To hate the trend for re-enactments in TV programmes

It's just like the newspapers, particularly red tops, who provide arrows to show the direction someone has fallen off a building to their death, or put white circles around the locations on a photo to tell us where people were stood when they were several yards from each other. Patronising and unnecessary!

What about the television news? Whenever there is something about breast cancer, we see the same woman having a mammogram, even if the item is about a possible vaccine or new treatment. Equally, anything to do with the elderly from pensions to Alzheimers shows the same woman walking across a room with the aid of a Zimmer frame and another stirring a cup of tea.

I am reminded of a sketch on, I think, Monty Python's Flying circus about 50 years ago where there was a reference to the Lord Privy Seal -
illustrated by
1) a peer of the realm
2) you've guessed
and 3) a seal balancing a beach ball on his nose.

Why do they show snippets of old black and white films when the programme is about history pre photography/film. Gives the impression that we have had film since Adam was a lad.

I think they like to take any opportunity of showing breasts - hence the mammogram.

When reporting floods why do they feel the need to don on a pair of wellies and stand in the flood water ?????
I know what a river in flood looks like, I have to pass over the Wye every time I need to go into town !

They are scared about just having a talking head on the screen and feel the need to supply a stream of different visual images to keep the audience "entertained". News is of course a form of entertainment these days folks.
I feel sorry for the poor devils of reporters that are sent to stand outside buildings so that they can provide the 10pm news with an on the spot report. Do we really need to see someone standing outside Papworth hospital to update us on Phillip Mountbatten's heart. For pete's sake!!!!