nowt on the telly

I love the footy so watched that, so suited.
But as for the rest of the shyte, can't they do better?
I did watch Father and Son on iplayer as I missed first episode, so give them all a miss, until I could watch them back to back.
 
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I love the footy so watched that, so suited.
But as for the rest of the shyte, can't they do better?
I did watch Father and Son on iplayer as I missed first episode, so give them all a miss, until I could watch them back to back.

There's two good points there, you watch the footy, if thats your thing, it is mine, but can get overload with those horns blowing..then a goal is scored, or something interesting happens, and they repeat it from many angles, and slo mo, and when they cut back to live action, there have been like 3 attempts on goal at the other end that have been missed!

The other point is that you watch a series, miss one episode, and then it isn't available on catch up or iplayer, I did this with Flashforward, which was hard enough to keep track of. Another point that was raised previously in the thread was excessive adverts, Flashforward certainly suffered with that, the start credits were still running after the first ad break! Another cheap TV trick is to recap what's happened in the previous episode, and whats coming up next, or the dreaded omnibus at the weekend. ARGH!
 
I agree, the replays do seem to over run in to the live football action and you wonder how come the opposing side have got a free kick 20 yards from goal, when the last action you saw was the other sides goalie tipping the ball for a corner.
With the docudrama/series, I to hate it when they preview the next episode and seem to give away some of the storyline. As far as the recap on the previous episodes, I can see why they do it, even on iplayer, not everyone will watch them back to back and the goldfish like memory needs to jogged.
But it's great that you don't need to fast forward the ad breaks.
 
I watched a little Holby City inbetween football today, and the plot line seems even more confused than Doctors, or Dr Who! Who are the writers involved in these programs Dan Brown? His books are inconsistent, and confusing. Hate American soaps, hate repeats of Murder she wrote, and Diagnosis Murder, so only have flogging stuff at auction/car boot, or some bozo doing someones house up, or restructuring their business..Yawn!

I find myself watching more online, or catchup, very slack time for origional programming.
 
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I watched a little Holby City inbetween football today, and the plot line seems even more confused than Doctors, or Dr Who! Who are the writers involved in these programs Dan Brown? His books are inconsistent, and confusing. Hate American soaps, hate repeats of Murder she wrote, and Diagnosis Murder, so only have flogging stuff at auction/car boot, or some bozo doing someones house up, or restructuring their business..Yawn!

I find myself watching more online, or catchup, very slack time for origional programming.

they have started to introduce music to holby so its going the way off the bill
it loosing its light hearted feel with a bit off drama thrown in 'the plot lines are becoming to "heavy" for relaxed veiwing you cant drop in and out off the story now and keep up
 
Another cheap TV trick is to recap what's happened in the previous episode, and whats coming up next, or the dreaded omnibus at the weekend. ARGH!

I've seen programmes that take this to the extreme - half hour programme starts at around 19:03 after adverts, first off, 3min recap (19:06) of last week's show, then 6mins (19:12) of 'action' from this week followed by a 2min (19:14) sneak preview of what's coming up after the break. 4min (19:18) advert break. 1min (19:19) re-cap of the first half followed by 6mins (19:25) of 'action', concluding with a 2min (19:27) preview of next weeks show before finishing for an advert break. All-in-all we've seen 12mins of actual new programme footage in 30mins. (times all approximations). Admittedly the series that do this tend to be American based so probably aren't worth watching anyway.

These 'sneak previews' of next weeks show really bug me. I realise they're supposed to keep you hooked to make sure you watch next week but you've just watched the cliff-hanger where one of the main characters is in a life-threatening situation and you don't know if he's gonna make it or not, then they show a preview of next week where he's fit and well - kind of spoils it a bit doesn't it?
 
my missus said "whats that on the telly", i said "its dust, get it cleaned" i am nearly able to see out of both eyes again
 
Mickymoody said:
I watched a little Holby City inbetween football today, and the plot line seems even more confused than Doctors, or Dr Who!

I have a simple test for any medical drama. I watch the trailers and, if there are no patients in them, I give the programme a miss. Very few pass this test. ER is sometimes worth watching. The only other one was back in the seventies about US paramedics. I think it was just called Emergency.

PS: If there are any producers reading this, I work in a hospital and I can tell you that we do NOT leave patients bleeding to death while we argue about the length of the string on the canteen spoon! :mad: :mad: :mad:
 
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