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The slots formerly reserved for students, stay at home parents and the unemployed have been tasked with entertaining a lot more people.

Most of it is dross cooking/property/antique/travel shows.

Richard Osman's house of games and Tenable are passable game shows

Anything else worth a watch?

No.
Afraid not.

A friend of mine, who owns a surveyor firm in East Ham, will feature in Homes Under the Hammer on the 28th. He has a funny Welsh accent.

That's all I've got I'm afraid.

Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: ↑Sat Apr 25, 2020 10:05 am The slots formerly reserved for students, stay at home parents and the unemployed have been tasked with entertaining a lot more people.

Most of it is dross cooking/property/antique/travel shows.

Richard Osman's house of games and Tenable are passable game shows

Anything else worth a watch?

I don't find Tenable passable , i think Warwick davis is an annoying so and so ☹

His banter is crap

I enjoy it more than Pointless, The Chase and Eggheads which are stale and Tipping Point which is a ludicrous concept

No programme is more right in its title than Pointless Celebrities. My daytime TV recommentation, turn it off and do something that won't turn you into a couch potato.

Mikero

Dunners wrote: ↑Sat Apr 25, 2020 10:10 am A friend of mine, who owns a surveyor firm in East Ham, will feature in Homes Under the Hammer on the 28th. He has a funny Welsh accent.

That's all I've got I'm afraid.

You mean he has a funny fake Welsh accent Dunners? Which would be racist.

Or, are you poking fun at his Welsh accent, you racist you.

Apart from when major sporting events are on, we have a no daytime tv rule in the house. Which, let’s face it, is no loss to avoid all the ridiculous cack stuffing the schedules on the “live” channels before evening.

But, lockdowns aside, I usually went to the gym mid-afternoon, so still caught some of those quiz shows. And my favourite of those was the previously derided Tipping Point. Partly because I used to like penny falls in the arcade as a kid, partly because they don’t waste much time on chatter or draw out the suspense unnecessarily (I’m looking at you, Pointless and The Chase), but mainly cos I generally do well on answering the questions. But then I realised they must grade these depending on the contestant: when an obvious quizzer or brighter spark is on, the questions in the final round are suddenly much harder. But as most of the contestants are thicko idiots, that’s not often.

BIGRON wrote: ↑Sat Apr 25, 2020 10:20 am

Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: ↑Sat Apr 25, 2020 10:05 am The slots formerly reserved for students, stay at home parents and the unemployed have been tasked with entertaining a lot more people.

Most of it is dross cooking/property/antique/travel shows.

Richard Osman's house of games and Tenable are passable game shows

Anything else worth a watch?

I don't find Tenable passable , i think Warwick davis is an annoying so and so ☹

You're only saying that because you are bigger than him.

Rarely watch any live TV now.

Only time I watched Tipping Point, one of the questions was "How many days in a week?"

Prestige Worldwide wrote: ↑Sat Apr 25, 2020 5:50 pm Rarely watch any live TV now.

Only time I watched Tipping Point, one of the questions was "How many days in a week?"

I bet they got it wrong as well.

Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: ↑Sat Apr 25, 2020 10:05 am The slots formerly reserved for students, stay at home parents and the unemployed have been tasked with entertaining a lot more people.

Most of it is dross cooking/property/antique/travel shows.

Richard Osman's house of games and Tenable are passable game shows

Anything else worth a watch?

tenable passable you have to be kidding.
contestants have to answer ridiculous questions for absolute peanut price money.

greyhound wrote: ↑Sat Apr 25, 2020 6:03 pm

Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: ↑Sat Apr 25, 2020 10:05 am The slots formerly reserved for students, stay at home parents and the unemployed have been tasked with entertaining a lot more people.

Most of it is dross cooking/property/antique/travel shows.

Richard Osman's house of games and Tenable are passable game shows

Anything else worth a watch?

tenable passable you have to be kidding.
contestants have to answer ridiculous questions for absolute peanut price money.

I base my game show ratings on the challenge not how often they win the money

If by any chance you have Netflix, Ozark is pretty fabulous. If you saw and loved Breaking Bad, you'd probably love this too

On BBC1:
Doctors - a soap that is quite informative about all sorts of social and medical issues, as well as going off on strange tangents at times
Money for nothing
Garden rescue

A place in the sun home and away to catch Jazz and her heaving bosoms.

Bosch on Amazon - very good (new season out last week btw)

Don't know about day time viewing but I'm quite looking forward to Van Der Valk on ITV tonight , I think Marc Warren is a great actor , the footballer Mark Warren wasn't bad for us either

Celtient wrote: ↑Sat Apr 25, 2020 10:03 pm If by any chance you have Netflix, Ozark is pretty fabulous. If you saw and loved Breaking Bad, you'd probably love this too

Just binge watched the 3rd season of Ozark over the last week or so. Have enjoyed all 3 seasons so far. I can see the Breaking Bad comparisons but not in the same class.

Escape to the Chateu DIY is a very useful programme for anyone thinking about buying a big country house in that France and doing it up.

Max B Gold wrote: ↑Sun Apr 26, 2020 3:29 pm Escape to the Chateu DIY is a very useful programme for anyone thinking about buying a big country house in that France and doing it up.

It's all bollocks. Everything takes forever to get done, everything costs more than it should and nobody understands you. Even when you speak to them in a comedic French accent, they pretend to have no idea what you're saying and just give you a Gallic shrug.

Dunners wrote: ↑Sun Apr 26, 2020 5:54 pm

Max B Gold wrote: ↑Sun Apr 26, 2020 3:29 pm Escape to the Chateu DIY is a very useful programme for anyone thinking about buying a big country house in that France and doing it up.

It's all bollocks. Everything takes forever to get done, everything costs more than it should and nobody understands you. Even when you speak to them in a comedic French accent, they pretend to have no idea what you're saying and just give you a Gallic shrug.

All the more reason to watch this programme then and learn how to DIY it yourself.

Do the actual work myself? What planet are you from? I didn't start subscribing to all this socialist malarkey just so I'd have to do actual work myself.

Max B Gold wrote: ↑Sun Apr 26, 2020 3:29 pm Escape to the Chateu DIY is a very useful programme for anyone thinking about buying a big country house in that France and doing it up.

Always enjoy seeing Matt Lucas in drag on this too.