What are your pet hates ?

[modeller]

In the absence of any noteworthy news we were talking in the pub about our pet hates on television.
There was past his sell by date Bruce Forsythe , the gesticulations of Ricky Gervais , the repetitious crudity of Little Britain , the banality and nursery level humour of comedians ,
semi porn in drama and comedy in place of talent. Few people could see the point in trotting out ex-celebs who had nothing new to offer, like Becham and Posh . It was a mixed group of all ages. I wonder what are the opinions of us ABers ?

[joggerjayne]

London ... it stinks.

[VHG]

>>>our pet hates on television.

>>>London ... it stinks.

??????

[VHG]

I think one of my pet hates is when you have a 1 hour program with 3 or 4 advert break (say a reality TV show about house redecorating on whatever) .

They cover a topic BEFORE the advert break, then AFTER the advert break they spend 3 or 4 minutes saying what they just told you BEFORE the advert break.

Some of these programs could be 30 minutes instead of an hour if they did not repeat everything after the advert break.

[joggerjayne]

Didn't read the question properly.

Duuh me !

sorry

[NazNomad]

Pet hates on TV? Hmmm.

A vast amount of the adverts annoy me. The rest are usually better than the programmes they interrupt.

Sound compression in adverts, making them twice as loud as your comfortable listening volume. Unfortunately, they still fall within legal sound-level requirements, so no change expected any time soon.

the dusting-off of archived material in lieu of any fresh talent.

That annoying picture-in-picture announcer that pops up when you're trying to read the credits, shrinking them to a size only readable by microscope.

[saxy_jag]

Nothing specific, but I'm always bemoaning the lack of decent TV drama for older kids. There's a lot of stuff for the under 5s and a good spread of comedy and factual programmes (just love Horrible HIstories), but virtually zero drama, good or otherwise.

[Gromit]

Why is men dressing up as women funny?

Everyone has done it, Monty Python, Two Ronnies, Little Britain. The studio audience are wetting themselves before a word is spoken. Seems desperate to me.

[cazzz1975]

programmes lately where the characters seem to whisper or talk in a breathy manner to their co star so you have to increase the volume, only to have the sound track or sound effects blast your ears out a second later causing you to turn down the tv, leaving you back to square one, repeat ad nauseum :(

[cazzz1975]

canned laughter is another bugbear, the programme effectively telling us to laugh hysterically at the right places. sadly the programmes are never funny enough to warrant the belly laughs

[Sqad]

Gromit....LOL

Women dress up as men.....that isn´t or ever has been, funny.
Men dress up as women..........as you say ....people laugh(including me)

I just can´t explain it.

[NazNomad]

Cazzz, that was evident in 'Batman Begins' last night. Christian Bale speaking in a barely audible whisper and the next frame they were blowing the sh1te out of a monorail ... very annoying, I turned it off.

[cazzz1975]

yep, I thought it was because I was watching in HD, it does it regularly, stargate universe has to be one of the worst programmes to abuse the viewers ears

[Chaffinch]

Repeats, repeats, repeats

[woofgang]

Noisy adverts. Any ad that makes me grab the volume control, I wil never ever buy the product....worst offender cillit bang

[modeller]

I once went to a tv studio and they held up placards to tell you when to clap , applaud etc
so its all artificial and that's why even terrible acts are applauded. and if you don't it's canned.

[Invictas]

Good God modeller,
Who rattled your cage this Christmas?
Goodwill to ALL men seems to have gone out of the window!

[Invictas]

Mr Sqad,
Since when have you had this irrational fear of tranvestism?
Lay on the counch and tell Dr Invictas everything!

[DTCwordfan]

Most soccer matches as they are yawns and Coronation Street ( reality - me thinks not; a neo Dickens - what an insult to Charles.

Only good comedians are the likes of Clive Andersen, David Mitchell, Paul Merton...at least it has some edge and is intelligent in their satire.

And I agree most of the so called celebs...and their hangers-on, especially that Max Clifford.

[Sqad]

Invictas..LOL..

<<<<<Since when have you had this irrational fear of transvestism?<<<<

I haven´t........................but I do have a fear that I might enjoy it.

"Should I loosen my blouse Doctor?"

[weecalf]

Chris Tarrent why does he have to be pally with all the so called celebs .Nobody could like that many people off television.Just for once Chris slap one of them