Programmes that should be axed !!

that rubbish on BBC1- Waterloo Road, Holby in a school?

Watch the show Californication. You can thank me later.

At 29 I'm well within the targeted audience of Walking Dead. I like a good horror as much as anyone and I'm not against a bit of gore (even CSI can be a bloodbath occasionally), but I've never felt zombies to make good villians. Stumbling about the place moaning and eating.... and thats about it. I like my horror villians to be evil, to have a plan that the hero's have to fight. Theres only so much can be done with zombies before they get repetitive.
I'm not dead against them, if done right they can be fun. The comic horror Fido put a refreshing spin on them as well as paying tribute to the B-movies of the '50's. Zombieland, another favourite of mine, also pokes a lot of fun at the cliches, genetic-experiment run amok and overly serious tones of the modern zombie movies.
On a final not I would like to say that I do not for a second believe there has ever or ever will be a 'Golden Age' of TV. Every decade has produced more than its fair share of crap and a handful of gems. I would love to see a post giving us all the chance to discuss TV shows that we like.

90% of TV's always been dross but was probably less noticeable when there were just 2 or 3 channels which were only on from around 4pm until midnight. We notice that there's more rubbish because there are hundreds of channels broadcasting 24/7. It's impossible to maintain high quality day in day out in any line of work.

Very good point. It is easy for us to sit back and criticise the TV companies but, given that the days when commercial TV was a licence to print money are long gone, I wonder how any of us would fare as TV programmers, trying to fill up all these hours at a time when audiences and budgets are shrinking.

I wonder if commercial TV (and BBC execs for that matter) have considered axing all the day time tripe and going back to the former 4pm-12am schedule. You never know, it might get students up early for lectures and the terminally unemployable off their butts.

Unlikely, and to be fair not necessarily desirable. In former days most people worked standard daytime hours during the week, but in the 24 hour day, 7 day week working culture that now exists there's increasing demand for entertainment that's available outside of "traditional" peaks. From distant memories of my youth, absence of daytime TV didn't curb student sloth then and I doubt if it would now! Would agree, though, that the bulk of daytime broadcasting is mind-numbingly poor.

Then again it's the programmes broadcast outside the traditional peak viewing times are particularly p*sspoor and so shift/night workers are'nt well catered for anyway. Secondly as most people have computers it's easy to catch up on missed peak time shows on iPlayer etc.
It's ironic that while there's a bigger choice of stations than ever before it seems fewer people are watching TV, instead selectively viewing stuff on iPlayer etc or doing more interesting things like having a life maybe.

Although it is still currently the most popular and effective medium for advertising, there's no doubt that TV viewing is in decline; I read recently that many young people hardly ever watch live TV. There's no reason to suppose this decline won't continue; if revenues fall then - unfortunately - we may well see an even greater diet of cheap-to-make rubbish than we have now. However, as ND remarks, this may encourage more people to get out and have a life!

All news programmes!!

agree with the likes of Charlie Bukowski re the lic fee... bloody ripoff! Even if youre unlucky enough to live in an area of the UK that cant get digi TV til the end of this year, youre still expected to pay it.. for 4 channels of crap.
As for the axe:- The BBC. the whole channels worth. Thus perhaps giving us back our lic fee .. But we dont win then anyway do we, cos the likes of us who ave SKY have to pay sky AND the bloody Beeb.
S'alright, Im off me high horse now ((*_*))

i think that needs checking out,, re the no lic if you watching a computer or using TV for dvd playing; as my neighbour got done when I lived down south for doing exactly that. he didnt even have the communal arial into his flat, and they said because it came into the 'building' (even tho not into his flat) he STILL had to have it. I havent got an arial coming in where I am now (and it would cost a fortune to do it) but I have had sky fitted so I had to have the licence, but when my contact is up, Im gonna do as you suggest and see if I can get it so that I can just watch dvds.. cos they are far better arent they , than some of the rubbish.
PS does anyone know if Geordie lasses and lads are the way they are portrayed on Geordie Shore?
Im shocked! ((*_*))

You listen to BBC radio and would like to see the license fee axed - please explain how this will help you as BBC radio is also funded by the license fee.

F. KING

I am from Middlesbrough and thats an hr away from Newcastle and no its not, Geordie lasses in reality are quite brainy and have intellengace about them. The lads on the other hand I dont really know about.

Things that should be banned are absolutely anything with Vanessa Phelps and Jeremy Kyle; Big Brother, TOWIE although it does make the rest of the country seem intelligent and Made in Chelsea, how many rich sad false people can you get in one programme!!

It may just be semantics but I get very edgy about the idea of actually banning TV shows. The shows Douglas Cutt lists are certainly not to my taste, and I think we're all perfectly entitled to say there is far too much of this tripe on the box. However, to actually demand of TV that they must not broadcast such programmes smacks of censorship and that's a slippery slope I don't want to embark upon.

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I have no personal desire to watch these or any other soap operas, but they are consistently the most popular programmes on TV and give enjoyment to millions of people; it would be curmudgeonly in the extreme to have these axed simply because they are not to my taste. Besides, I very much doubt if they would be replaced by anything more worthy; more likely to be yet more reality or other trash TV.

I don't watch much UK TV, as most of it is trash. If I want to watch anything on commercial TV, I record it so that I can cut out the ad breaks.
I have recently spent some months in Australia, and completely agree about the ads. The programmes are mainly even worse than in the UK, but the breaks are so long, and so frequent, that you feel like screaming. It's impossible to watch a film. There are so many interruptions that you lose track of the plot, or lose interest altogether.

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I don't listen to BBC Radio though, which is what I said lol.

Thank you promaboss, I didn't know that. It wouldn't really work for me though because there are a few things I watch throughout the year. It's the BBC I have the biggest problem with because they're the reason I have to spend over £100 a year for not really watching much television, it's ridiculous. We should have the option if we want BBC or not and those who want it can pay for it.

I think nothing should be banned ! Censorship is always bad . When you start it where will it end. If you don't like a show, stop watching it. As soon as the viewing rates fall, the TV producers will think about taking it off, the companies will think about the money their ads in that show will or won't generate and stop their support.

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Anything ricky gervais has done has been fantastic,an idiot abroad,the office,extra's,life's to short,the ricky gervais show.Ricky gervais is a genius.I forgot about the walking dead.brilliant