The One Show, revolutionary new speaker?

[Macca]

I've never seen 'Masterchef'. Anything involving hospitals, dancing or cooking is right out for me. So that's about 90% of the BBC's output.

[walpurgis]

I've never seen 'Masterchef'. Anything involving hospitals, dancing or cooking is right out for me. So that's about 90% of the BBC's output.

The only hospital based thing I've ever voluntarily watched was 'House', which was bloody brilliant!

[Macca]

The only hospital based thing I've ever voluntarily watched was 'House', which was bloody brilliant!

There was 'Only When I Laugh' too. That was pretty good.

[Macca]

And the hospital-related Carry On films get a pass, too.

[Marco]

Thought you had a thing about nurses?

Marco.

[Macca]

Strippers dressed as nurses. Not the same thing.

[Marco]

Yeah, you like it sleazy!

Marco.

[alphaGT]

It’s the normal now days. TV shows these days are about idiots! All the reality shows, like the one about a family living in Alaska, are purposely stupid! Instead of finding some real woodsman who is clever and resourceful, they pick this family who are lucky they don’t accidentally kill themselves every day! And have no clue what they are doing.

And everything is life and death! A show about building cabins off the grid, and every board that goes up is life threatening, and then they always do something stupid just for the camera. Break something, drop something, suffer a major setback, get in an argument, and the deadlines! Every show where they build anything, a bike, a car, a house, they’ve got to have it done by Friday! Some imaginary deadline that’s supposed to create suspense. Who wants a bike they had to build in 5 days? I sure don’t.

BBC America channels are rather good, better than most actually.

Russell

[Macca]

It’s the normal now days. TV shows these days are about idiots! All the reality shows, like the one about a family living in Alaska, are purposely stupid! Instead of finding some real woodsman who is clever and resourceful, they pick this family who are lucky they don’t accidentally kill themselves every day! And have no clue what they are doing.

And everything is life and death! A show about building cabins off the grid, and every board that goes up is life threatening, and then they always do something stupid just for the camera. Break something, drop something, suffer a major setback, get in an argument, and the deadlines! Every show where they build anything, a bike, a car, a house, they’ve got to have it done by Friday! Some imaginary deadline that’s supposed to create suspense. Who wants a bike they had to build in 5 days? I sure don’t.

BBC America channels are rather good, better than most actually.

Russell

I think that's because they can cherry-pick from the BBC output. An organisation the size of the BBC makes loads of television so occasionally they will come up with something good just by the law of averages. Like a thousand monkeys on a thousand typewriters.


I watch PBS America quite a lot. They have some intelligent documentaries, with lots of interesting footage and just a voiceover instead of some tosser presenter wandering about asking inane questions to pad out the lack of real content.

[Lurch]

My TV gets switched on an maximum of 50 hrs a year. 18 of those are to watch the 1hr MotoGP highlights slot. The rest are reserved for occasional delights like Blue planet style programmes or Guy Martins Speed and one off special interest programmes I happen to spot.
The rest of the output across all channels is banal dross from my perspective and aimed at the nuckle daggers in society.