Morecambe and Wise, Terry and June, Porridge, The Two Ronnies, The Good Life, just let them die in a fire for fucks sake, I'm sick to death of the BBC wheeling out their fetid coprses out every year.
Porridge is good, and repeated slightly less often than the others (tbh I haven’t seen Terry & June on regular TV in years). But yeah, creating some new comedy would be much preferable. Or just showing stuff that hasn’t been bled dry over several decades of over exposure.
But then, it’s not like the schedules are crammed with quality. Unless you’re really into antiques and shows about people buying or doing up houses. And showing the originals is slightly better than remaking them with current day nonentities.
Problem is the solution to young people watching YouTube seems to be to give up.
I know people in TV and only 5 years their bosses were talking about Netflix being a fad.
Terrestrial TV is land of the dinosaurs.
We didn't even switch on the TV on xmas day this year, all the better for it as well.
It's like high street shopping. Something people did in the 90s.
Bar football and Inside No 9 I don't watch TV. Not being one of those bragging cunts but it's all shit and if there is something decent I'll yarr it later
No brag mate it's the pattern. Our age group are the mid point, some will some won't.
My younger cousins in their early 20s don't watch a thing on TV other than sport and the smarter ones yarr that.
I've been looking at the TV guide while I've been back home and it made me realise that broadcast TV is getting close to being some weird relic for babyboomers.
I noticed that Netflix is providing a bunch of New Year countdowns this year so there's not even any need for Hootenany any more.
"ERE's like Mr. Muscle, he loves the things he hates"
Loads of old folk still watch regular TV. I feel for them as it’s almost uniformly awful. It’s amazing how you can have so many channels and yet so little you actually want to watch.
The watershed is a huge barrier for live TV.
I don't have kids, I don't need it and having to wait until 9pm for what I want is insulting.
Plus it enables primetime 7-9pm to be filled with absolute trash.
The One Show is, as far as I can tell, Blue Peter.
It’s not very clear at the moment. Might be one feature-length episode, that could be the start of a series, maybe, it might be this choose-your-own-adventure style episode which has been rumoured.