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why is it......that all the programes on TV..

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Silly Sausage

Silly Sausage Report 31 Jan 2010 20:21

consist of you or us the viewers having to vote if we like them or not...do you think this is TV for the future...for example...Corrie St...Gail is shocked to find she is pregnant ...BUT WHO DO WANT TO BE THE FATHER....call
0845 12356...just add


01 if yoy think the father is Norris
02 if you think the father is Ken
03 if you think the father is Stevie McDonald
04 if yoy think the father is Betty

TeresaW

TeresaW Report 31 Jan 2010 20:23

Hmmm, might have been good for the 'who killed Archie?' debate lol

Sally

Sally Report 31 Jan 2010 20:25

They found a new formula to pay for the programmes Hayley........the phone-ins......it is a good money spinner for them.... Some of them are OK, like Dancing on Ice which I am watching, but I hope they spend some of the revenue on more t.v. dramas.....

Silly Sausage

Silly Sausage Report 31 Jan 2010 20:30

I just think there are too many.......its a case of get 3 people who are either z list celeb or have famous OH's....get them to bitch at one and other..get 12 over the hill stars how havent worked for a couple of years and need to pay their tax bill and you have a show....

Muffyxx

Muffyxx Report 31 Jan 2010 20:31

Yep it's all about M O N E Y.........

I also HATE those GMTV type quizzes where the questions are so pathetically easy it's an insult to the intelligence.....but they make a blinking fortune out of them xx

~~~Secret Red ^^ Squirrel~~~  **007 1/2**

~~~Secret Red ^^ Squirrel~~~ **007 1/2** Report 31 Jan 2010 20:31

Just wondering whether people preferred only having 4 or 5 channels?

Sally

Sally Report 31 Jan 2010 20:32

I missed Celeb BB this year, because I didn't know who half the people named were........but I wished I had looked in, it seems it was quite good.....

Muffyxx

Muffyxx Report 31 Jan 2010 20:33

Sally it actually was really funny this year........not as bitchy or edgy as in recent years.

I am a reality show sceptic in a lot of ways nowadays but I enjoyed it for what it was and laughed like a drain through most of it xx

Sally

Sally Report 31 Jan 2010 20:33

Do you know, SRS, I was just thinking that yesterday.......I have all the ......sorry......most of the Sky programmes, and the times we wade through them and they are either repeats or re-hashes or just plain drivel.......and we end up watching Channels 1 - 4.....

Sally

Sally Report 31 Jan 2010 20:45

Yes Muffy, I really wish I had got into it.......every year I say I won't watch BB, which I prefer as they are ordinary folk who don't know each other, so is more interesting to see them all try to be top dog...... but once I watch one or two, I am hooked......

I was surprised that Alex Reid won......not having watched it, and reading the press about him, I thought he was some sort of loser, but it turned out he was a nice guy after all.....

Muffyxx

Muffyxx Report 31 Jan 2010 20:46

I was surprised he won too !!!

My money was on Dane !!! x

Silly Sausage

Silly Sausage Report 31 Jan 2010 21:52

They get nowt from me either Buggs, I like a good drama..lol

Lee

Lee Report 2 Feb 2010 06:06

Providing people are gullable enough to continue to vote with their phones on these programmes we will see this type of garbage churned out for ever, sadly.................. :-((((

McAnne's Gahan-Crazy

McAnne's Gahan-Crazy Report 2 Feb 2010 08:24

I wouldn't mind so much if they'd only spend the money made on some decent 'new' programmes .......... seems every channel i try is showing something i saw the day before on a sister channel or have seen a zillion times before for much the same reason :¬(

Bobtanian

Bobtanian Report 2 Feb 2010 11:12

01 if yoy think the father is Norris
02 if you think the father is Ken
03 if you think the father is Stevie McDonald
04 if yoy think the father is Betty



06 if you think "A Test Tube"
07 if you think its Archie

Sally

Sally Report 2 Feb 2010 19:18

....08 if you want to order Betty's Hotpot Takeaway.....

Jean (Monmouth)

Jean (Monmouth) Report 2 Feb 2010 20:00

Why are all the same detective series repeated ad nauseum? There are so many good authors out there, it isnt as if there was any shortage of good stories.