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I have always wonder what drives those sad people who call up annd complain about adverts, or sex on TV, but i fear it is not long before i join the ranks of the complainers.
I am now in a particularly bad mood with the BBC and if I wasn't so lazy i would actually report them to the TV watchdog over crappy scheduling. I appreciate there is a war on and a golf championship which has incurred a lot of torrential rain.
As if cancelling Neighbours twice this week, in favour of showing us a tank in a road doing nothing, or the same loop of footage we saw of George Bush the night before wasn't bad enough. They have now really taken the pisss. Now i am a keen golfer and enjoy playing golf, and occasionally watching it in small doses, but however much i like it there is no blooddy excuse to cancel I love 1990 just to extend the highlights programme.
Tonights crap offerings on BBC 1 are:
Casualty
the murder game
Parkinson
Congo (movie)
What a thoroughly crap line up, why are we paying £112 to be offered such a pile of crap on a saturday evening. I love 1990 was the highlight of a poor schedule and they cancelled it. what a bunch of twunts. What a line up and those gimps cancel it.
I am also sick of moronic, insensitive and guileless news reporters asking particularly stupid questions, making points about the significance of things that clearly aren't significant, and generally prattling on about things which would have filled a half hour show but instead some how get stretched to 6 hours worth of reporting.
While i am ranting at the BBC i am also going to moan about how they are obsessed with liverpool. When it comes to football coverage they broadcast the most stupid games involving liverpool at the expense of ignoring other top teams competing in europe such as newcastle, chelsea and leads. Even though A) these teams may have a bigger match and B) ignoring the fact that liverpool are generally acknowledged to be the most boring team ever to have existed.
A) If they are going to charge us to watch TV then they can at least do it properly otherwise i'll have adverts please and not get charged and extortionate fee.
B) It would be nice if they didn't think our hobbies were watching paint dry and grass grow when it comes to sport
C) They acknoledge the fact that we don't want crappy Docu-gameshows and half hour long national lottery shows at the expense of actually entertaining programmes.
I feel a bit better now that i've got rid of a bit of aggression, but all i have to say is, "what a bunch of T*****s"
I am now in a particularly bad mood with the BBC and if I wasn't so lazy i would actually report them to the TV watchdog over crappy scheduling. I appreciate there is a war on and a golf championship which has incurred a lot of torrential rain.
As if cancelling Neighbours twice this week, in favour of showing us a tank in a road doing nothing, or the same loop of footage we saw of George Bush the night before wasn't bad enough. They have now really taken the pisss. Now i am a keen golfer and enjoy playing golf, and occasionally watching it in small doses, but however much i like it there is no blooddy excuse to cancel I love 1990 just to extend the highlights programme.
Tonights crap offerings on BBC 1 are:
Casualty
the murder game
Parkinson
Congo (movie)
What a thoroughly crap line up, why are we paying £112 to be offered such a pile of crap on a saturday evening. I love 1990 was the highlight of a poor schedule and they cancelled it. what a bunch of twunts. What a line up and those gimps cancel it.
I am also sick of moronic, insensitive and guileless news reporters asking particularly stupid questions, making points about the significance of things that clearly aren't significant, and generally prattling on about things which would have filled a half hour show but instead some how get stretched to 6 hours worth of reporting.
While i am ranting at the BBC i am also going to moan about how they are obsessed with liverpool. When it comes to football coverage they broadcast the most stupid games involving liverpool at the expense of ignoring other top teams competing in europe such as newcastle, chelsea and leads. Even though A) these teams may have a bigger match and B) ignoring the fact that liverpool are generally acknowledged to be the most boring team ever to have existed.
A) If they are going to charge us to watch TV then they can at least do it properly otherwise i'll have adverts please and not get charged and extortionate fee.
B) It would be nice if they didn't think our hobbies were watching paint dry and grass grow when it comes to sport
C) They acknoledge the fact that we don't want crappy Docu-gameshows and half hour long national lottery shows at the expense of actually entertaining programmes.
I feel a bit better now that i've got rid of a bit of aggression, but all i have to say is, "what a bunch of T*****s"
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Seriously? I Love 1990? Whole tens of people must have been narked, and being the sort to be in watching such junk on a Saturday night they are exaclty the people I'd expect to write in and complain.
Cubist wrote:
> I remember finding out why the TV line up is always terrible on
> Scottish holidays. Since the BBC and pretty much every network is
> based down in England they save all their good films etc for English
> holidays and just give films like Congo...on Scottish holidays. It's
> really unfair but I don't mind. I've got a DVD player and I can always
> get DVDs from the states so I get to see movies that are sooo much
> more up to date than anythign the tv can show.
No they dont... the movies on English holidays suck just as much.... you've just got a chip on your shoulder :)
> I remember finding out why the TV line up is always terrible on
> Scottish holidays. Since the BBC and pretty much every network is
> based down in England they save all their good films etc for English
> holidays and just give films like Congo...on Scottish holidays. It's
> really unfair but I don't mind. I've got a DVD player and I can always
> get DVDs from the states so I get to see movies that are sooo much
> more up to date than anythign the tv can show.
No they dont... the movies on English holidays suck just as much.... you've just got a chip on your shoulder :)
I remember finding out why the TV line up is always terrible on Scottish holidays. Since the BBC and pretty much every network is based down in England they save all their good films etc for English holidays and just give films like Congo...on Scottish holidays. It's really unfair but I don't mind. I've got a DVD player and I can always get DVDs from the states so I get to see movies that are sooo much more up to date than anythign the tv can show.
Ashley wrote:
> cancelling Neighbours twice this week
How is that not a good thing?
> cancelling Neighbours twice this week
How is that not a good thing?
Well, I love 1990 isn't one of my "fab" shows...
The only good thing about casualty was claire Goose. And now that she has left its goose has been plucked
When I think BBC I think Holby City and it makes me weep.
Well Eastenders, walking with cavemen, Robot wars, Simpsons and Horizon are good but just about everything else is crap.
Saturdays are terrorble for TV anyway so just play games instead.
Saturdays are terrorble for TV anyway so just play games instead.
Ah, theres the issue, I hate Eastenders, and I hate Casualty and its ilk. Some of their big-budget documentaries can be fantastic, and they do the occasional good drama, but I still think it's getting worse.
BBC1 still deserves a lot of credit. Eastenders is consistently well done, and there are some unrivalled documentaries. I remember a particular series on Human Instinct. It is more similar to ITV than BBC2, but there's still some very interesting programming on.
And Casualty and Parkinson are excellent.
And Casualty and Parkinson are excellent.
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