinks she's a looker. Pankhurst and her ilk must be spinning in their graves

Is that Chris Evan's ex-missus you are referring to?

It seems that daytime TV is carefully targetted for niche viewers and apart from menopausal women there is-

Cash in the Attic-Middle class pensioners whose private pensions are now paying out fuck all.

Homes Under the Hammer-Middle aged professionals with next to no mortgage and fat redundancy cheque.

Jeremy Kyle Show- the job search is really not going too well.

 

[golightly]

Is this a demonstration of how day time telly hasn't changed for the past three years?

 

[Citizen66]

Jeremy Kyle is ace. It's like Urban without the flashes of genius.

 

[Citizen66]

Is this a demonstration of how day time telly hasn't changed for the past three years?

Are you pogofish's evil nemesis or something?

 

[golightly]

Are you pogofish's evil nemesis or something?

Evil is such a pejorative term.

No I just noticed that even though the thread had been bumped from 2009 it appears that the same old crap is being peddled on day time telly. The only time I've seen Jeremy Kyle is when I go and visit someone at home who is rapidly losing their grip on reality. Is there some connection there?

 

[Artaxerxes]

what is really needed is a male alternative to loose women...

Top Gear on Dave? I dont even particularly like cars and cant drive yet found it fascinating when I was out of work for 18 months.

 

[Reno]

One thing I'm often puzzled by is that when I announce that I'm off work for a while, there are people who ask me if I will watch daytime telly all day. With a wink, like it's a guilty pleasure we all secretly indulge in. Why the fuck would anybody in their right mind do that !

 

[Citizen66]

One thing I'm often puzzled by is that when I announce that I'm off work for a while, there are people who ask me if I will watch daytime telly all day. With a wink, like it's a guilty pleasure we all secretly indulge in. Why the fuck would anybody in their right mind do that !

People who have yet to discover a hobby, find pleasure in reading a good book or have no housework/jobs that need getting on with, clearly!

 

[Reno]

People who have yet to discover a hobby, find pleausure in reading a good book and have no housework/jobs that need getting on with, clearly!

I'm all of that. I just sit there and stare at the wall all day, drooling into my lap. It's still far more entertaining than daytime TV.

 

[Citizen66]

I'm all of that. I just sit there and stare at the wall all day, drooling into my lap. It's still far more entertaining than daytime TV.

I broadly agree. Although I can sit through an episode of Jeremy Kyle and enjoy it once in a while (it's sometimes on in the canteen at work, for instance), I don't really see it as something that could be habit forming. Plus the net and my other interests take up too much time. I rarely watch evening TV; if there's something I wanted to see I'll seek it out on one of the iplayer-esque websites. I only really watch TV when with other people rather than on my own.

 

[DotCommunist]

PMQs on a wednesday, good for a chuckle.

 

[Celt]

I love it - roller skating, tap dancing, super sleuthing doctor - you can't go wrong!

i like Monk
daytime telly is pretty dire, I tend to record mathew wright, it gives me something to shout at at a time

 

[pigtails]

Monk is fucking awesome!

 

[souljacker]

I broadly agree. Although I can sit through an episode of Jeremy Kyle and enjoy it once in a while (it's sometimes on in the canteen at work, for instance),

If I'm flicking through channels and Kyle comes on, I quite often watch it and think it will be entertaining. But as soon as he opens his mouth and starts shouting at some poor fucker who's fucked up his life in a sad and depressing way, I have to switch off. The man is an utter cunt and isn't helping the people on the show sort their lives out. He's just having a go at them to make money.

ITV4 is where I turn to for daytime TV. Minder, Cheers, The Fall Guy, Batman and IPL.

 

[Epona]

My current guilty pleasure is Real Housewives... my god, what a load of snobs who think they are somehow better than everyone else because they have money, but in reality have nothing better to do than have petty spats and bitch about each other. I find it a bit "life-affirming" or whatever the fuck it's called, because at least when I have nothing to do during the day I am just quietly doing my own thing (including letting these people provide mindless entertainment) rather than vying for column-inches with similarly vacuous pratts...

Yes I am fully aware that I need to get out more.

 

[Frances Lengel]

Doctors is good.

 

[TheHermit]

Doctors is good.

it's shit!

 

[mystic pyjamas]

I quite like the wright stuff on ch 5.

 

[19sixtysix]

I'll suggest you throw the telly box away during the day and listen to the wireless.

Radio 4 is good though if it disappears up its middle class backside the World Service can assist. FORGET TV.