Programmes you can get into but are shameful

[fucthest8]

World of cunts.

Literally 80% of the shows listed on this thread could just be retitled to that.


Another vote for Ice Road Truckers as soj says

 

[fucthest8]

Road Wars = World of Cunts
Police Interceptors = World of Cunts
Storage Wars = World of Cunts
Top Gear = World of Cunts
Banged up abroad = World of Cunts
World's toughest prisons = World of Cunts
Salvage Hunter = World of Cunts
Say Yes to the Dress = World of Cunts
Don't tell the bride = World of Cunts
True Blood = World of Vampires
American Pickers = World of American Cunts
The Crown = World of Royal Cunts
Ice Road Truckers = Quality TV
Danny Dyer's Real Football Factories = World of Cunts

etc

 

[clicker]

It's something I rarely see , but had read that this weeks 'Don't tell the Bride' was an absolute car crash, because she found out the wedding plans and the producers cancelled the whole shebang. I think it was the first episode of a new series. It didn't disappoint, pure carnage. .

 

[8115]

I really like Kitchen Nightmares and First Dates but I'm not ashamed because I think they're actually really well made. Yes they're not high culture but they're not exploitative.

 

[oryx]

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

Heartily seconded. The book is great, a real snapshot of social history as well as good storylines.

I've watched bits of the series but found it very soapy.

 

[Nine Bob Note]

I've recently started downloading and rewatching Storage Hunters. Yes, I know it's fake; I'm a wrestling fan FFS!

 

[strung out]

Undateables

 

[moomoo]

Undateables

Yes!!

 

[purenarcotic]

Homes Under The Hammer. Used to watch a lot of border force etc back in the day but overkilled it and now can’t watch anymore.

When I feel sad / shit I love A Touch of Frost and Taggart.

 

[purenarcotic]

Robot Wars. Though I'm not sure that's totally shameful.

Catchphrase. Now that is, especially the celeb ones, but I get hooked in.

Omg I love Catchphrase. And The Chase. ITV did an amazing game show called The Cube a few years back; people had to perform all sorts of tasks for money (move all the balls from one bowl into another in limited time etc) and it was absurd but brilliant.

 

[Jay Park]

When I feel sad / shit I love A Touch of Frost and Taggart.

Neither of which are shameful

 

[equationgirl]

And abandoned engineering obvs

Love this show, and mysteries of the abandoned.

 

[hash tag]

The pilot for Starskey and Hutch was on last night Starskey, Hutch, Huggy were all right. It was a different Captain Dobey though. Tremendous.

 

[Shirl]

Say yes to the dress.

Say Yes to the Dress Lancashire is made by my friend's tv company. She has sent me loads of links to episodes and I've watched about 2 minutes on my phone but I doubt I could ever get into watching it properly. She only ever makes programs that I can't watch

Ashamed to admit this but Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

 

[8115]

Eat Well for Less. It's your fault you're fat and skint, plebs!

 

[BristolEcho]

If I'm in on a Sunday then four in a bed on more 4 is a guilty pleasure. Like seeing the different places, but really it's about the drama isn't it? Sometimes they have some sweet people on there too that can make me well up if I am a bit sensitive.

 

[ebay sex moomin]

Bargain Loving Brits In The Sun

...or BLBITS for short. A favourite in our house. It has a voice-over by John Thomson, which raises the bar somewhat.
Standard episode-

• We meet a woman who runs an abandoned horse sanctuary/ dog kennel just outside Benidorm. One of the horses/dogs is about to be put down/ found a new owner. A happy/sad emotional moment.
• A man has bought a failing sports bar against all sense and reason. We watch him try to renovate it, tearing strips off the ceiling on a stepladder while his bored teenage daughter eats fries.
• A drag queen from the North of England runs a keep fit class on a caravan park. An array of late-middle-age unfit Brits pant their way through the moves.
• Someone mildly dents a motorhome while reversing.
• A man who rides around town on a mobility scooter wearing a lemon cravat shows us his collection of freakish Basque dolls that he bought at a flea market.

 

[ebay sex moomin]

I've made a watch list from this thread of shows I haven't seen. There's seventeen of them. My OH is going to be horrified- she likes moody dramas like Das Boot or Chernobyl.

I particularly like the sound of Naked and Afraid.

 

[Petcha]

Four in a bed is the finest shit on the box I've ever seen.

A daily procession of absolute passive aggressive middle aged middle class cunts swabbing door skirtings for dust and testing the distance of hairdryer to mirror. And then making hilarious jokes about the size of the sausages for breakfast. And then breaking down in tears at their feedback. It's compelling viewing.

I really really need to get a job.

 

[Voley]

Ice Road Truckers was ace. No guilt there.
Worlds Deadliest Catch, or whatever it was called. The one about crabs. That was genuinely quite cool, in its own way.
Misfit Garage. Total shite but I love it. Watched this all day over Xmas once.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Four in a bed is the finest shit on the box I've ever seen.

A daily procession of absolute passive aggressive middle aged middle class cunts swabbing door skirtings for dust and testing the distance of hairdryer to mirror. And then making hilarious jokes about the size of the sausages for breakfast. And then breaking down in tears at their feedback. It's compelling viewing.

I really really need to get a job.

It's brilliant isn't it?

 

[BristolEcho]

We are binging on Coach Trip at the moment.

 

[Petcha]

It's brilliant isn't it?

Yes. It blows shit like the wire, breaking bad, game of thrones etc out of the water. I get furious every time a stray pube is found in the shower.

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

I've made a watch list from this thread of shows I haven't seen. There's seventeen of them. My OH is going to be horrified- she likes moody dramas like Das Boot or Chernobyl.

I particularly like the sound of Naked and Afraid.

Naked and Afraid is brilliant, mostly for the voiceover commentary.

A couple managed to trap a skunk. They very carefully skinned it, taking great care not to eat the anal stink glands, which they casually discarded. The next day, they caught a large lizard kind of thing wandering through their camp and had that for dinner.

Voiceover man: "If the lizard has eaten the carcass of the skunk, this could put them at serious risk of amoebic dysentry..."

Next morning, both shitting through the eye of a needle. Great telly.

 

[T & P]

Secrets of the Unknown. It’s not really shameful or objectionable, but you could say it is to archeology and history documentaries what The Daily Star is to newspapers. In every episode the presenter sets out to investigate a historical mystery, from Atlantis to the missing Nazi gold to anything in between.

Needless to say he never ever makes a single discovery however minor, and series constantly overpromises and underdelivers. But the bloke is like an over enthusiastic puppy so the series is quite entertaining.

 

[spanglechick]

Outlander.

and Supernatural.

So much money and talent is invested in both shows, but ultimately both are unmitigated nonsense (and in the case of Outlander, there’s the bonus shame of regular gratuitous rape / attempted rape scenes).

I can’t watch light entertainment documentaries like Homes Under the Hammer or Say Yes to the Dress, but my equivalent cheaply made factual telly are the endless true crime shock docs on Netflix and Prime.

 

[scifisam]

I like loads of quiz shows like Tenable and Impossible, and have only recently gone off buying homes abroad programmes. Also a friend of mine is one of the presenters of one of the homes abroad shows, and she's from a PFWC background, and is a lovely person who helps her family out loads.

Homes Under the Hammer can be fun when the short female presenter is on there - you can make bets with yourself about how long it'll be before she gleefully says "profit!" like she's a Ferengi in disguise.

There's nothing shameful about liking the undateables - it's filmed in a really sympathetic way and really makes you root for all the participants. One of the regulars on it lives a few doors down from me.

I seem to have lost the desire for casual TV watching so none of the above. I guess the trashiest thing I watch is Mastermind. 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.

John Snow did that to me when I was on it.

Man, I have a lot of unexpected minor connections to crappy TV shows.

 

[8ball]

I listened to a Rogan podcast based on another thread. Someone horrible was on it.

 

[T & P]

Outlander.

and Supernatural.

So much money and talent is invested in both shows, but ultimately both are unmitigated nonsense

On the subject of entertainment/ fiction series, I see your Outlander and Supernatural and raise you to Scorpion and the MacGyver reboot.

Both are very similar in their premise as they feature a team of highly skilled private special agents/ wannabe spies for hire. But the plot in almost every episode literally involves nothing less than saving hundreds or thousands of people from destruction, if not an entire city or even the world.

And their solutions to solve the problems they encounter are so ludicrous they would make an eight year old shake their head in disbelief and embarrassment. In one episode, some Eastern European mafia had stolen a nuke and were hiding it in the casino they ran, and when our heroes came in to retrieve it, the baddies turned on the countdown to detonate it. The goodies saved the day by ingeniously putting the nuke in the casino’s walk-in safe. Which was so strong when the nuke went off there was nothing worse than a minor tremor within the skyscraper the casino was on

 

[wtfftw]

I am loving the Australian Married at First Sights that has been my dross TV replacement this summer. Of course now love island USA has also started so I'm all set.