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[hercules]

In answer to your original question Andy, I don't think it's too long before Big Brother starts again...

All together now...

god damn it i was dancing when last year was the last but friggin channel five you b@$t@rds i fookin hate that prog and the wife has to watch the utter crap

[jonnycool]

... so I've decided to ditch the £50-a-month Sky subscription and  .....

There's no way I'll ever pay £50 for Sky or anything else on top of the TV license. My kids always thought we were tight for not doing so. 

For me it's the principle as much as the money, I was brought up in a loving, close family but didn't have a lot of money, so we had to make our own fun. I think modern families have too much (mine included) and I'd like to get back to a time when people weren't so spoilt and hand-fed

[Varche]

... so I've decided to ditch the £50-a-month Sky subscription and  .....

There's no way I'll ever pay £50 for Sky or anything else on top of the TV license. My kids always thought we were tight for not doing so. 

For me it's the principle as much as the money, I was brought up in a loving, close family but didn't have a lot of money, so we had to make our own fun. I think modern families have too much (mine included) and I'd like to get back to a time when people weren't so spoilt and hand-fed

Ah the time when the word NO was heard.

[Banjax]

I think there's a vast section of the TV watching public that will watch ITV1 whatever garbage is thrown on the screen, you could have vast epic critically acclaimed blockbusters (Lord of the Rings), hilarious comedy (Big Bang Theory), Natural History (Secret life of Elephants) all on at the same time and the slack-jawed locals will watch basically a more amateurish Opportunity Knocks, albeit with a bigger budget - a format that was old before TV was even invented. 

Personally, football aside, I can't think of a channel I watch less.......even 5 buys in decent American stuff, eventually 

[Gaffers]

As what the next reality tv program that will hit our screens.....    I reckon it'll be 'Celebrity Pimp my Pikey-Wagon' hosted by OOF's very own Ant and Dec (aka Chrisgixer and Theboy)

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Yes, it is a shame that broadcasters pander to the lowest common denominator when struggling to fill schedules in this age of multi-channel television.

The thing that concerns me is there appears to be a ready market for this type of drivel - drivel based on loose production values and easy digestibility, (for the ever increasing number of brain-dead people populating this country).

To me, this type of television is akin to the gladiatorial games popular in ancient times where a motley crew tried to improve their own lot by giving the crowds something they wanted – cheap visual entertainment that didn’t require much too thought to understand - while the establishment of the day reassured itself that, as long as the attention of the public at large was directed to such nonsense, it was very much a case of business as usual in the quest to feather their own nests without asked too many questions about the dubious means they were employing to do it.

I would agree with Andy, it is shite – shite for the masses of button-pushers now resident in this land, many of whom hang on every excruciating minute of it as if it were the bringer of life itself.

Good analogy ....and very true Den....

[pscocoa]

... so I've decided to ditch the £50-a-month Sky subscription and  .....

There's no way I'll ever pay £50 for Sky or anything else on top of the TV license. My kids always thought we were tight for not doing so. 

As said and comments by Jonnycool - I too am ditching Sky and generally re-engineering Broadband, Talk TV etc. We are just not watching the crap Sky put out - the only thing I will miss is the Sports unless I go with BT Vision (you can get 3 sports channels for a modest sum and you are not locked into annual contracts) as I am getting BT Infinity fitted this week - sick of Sky Braodband at 1.4 mbps!!. Freesat is great and if you can afford to get a recorder (PVR) version all the better. Even if you go for a non record model you can access Iplayer via broadband into the ethernet socket on the Freessat box - so it costs you nothing. YouView is out next year so more things happening.

[Chris_H]

Yes, it is a shame that broadcasters pander to the lowest common denominator when struggling to fill schedules in this age of multi-channel television.

The thing that concerns me is there appears to be a ready market for this type of drivel - drivel based on loose production values and easy digestibility, (for the ever increasing number of brain-dead people populating this country).

To me, this type of television is akin to the gladiatorial games popular in ancient times where a motley crew tried to improve their own lot by giving the crowds something they wanted – cheap visual entertainment that didn’t require much too thought to understand - while the establishment of the day reassured itself that, as long as the attention of the public at large was directed to such nonsense, it was very much a case of business as usual in the quest to feather their own nests without asked too many questions about the dubious means they were employing to do it.

I would agree with Andy, it is shite – shite for the masses of button-pushers now resident in this land, many of whom hang on every excruciating minute of it as if it were the bringer of life itself.

I agree that it is mind-numbing tedium. But last night's finale attracted 18 million viewers. That keeps the advertisers happy and makes ITV the money to produce even more such money-spinning drivel.


Roll on death.

It's a shame they can't pay a dividend then.  Not had one for a few years now.

[Andy B]

... YouView is out next year so more things happening.

I'd not heard of that till I've just Googled it. So YouView is a HD Freeview recorder hooked up to your Wi-Fi .....  :-/ :-/ :-/ :-/ :-/

[Amigo]

Was'nt it the last series of this bollix that spawned Jedward?

   Methinks someone threw away the wrong bucket!

[Vamps]

... so I've decided to ditch the £50-a-month Sky subscription and  .....

There's no way I'll ever pay £50 for Sky or anything else on top of the TV license. My kids always thought we were tight for not doing so. 

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Sounds familiar.... I ditched SKY a few years ago and went free sat, gives us enough choice, different to free view which we have at the caravan (Static) but does us, I refuse to pay extra to watch TV..