Is television really dire at the moment or is it just me?

[Globalti]

Is it because they aren't making anything new?

 

[screenman]

How on earth are you finding time to watch tv when you have a house build going on?

 

[StuAff]

Lots of non-dire TV on at the moment, AFAIC…

For example, the splendid Danish series DNA (watching it on BBC4 right now); Enslaved With Samuel L. Jackson, The Trump Show, HIGNFY, Taskmaster, The Same Sky on More4, Battlestar Galactica (the modern series- the lot available on iPlayer), Frank Skinner & Denise Mina following Boswell & Johnson's tour of Scotland on Sky Arts .…

 

[sheddy]

Just need to look harder.

 

[Darius_Jedburgh]

Yup. It's dire. Lots of repeats and even repeats of "celebrity" crap. Even iplayer is nothing but repeats.

But, we've just watched a super 3 partner on American art. No, that's not an oxymoron. Some really good stuff. Not sure how we found it. Could do with some more stuff like that.

 

[Low Gear Guy]

I thought nobody on Cyclechat had a TV.

 

[screenman]

Oddly enough I am enjoying Secret Scotland on My5 right now.

 

[jowwy]

I thought nobody on Cyclechat had a TV.

That’s what they all want you to believe.........

 

[RichardB]

It's desperate. If you take away programmes on antiques, celebrity tripe, property porn and cookery, and braindead reality shows, there's almost nothing left. So many programmes think they have to have a 'celebrity' version (Pointless, Mastermind) which is actually less difficult and demanding than the Joe Public version. Top Gear has gone from must-watch to can't-watch, and Countryfile has turned into a nightmare of urban middle-class rural-living fantasies. And that's the BBC - the rest are even worse, from what I have seen. The Beeb have even got rid of Andrew Neil, the only political interviewer worth watching. If I lived alone, the TV would be in the bin tomorrow.

 

[stephec]

It's desperate. If you take away programmes on antiques, celebrity tripe, property porn and cookery, and braindead reality shows, there's almost nothing left. So many programmes think they have to have a 'celebrity' version (Pointless, Mastermind) which is actually less difficult and demanding than the Joe Public version. Top Gear has gone from must-watch to can't-watch, and Countryfile has turned into a nightmare of urban middle-class rural-living fantasies. And that's the BBC - the rest are even worse, from what I have seen. The Beeb have even got rid of Andrew Neil, the only political interviewer worth watching. If I lived alone, the TV would be in the bin tomorrow.

Have you got some kind of clever machine that can read my mind?

Apart from the Country file bit that you inserted yourself as I don't watch that, although to be fair I don't watch much at all.

 

[Kryton521]

I have a tv........ Not sure why I bother any more.

 

[Speicher]

I am watching some car drivers in Iceland defying gravity, on Freesports.

 

[dan_bo]

Spitting image is on.

 

[fossyant]

Netflix, Disney and Amazon. Normal TV is pants.

 

[fossyant]

Star Wars Mandalorian, Star Trek Discovery...