Your favourite trash telly

[Mogden]

I managed to get through two series' of Catfish over a few days recently
I just kept skipping the pretend/filler bits and got to the crux...For someone like me who has been meeting people face to face that I originally met and interacted with on line for many, many years now...I am both entertained by the human stories and shocked at just how innocent/naive others can be. I won't even get started on the level of deception that is involved in some of those stories.

There are some proper crazies out there but the family members who show their involvement, I'm sure you know which episodes I mean, I think are the maddest by far.

 

[wtfftw]

Coach Trip is back.

 

[Espresso]

I am very fond of Salvage Hunters. Drew and his intrepid and mostly silent driver go all over the country to all kinds of weirdly interesting places and bring back loads of what looks like terrible old tat to the workshop in Conwy where Mrs Drew always proclaims how very lovey it all is, the little dog jumps all over it and the workshop elves restore it for sale on t'internet.
Mind you, Ralph Ineson is the narrator and I think he's got an absolutely awesome voice, so that might have quite a lot to do with it.
If he did a satnav, I might have to seriously consider buying a car.

 

[Saffy]

I've just seen a trailer for storage hunters UK.

 

[Jonny5]

There's a program on the Food Network that is some big New York chain owning guy going into other restaurants and doing a Gordon Ramsey on them - but focussed on service rather than food. It's completely made up, but quite fun.

 

[youngian]

I take it Storage Hunters is the one where they bid for boxes of repossessed crap around the US? I was very impressed by the distances they were prepared to travel and couldn't conceive this happening in a UK version; "We didn't do well at the Bristol auction but hopefully we'll do better in Kiev tomorrow."

 

[Plumdaff]

I had an obsession with the American programme Intervention for a while, even though it made me morally queasy.

I can't help loving The Hotel Inspector, although I would like someone to point out it's a bit easier to be successful if you are born into an already successful hotel owning family with oodles of inherited wealth, Alex

It really trash, it's too good but Rupaul's Drag Race is my current to go light viewing. It's got such and underlying core of love and humanity underneath the bitching and glamour, darling

 

[trabuquera]

Sleepy Hollow. I like my trash expensive, SFX-heavy and involving some old metaphysical rubbish or other. Abrasive obnoxious lowrent "real life" / sham reality TV doesn't do it for me even if the characters are flamboyantly fake.

 

[hot air baboon]

...not only do I have to avoid the reality-shows I have to avoid the shows about the feckin' reality-shows...

...when it comes to stringing things out beyond any rational level the tv schedulers make these fellas look like hopeless under-achievers...

 

[youngian]

The BBC has decided Come Dancing old trooper Len Goodman deserves a treat. So despite having even less interview talent than Jools Holland they've given him a programme in which he takes a celebrity around their favourite childhood holiday resort. Its shambolic cheap telly in which the old pro makes little effort. But you kind of admire him for blagging such a cushy number.

 

[Ceej]

All the formula-heavy Universal stuff...SVU, Sleepy Hollow, CSI, Rookie Blue......sad but true.
Oh, and Nashville, Big Bang Theory and How I met your Mother.

 

[May Kasahara]

When I was unemployed some years ago, I got really obsessed with Third Watch

 

[DotCommunist]

Sleepy Hollow. I like my trash expensive, SFX-heavy and involving some old metaphysical rubbish or other. Abrasive obnoxious lowrent "real life" / sham reality TV doesn't do it for me even if the characters are flamboyantly fake.

any show where the main character is called Ischabod Crane is bound to be gold

 

[passenger]

perfection

 

[8115]

Police Interceptors.

They just stopped this man, found out he was banned from driving, he says "you're joking" and then later it turned out he'd given a false name because he was banned from driving himself.

 

[8115]

I know it's blatant propaganda for the police but I still love it.

 

[Dr. Furface]

Property shows, they really are property porn for me

Homes under the Hammer
Location Location Location
Phil Spencer: : Secret Agent
Escape to the Country

Than that one when they look for a property either in The UK or abroad and they never pick the UK

The one you can't think of is the one that I hope to (and probably will) die watching - A Place In The Sun, Home or Away. Verily it's the stuff of dreams - Johnny Irwin and Jasmine Harman are the Astaire and Rogers of daytime tv.

And please don't get me started on the vile Kirstie Allsopp!

 

[Sirena]

I know it's blatant propaganda for the police but I still love it.

I watch re-runs of 'The Bill'.....

 

[Looby]

I've started watching Thirtysomething. I happened to be awake at a stupid time (4am I think) and it was on, I've now set series link. I didn't watch it at the time, I was too young but had seen the odd episode. I love it.

 

[story]

I can't believe no one's mentioned Real Housewives of....

Truly vile people. It's like a freak show and I can't look away.

 

[Sirena]

I can't believe no one's mentioned Real Housewives of....

Truly vile people. It's like a freak show and I can't look away.

Whichever 'Housewives of.....' it is, I've seen about 30 seconds. I couldn't cope...

 

[pennimania]

I've started watching Thirtysomething. I happened to be awake at a stupid time (4am I think) and it was on, I've now set series link. I didn't watch it at the time, I was too young but had seen the odd episode. I love it.

Ooh I love it too!

What channel? I reckon I know most episodes by heart though

 

[Looby]

Ooh I love it too!

What channel? I reckon I know most episodes by heart though

Sky Atlantic. It might be on at a more sensible time too. It's on series 2 at the moment, Milissa and Gary were thinking about having a baby in the last episode.

ETA- I love it when I know shows really well. Re-watching Gilmore Girls, I always look forward to particular episodes/storylines.

 

[pennimania]

Ach, I don't get Sky Atlantic anymore.

Considers upgrading

 

[Looby]

Ach, I don't get Sky Atlantic anymore.

Considers upgrading

You can probably dl it or buy the complete box set for 99 quid.

 

[pennimania]

I've got more than one box set of Private Practice

 

[Ms T]

My guilty pleasure is Nashville.

 

[Looby]

My guilty pleasure is Nashville.

I love Nashville. No need for guilt.

 

[Ted Striker]

Modern Family and CSI Horatio Caine

 

[Dr. Furface]

I've started watching Thirtysomething. I happened to be awake at a stupid time (4am I think) and it was on, I've now set series link. I didn't watch it at the time, I was too young but had seen the odd episode. I love it.

I loved it too. I watched it back when I was 30 something and my life was nothing like theirs was! But back then it was a groundbreaking series. I think series 2 was best but it got a bit lame after series 3 iirc. Shame we can't get Sky Atlantic on Virgin