Shows on TV you can't watch anymore.

razorblunt · 09-02-2015 12:22PM

Cool_CM wrote: »

Pointless is where it'a at now!

Was flicking channels a few weeks ago and came across Bullseye on Challenge, Can't believe it used to pass for entertainment.

Pointless is great, don't get me wrong, but it wrecks my head when they have a round of questions that doesn't have a pointless answer available.

Watched Top Gear last night and turned it off, I always took the challenges with a pinch of salt but they've jumped the shark big time on it now.

jamesbere · 09-02-2015 01:00PM

razorblunt wrote: »

Pointless is great, don't get me wrong, but it wrecks my head when they have a round of questions that doesn't have a pointless answer available.

Watched Top Gear last night and turned it off, I always took the challenges with a pinch of salt but they've jumped the shark big time on it now.

Top gear used to be one of my favourite shows but now it's gotten very predictable. It just seems to be an outlet for the three to moan over and over again.

Once it's popularity drops Clarkson will jump ship.

Egginacup · 09-02-2015 01:05PM

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

Ice Road Truckers since one of the guys who was in it admitted most of it was staged.

Course it's fucking staged. I hate all those crap "reality" shows that bombard me. I can't watch any of it. You buy a cable subscription and you get channel after channel of rubbish. I've tried looking at some of them but they are just crap.

Storage Wars
Pawn Stars
Ice Road Truckers
Ax men (Christ a weekly reality show about knuckleheads chopping down trees!!!)
And the countless cop/authority shows getting the public brainwashed to the ever presence of the "man"
Road Rage
Night Cops
Carribean Cops
Nothing to declare
blah, blah.

Even the nature shows are all trite and banal now.
Predators
Shark Wars or some crap...

Where's Attenborough??

Birneybau · 09-02-2015 01:12PM

jamesbere wrote: »

Top gear used to be one of my favourite shows but now it's gotten very predictable. It just seems to be an outlet for the three to moan over and over again.

Once it's popularity drops Clarkson will jump ship.

And do what? He wouldn't be able to live on his Sunday Times salary.

newport2 · 09-02-2015 01:13PM

Rawr wrote: »

I'd throw Family Guy into the same box now. It's always been sort of bad, but a with a sense of humor I kind of liked.

I liked the first couple of seasons of Family Guy, but even then I found it used to oscillate between really funny and not even remotely funny bits consistently, nothing really in between. The funny parts were worth enduring the rest for though!

jamesbere · 09-02-2015 01:14PM

Egginacup wrote: »

Course it's fucking staged. I hate all those crap "reality" shows that bombard me. I can't watch any of it. You buy a cable subscription and you get channel after channel of rubbish. I've tried looking at some of them but they are just crap.

Storage Wars
Pawn Stars
Ice Road Truckers
Ax men (Christ a weekly reality show about knuckleheads chopping down trees!!!)
And the countless cop/authority shows getting the public brainwashed to the ever presence of the "man"
Road Rage
Night Cops
Carribean Cops
Nothing to declare
blah, blah.

Even the nature shows are all trite and banal now.
Predators
Shark Wars or some crap...

Where's Attenborough??

The only decent documentaries around are on BBC or Netflix, discovery channel has turned into a terrible channel, national geographic isn't much better but still has some good programmes.

jamesbere · 09-02-2015 01:21PM

Birneybau wrote: »

And do what? He wouldn't be able to live on his Sunday Times salary.

He'll probably be given his own show to gripe about everything. He's actually an intelligent man and he's good at interviewing the guests that come on top gear.

frozenfrozen · 09-02-2015 01:29PM

The Walking Dead. Pilot ep. directed by Frank Darabont (of The Shawshank Redemption), and first series executive produced by him.
He was cut after the first season when they wanted to do twice as many episodes per season with 80% of original budget.

It was very promising for the first few episodes but the line is clearly drawn where Darabont left and the quality falloff is huge

Wacker The Attacker · 09-02-2015 01:38PM

Nib wrote: »

Home and Away.

Way too much fake glam in it these days. God be with the days of Pippa and Mike giving Sally a good talking to.

And Hayley, **** gold.

Sophie was the **** queen. I pulled my teenage plum hundreds of times to her.

whiskeyman · 09-02-2015 01:42PM

Rock Lesnar wrote: »

Match of the Day, have not watched in over 10 years, no point to it now really when you can see the goals so easily on the net.

I almost fell into that trap, but sometimes you get amazing matches that may have only one goal or even 0-0!
I always make a point of having a few beers and grub set aside for my MOTD viewing and soak it all up.

force eleven · 09-02-2015 01:42PM

Coronation St. When Albert Tatlock left, it just lost its zest...

marcbrophy · 09-02-2015 01:45PM

Rawr wrote: »

The final episode of How I Met your Mother, retroactively ruining the entire series for me. Just can't watch it anymore...even the episodes I liked.

Screw you Ted Mosby!!

I can honestly say that I thought it was a great ending.

I was never a fan during the shows production run really. But near the end of last year I spotted that the whole thing was on Netflix. Watched it all in about 3/4 weeks. Having no real 8 year long term expectation on how it all should end probably helped me come to that conclusion, I'll admit

Rawr wrote: »

I'd throw Family Guy into the same box now. It's always been sort of bad, but a with a sense of humor I kind of liked.

I really prefer American Dad over Family Guy these days.
For me, it's a much better show.
Although now it's moved networks in the states, they might make a balls of it!

And no, it's not the same thing as FG, for those who haven't seen it :pac:

KKkitty · 09-02-2015 01:49PM

Anything with "wars" in the title. Like seeing Barry Weiss coming into the lot with his latest unusual contraption though. Dave Hester has allegedly put a trademark on his Yuuuup saying too.

JohnFalstaff · 09-02-2015 01:50PM

I used to love watching Happy Days, but then there was this episode where Fonzie jumped over a shark on water skis.

I was done with the show after that.

ILikeBananas · 09-02-2015 01:52PM

Homeland and the Simpsons were both shows that started amazingly well but have become caricatures of themselves now.

kneemos · 09-02-2015 01:56PM

KKkitty wrote: »

Anything with "wars" in the title. Like seeing Barry Weiss coming into the lot with his latest unusual contraption though. Dave Hester has allegedly put a trademark on his Yuuuup saying too.

Hester was sacked from the show and spilled the beans on what we all suspected,that they plant valuable or interesting items in the containers.
Also incredibly annoying man.

Captain Chaos · 09-02-2015 02:05PM

Anything Discovery for the past 10 or so years. The amount of times I have watched episodes on topics I'd know about very well and the amount of false information, fake sounds effects and over drama of small trivial things to make them into a big deal for no reason.

And in the 40min show they repeat themselves every 5mins in case your brain stroked off for a few seconds somewhere. Basically all the flawed info could be conveyed in about 15mins.

Tzardine · 09-02-2015 02:09PM

jamesbere wrote: »

I don't know how ed doesn't punch him, constantly shaking his hand.

Old out yer and fellar.

KKkitty · 09-02-2015 02:17PM

kneemos wrote: »

Hester was sacked from the show and spilled the beans on what we all suspected,that they plant valuable or interesting items in the containers.
Also incredibly annoying man.

Seemed ludicrous that some of the valuable items weren't used by the original owners of the unit to sell themselves.

Westernyelp · 09-02-2015 02:21PM

Family Guy. bollixollogy these days

AndyBoBandy · 09-02-2015 02:27PM

Don't tell the bride,

used to be half funny/interesting when you saw the groom was a loola, but now it's just predictable in that you know he's gonna pick everything she hates, and spend 70% of the budget on his stag do in Las Vegas.

AndyBoBandy · 09-02-2015 02:29PM

Captain Chaos wrote: »

And in the 40min show they repeat themselves every 5mins in case your brain stroked off for a few seconds somewhere.

especially before/after ad breaks (which you notice so much more when watching with delay so you can fast forward the ads).

return from ad break, you get a 5 minute summary of the 5 minutes prior to the ad break.

ElvisChrist6 · 09-02-2015 03:50PM

The Cosby Show. Grew up watching it on RTE, loved it. Tried separating the man from the work and thinking maybe he's innocent, they're only accusations for now, innocent until proven guilty... But 33 of them, they're hardly all chancers. Plus, it's a bit more shíte than I remember anyway.

Only watch them online, but Community and Parks and Recreation have gone to shíte. Best American comedy at the moment is Brooklyn 99

Saralee4 · 09-02-2015 05:32PM

Countryfile, my husband makes me watch it every Sunday.

I do like nature programmes but every week Countryfile is about a cow in a field or someone selling homemade jam at some posh market for 20 euro a jar!

Cool_CM · 09-02-2015 05:59PM

chewed wrote: »

how dare you! bullseye was pure entertainment

It was no Big Break

Gwynplaine · 09-02-2015 06:04PM

tomwaterford wrote: »

big bang theory.....its just not funny anymore:(

Anymore?

It was never funny.

Yamanoto · 09-02-2015 06:05PM

Saralee4 wrote: »

Countryfile, my husband makes me watch it every Sunday.

I do like nature programmes but every week Countryfile is about a cow in a field or someone selling homemade jam at some posh market for 20 euro a jar!

He's watching it for that elfin little blondie, whose name evades me.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 09-02-2015 06:15PM

Deadliest Catch turned ridiculous as well. I think it' on something like it's 11th series, talk about flogging a dead horse.

Saralee4 · 09-02-2015 07:16PM

Yamanoto wrote: »

He's watching it for that elfin little blondie, whose name evades me.

What's the antiques road show all about then?

cheekypup · 09-02-2015 07:29PM

Googlebox was brilliant for the first 2 or 3 seasons, when watching any of the original cast it all seemed natural and I could relate to the discussions, debates, arguements they had when watching the tv with family. Any newcomers all seem to be fake or putting it on.

Shows on TV you can't watch anymore.

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