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I have decided that the ppl who are obsessive about TV shows are wrong, but the ppl who decide TV rots the brane and banish it to the loft / a skip / someone whose brain they want rotted are *equally* wrong.

The way to go is to watch a show every now and then. Do you agree?

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 5 August 2004 08:41 (twenty-one years ago)

depends on the show

― donna (donna), Thursday, 5 August 2004 08:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Malcolm in the Middle?

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 5 August 2004 08:46 (twenty-one years ago)

QI.

― Johnney B, Thursday, 5 August 2004 08:46 (twenty-one years ago)

neighbours.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 5 August 2004 08:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Location Location Location.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 5 August 2004 08:49 (twenty-one years ago)

certainly the Weakest Link. I think the fact I've seen it once or twice is enough really - I know Anne Robinson's schtick now and that's the point of it.

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 5 August 2004 08:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I've managed to kick my property show habit. It's been a long, hard fight, but I'm finally free of the desire to watch Grand Designs et al.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Thursday, 5 August 2004 09:09 (twenty-one years ago)

b-b-b-but neighbours = lunchtime therapy for underemployed breakfast time. ilx has now replaced my neighbours viewing as a full time employee.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 5 August 2004 09:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I've had my fill of LLL and similar buying/selling stuff now. Would love to see more Grand Designs though.

― robster (robster), Thursday, 5 August 2004 09:14 (twenty-one years ago)

But lovely Kirsty! Much better than manky Kevin McCloud.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 5 August 2004 09:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah but the subject matter is so much more compelling. I'm hugely impressed by anyone with the balls to build their own gaff. Especially when the project has some imagination and they're clearly in love with what their doing.

― robster (robster), Thursday, 5 August 2004 09:20 (twenty-one years ago)

"they're" dammit!

― robster (robster), Thursday, 5 August 2004 09:21 (twenty-one years ago)

balls to build their own gaff

This brought to mind a programme where contestants built their own gaff using only their balls.

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 5 August 2004 09:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Malcolm in the Middle

otm

also King Of The Hill, The Sopranos (as long as you don't mind not having a clue what they're up to half the time), The Simpsons reruns, even South Park, Talking Movies, This Week (tho i do try to catch it every week), CD:UK Hotshots (ditto)

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 5 August 2004 09:24 (twenty-one years ago)

how long will it be before BBC2 becomes a 24 hour Fresh Prince of Bel Air channel?

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 5 August 2004 09:27 (twenty-one years ago)

i wish they would repeat New Attitude

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 5 August 2004 09:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm still smarting from the loss of Fifteen-To-One.

dog latin - we should start a nieghbours appreiciation thread.

― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 5 August 2004 10:38 (twenty-one years ago)

thye need to get sealab 2021 and aqua teen hunger force on terrestrial UK TV.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 5 August 2004 10:47 (twenty-one years ago)

These days I'm much more of a radio person than a TV person.

But I did have the box on last night. Esther Rantzen, four years bereaved, pretending to be humble, failing to look sexy in leather, failing to find a new bloke because, as ever, she loves only herself. Peter Kay did some stand-up. His highly original routine including having a go at Bullseye and the funny way people dance at wedding receptions. The audience reacted to this as if it were Bill Hicks' Gulf War routine reincarnated. A long-haired single-figure-IQ waster was kicked out of the Big Brother house (strange how last year's inactivity entranced me, whereas this year's hecticity nullifies me).

There was a thing on BBC2 about Alun Armstrong and a cab driver doing some geriatric gay banging but I couldn't be bothered wasting precious inactivity time on watching it/them.

Best thing on by miles was Eileen Grimshaw's summation of human life on Corrie, viz.:

"Clock on. Do as little as you can. Clock off. Live beyond your means. Then die."

Flipping M.

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 5 August 2004 10:56 (twenty-one years ago)

i like watching Big Brother in the mornings before i go to work lately - sometimes i end up watching most of As If and then turning up late. How will the Channel 4 breakfast schedule shape up post BB and when the kids are back at school? i think they should just put on a presenter-less music video jukebox with rolling news feed at the bottom and be done with it.

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 5 August 2004 11:47 (twenty-one years ago)

i miss the old 5 minute slots of bugs bunny/daffy duck et al cartoons that tv bods used to put in when schedules were running early or something.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 5 August 2004 11:55 (twenty-one years ago)

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