Can You Believe Some Programmes

[FoxLee2]

e.g. - Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners - 2 cleaners go into a castle that hasn't been cleaned for decades. The cobwebs have cobwebs, the rooms are filled with clutter and they have just five days to bring five rooms up to scratch. The owner won't let them throw anything away without his say-so and by day three they've hardly made any headway. Yet miraculously by end of day 5, the 5 rooms are sparkling. Yea, right.

Also Celebrity Masterchef - I wonder how long it is between programmes and do they go on courses or have lessons inbetween. For instance, Rylan could hardly boil water when he started and some of the skills he suddenly acquired were unbelievable. He'd never touched fish, cooked it or eaten it and yet in the final, after a brief instruction, he was able to cook the fish to michelin star standard.

[maggiebee]

You must suspend all logical thought when watching programmes like these.

[Svejk]

I can't believe they get commissioned,
or watched.

[Arksided]

Yes 'Supernatural'... king of hell, demons, angels, hell hounds it has the lot... with a wry sense of humour about it.

[DaisyNonna]

Don't watch them so don't know

[agchristie]

Are you suggesting that licence payers are not getting value for money? ;)

[Mamyalynne]

It's only telly.

[sherrardk]

You need to get a new telly with an off switch.

[Svejk]

^As in, nobody's allowed to comment on television shows?

[FoxLee2]

Why do I have to get a tv with an off switch? I'll watch what I want and make comments if I think fit. I can't believe that the programmers think we are taken in by what they show us. Seeing isn't always believing.

[Ken4155]

The programmers don't give a flying fig whether we are taken in by their nonsense, or not. Just so long as enough people watch it and take those all-important ratings up a notch or two.

[PankySmooch]

Those people with the OCD cleaning habits have a screw loose, when they pop round each other's house to swab a fridge door and sofa that's been scrubbed with bleach for 20 minutes just so they can get a reading less than 500 on their 'cleanometer' which means it's clean enough to eat off. Pathetic!

[silliemillie]

I agree about the cleaners, no way would they be able to do it in the time.

One of the householders did say in one episode 'I wish ALL these cleaners would just go', you don't use the term 'all' for two people, bet there's a team of them.

[sandyRoe]

Flock stars is coming soon, celebrity shepherds.

[Svejk]

I can well imagine it, sandy. Can you imagine going into a meeting and pitching that. Dread to think what gets turned down.

[sandyRoe]

I can't see it being much like One man and his dog.

[EDDIE51]

The key is that they are for 'entertainment' not documentaries or factual .
Did you know by the way that the programme 'A Question of Sport' is not a quiz at all? The contestants know what is going to be asked beforehand and it has a script, complete with suitable 'jokes'.

[aelmpvw]

'celebrity shepherds' ... that's not a phrase you hear every day :-)

[FoxLee2]

Good point silliemillie. I imagine there's a whole crowd of them similar to the workers in DIY SOS although in that programme they all appear at the end.

PankySmooch - I also wondered what the point was of checking the cleanliness after you'd just disinfected, bleached or steam cleaned. Surely it would have made more sense to test before using any cleaning product to give an accurate reading.

[chaptazbru2]

I wanted Rylan to win, but I agree he did come on in leaps and bounds rather quickly !

[PankySmooch]

Just watched Celebrity Masterchef winner Kimberley Wyatt struggle to separate 3 eggs yokes on Sunday Brunch