Violent TV programmes

I like Midsommer Murders....lots of violence ...but....with beautiful scenery! Surely nobody lets children watch this sort of stuff until you’re sure the kids know it’s just rubbish . About 12/13 should do it for most kids.

I like boxed sets especially costume dramas.
They mainly seem to be old BBC series, of Jane Austen, Dickens, Lark Rise to Candleford, Cranford and Anthony
Trollope etc.
They all have such great actors, costumes and sets,
I suppose they are an escape from reality for me.
Having said that, I really enjoyed both The Bodyguard and
Killing Eve last year. Thrilling viewing?

I am enjoying Les Mis on TV. It is a good production and the acting excellent, especially the nasty Javert (David Oyelowo)

I saw a Danish anti-war film last night at our local cinema club called Land of Mine. It was hard to watch but based on fact. About how young German prisoners of war were made to clear the mines on the Danish coast at the end of the war. Shocking scenes about both inhumanity and humanity in war. It was a very well made film.

It's 20 years since I owned a tv ). If I'm at my Mum's house I'm shocked by the level of violence on ordinary soaps! Emmerdale certainly isn't what I remember.

You may laugh at me, but I think it is worse and seems so much more real on the larger screens we have nowadays. It almost sucks people in and makes you feel a part of the action.

I m enjoying Les Mis so much but I don’t think it’s violence for the sake of violence it’s what used to happen it’s history and we need to remember or else we get complacent its horrible watching the cruelty to those little kids but it’s what happened and I think we need to be reminded that smacking/ beating and mental cruelty is not a benign quick punishment

But I don’t like violence just to draw an audience in

I actually think that the soap operas do potentially more 'damage' than some short , even if violent, series or plays.
They really do normalise 'dramas' as being part of everyday life. The aggression, casual relationships, family meltdowns, deaths etc etc. that they present as normal everyday life is insidious!

I'm with you PECS about the soaps. I noticed a sharp increase in violent drama last year which has helped me reduce my viewing considerably. Is all this part of 'project fear' I wonder?

I used to watch Coronation Street for years from the Ena Sharples era up until a couple of years ago when the violent stories started. Can't stand to watch it now. The same with Eastenders that's all doom and gloom and arguing so haven't watched that for a few years now. You can't beat the good old family comedy shows from the 70's.

as soon as i hear the f word i turn off the dvd that i am watching.its like books to why the f word every other few words, cant they say what they want to without effing.!!

I recently watched Manhunt and found it very enjoyable as there was no vicious violence shown. I do like crime and mystery dramas but am increasingly finding myself turning them off because of the nasty scenes shown. I do feel they must have some impact on vulnerable viewers

Good point Chino

Where did the issue of “vegging in front of the TV” come from? A couple of hours in front of evening tv is hardly “vegging”, and I suspect very few of us can be accused of that. Do you need a ladder to get on that horse of yours, Gabriella?

Funny you should say that Grey......I wonder how the horses are doing these days?

I just love a good long veg!

Bradfordlass72 I loved Saturday mornings at our local cinema that was frequently spoilt by the boys in our crowd who insisted on charging around the aisles in unison with Roy Rogers after the baddies.

No holds barred in the 21c ? I was most surprised however on watching a programme that showed what was ok in the 70s but would not be allowed now and seen as racist although a comedy, yet female abuse 21C is apparently ok.

I too get fed up with the programme makers thinking we want "reality" on television all the time... I do enjoy a good detective mystery I must admit, but graphic gratuitous violence, no thanks. We actually tend to watch the Talking Pictures channel quite often, all those old black and white..and sometimes colour...nostalgic films are much nicer and more relaxing to watch. I have to say, also, that I believe a lot of street violence comes from some of these horrible video games the youngsters play..they get lost in a fantasy world where they can shoot, stab, and blow people up with no consequences whatsoever, and I think it dulls their senses, and consciences in the real world. ?

I’m afraid I don’t seem to want to watch endless re-runs of 70s shows and don’t watch any of the soaps.
I’m someone who has enjoyed some of the grittier dramas but wouldn’t want children watching a lot of it.
I’ve been watching the Argentinian TV drama series “The Cleaning Lady” this week for instance and that’s pretty bloody.

Notspaghetti, I've seen that! somehow it doesn't count when its not in my first language.

Lily65 - ha ha!

Jane10, Please tell me what the name of what the Dr Blake Mysteries have morphed into.

I don't watch the violent drama series and hate the swearing on tv after 9pm, children are still up. I shudder especially at the swearing on the BBC. It makes me angry and very sad... I don't pay my licence for that.

Jaxie I'm so sorry but I can't remember! It's not quite the same without Lucien but Jean seems to be doing sterling work with the police most of whom now seem to lodge with her!

I enjoy the puzzle of a crime drama but I don't need to see gratuitous violence to understand that a crime has been committed. I prefer gentler police dramas where people seem to die tidily and with very little bloodshed.