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Programmes you can get into but are shameful

Danny Dyer's Real Football Factories brought me a lot of joy many years ago. Mainly for the unintended dark humour. Eg when he was in Istanbul for the fenerbahce galatasary derby and people started lobbing bottles, he asked the Fener fans he was with whether that was Galas lot and they said no its our own they just think you're a knob. Also in Serbia when some really horrible nazi war criminal fans were making really dark threats towards him and talking about a horrific thing they did to somebody in a cemetry but in serbian which he couldn't understand so he just sat there smiling like an idiot
 
Monkeygrinder's Organ said:
I used to watch EastEnders for years which is pretty shameful.

These days it's probably Masterchef.
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Same here. (And Corrie, and Brookside. The latter was great, though).

Me and OH are addicted to MasterChef.

We used to like Location, Location... mainly to bitch about some of the awful, entitled, up-themselves people on there. Women with hair extensions and leather leggings who just HAVE to be near coffee shops and a good yoga studio. Blokes who you can just tell are probably abusive narcissists behind closed doors.

We gave it up eventually as it was doing our pathological misanthropic tendencies no good.
 
marshall said:
Anything 'Alaska', I'm there...Alaska:The Last Frontier, Alaskan Bush People, Life Below Zero, all that good shit.

Naked and Afraid, anyone? Contestants try and survive for 21 days in the wilderness, the twist is they're...naked. Hence they're...afraid. Riveting stuff.

Moonshiners is good too, old boys in the Appalachians tending their stills.
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I watched a couple of Naked & Afraid when I was in NZ. Well fucking weird with well fucking weird contestants from what I could tell. Riveting - as you say :D
 
One Born Every Minute. But I have to stop myself from joining in with the pushing scenes.

I used to like Holby City. I love a good hospital, me. Not Casualty though, I'm not a masochist.
 
planetgeli said:
Yeah, the Australian airport customs ones where you find yourself pitying...absolutely everyone.
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Nasty sub-text of the Australians harassing Asian visitors who don't all understand that food includes tea and spices. The Canadians fucking with US citizens with ammunition etc is altogether more edifying
 
I can't manage TV at all but am aware that sweetheart seems to have a worrying appetite for the most dismal daytime shite. Four in a Bed, Dine with Me, nightmare neighbours and (fuck me) Hollyhocks...although I suspect the latter is to drive me downstairs to the kitchen to think about dinner. I am always pleased when sport is on (which is most evenings) since men burbling away in the background can easily be ignored...unlike the whizz bang flash inanities of Xfactor and (most bafflingly) that one about people watching TV(?) I last watched Startrek TNG (although I did watch pretty much every single day after college). In 1992-5

In truth, it is a bit annoying and baffling that I can't seem to manage to sit and concentrate on any TV or film...and following a series is hopeless. I used to watch films and listen to music a lot. Thank fuck I can still read.

Just remembered - I watched sewing bee with 2 of my offspring. nearly every episode.
 
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trabuquera said:
Grand Designs (not even the genuine craft/industry/architecture stuff can fully disguise the property-porn agenda)
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What's that day time property show that is literally just buy to let landlords buying shitholes for 60k at auction then spending 10k making them look marginally less shit then renting them out for £400 a month and talking about yields. Inexplicably presented by Dion Dublin. Anyway that's the worst property show.
 
Proper Tidy said:
What's that day time property show that is literally just buy to let landlords buying shitholes for 60k at auction then spending 10k making them look marginally less shit then renting them out for £400 a month and talking about yields. Inexplicably presented by Dion Dublin. Anyway that's the worst property show.
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I'm guessing Dion Dublin's Dude drum didn't do dollars den
 
Proper Tidy said:
What's that day time property show that is literally just buy to let landlords buying shitholes for 60k at auction then spending 10k making them look marginally less shit then renting them out for £400 a month and talking about yields. Inexplicably presented by Dion Dublin. Anyway that's the worst property show.
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Homes under the hammer?
 
The only live TV I watch these days is news and maybe some sport if it’s a big event.

Pretty much everything else is on demand.
 
moomoo said:
I used to love Ice Road Truckers.
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Me too - before they all started hamming it up :mad:

Orang Utan said:
Mastermind. :oops: it's shit now, esp the latest series. Was quite annoyed that Humphries is back. I thoubht he'd retired. He's really shit at his job - he makes quips when the clock is ticking - what a cunt.
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Same. On one hand, I'm really glad they went back to the old format of everyone being together from the start. On the other, I just want to punch the old cunt's face in :mad:

Poot said:
One Born Every Minute.
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I fucking love that :oops: And Call the Midwife :D

And Ambulance. And 24 hours in A&E. I'm turning into my fucking mother :facepalm:
 
sojourner said:
Me too - before they all started hamming it up :mad:


Same. On one hand, I'm really glad they went back to the old format of everyone being together from the start. On the other, I just want to punch the old cunt's face in :mad:


I fucking love that :oops: And Call the Midwife :D

And Ambulance. And 24 hours in A&E. I'm turning into my fucking mother :facepalm:
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Oh god I love Call the Midwife. It's absolutely shit but I can't help myself :D
I constantly marvel at just how bad the Doctor and his wife are as actors. They are absolutely appalling.
 
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Mrs Miggins said:
Oh god I love Call the Midwife. It's absolutely shit but I can't help myself :D
I constantly marvel at just how bad the Doctor and his wife are as actors. They are absolutely appalling.
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:D:D

The book was bloody great tbf - loads of interesting info about conditions of life, labour, birth etc at that time in that area. But it does get progressively twee as it goes on :D
 
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