Watchdog

[Caribeing]

Watchdog, why don't they just get on with the issues without all that faffing about!

[Buenchico]

Because the viewing figures show that 'all that faffing' about actually gets people watching. (Yes, I know it's sad!).

You might just as well ask the Top Gear presenters (whoever they might now be) to simply review cars, in a similar way to that done by print journalists. The programme would be far more 'useful' but would probably lose 90% of its viewers.

[gingejbee]

I stopped watching ages ago because of the "dumbed down" presentation.
I think the aim is to make it "entertaining" as well as informative.

[fiction-factory]

It makes me turn off. Last week I gave it a go but they kept having that Eurovision bearded lady impersonator singing. Sadly Martin Lewis now does the same clowning about when his show is on. And of course they show the same clips four times and keep going over what happened before as if we have no attention span

[fiction-factory]

The Top Gear clowning around was quite entertaining though. The Watchdog stuff just isn't funny to me

[Buenchico]

It could be worse. They could still have Lynn Faulds Wood presenting it. I used to hate the way that she sought to lecture viewers about how bad the behaviour of certain traders was, rather than just telling us what they'd done (or left undone) and allowing us to make up our own minds about them.

[brainiac]

I wonder how much Dom Littlewood was paid for his thirty seconds appearance, dressed as a cowboy. He looked as embarrassed as I felt watching it. And why does Anne Robinson always wear clothes that show off her crepey bingo wings?