TV programmes others raved about or everyone seems to have

[Greedo]

watched but you haven't or can't stand.

I've never seen a single episode of and never will :-

Star Trek
Downton Abbey
Darling Buds of May
Heartbeat
The Royal

Programmes I wished I'd never watched and can't stand :-

Big Brother
Last of The Summer Wine
Dads Army
The X Factor
Top Gear

 

[gregmcateer]

Yep, pretty much with you with that lot.
And add Neighbours, Eastenders, Any-other-Soapers to the second list, (or first if you managed to avoid them in the first place!

 

[RogerP]

Almost as above +
Any soap
Anything about dancing
Any game show
Any talent show
Anything with Clarkson in it

.... and I rarely bother with films.... but I do like Last of The Summer Wine (particularly the early ones)

 

[Benchwayze]

watched but you haven't or can't stand.

I've never seen a single episode of and never will :-

Star Trek
Downton Abbey
Darling Buds of May
Heartbeat
The Royal

Programmes I wished I'd never watched and can't stand :-

Big Brother
Last of The Summer Wine
Dads Army
The X Factor
Top Gear

I appreciate your personal taste, but don't understand why 'Dad's Army' is on your list Greedo.
Unless it's that you are not of the generation that 'gets' the psychology behind the humour.
I think maybe psychology does have a bearing on our appreciation. If you mean that 'Dad's Army', harps back to Laurel & Hardy and so on, I do agree. In fact, I never saw the humour in Charlie Chaplin. L&H yes, but not Chaplin.

Again, it's the psychology that makes you laugh or not! For instance I can't stand the frenetic wailing of Michael McIntyre; Dara O'Brien, is too smarmy and too clever for his own good. Paul Carr is even more smarmy, and his laugh grates my ears. (Although there are some on 'nine-o'clock-news' types whom I do find funny (Merton especially.) There's a black American guy who makes me laugh. But I don't see him anywhere else. He is erudite, and funny. Always a winning combo for me.


But 'Dad's Army' brings back memories of my own Dad, so maybe that's it!

All the best. (Les Dawson was THE MAN!)

PS. 'Darling Buds of May'.

Read the books! (The originals if you can get them.) They are by H.E. Bates for heaven's sake! :shock:

 

[Greedo]

Just hated Dads Army when I was younger and never changed my mind.

The black guy you are talking about I would hazard a guess at is Reginald D Hunter and he is very funny

watched but you haven't or can't stand.

I've never seen a single episode of and never will :-

Star Trek
Downton Abbey
Darling Buds of May
Heartbeat
The Royal

Programmes I wished I'd never watched and can't stand :-

Big Brother
Last of The Summer Wine
Dads Army
The X Factor
Top Gear

I appreciate your personal taste, but don't understand why 'Dad's Army' is on your list Greedo.
Unless it's that you are not of the generation that 'gets' the psychology behind the humour.
I think maybe psychology does have a bearing on our appreciation. If you mean that 'Dad's Army', harps back to Laurel & Hardy and so on, I do agree. In fact, I never saw the humour in Charlie Chaplin. L&H yes, but not Chaplin.

Again, it's the psychology that makes you laugh or not! For instance I can't stand the frenetic wailing of Michael McIntyre; Dara O'Brien, is too smarmy and too clever for his own good. Paul Carr is even more smarmy, and his laugh grates my ears. (Although there are some on 'nine-o'clock-news' types whom I do find funny (Merton especially.) There's a black American guy who makes me laugh. But I don't see him anywhere else. He is erudite, and funny. Always a winning combo for me.


But 'Dad's Army' brings back memories of my own Dad, so maybe that's it!

All the best. (Les Dawson was THE MAN!)

PS. 'Darling Buds of May'.

Read the books! (The originals if you can get them.) They are by H.E. Bates for heaven's sake! :shock:

 

[henton49er]

For me, I have never been able to watch more than about two minutes of the following:-

Friends
Seinfeld
Any other American comedy/sitcom
Last of the Summer wine
The Office
Anything else with Ricky Gervais in it (makes my blood boil)
Reeves & Mortimer
Dara O'Briain and anything he is in
Jim White on Sky Sports News
Big Brother
All other reality TV
X Factor
Britains got Talent
Strictly come dancing
any other "Talent(less)" show
Eastenders
Coronation Street
Any other soap

..... I don't know why I have a TV; if it wasn't for the sport I probably wouldn't bother!!

 

[DrPhill]

..... I don't know why I have a TV; if it wasn't for the sport I probably wouldn't bother!!

<Soapbox>
I have not had a telly for about 20 years. I do not really miss it. We do now watch films on the 'pooter though.

Whenever we go somewhere with a telly the programs look like something I have already watched, like something boring, or both. Are they really still screening 'Dads Army'? Sheeesh. And Ray Mears? And that documentary about the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs? Have they made anything worth watching in the last twenty years?

I reckon I could have saved as much as £2000 on tv tax in the last couple of decades .

</Soapbox>.

 

[doctor Bob]

If the opening post was about "planes" and the ones we don't like..... would people post about not owning any planes ... no..... just seems strange that as soon as TV is mentioned people love to post about not owning a TV.

get off the soapbox...... fellow Doctor....:lol: :lol:

 

[Benchwayze]

If the opening post was about "planes" and the ones we don't like..... would people post about not owning any planes ... no..... just seems strange that as soon as TV is mentioned people love to post about not owning a TV.

get off the soapbox...... fellow Doctor....:lol: :lol:

I know of at least one person (who went to pastures new), who would boast about how few planes he owns.
He has enough tools. So have we! 8) :lol:

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Unfunny comedies -
anything American (except cartoons, which are brilliant)
Dads Army
The Goons
Father Ted
Vicar of Dibley
Bread
Birds of a Feather
Last of the Summer Wine
....and with the exception of Outnumbered, just about any comedy made in the last couple of years.


and I nearly forgot celebrity dancing on ice in the jungle kitchen.

 

[tekno.mage]

Programmes I have never watched (or only seen a couple of minutes of before changing channel in horror) and have no intention of ever doing so....
Cornonation Street
Eastenders
Neighbours
Any other soap operas
Big Brother
Anything with the word Celebrity in the title
Anything with the word Dancing in the title
X Factor
Darling Buds of May
MInder
Reality TV shows
Talent shows
Chat shows
Most Sitcoms (but especially all American ones)
Anything with Morecame & Wise or the Two Ronnies in
Last of the Summer Wine
Anything with Bruce Forsyth in

I do admit to watching & enjoying Dads Army and Star Trek - The Next Generation in the past (ie when they was first broadcast). I also watched the last series of Downton Abbey.

 

[lanemaux]

As an outsider I get that you have some shows that annoy or seem pointless. Here in Canuckia we get a huge influx of the shows that seem the common denominator, bleedin American crud! Add to that the Canadian obsession with all things hockey and you can just about go mad. Our TV is reserved for pretty near always using PBS or the specialty channels. However , given this years hockey lockout , I was hoping for a hockey rest break. Fat damn chance!! I swear I am not making this up . Saturday nights on the CBC has always been Hockey Night in Canada and remains so, Running reruns of years old games as , get this , Hockey Night in Canada Classics! AAARRRGH!
Sorry about venting like that , but it felt so good.
Mike

 

[DrPhill]

If the opening post was about "planes" and the ones we don't like..... would people post about not owning any planes ... no..... just seems strange that as soon as TV is mentioned people love to post about not owning a TV.

get off the soapbox...... fellow Doctor....:lol: :lol:

OK, try this then:

TV programmes others raved about or everyone seems to have watched but you haven't or can't stand.

(Bold font added by me)
My answer: Anything made in the last 20 years, and quite a bit before that. My post was partly a long way of saying this, though I was responding mainly to:

..... I don't know why I have a TV; if it wasn't for the sport I probably wouldn't bother!!

.

I might start a thread from another aspect 'What have you watched on TV recently that justified the license fee?'. Maybe folks would be surprised at how much TV output is really appreciated. I might even be persuaded to get one....... :lol:

 

[Steve Maskery]

Well I don't have a TV.
Yesterday the Why-haven't-you-got-a-licence? man came a-knocking. It was the same guy who came to the door at my last address, 12 miles away.
"You need a licence."
"No I don't."
"Do you have a television?"
"No, that is why I don't need a licence."
"Can I come in to check?"
"No."
"OK. Someone else will come."
"We'll have the same conversation all over again."
"We'll get a Warrant"
"No you wont. You need prima facie evidence that I am committing an offence and you have no such evidence. I've not had a TV since August last year. I don't miss it one bit and I have no intention of getting another one."
"Someone else will come."
Door closes, exit stage left.

 

[Peter T]

If the opening post was about "planes" and the ones we don't like..... would people post about not owning any planes ... no..... just seems strange that as soon as TV is mentioned people love to post about not owning a TV.

get off the soapbox...... fellow Doctor....:lol: :lol:

I know of at least one person (who went to pastures new), who would boast about how few planes he owns.
He has enough tools. So have we! 8) :lol:

And he's still pontificating. ..............

 

[tekno.mage]

Well I don't have a TV.
Yesterday the Why-haven't-you-got-a-licence? man came a-knocking. It was the same guy who came to the door at my last address, 12 miles away.
"You need a licence."
"No I don't."
"Do you have a television?"
"No, that is why I don't need a licence."
"Can I come in to check?"
"No."
"OK. Someone else will come."
"We'll have the same conversation all over again."
"We'll get a Warrant"
"No you wont. You need prima facie evidence that I am committing an offence and you have no such evidence. I've not had a TV since August last year. I don't miss it one bit and I have no intention of getting another one."
"Someone else will come."
Door closes, exit stage left.

That sounds like the same kind of stupid interactions I have with the TV licence people but by post. A long time ago before I moved to my current address the postcode of the address was once incorrectly (by 1 letter) entered into a database somewhere....

Ever since I've been getting daft letters from the TV license people addressed to "the occupier" and telling me I don't have a license, I need a license, they will send people round, etc etc. I do have a TV license for where I live which has my name plus the correct address and post code on it. I bought one when we first moved here and have bought a new one every year since. Despite informing the TV license people several times that this other postcode is incorrect and does not even exist, they have done nothing about it and I now throw all correspondence from them to this incorrect postcode in the bin unopened. They have never sent a man round (possibly because as postcode does not exist they can't find where to send him?)

If you are wondering why I receive mail to this incorrect postcode, it's because the rest of the address *is* correct. I live in a remote rural farmhouse. The postman here knows where it is and I don't think he even reads the postcode, just the name of he farm and the village - so I get mail addressed to the farmhouse whatever the postcode on the bottom.

I sometimes receive unwanted junk mail (usually from double glazing companies or British Gas which is odd as we have no gas supply either) with the same incorrect postcode on - that goes in the bin as well!

 

[nev]

anything with the word 'celebrity' in, any of the modern day versions of the Victorian freak shows (talent shows), where we can all larf and point at the eejits, and anything that involves someone living as a medieval farmer or WW1 soldier in a trench for a week and claiming how they 'understand' what they must have gone through. NO YOU DONT! you were never in fear for your life, your friends werent dropping like flies around you and and you knew that next week you were going to get fed regardless of the weather or the whim of the sheriff of nottingham!!