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Post by zou on Sept 16, 2023 21:20:35 GMT
May repeat? WTF is a bingo card? You (privately) select 3 forum posters who you expect will disregard MJB's opening statements and the first person to get all 3 (and can prove they didn't retrospectively name the 3) wins a to-be-determined prize. |
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Post by willien on Sept 16, 2023 21:26:16 GMT
May repeat? WTF is a bingo card? You (privately) select 3 forum posters who you expect will disregard MJB's opening statements and the first person to get all 3 (and can prove they didn't retrospectively name the 3) wins a to-be-determined prize. And in English? |
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Post by davem399 on Sept 16, 2023 21:40:48 GMT
Last year the top 3 most viewed TV broadcasts were the Queen's funeral, I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, and Strictly Come Dancing. Not a big surprise in a country where the most popular purchased newspaper is the Daily Mail. |
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Post by gray1720 on Sept 16, 2023 22:27:35 GMT
I very rarely watch tele and I've never actually deliberately watched Strictly, but I have to confess to a soft spot for it, and I'll watch it anytime it's on somewhere I am. I did dance classes enough to know that it's bloody hard if you have two left feet, and people don't get to the end (mostly, anyway) just by being famous, they have to be good. Plus it's going to do so much gammon triggering. And Hamza! Apart from the fact that I'm sure he winds hell out of my brother (whose experience getting Chalfonts on a tractor seat in Essex means he knows far more about Ardnamurchan then someone who lives there), it was a delight to see someone who looks as though he came up against the Tongan front row, and ate them, having such twinkly toesk.
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Post by dorsetmike on Sept 16, 2023 22:35:33 GMT
Seems like I'm one of the sane ones - I don't have a TV
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Post by dreampolice on Sept 17, 2023 7:06:25 GMT
Seems like I'm one of the sane ones - I don't have a TV No 2. Just one more now for Zou’s house. |
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Post by mick on Sept 17, 2023 10:17:41 GMT
There are people that I know who seem to think that not watching TV puts them intellectually above the rest of us. There are people I know who "don't watch TV" but not only seem very well informed about some of the programmes but hold strong opinions about them.
For my part I will distinguish between programs I plan to watch regularly, programmes I might watch if I'm at a loose end and programmes that I will try hard to avoid. Strictly falls into the first section. I really enjoy watching the increasing expertise of the contestants. Of course it's sometimes OTT - example what I take to be the entirely false reaction when a contestant meets their teacher.
I enjoy many, but not all, documentaries. Too many are dumbed down these days. I enjoy most music. I avoid soaps and most game shows although if you count Mastermind, University Challenge and Only Connect as game shows then my avoidance isn't 100%. I watch very limited sport. Some (not all) international rugby, some athletics no football. Even when I choose to watch sport I'll avoid the 'build up' and the analysis and simply watch the event.
IMHO the range of programmes on TV is wide enough to satisfy most tastes. Just the BBC ranges from soaps, sport, documentaries, music (of all srtipes including lots of this year's proms). It has its share of game shows and even they range from the low to high brow. Add to that all the other channels available and to complain that there's nothing worth watching seems almost perverse.
My tuppence worth. I'm sure that folk will disagree.
Mick
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Post by daves on Sept 17, 2023 10:26:50 GMT
I would watch more TV if there was more real science programs. Chris Packham's recent "Earth" was worth watching, and there's an upcoming series by Tim Peake if I can bear to watch Ch5.
But even serious programs get "dramad up", for example the recent program about electric cars that someone in production decided had to be made dramatic with stupid VFX that left me closing my eyes and just listening to the last 15 mins or so, and at the end could only think "my eyes hurt".
\end rant.
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Post by dorsetmike on Sept 17, 2023 12:04:00 GMT
I do recall the alternative title for the original subject of this thread "Terpsichorean Ejaculation"
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Post by lesleysm2 on Sept 17, 2023 21:20:14 GMT
Seems like I'm one of the sane ones - I don't have a TV No 2. Just one more now for Zou’s house. I don't have a TV, I have never been one for watching it much for years Dave would be watching TV and I'd be sitting in the other corner of the living room reading a book. After he died I just paid the TV license out of sheer habit until I realised in a whole year I'd watched 3 Panorama's and a couple of episodes of University Challenge I got a Netflix subscription free with my phone contract about 18 months ago and I have watched that 4 times at most |
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Post by Kath on Sept 18, 2023 6:40:55 GMT
Self-confessed Strictly fan here. I'm in it for the dancing and the sequins and take genuine pleasure in seeing how people improve on the way. I tend to watch it on catch up so I can zap through most of the VTs. I'm a bit in love with Claudia Winkleman too.
My first thoughts are that I cannot stand Les Dennis and I rather hope he'll be out sooner rather than later, and that I don't think I'll have to pray very hard for that to happen because he looks like he has as much rhythm as me. I think the public is going to struggle with Amanda Abbington and Layton Williams because they look like they can already dance...but previous dance experience and previous ballroom/latin dance experience are not the same thing. I like Layton. I would like to see Angela Scanlon, Annabel Croft and Nigel Harman and Eddie Kadi go far in the competition. I suspect Krishnan Guru-Murphy and Angela Rippon will struggle but it will be fun seeing them get better than when they started. Angela is elegant but a bit stiff! (Mind you...who isn't?!)
I'm looking forward to this series - should be good. My only thought on watching the first show was that if I were doing it, (which I never would be...lack of celeb status and no stamina) they'd have to tell me who my pro dancer was ahead of the supposed surprise meet up because I could only remember the names of about three of them. Imagine being filmed while going "Oh! OH! I'm so glad it's YOU! YOu!!!!!! Oh this is great, you're my mum's fave! You're brilliant you are! Somebody tell me their name!' It's not their fault, I'm just rubbish with names.
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Post by mick on Sept 18, 2023 7:32:17 GMT
Self-confessed Strictly fan here. I'm in it for the dancing and the sequins and take genuine pleasure in seeing how people improve on the way. I tend to watch it on catch up so I can zap through most of the VTs. I'm a bit in love with Claudia Winkleman too. My first thoughts are that I cannot stand Les Dennis and I rather hope he'll be out sooner rather than later, and that I don't think I'll have to pray very hard for that to happen because he looks like he has as much rhythm as me. I think the public is going to struggle with Amanda Abbington and Layton Williams because they look like they can already dance...but previous dance experience and previous ballroom/latin dance experience are not the same thing. I like Layton. I would like to see Angela Scanlon, Annabel Croft and Nigel Harman and Eddie Kadi go far in the competition. I suspect Krishnan Guru-Murphy and Angela Rippon will struggle but it will be fun seeing them get better than when they started. Angela is elegant but a bit stiff! (Mind you...who isn't?!) I'm looking forward to this series - should be good. My only thought on watching the first show was that if I were doing it, (which I never would be...lack of celeb status and no stamina) they'd have to tell me who my pro dancer was ahead of the supposed surprise meet up because I could only remember the names of about three of them. Imagine being filmed while going "Oh! OH! I'm so glad it's YOU! YOu!!!!!! Oh this is great, you're my mum's fave! You're brilliant you are! Somebody tell me their name!' It's not their fault, I'm just rubbish with names. Your post reminded me. We record 90% of our intended viewing specifically so we can fast forward through the rubbish. That includes all the 'training' stuff and the post dance interview (well most of them).
I too hope that Les Denis goes early and I can't imagine Angela Rippon doing too well. I once met Annabel Croft when she was still playing. She seems to be quite a bit slimmer than I remember her - but it was very many years ago.
Even with a rugby match I'll start viewing on recorded stuff so that I can FF through half time. I was very tempted to FF most of the England match last night. It wasn't until the last 10 minutes or so that they woke up. I didn't listen to the pundits but I hope they said England were pretty dire.
Mick
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Post by Fenris on Sept 18, 2023 8:14:57 GMT
I don't watch it... but my wife and one of our neighbours are big fans of the show. They both predict that Les Dennis and Angela Rippon will be the first ones voted off. Even though I don't watch it, I'm glad its back on TV as I get to have a gaming night or go off to the local for a beer with the neighbours husband who isn't a strictly fan either  |
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Post by don on Sept 18, 2023 14:21:30 GMT
I admit I've never seen it or had any interest in it. However, the trailers full of orange people suggest to me that they are perfectly described as 'Striving for mediocrity and often over-achieving'. Enjoy the series, but consider what else the BBC might do with the money they obviously spend on it. It brings an awful lot of joy to an awful lot of people so is doing exactly what the money they spend on it is meant to do, what about money spent on things you have interest in? Could that be spent in other places? |
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Post by don on Sept 18, 2023 14:26:06 GMT
I would watch more TV if there was more real science programs. Chris Packham's recent "Earth" was worth watching, and there's an upcoming series by Tim Peake if I can bear to watch Ch5. But even serious programs get "dramad up", for example the recent program about electric cars that someone in production decided had to be made dramatic with stupid VFX that left me closing my eyes and just listening to the last 15 mins or so, and at the end could only think "my eyes hurt". \end rant. What’s stupid VFX ? |
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