Well I thought they had hit "Rock Bottom" with Danny Dyer and "The Waullllllll" but ITV have knocked it out of the park with the most "Mind numbing **** show" ever with "Win Win with the Peoples Postcode Lottery"

I take it you don't recommend it?

TV thankfully have binned off the one with Ryan Thomas which when you mention him, was always going to fail.

Mrs Browns Boys should be prime time Sat night.

‘Comedy’ of the highest order…

Marney&Mee wrote: ↑

Sat Sep 06, 2025 10:11 pm

Mrs Browns Boys should be prime time Sat night.

‘Comedy’ of the highest order…

I can see you teeing it up and then walking away.

Is it me or over the last month there has hardly been any new programmes on TV. Even the quiz shows like millionaire and the 1% club are repeats showing in primetime slots ATM. Bit of a shambles

Thank goodness I had the two t20 quarter-finals to watch today

Ric_C wrote: ↑

Sat Sep 06, 2025 10:20 pm

Is it me or over the last month there has hardly been any new programmes on TV. Even the quiz shows like millionaire and the 1% club are repeats showing in primetime slots ATM. Bit of a shambles

"I fought the law", is worth a watch.

I managed to catch up with "Brassic" and think the last series is due to be released. One of the many examples that shows Lancashire is funnier than Yorkshire!

Ric_C wrote: ↑

Sat Sep 06, 2025 10:20 pm

Is it me or over the last month there has hardly been any new programmes on TV. Even the quiz shows like millionaire and the 1% club are repeats showing in primetime slots ATM. Bit of a shambles

Not a shambles, it is something we will have to get used to. Terrestrial TV can no longer generate the budgets for all but a sprinkling of new productions. They made money for the last ten years selling old programmes to cover the advertising and license fee gaps; but it has just exacerbated the problem. They now pit cheaply made programmes against classic television on a hundred other channels… result is less viewers, less income. So many now choose to watch no live TV or BBC (or at least have the abilty to claim not to) that the BBC are banging up the license fee to cover the shortfall, withe the result more and more people are deciding it is just not worth the money. They extended the licence fee to ANY live tv… but so long as you don’t stick to TV schedule’s and don’t use the BBC they still cannot enforce a license fee…. Cheaper product for more money is a disaster in the making for any business.

I Fought The Law with that appalling Sheridan Smith is truly awful. Mind you I always much preferred the Bobby Fuller Four’s original to the Clash cover

longsidetrumpet wrote: ↑

Sat Sep 06, 2025 11:16 pm

I Fought The Law with that appalling Sheridan Smith is truly awful. Mind you I always much preferred the Bobby Fuller Four’s original to the Clash cover

Sheridan Smith, awful? One of the best around.

Sheridan is very talented superb in Cilla But I fought the law is a laboured watch
Personally I never watch Saturday night tv or any reality TV.I lived in Essex for 2yrs and trust me the only way isn't Essex.

Woodleyclaret wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 07, 2025 12:19 pm

Sheridan is very talented superb in Cilla But I fought the law is a laboured watch
Personally I never watch Saturday night tv or any reality TV.I lived in Essex for 2yrs and trust me the only way isn't Essex.

Agree re: I fought the law. Maybe a part of it is that we know what happens in the end.

Not a fan of Reality TV much either (but love The Traitors) but I actually quite liked The Jury reality TV show. How a jury goes through a previous factual case.

ollieclarets8 wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 07, 2025 12:34 pm

Agree re: I fought the law. Maybe a part of it is that we know what happens in the end.

Not a fan of Reality TV much either (but love The Traitors) but I actually quite liked The Jury reality TV show. How a jury goes through a previous factual case.

The problem with The Jury was that some of the jurors just saw it as a competition between themselves, and there too many scousers. By choice, I'd have ditched, but my other half insisted on watching until the end.

longsidetrumpet wrote: ↑

Sat Sep 06, 2025 11:16 pm

I Fought The Law with that appalling Sheridan Smith is truly awful. Mind you I always much preferred the Bobby Fuller Four’s original to the Clash cover

I see you know as much about acting as you do about music. What’s with this Bobby Fuller nonsense. It was Sonny Curtis and the Crickets 1959.

taio wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 07, 2025 12:44 pm

The problem with The Jury was that some of the jurors just saw it as a competition between themselves

I imagine that happens in real jury cases. You'll get stubborn people who won't back down. I watched the Australian one and there was a guy who was a former prison officer. He took the accused as guilty before even hearing the evidence - and ended up making his decision purely on speculation.

I found myself watching Bryan Adams, for some reason.

I don't mind one or two of his songs but there's something vary mundane about him.

Suits Radio 2 I suppose.

Larry Graysons Generation Game set the standard for Saturday night Telly. Closely Followed by Morecambe and Wise, Parkinson and Match of the Day.

ollieclarets8 wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 07, 2025 12:52 pm

I imagine that happens in real jury cases. You'll get stubborn people who won't back down. I watched the Australian one and there was a guy who was a former prison officer. He took the accused as guilty before even hearing the evidence - and ended up making his decision purely on speculation.

What it didn't reference, unless I missed it, was that the real perpetrator had a retrial with the same outcome.

I watched the concluding 2 episodes of Dark Hearts on BBC4. A French drama series (subtitled) featuring French Special Forces operating in Mosul against ISIS.

Saturday night tv on the BBC or ITV have been shocking for some time. In fact Mon to Fri has not been much better. Saturday night tv in the 70s/80s used to be a brilliant watch with plenty of variety. I’m fed up with quiz shows at prime time. For gods sake isn’t Pointless on enough nights of the week not to have it again on Saturday evening. I’m fed up of turning it on to see Armstrong, Walsh or McIntyre. Yes I know ‘don’t bother turning it on”.

taio wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 07, 2025 1:03 pm

What it didn't reference, unless I missed it, was that the real perpetrator had a retrial with the same outcome.

I think you're correct there. The Australian one, they came up with Not Guilty (12 to 0 after the one I mentioned changed his mind so he could go home )

But the actual case, he had something like 3 re-trials, followed by a guilty verdict, 10 years in prison but after 2 years inside they overturned it.

beddie wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 07, 2025 1:56 pm

Saturday night tv on the BBC or ITV have been shocking for some time. In fact Mon to Fri has not been much better. Saturday night tv in the 70s/80s used to be a brilliant watch with plenty of variety. I’m fed up with quiz shows at prime time. For gods sake isn’t Pointless on enough nights of the week not to have it again on Saturday evening. I’m fed up of turning it on to see Armstrong, Walsh or McIntyre. Yes I know ‘don’t bother turning it on”.

I think Saturday and Sunday TV is worse during the summer. I guess broadcasters know people are out for longer and so save their best dramas/shows until the Autumn.

For a total escape watch Knives Out starring Daniel Craig.Excellent on Netflix the antidote to Comedy? and Reality ? TV.

I've been convinced for a while that Saturday night TV is sponsored by the breweries to get people out into pubs.

Fortunately we never seem to watch live Tv apart from sports so they’res nearly always something better to watch than ‘ Ant and bloody Deck ‘ or ‘The Wheel ‘

Rock bottom was hit with ''The Time It Takes' with Joe Lycett. No surprise it only lasted one series

kentonclaret wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 07, 2025 1:49 pm

I watched the concluding 2 episodes of Dark Hearts on BBC4. A French drama series (subtitled) featuring French Special Forces operating in Mosul against ISIS.

I normally check out foreign dramas on BBC4 but this one passed me by so I watched the first one on iPlayer last night and was gripped from the start

It never crosses my mind to watch live, terrestrial tv anymore, other than maybe the snooker once a year. There’s so much great stuff being made elsewhere, it seems crazy to sit down to watch some cringy drama or reality dross. It’s had its day. It’s nice to reminisce about everyone watching the same great show at the same time but that’s gone now and it’s not coming back.

NottsClaret wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 09, 2025 6:38 am

It never crosses my mind to watch live, terrestrial tv anymore, other than maybe the snooker once a year. There’s so much great stuff being made elsewhere, it seems crazy to sit down to watch some cringy drama or reality dross. It’s had its day. It’s nice to reminisce about everyone watching the same great show at the same time but that’s gone now and it’s not coming back.

Same. Other than sport, it’s very rare we watch anything in realtime anymore,

Probably the closest to live we get is Mrs W watching Bake Off 30mins behind so can fast forward the ads


Oh and House of Games whilst having tea

Ptangyangkipperbang wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 09, 2025 6:07 am

I normally check out foreign dramas on BBC4 but this one passed me by so I watched the first one on iPlayer last night and was gripped from the start

I’m glad that you watched and enjoyed the first episode of this latest series. The previous series, which I managed to watch, also were shown on BBC4 over the past few years. The previous series covered the capture and imprisonment of the female sniper.
I always find it worthwhile checking the outputs on BBC4 especially on Saturday nights.

The TV I really dislike are the ones in the morning. This Morning, Loose Women, Jeremy Vine et al. Absolutely hurrendous tv. It improves in the afternoon when the quizzes come on which I tend to record and watch later.

I watched The Guest recently. 4-parter which was reasonable.

kentonclaret wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 09, 2025 10:37 am

I’m glad that you watched and enjoyed the first episode of this latest series. The previous series, which I managed to watch, also were shown on BBC4 over the past few years. The previous series covered the capture and imprisonment of the female sniper.
I always find it worthwhile checking the outputs on BBC4 especially on Saturday nights.

Will have to watch the first series as well cheers for the heads up.I can't understand how I let it pass me by

Corky wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 07, 2025 12:49 pm

I see you know as much about acting as you do about music. What’s with this Bobby Fuller nonsense. It was Sonny Curtis and the Crickets 1959.

Correct I know nothing about acting but a lot about watching. Ok Bobby Fuller not the original but the first 45 version of it, pretty sure the Crickets was album track only