What annoys you on TV

My wife complains that i spend too much time in front of my PC but i find it hard to watch TV that has so much dross.
Here in Belgium we have plenty of channels to watch but most are filled with cookery/reality/home improvement shows, shows like X factor or Big Brother leave me cold as do cookery programs with so called celebrity chefs like foul mouthed Gordon Ramsay they are a real turn off.
What prompted me to ask is that as i am here typing the Dr Phil show is on the TV and there are six women around a table with Phil and all they are doing is flaming each other (this show is about a year later than in the USA) and i am not sure if i understand the mentality of people who come on national TV and pour out very intimate details of their private life??

So what turns you off ??

 

I watch so little TV it would be easier to tell you what I do like. LOL All of the so-called "reality" shows are crap. All of the celebrity gossip shows are crap. Most of the sit-coms are crap. Most of the talk shows are crap. The majority of the commercials are not only crap, it's become impossible to tell WTF they're advertising until the very end, as the commercial has not one iota of relevance to the product they're trying to sell.

The worst part about the TV? Left to my own devices, I typically go about five days without turning it on, until one day it occurs to me I've not seen the news in a while (I would watch more, but I can't afford to pay for the cable package that includes sports channels, so I go out to watch hockey and football). BUT, I live with my mother. If she is awake, the TV is on. She regularly falls asleep watching it at night, but wakes up and gets mad at me if I turn it off.

I don't even own a TV. Haven't had one since the 13-inch black and white set my dad bought me in 1985.

 

I hardly ever watch TV anymore. I don't like even hearing about the so-called "Reality" Shows, that are NOT even close to reality.

 

I usually have news going on in the background and when I get sick of that I switch to one of the Discovery channels. As opposed to Bill, I like the food channel for the most part but I have to agree about Gordon Ramsay, the bleeping is totally annoying besides him berating everybody. He always looks like he's going to have an aneurysm.rolleyes What I really hate is him swearing like a sailor in front of his kids.

Other than that, I still like the crime shows, like CSI etc. To save some money I'm changing packages from 30 to 10 extra channels and get rid of the movie channels after a year of having them, it's just not worth it.

 

You gotta wait 'til the end of the year for the bill to kick in. I wish we had a law like that, nearly gives me a heart attack when the ads come on.

 

What do I hate about T.V.? Like Tibbs, it's easier to say what I do like about T.V., which isn't much, since I rarely watch free-to-air television.
I am so sick of 'reality' shows that are anything but real, but rather contrived emotional B.S. People just want to see arguments, people stressed out, suffering, etc. Take a look in the 'real world' if you really want to see that . I am not interested in watching fat people trying to lose weight or beat each other up for a million bucks, etc.
The news is just a big a crap-fest as anything else. If I'm lucky, I get maybe 10 mins. of actual news, usually the same crud repeated ad-nausium all week/month. Then the rest is Aussie Rules football in winter or Cricket in summer, or some other sport or sports person I'm not even vaguely interested in. I have no interest if some footballer or whatever is being unfaithful to his wife, or has a sore knee or whatever.:crybaby Agreed that Golf is fun to play but as boring as Hell to watch.
I hate the sit-coms that are usually about as funny as watching an apple go brown. I hate the blatant Govt. propaganda, paid for by us tax payers, telling us what we can and can't do. I hate T.V. shows/documentaries that I do actually try and watch being constantly interrupted by commercials about how you must watch the very same program that they've interrupted me watching :mad.
I hate having CityBank credit card ads and Funeral Insurance, Life Insurance, Pet Insurance, Unemployment Insurance ads constantly rammed down my throat. NO!, I am NOT giving them my money for nothing. Yes I do have a thing called a Bank Account if I need cash for something. If I'm dead, I am unlikely to care how I am buried/burned, and I am certainly NOT making anyone else rich from my death, (yep, I am taking it with me when I croak it, LoL!). I hate endless 'Info-commercial' and tele-marketing ads. Sorry, but no matter how many times they tell me that this bra is great or that I rally need another 50 or so way over-priced cheap crap, made in China Tupperware containers, I am NOT going to buy them!
A few cooking shows are okay, but watching some Aussie nobody throwing vinegar and olive oil on some salad leaves is not my idea of cooking. I do actually know how to do that.rolleyes. Yeah, Ramsay pretty much sucks. Apart from the signature potty mouth, his cooking isn't all that great, i.m.o. Yes, I have actually eaten in his restaurant, (one of them) in the West End of London, and the chocolate pigeon was YUCK!, (not my idea to eat a chocolate coated flying rat, LoL!).uke:
So I mainly watch History Channel, or Disco, or something at least semi-intelligent, or the telly goes off and the radio on with ABC Classic FM, or something.
Some giant sized Black Cockatoos munched up my free-to-air T.V. antenna ages ago, and I am probably not getting it replaced any time soon.

 

I like smart comedy, hate stupid comedy. Smart comedy mixed with stupid comedy is alright. Stupid comedy just repeated does not make it funnier. I saw Saturday Night Live's holiday prime time special A Gilly Christmas, and frankly I didn't see any humor at all with the Gilly thing.

Reality shows aren't reality. They are just unscripted. Basically take the thing that separated one show from another and eliminate that all together.

Commercials are OK. It's what drives the business. I don't like them, but they're OK. I mean, how else would you know the latest deals at the Buy More if you didn't have commercials?

 

Golf to me seems about as interesting as watching paint dry. I mean come on, watching the white ball descend on a green backdrop is not exciting like Basketball or Hockey. May as well watch a Red Solo Cup on a table... What do I know as I don't own a TV.

They are louder on the radio that I stream and they are louder on XM also.:confused

 

I cancelled my TV subscription, 5 million channels and barely anything worth watching.
I have lots of movies and TV shows on DVD that I enjoy watching time and time again and I buy new ones when I want them.
Reality TV shows and the like drive me nuts with a couple of exceptions.
Sorry Bill but Gordon Ramsey IMO is an awesome bloke, I have a lot of respect for him. My brother in law is a chef and I've seen and heard what goes on in kitchens and Ramsey is no different from most chefs in higher end places, difference is he's THAT damn good at what he does he is a household name across the globe.... plus I find it funny lol
I also used to like Survivor but that got too samey.

So in answer to the OP.... Nothing bothers me anymore :-D

 

Two or more years without TV in my house, I am OK with it. Some might argue that point! :-D Most of it is bs, I found other things to occupy my time.

 

@ Augie
You say the bleeping of Gordon Ramsay is annoying well just be thankful you do not live here in Belgium where they do not bleep out the foul language and we have to listen to actual F word repeated over and over.

@ Tim
I had forgotten about the volume with the ads but you are right it really does p*** me off.

@ Nedlamar
I have no doubt that Ramsay is a great chef and how he acts is common in top kitchens but i don't think it is suitable for TV.

 

Word.

I rarely watch TV anymore. Once in a while channels like Discovery, Science, History, etc. Now and then I do watch some of the fare on the SciFi channel, and a few others that have fiction shows, but overall the vast majority of what TV has to offer is pure drivel.

 

If the TV is on then I may watch what that channel is showing. I once in a blue moon will actually turn the TV on and see what's on. I'd rather play a game, surf the web, read a book, or play with one of my guitars.

 

Besides the points already mentioned (all good), it also bugs me on what constitutes "news", especially on cable networks:

* The majority of CNN has turned into celeb gossip. If I want to hear about Kim Kardashian or Beyonce, I'll turn on a mindless crap show like Entertainment Tonight.

* FOX News is so biased it's scary. For the record, I'm an independent voter with opinions on specific issues that are not strictly "right wing" or "left wing". Their "reporting" is nothing more than pandering to holy rollers and conservatives. Before you slam me on this, consider that the broadcast end of FOX is the exact opposite. Shows like Family Guy, American Dad and Hell's Kitchen (60 straight minutes of beeping out Gordon Ramsay's "F" word) are the exact type of programs conservative viewers want taken off the air.

* I'm sick of paying DirecTV (or any other provider) $90 per month for over 200 channels - 190 of which I never watch. As an example, I think Oprah Winfrey is a nice person - but not nice enough to justify her padding my monthly bill by a buck or two for a channel I have no interest in watching.

 

Some Conservatives really enjoy Fox's cartoon shows. I do watch 'Family Guy', 'The Simpsons', not a fan of the cooking shows. I think most Conservatives by nature would want the market to control what shows are on TV. Maybe you have just been hanging out with the un-cool Conservatives. :-D

 

By "Conservatives", I'm referring to religious-right, thinly-veiled hate speech groups who publicly freak out, threaten to boycott advertisers and whine to the FCC every time a (gasp!) gay/lesbian character or controversial topic is added to a show.

The free market should control what's on TV. The problem is those who try to force their beliefs on others or are too lazy to pick up the remote and change the channel.

 

roflmao Nice rant man!

 

Ahh, more like the religious 'conservatives'. Big difference between most political Conservatives. I agree with you on religion trying to push their beliefs on the normal citizen. Wait, what about the Fairness Doctrine, is that Conservative, or.... :-D

Not trying to get too political.

 

Hate watching Baseball, American soccer, and Basketball.
Love watching Golf. Yeah, yeah drying paint! Hehe..
Dislike reality shows.
Like the News, Nat Geo, Discovery, Fox Traveler and Fox History.
Record the cooking shows and watch at my convenience.
Master chef- America was awful in my opinion if compared to MC Australia.
Can do without TV for days on end, but will never unsubscribe.

Ok- I'm gonna get killed now, since I hate any thing to do with Star Wars, the final frontier and all the beam me up Scotty from 30 yrs ago. Any thing space age, I fall asleep... It's all akkkk..
Cheers..

 

:banghead

 

I was gonna start a thread containing the the afore rant but this one will do

THE DISCOVERY CHANNEL SHOWS! :mad

I'll explain,I love documentarys and they are the thing I probably watch the most of but lately the discovery channel has lost its freakin grip!

There's a vein of shows the dicovery channel has been coming out with that mix augmented,set up,fake drama mixed in with the subject matter,here are a few examples;

American Chopper - I loved this show,I loved learning how they put bikes together and seeing the amazing bikes but now its like a soap opera,its all about senior and juniors relationship which I couldn't give a flying frack about,your lucky if you even see a bike in the latest shows.

Sons of guns - I love guns,I love seeing them building cool projects containing guns and weapons but I cannot stand to watch the show because the characters annoy the living pee out of me,the daughter is THE most annoying trailer park trash I've ever seen and the boss is an absolute jerk I just want to beat the living poo out of the TV every time he's on,he treats his employee's like crap,if a boss spoke to me like that he'd be unconcious before he finished his sentence. He's probably not like that in real life the producers are to blame for making him act like that.

Whale wars - I wouldn't ever watch this crap but its a good example of tryna squeeze drama out of a really boring show.

Born survivor - All fake and setup to look real

Keith Barry deception - again all fake magic tricks with actors.

Moonshiners - Have you ever watched this fake crap?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBcfeRMj_bw

Carfella's - Good lord they have managed to find the highest concentration of dumb a-holes and put them all in one show with a nice slice of dicovery channel fake scripted scenes to add drama.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij4blybWSp8

When I think of all the amazing things they could make documentarys about it riles me up they're wasting money putting out this crap to serve up to morons.

Fake reality shows should not be shown on the discovery channel.

@Timw +1

I hold the remote constantly and turn the TV down just as the ad's come on,its annoying as hell..

 

I just remembered I have this picture. As someone who works behind the scenes, I can only say, "A-freakin-MEN!" :-D

Just realized it's got a word I probably am not supposed to use here, sorry. If I wasn't at work I could edit it.

 

What annoys me on TV. Hmmmmmm let me think rolleyes




B100** everything!! i mean the sports unless it` american football or wrestling,baseball or nascar,news, cooking programmes this morning jonathan ross, loose women, jeremy kyle,music channels, stupid adverts like that one with the happy feet song,it makes me want to cut kermit the frogs legs off and sell them to the french :-D i could go on but i don`t want to depress/annoy anyone.:-D
The Big bang theory is bout only decent thing on though i do love nature programmes and clicks ok, but the gadget show sucks,and don`t even get me started on Top Gear:boxing:crap:***:banghead:tas

 

I admit to watching many of the realities and ramsy and more. i know like jeshy shore they only only show fights and drinking. but what i dislike are loud commercials and having our dish go out so much.

 

I let myself be conned into having a satellite dish last year.
We had a sales rep at our home last year for something unrelated to TV but it turned out that he was also a rep for a TV distribution company here and he laid out all the wonderful things we would benefit from by having satellite TV, it was a really good deal on price as well (if it looks too good to be true it usually is ) so i signed up and a week later the guy came to install it, for a few days it went perfectly and the selection of channels was great on the two Astra satellites but things soon started to go wrong, the dish would drop out when the weather was bad sometimes for an hour or more so i called the company and told them that in my opinion it was not fit for purpose and basically they were not interested because i had signed a two year deal :-o.
Now i am known for not being a patient man when things are not going to plan so i contacted the Telecommunications ombudsman who took up my claim with the supplier who after about a month of E-Mails back and forth agreed to cancel the contract at no extra cost to me so i then had to crawl back to my original cable company and say sorry i screwed up and can i please have my service back.
So all is well now.

 

Well youd think being in us and in the town w the big known dish here. they bought compitition. so nothing but this. and workers came many time at big amount per half an hour. everyone said it shud work but still daily losing signals daily.

 

It's time for movies to become completely commercial free on every channel. Nobody wants to watch a 2 hour movie for 3 1/2 hours...

 

I`d much rather watch a 2hr film go on for 4hrs with ads then have to pay a tv license for crap that you really can`t stand.And yes i am getting at the BBC and you don`t want me to tell you what the BBC stands for :-D