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decline of the state of TV
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| Coup |
| TV has been on the decline for many years but am I alone in thinking that this years TV really has been the pits, across all channels? |
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| jamie |
| Its shocking, i can say ive hardly watched tele this summer, all i've done is watch DVDs |
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| Quantized |
Yup, have to agree, i have barely watched any TV for the last year or 2. I can remember watching it a hell of a lot more years ago. Only stuff i watch these days (on freeview) is news, top gear, formula 1, match of the day, random sport events, jonathan ross, random bbc documentaries, and the odd decent movie.
I stay well clear of soaps, reality shows, ty weekly 'comedy' shows. |
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| Ian |
As I said to you many times Mr Coup, you get what you pay for (the exception being the bbc) and on sky there's enough channels with shows I enjoy to keep me happy.
good channels/shows
living tv - csi/csi miami, x-files re-runs
fx - family guy, dexter, x-files
hallmark - house, law & order plus all the spinoffs, diagnosis murder, jericho etc
Discovery/Geographic etc - intelligent documentaries. No sign of that guy from the bbc who's in just about everything.
sports - sky is way superior in coverage with the exception of the london based commentators who make david pleat sound intelligent
sky one - simpsons, futurama, malcolm in the middle, law & order, 24, lost etc
the only use for normal telly i have is the odd good thing on 5, whatever live sport is on, which isn't much nowadays, anne robinson humiliating people in the weakest link and homes under the hammer/neighbours/to buy or not to buy |
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| THE_Chris |
IMO Sky has gone downhill bigtime. Can sit all night channel hopping and its all complete junk. The Wine Channel?? WTF :(
Thesedays I just get the good stuff that I want on DVD or bittorrent. |
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| chojin |
| quote: | Originally posted by THE_Chris
Thesedays I just get the good stuff that I want on DVD or bittorrent. |
agreed, why watch something on the weekly when you can grab it all online...and months ahead of UK schedules.
I only ever watch TV now if i'm eating and want something mindless to watch for 5-10 minutes.
otherwise it's downloaded anime/tv shows. |
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| sykadelik |
UK programming is really quite dire. The majority of content I watch is created in the US, which is something I'm not 100% proud of.
Although I suppose I watch plenty of footy/F1, which makes it worth while investing in a TV licence. |
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| KilldaDJ |
| i dont have to time to watch tele, unless im round my gfs house, even then we get sick of big brother and all the other e that comes with it, but honestly...its gone to |
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| Endlesswave |
| From what I've seen sky one should take it. Saw this one show called "Football hooligans" or something like that, which was just nuts. At my cousins place they get a lot more channels then at my aunts who get next to nothing. |
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| Lunar Phase 7 |
| give it 10 years and tv wont even exist. |
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| Shafteh |
Bring Back Bottom and Red Dwarf!
:) |
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