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TV programmes that have run their course

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,111 ✭✭✭✭Dempo1


    Well that's certainly allowed albeit I'd be concerned Martin Kings Voice would turn your breakfast milk sour 🤣🤣🤣

    Is maith an scáthán súil charad.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,975 ✭✭✭its_steve116




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,975 ✭✭✭its_steve116


    I'm going to add Celebrity Juice, if I haven't done so already



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,111 ✭✭✭✭Dempo1


    Is maith an scáthán súil charad.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,834 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Have I got News For You - now aka...let’s put up photos and try say something funny about them..

    never mind the Buzzcocks



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 831 ✭✭✭lapua20grain


    strictly & I'm a celeb have run their course they are flogging a dead horse at this stage.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,975 ✭✭✭its_steve116


    Even moving IAC to a castle in Wales doesn't change the fact that it's been the same thing for 19 years.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭Man Vs ManUre


    I’ve run out of celebrities, Get me a new show to watch.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,834 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    The Angelus, same thing over and over..like watching a repeat.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Some guy in RTE is probably getting paid 200K a year to manage the angelus.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,834 ✭✭✭✭Strumms




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,184 ✭✭✭riclad


    As long as a program gets good ratings and gets viewers it,ll be on the air , reality tv shows are cheap to make .even if you think strictly is boring ,or top gear is past its prime ,well you dont have to watch it.To be on strictly takes a lot of work and some talent for dancing ,and theres different people on every year.whether you like it or not is not relevant . big brother uk stopped cos viewers lost interest.

    I think any program based on young people singing for a judging panel needs to be banned for 5 years.masked singer usa is slightly funny cos they wear strange costumes ,the celebs who go on it are really d list who cannot no longer get work on tv or are retired sports stars ,or rap singers that had a hit 10 years ago.Certain programs are still made cos they are cheap to make or can be sold to dozens of countrys abroad like top gear.rte mostly makes chat shows ,property shows ,shows about current affairs ,politics, it can only afford to make a few drama,s .it has a limited budget.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,975 ✭✭✭its_steve116




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 831 ✭✭✭lapua20grain


    I think it should have been knocked on the head a few years ago



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Gogglebox. Hate the whole concept and never got the appeal.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,184 ✭✭✭riclad


    I think celebrity google box is quite funny, depending who is on it, there's absolutely no point in watching it if you don't like the people on it, it will be boring or painful,

    I never watch strictly but it gets good ratings and I admire any program where you actually have to work and have some talent from the few clips I saw the music on it is quite good and varied strictly works cos it has a constant supply of slightly famous celebs who may or may not be good at dancing.

    I think the voice and American idol should be cancelled but that's capitalism eg even if a program is no longer creative if it gets ratings and advertisers It will get made I think we just need a 5 year break on singing talent shows or maybe the only ones who watch them or kids under the age of 15 or old people who don't know how to change the channel on the remote , I think certain programs will be made forever cos they are so cheap to make so it does, nt matter if they get bad ratings at 11pm on e4.

    Some people watch itv almost regardless of what's on

    its programs are aimed at the lowest common denominator



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 95,122 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,969 ✭✭✭Montage of Feck


    The majority of US action and cop shows have been done to death, they all seem to feature ridiculously formulaic stock characters, such as the oddball computer geek back at base etc..

    🙈🙉🙊



  • Posts: 533 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Coronation Street.

    The show has long passed its best before date. It probably had its last peak in the days of Bet Gilroy, Vera Duckworth, Deirdre Barlow and all those that went before them like Ena Sharples etc

    I just don’t think you can even continue to have the kinds of storylines that required very particular era of strong northern English women and men, very much of a time when Manchester was still a real and tough old industrial city. It’s changed because times have changed.

    A terrace street inhabited by people who all work on the local knicker factory and drink in the local pub is just a bit ridiculous and not very believable anymore.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 516 ✭✭✭BattleCorp1




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,898 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    Me too, though it literally HAS run its course. They can only pretend to be teenagers for so long. They've finished up a year or two back.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,866 ✭✭✭NickNickleby


    Accidentally saw a bit of an episode recently and was appalled. I was 8 when it first came out and Ena Sharples was the woman we all hated, and Albert Tatlock was everyone's favourite uncle, Elsie Tanner was the flaunty one that all the women hated. But its real attraction was that it featured 'real' people, not the typical home counties received pronunciation types we'd had up till then, and it was set on the mean streets of a major northern city. (I was living in Birmingham at the time, Brummie accents were rare enough on BBC or ITV then). I stopped watching it years ago when Percy left (1980-something), I felt it was becoming jaded. Actually the actor who played Percy said he was leaving because he didn't like the direction the show was taking. In the beginning it was about real people and the real everyday problems they (and we) faced. But like every thing, they decided that real life was wasn't exciting enough. If I lived on Coronation St, I'd bloody well move. 50 odd years ago I'd have said "hey, they're my neighbours!"



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,975 ✭✭✭its_steve116


    The Inbetweeners stopped at 3 series, when the actors were between 23 and 27



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,184 ✭✭✭riclad


    The appeal of googlebox is ordinary people watching TV how they react, are they funny, are they puzzled or confused, you either like are you don't. Sometimes it's strange , does Jonathan Ross really watch TV every night with 4 of his relations on a big bed? That's weird. And there's a good range of people on it, some posh, some working class, black, Indian . Its like dating shows, if you don't like the people on it it's pointless. I used to watch American idol just to watch people who were awful singers getting criticised or failing, to get thru to the next round. I don't watch the voice to see an average singer is like 1000 other singers on various tv shows . You can tell alot by someone by what tv shows they like



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,184 ✭✭✭riclad


    That's what's happened to alot of soaps they start off being realistic then all of a sudden one bloke is having affairs with 3 of his neighbours to improve the ratings and it just becomes unbelievable how many fires or disasters have happened in emmerdale or random plane crashes into a local house

    I think eastenders was quite good when it started in the 80s in that it seemed to be a realistic account of life in a working class part of London with a wide range of characters I have no idea what's its like now



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 506 ✭✭✭Freddie Mcinerney




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 506 ✭✭✭Freddie Mcinerney


    Only seen it a few times if any relatives were about. Remember some youngster on the show ran away to Birmingham. He was brought back. The line said a few times to the youngster 'why did you run away to Birmingham for?' It cracked me up.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,768 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Still has to be Operation Transformation for me.

    It's on Television since 2008 and every year it seems to be the same old thing.

    People wobble out in there underwear basically.

    There given these fairly boring DIET plans. I say diet because its essentially a fairly restrictive diet and would be hard to maintain in the long term and God forbid you go off it.

    Somebdy doesn't follow the diet plan and they get yelled and then they all have a cry next week and are friends again.

    They'll probably try and scare people with how man spoons of sugar is in a can of coke/etc and karen on Twitter will be amazed with a well known fact.

    Karl and his water bottle exercise and he can often look fairly washed out himself and he can get grumpy as well.

    Then there's Dr Eddie the psychologist who basically makes people cry.

    They even brought in the Army to yell at people.

    I don't think the program has had much of a succes rate as in getting people to change their lifestyle in the long term.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 488 ✭✭animalinside


    It's a soap opera - it doesn't require a particular anything and especially doesn't have to be believable.



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