Annoying things about TV of today (part 1 to ?)
Jan 2, 2019 14:21:24 GMT
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Post by mattg on Jan 2, 2019 14:21:24 GMT
1) Showing highlights of an entire show at the beginning. I invariably fast forward to the opening credits - I much prefer to watch the programme without it being spoiled at the beginning. I notice that the likes of Hotel Inspector have tried to stop people doing this, by making those credits about 1 second long!
2) Chopping up interviews into tiny chunks and interspersing them with other footage. Not all viewers have the attention span of a fruit fly.
3) All "Talking Heads" programmes, especially when people who weren't even born act as "experts" on a particular subject, when it's obvious they are simply reading their lines off a cue card. The recent Morecambe & Wise in America programme was the perfect example. Does it not occur to the producer/director that people wanted to see the actual US footage rather than numerous so-called comedians dissecting their performance?
4) All nonsensical comments about the 50's being so "grey" - it only appears grey to the morons who says this, because TV footage from that era was in black & white!
5) Adverts for forthcoming programmes appearing in the BBC News. Either show adverts and cancel the license fee, or stop shamelessly plugging your own programmes in the News.
6) The headlines bit at the beginning of the BBC News gets longer and longer. What is the point of including interview footage in the headlines when you are going to repeat it just seconds later! ITV's "Bongs" on News at Ten had the right idea. Each headline should be just a few seconds long, not the entire story.
7) Teletext (or whatever it's current name is). What is the point of having separate section for Home, World, Science, Technology, Sport etc, when these days stories are endlessly repeated across numerous different sections? The almost complete absence of updates to these sections at weekends. And When digital teletext arrived we were promised photos would be included. I've never seen one. And can the BBC not afford a spell checker? The amount of spelling and grammatic errors is the only thing that is increasing. A favourite of mine recently referred to something being "mere heresy"! And stop copying and pasting stories that refer to "see photo below" or quizzes that aren't actually included.
8) John Culshaw - seriously is there any talking head programme ever made that he doesn't pop up on?
For the sake of parity though doesn't ITV foist rubbish like 'I'm a Celebrity' onto its news/current affair programmes in a similar vein? Not a rhetorical question.