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ex hibitionist Flag Hastings 08 Jul 18 10.18pm

Like Deal or No Deal, Bullseye, Jeremy Kyle, Friends, Big Brother, I'm a Celebrity, The Black and White Minstrel show - sh*te shows that hold a candle to modern times and in their terrible way reveal the zeitgeist. Many of you may go for Come Dine With Me (actually pretty good - notice the foreign versions are not a patch on ours, you can't beat the Great British ar*ehole) and most for Love Island, but I'm banging the Graham Norton Show drum - overblown boring immature actors talking pure cr*p and a wannabe audience giving credence to their empty drivel amidst false laughter, canned or otherwise. Other sh*t programmes are more spectacular, but in its way the Graham Norton show has good claims to be the worst program on television. Opinions?

 

Harpo Flag Oxfordshire 08 Jul 18 10.28pm

What took you so long?

 

Midlands Eagle Flag 09 Jul 18 7.34am

Originally posted by ex hibitionist

I'm banging the Graham Norton Show drum - overblown boring immature actors talking pure cr*p and a wannabe audience giving credence to their empty drivel amidst false laughter, canned or otherwise. Other sh*t programmes are more spectacular, but in its way the Graham Norton show has good claims to be the worst program on television. Opinions?

I disagree. Graham Norton's show is an old fashioned show where celebrities come on to promote their latest film or book and the show is only as good or bad as it's guests.

I look at the lineup each Friday before deciding whether to watch or not and am often disappointed that someone I wanted to see turns out to be so bland in real life - Johnny Depp is a prime example

 

Midlands Eagle Flag 09 Jul 18 7.36am

Originally posted by ex hibitionist

Many of you may go for Come Dine With Me (actually pretty good

A truly dreadful program

In the beginning the show was quite good as it was about dinner parties and food but after a while the focus changed and the producers obviously picked people who would obviously not get on with each other and likewise those that wanted a bit of TV fame knew that they had to act up to get on TV and that's when I stopped watching

 

Badger11 Flag Beckenham 09 Jul 18 8.07am

Jeremy Kyle.

This program is on whilst I am down the gym otherwise I would never watch it. Angry women who behave like the "silver back" and that's just the audience. As for the men pathetic excuses of manhood. Why would any man agree to go on that show or Loose Women its the equivalent of bear baiting and it's about as balanced as Question Time.

I would include the reality TV programs but as I never watch them I think that would be unfair.

 


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Tom-the-eagle Flag Croydon 09 Jul 18 8.08am

Originally posted by ex hibitionist

Like Deal or No Deal, Bullseye, Jeremy Kyle, Friends, Big Brother, I'm a Celebrity, The Black and White Minstrel show - sh*te shows that hold a candle to modern times and in their terrible way reveal the zeitgeist. Many of you may go for Come Dine With Me (actually pretty good - notice the foreign versions are not a patch on ours, you can't beat the Great British ar*ehole) and most for Love Island, but I'm banging the Graham Norton Show drum - overblown boring immature actors talking pure cr*p and a wannabe audience giving credence to their empty drivel amidst false laughter, canned or otherwise. Other sh*t programmes are more spectacular, but in its way the Graham Norton show has good claims to be the worst program on television. Opinions?

Understand all this is subjective but I'm lost how you think that Come Dine with me is a better program better than Friends.

 


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mr. apollo Flag Somewhere in Switzerland 09 Jul 18 1.10pm

Jeremy Kyle is superb television! Won't hear a word against it!

Where does he find these people? Makes me glad to be living in Switzerland, where even the most inbred never left his village farmer is not as fat, stupid, potty mouthed as the dregs of humanity he manages to find from under some stone.

Makes me laugh a lot, and glad to be over here, rather than over there.

There but for the grace of God go I

 



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ex hibitionist Flag Hastings 09 Jul 18 8.57pm

Originally posted by Tom-the-eagle

Understand all this is subjective but I'm lost how you think that Come Dine with me is a better program better than Friends.

lost you are and lost shall you continue to be

 

chateauferret Flag 14 Jul 18 5.03am

I take it some of you are old enough to remember Blake's Seven? Mentioned for its bargain basement special effects. Anyone dressed as any kind of furry alien wore what looked like Woolies' pyjamas and you could see the zip come undone as they ran around. And when the spaceship was turning round in space you could see the cardboard background wobble and the bloke behind it turning the dowelling rod. Teenage boys loved it because they could watch Servalan strutting her stuff.

 


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YT Flag Oxford 14 Jul 18 6.50am

Originally posted by chateauferret

I take it some of you are old enough to remember Blake's Seven? Mentioned for its bargain basement special effects. Anyone dressed as any kind of furry alien wore what looked like Woolies' pyjamas and you could see the zip come undone as they ran around. And when the spaceship was turning round in space you could see the cardboard background wobble and the bloke behind it turning the dowelling rod. Teenage boys loved it because they could watch Servalan strutting her stuff.

I just looked up Servalan. I thought I’d mistakenly looked up Julian Clary.

 


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becky Flag over the moon 14 Jul 18 8.01am

Eldorado - nothing more to be said.

 


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YT Flag Oxford 14 Jul 18 9.38am

I’m quite a fan of irony, but I’m struggling to understand what ironically bad TV means. Eldorado, for example, was just bad TV wasn’t it? Where’s the irony?

Now Chucklevision.....

 


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becky Flag over the moon 14 Jul 18 11.16am

Originally posted by YT

I’m quite a fan of irony, but I’m struggling to understand what ironically bad TV means. Eldorado, for example, was just bad TV wasn’t it? Where’s the irony?

Now Chucklevision.....

Does your brain have autocorrect? - it's iConnically bad TV

 


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Midlands Eagle Flag 14 Jul 18 11.20am

Originally posted by becky

it's iConically bad TV

Is iConical TV Apple's latest product?

 

ASCPFC Flag Pro-Cathedral/caravan park 14 Jul 18 1.14pm

Originally posted by chateauferret

I take it some of you are old enough to remember Blake's Seven? Mentioned for its bargain basement special effects. Anyone dressed as any kind of furry alien wore what looked like Woolies' pyjamas and you could see the zip come undone as they ran around. And when the spaceship was turning round in space you could see the cardboard background wobble and the bloke behind it turning the dowelling rod. Teenage boys loved it because they could watch Servalan strutting her stuff.

Was gutted when it finished. The worst TV I have ever seen are the soaps - all of them really.
On another note, imagine if Alf Garnet was around these days - people such snowflakes they wouldn't notice the humour.

 


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Midlands Eagle Flag 14 Jul 18 1.45pm

Originally posted by ASCPFC

The worst TV I have ever seen are the soaps - all of them really.

So I should hope as they are aimed at women

 

Cucking Funt Flag Clapham on the Back 14 Jul 18 3.41pm

Originally posted by Midlands Eagle

So I should hope as they are aimed at women

Soaps were banned in my house which may have been a contributory factor in the subsequent divorce.

 


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monkey Flag Sittingbourne,but made in Bromley 14 Jul 18 4.03pm

Originally posted by Cucking Funt

Soaps were banned in my house which may have been a contributory factor in the subsequent divorce.

Hmmmm thanks, I might try that

 

YT Flag Oxford 14 Jul 18 5.43pm

Originally posted by becky

Does your brain have autocorrect? - it's iConnically bad TV

I hereby collect my coat and leave HOL for ever; covered in embarrassment.

Goodbye.

 


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Pete53 Flag Hassocks 18 Jul 18 3.03pm

To start with, to be ironically bad a the makers of the programme have to be producing it with entirely serious intentions/pretensions.

My examples I'm afraid show my age but I am sure some of you will share my memories ...

As a kid I used to watch the original 60s Batman show. Me and my friends used to make fun of it but, of course, the laugh was on us as it was self-consciously made to be camp and comical.

On the other hand, Crossroads, which was on around the same time, was meant to be a serious soap about the lives of everyday motel folk. The wobbly scenery, wobbly acting, and Amy Turtle stumbling over her lines was, for me, the epitomy of ironically bad TV, and our laughter in this example, was justifiably at, not with, the show.

 

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