TV shows that have had their day

Call this something of a ying to the 'Best TV' thread yang.

I was watching the Apprentice the other night and was bored after about 5 minutes. I've felt this way for at least 2 or 3 series but have kept watching until now. Same identikit contestants, same business ideas, same tasks, same terrible jokes.......You could run it back to any of the last 15 seasons and it would probably be half way through before you noticed you were watching the wrong episode.

Also Loose Women. I watched it once years ago and thought it was horrible, catty and vindictive. Watched it last week when I was home at lunchtime and if anything it has gotten worse. In an age when a lot of shows have tried hard to be nicer this seems to have gone the way of social media where nastiness is the order of the day. A group of women actively talking down and belittling other women, who needs misogyny? I get I'm not their target audience but surely most women don't go for it either?

Any others?

I'm a celebrity, get me out of here.
Complete and utter tosh. I'm washed up so save me from obscurity, would be a better title.

Anything involving "celebrities".

Strictly

Get it in the bin

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Strictly

Get it in the bin

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Absolutely not. It’s the best thing on tv.

This Morning has had its day. They’d have been better scrapping the whole show when Phil and Holly left and started with something new.

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Strictly

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I don't watch it but 8.6 million watched the final so there's not a hope in hell it'll be binned. Viewing figures are down but it's here for a good few years to come.

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Strictly

Get it in the bin

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I love(d) Strictly, always been a regret of mine that I can't dance. I went to dance lessons years ago when I was a best man at a wedding and the bride and groom where taking the first dance seriously and wanted myself and the Maid of Honour to be up to scratch. I was awful, I think you can teach it to an extent but if you don't have any natural rhythm or ability then you will never truly get it.

But I do find myself starting to agree. Feels like it could do with a break. It's a bit like what I said about the Apprentice above. Every year it's the same blend of characters, the same narrative arc and the same dances.

Any of those “reality” shows, absolute ****ing garbage, scary to think that a lot of those wannabe tv stars have actually made or are making a career out of just being utterly ****, I give you Rylan 🤮

Deal or no Deal, absolute snoozefest.

Any football other than Hibs.

The games, the pundits, the coverage, the chat - all just feels dull now, whilst Sky and the like try to put such shine on it that it’s a privilege to watch.

The 90s, the Premier League, Fantasy Football, Soccer AM - I just couldn’t get enough of it. Looking forward to work finishing on a Monday to watch the big game on a Monday night.

It just reached saturation point, like being force fed your favourite food every day of your life.

24 hour rolling news coverage. The world is a tyre fire, we get it. Get the constant coverage and reminders to ****!

The one show

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Absolutely not. It’s the best thing on tv.

This Morning has had its day. They’d have been better scrapping the whole show when Phil and Holly left and started with something new.

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Strictly remains perfect family viewing in the run-up to Christmas. Shame Len and Bruce aren't with us any more but it's still a really slick production. Michael McIntyre's Big Show's also a fun weekend watch.

I stopped watching the Apprentice years ago. Baffling that it's still going.

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It’s like Pebble Mill for the congenitally stupid.

…..Grahame Norton has been doing to same show for 27years now.

Having said all that, I hardly ever watch terrestrial tv now and I suspect I’m not the only one. So, I have never seen:

I’m a Celebrity
The Traitors
Gogglebox
Strictly
The Masked Singer
X Factor
Anything with Ant and Dec.
Bake off (or the myriad of similar format shows).
Peaky Blinders
Downton Abbey
The Crown
Ghosts
Call the Midwife
Bridgerton
Top Gear (since the 90s)
Love Island

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All the soaps.

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It’s like Pebble Mill for the congenitally stupid.

…..Grahame Norton has been doing to same show for 27years now.

Having said all that, I hardly ever watch terrestrial tv now and I suspect I’m not the only one. So, I have never seen:

I’m a Celebrity
The Traitors
Gogglebox
Strictly
The Masked Singer
X Factor
Anything with Ant and Dec.
Bake off (or the myriad of similar format shows).
Peaky Blinders
Downton Abbey
The Crown
Ghosts
Call the Midwife
Bridgerton
Top Gear (since the 90s)
Love Island

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Bridgerton and The Crown are Netflix.

Never seen Bridgerton but the first two seasons of The Crown were excellent. Lost its way quite quickly after that and we stopped watching.

A show which in my view gets over-hyped is Only Murders in the Building. First season was enjoyable but it's become little more than a vehicle for Hollywood stars to make unfunny guest appearances.

Back in the day I used to enjoy Seinfeld but the drop-off in quality when Larry David stopped working on it was painful. Some episodes in the final two seasons were near unwatchable.

I think the expression for the moment a show took an irretrievable downturn is 'jumping the shark', so named after an episode of Happy Days.

Wouldn't be sad to see Masterchef dissappear from the schedule or at least have a serious make-over. The Toxic Barrow-boy who looks with his hands might be too big a shadow cast on it. Also when food bank use is escalating, it's toe - curlingly middle class.

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Wouldn't be sad to see Masterchef dissappear from the schedule or at least have a serious make-over. The Toxic Barrow-boy who looks with his hands might be too big a shadow cast on it. Also when food bank use is escalating, it's toe - curlingly middle class.

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Master chef is the one of this type of programme I’ve really watched and still enjoy.

Especially the professional one.

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Deal or no Deal, absolute snoozefest.

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Aye, worst quiz show ever, how my missus used to sit through this pish I have no idea. Thankfully even she's given up on it.

The new version of Bullseye, that former Cricketer who presents is so ****ing card board cut out, horrendous viewing, poor Jim Bowen will be spinning in his grave

Here's an easy-to-remember list of TV shows NOT to watch.

Anything with any of the following words in the title (or even implicit in the name): celebrity, dancing, ice, talent, Mrs. Brown. All reality shows, all soaps, all cooking shows. Game shows.

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Wouldn't be sad to see Masterchef dissappear from the schedule or at least have a serious make-over. The Toxic Barrow-boy who looks with his hands might be too big a shadow cast on it. Also when food bank use is escalating, it's toe - curlingly middle class.

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I can never understand why they haven’t copied the Australian format… which is infinitely better than the UK version. I can’t understand why it wouldn’t work either, other than historically having to accommodate sub-par incumbent hosts.

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Master chef is the one of this type of programme I’ve really watched and still enjoy.

Especially the professional one.

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I used to like MasterChef but it feels tired now. I find myself zoning out by the 2nd week.

I do still like the Great British Menu though. They have tweaked the format on that a few times and it's worked for it imo.

I generally like cooking shows with the exception of Nigel Slater and Nigella Lawson. I've never got the appeal with the latter. Ridiculously false and the painfully obvious and telegraphed double entendres are embarrassing.

Anything that has the name celebrities in the title, usually means some eejits from TOWIE, Love Island and the like.

Caught an episode of The Simpsons a couple of weeks ago, it was one of the more recent ones from season 469 and it was really not good.

So different from the first 8-10 seasons, it was by far my favourite show as a 9/10 year old.

The newer Family Guys are a bit hit and miss too. Mostly decent, sometimes brilliant but feel like they’re having to go harder a on certain things to keep it funny.

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I used to like MasterChef but it feels tired now. I find myself zoning out by the 2nd week.

I do still like the Great British Menu though. They have tweaked the format on that a few times and it's worked for it imo.

I generally like cooking shows with the exception of Nigel Slater and Nigella Lawson. I've never got the appeal with the latter. Ridiculously false and the painfully obvious and telegraphed double entendres are embarrassing.

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You leave my Nigella alone. Not even King Arthur could pull me out of that.

Have to admit that Love Island used to be a guilty pleasure. Not any more. My wife likes it still so I watch it but I'm usually scrolling on my phone. You could always tell there was more producer influence than, say Big Brother (which obviously does have producer influence) but it is getting so obvious now, particularly on the "All Stars" version that's currently on. You can tell when someone has just been inside speaking to a producer and they've said "right go outside...wait for it... NOW..." just as their partner is sitting chatting with someone else. Most of them have done some other form of staged reality show as well (TOWIE, Made in Chelsea, etc.) so the "contestants" probably expect it.

On the "All Stars" version, it kind of worked last year as they'd never done it before. This year they've clearly run out of folk so it is a mix of people from the last normal season, people from really early seasons and people that were on last year's All Stars with the odd other person thrown in. The result is you have people that all know each other either from their own season or from the outside. Therefore, folk are clearly friends and there will never be anything "romantic" between them or they've been at each other before and want nothing to do with each other. Of the folk that don't know each other, it tends to be early season vs recent season and there tends to be a significant age gap as a result, so again, nothing doing there.

Weirdly, it was me who got my wife into it in the first place. There was one night when we were first going out that I was at mine watching Love Island and she was at home watching golf... not the usual gender watching habits there :greengrin

Big brother , To think back in the day i used to get up before my work and watch the housemates sleeping in their beds , How boring :greengrin

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Big brother , To think back in the day i used to get up before my work and watch the housemates sleeping in their beds , How boring :greengrin

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The first few series of Big Brother were absolutely compulsive viewing but it certainly ran its course.

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Big brother , To think back in the day i used to get up before my work and watch the housemates sleeping in their beds , How boring :greengrin

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Big Brother was a cultural phenomenon in it's prime.

I can remember for at least 2 series finals my parents neighbours having a watch party and half the street being there. 10 million people watched the final in it's prime, live TV would kill for half that viewership now.

I didn't even realise it was still on. It was ruined as soon as people went in with the sole intention of trying to be famous and the show itself deliberately started to put people in who would clash to create conflict. I watched Come Dine With Me for the first time in ages the other day and it seems like that went the same way. 'Here's Dave a gay Asian drag queen with 450 piercings and he's first to visit Michael who is a Reform councillor and a former member of Combat 18, ooh what's going to happen?'

I find any reality show to be absolute pish. Don’t get me started on how bad the Apprentice has become.

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Big Brother was a cultural phenomenon in it's prime.

It was ruined as soon as people went in with the sole intention of trying to be famous and the show itself deliberately started to put people in who would clash to create conflict.

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I've mentioned that a few times on here, it was a really interesting social experiment in the early days.

It's now really hard to find decent viewing on terrestrial TV. all lowest common denominator stuff as was foretold by the mystics when more and more choice and channels drove the quality down. I genuinely couldn't tell you the last show I thought worth watching in ITV. There are odd pearls on the BBC and CH4 but one we watch that needs culled is Last Leg. You maybe get 5 minutes of what made it great to start with but when you are taking up 15 minutes every episode to find a look alike for Keir Starmer - you have jumped the shark. And I've never really liked Josh Widdicombe....

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Caught an episode of The Simpsons a couple of weeks ago, it was one of the more recent ones from season 469 and it was really not good.

So different from the first 8-10 seasons, it was by far my favourite show as a 9/10 year old.

The newer Family Guys are a bit hit and miss too. Mostly decent, sometimes brilliant but feel like they’re having to go harder a on certain things to keep it funny.

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I always do a binge watching of the first 10 seasons of the Simpsons every year. Still some good moments after season 10 upto the movie and that's it.

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It's now really hard to find decent viewing on terrestrial TV. all lowest common denominator stuff as was foretold by the mystics when more and more choice and channels drove the quality down. I genuinely couldn't tell you the last show I thought worth watching in ITV. There are odd pearls on the BBC and CH4 but one we watch that needs culled is Last Leg. You maybe get 5 minutes of what made it great to start with but when you are taking up 15 minutes every episode to find a look alike for Keir Starmer - you have jumped the shark. And I've never really liked Josh Widdicombe....

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Funnily enough, we were watching Last Leg last week and thought exactly the same.

It seems to have gone from essential viewing to tired in the blink of an eye.

Taskmaster. Tasks aren’t as simple anymore and have lost their sparkle, guests aren’t as good, and two seasons a year is killing it.

The Chase.

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The Chase.

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Bradley Walsh has defo had his day

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Bradley Walsh has defo had his day

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He’s atrocious on Gladiators. His son is okay but Bradley is just awful.

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Bradley Walsh has defo had his day

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Used to like Bradley but saw him last year hosting a Royal night at the London Palladium or something was painful to watch as his jokes fell flat and he literally died live on stage

Vera

Watched the last ever one last night on catch up yip time to go

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he literally died live on stage

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Surprised this wasn't bigger news

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Bradley Walsh has defo had his day

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No chance!

Dunno how long The Chase has been on for but I only started watching this early last year - I love it :na na:

And I'm also pretty sure I could beat the chasers as well :greengrin

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Was just about to re-edit

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Taskmaster. Tasks aren’t as simple anymore and have lost their sparkle, guests aren’t as good, and two seasons a year is killing it.

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Disagree. Think there's still plenty of simple enough tasks within a series. There's just heaps more with it being 10 episodes long. Also still think they do a good job of bringing unknowns into the spotlight. This upcoming season will be interesting as there's no marquee name for UK audiences.

That first episode, first task is still iconic though with the watermelon right enough. Key and Ranganathan (who was pretty unknown at the time) answering Widdicombe's question of how else can you do it. Great telly!

Death in Paradise.

Used to enjoy it on a Friday night, especially with Ralph Little but this new guy just isn’t funny.

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Death in Paradise.

Used to enjoy it on a Friday night, especially with Ralph Little but this new guy just isn’t funny.

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Aye, it's going downhill rapidly, as if the commissioner would give the young buffoon of a police officer a job.

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Aye, it's going downhill rapidly, as if the commissioner would give the young buffoon of a police officer a job.

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Plus Florence isn’t in it anymore!! Much prefer the spin off series Beyond Paradise with Kris Marshall now.

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Plus Florence isn’t in it anymore!!

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Aye, she's been a sad loss.

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Death in Paradise.

Used to enjoy it on a Friday night, especially with Ralph Little but this new guy just isn’t funny.

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Plus Florence isn’t in it anymore!! Much prefer the spin off series Beyond Paradise with Kris Marshall now.

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Anything with Ant and Dec in it

The Apprentice, truly awful and so far away from what the original show used to be like.