Fed up with Strictly!

volver

As this is chat, I can diverge.

Anyone who says they don't watch Strictly because it's "woke" or men should be in tails, you missed Nikita and Carlos, and Adam's singing. My goodness, your loss.

Side note - how do you samba in tails?

Not tails volver but the sort of outfit my mum thought acceptable www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjzgSpHhbBk

I am a huge Strictly fan so I love all the gossip etc. I can imagine how annoying it must feel if you’re not. I feel that way about programmes like Love Island and The X Factor when that was on.

I don't watch Strictly but others enjoy it I know. What I get fed up with is BBC Breakfast. There is 5 minutes on Ukraine, maybe 10 on the energy crisis and a bit more on the cost of living but over riding all this is the important matter of what's happening on Strictly sometimes taking up 15 to 20minutes. People who enjoy the show will have watched it. Why have a rehash of it on a news programme

I know what you mean about the overkill - but that's what happens now with everything. As long as people continue to vote and comment and get so emotional about it I guess it will continue. It's not all doom and gloom though. The conspiracy theories about why people get chucked out keep me amused for hours.

I stopped watching Strictly and Take Two a few years ago, before that I used to watch it over and over on IPlayer. But much as I love the dancing it got to the stage where there was more screaming and crying and gushing than actual dancing. I discovered all the dance channels on YouTube and watch fabulous dances on there without all the wailing.

Ditto Blossoming, I find it artificial and boring too. But as the OP says, we can watch something else.

Never watched it, never will, but I do get sick of it being mentioned just about everywhere these days.

I agree that it’s all getting too “ over the top.” I loved the show in its early years but now they’re forever trying to think of more gimmicks to make it slightly different. Please don’t let me get started on the judges.

I’ve never watched it. Well, except a bit once at dd’s house, No Strictly mentions on Classic FM, I’m happy to say - the too-oft-repeated irritating ads are another matter, though.

I should add that dd and Gdd1 are massive Strictly fans. And have tried (and failed) to fire me with the same enthusiasm.
Each to her own. I don’t suppose dd would be wild about re-runs of ancient Rebus or Dalziel and Pascoe, either. ?

I gave up watching strictly a few years ago, it's so boring and repetitive. Hubbie still enjoys watching it , so I relax with my audio books whilst he watches. My pet hate is when someone says ' We're all like Family '

My fathers friend and his wife were British Ballroom champions in the dim and distant past .I remember going to see them but was bored because all the couples danced the same dance in the competition
.Now I think that might be better on Strictly,judging two entirely different dances isn't fair ..in my humble opinion. Chucking someone off because your tango isn't as good as their jive seems very odd .Apart from that aspect my GD and I watch it every week..mainly for the costumes ,as she wants to be a costume designer like mums friend.

Strictly Take Two (BBC2 6.30 pm) was all about the dance, choreography and costume making.

I haven’t had a chance to catch any of this series, will try to watch tonight to see how it compares to previous years.

I totally agree with Granmarderby10, the BBC totally overkill some programmes. Why is Bargain Hunters still on? And much worse Dads Army. Strictly is done to death.

I have to add…that when I’m in the mood this is still the best entertainment show on mainstream telly for a Saturday evening. ….now if they could just dump that Casualty but I digress.

I agree that this show should not be featuring on the news so much and that the BBC do tend to “ flog” their hit programmes to death.
I enjoy the show because it features a live band who play the most amazing covers of well known recordings.
I am not sure about the current series personally with the unorthodox pairings and am not enjoying this series as much, but the BBC are attempting to put the diversity mantra into action rather than just words so that is a good thing but maybe less effusive chat and sensation in the “back stories” and more about the performances.
I actually think in the last 2 years the judges especially Craig have become kinder.

Joseanne

Maybe that's because Nikita and Carlos didn't shove anything in our faces or make an exhibition of it. It was pure unadulterated dance, but does the mentality of half the viewers get that?

Oops reply was to volver, I forgot the quote.

Maybe that's because Nikita and Carlos didn't shove anything in our faces or make an exhibition of it. It was pure unadulterated dance, but does the mentality of half the viewers get that?

We watched Strictly and enjoyed it until a couple of years it was our preferred evening viewing for that period of Autumn when the evenings are getting shorter on the run up to Christmas. I appreciate a lot of people still love it, but they have I believe lost around 1 million viewers, possibly like me they got sick of the rather tired format, not the dancing often that was spectacular in the final weeks. For me it was those rather overly long padded out interludes that precede the dance, involving manufactured nonsense. Occasionally during rehearsals they'll have relies wandering in or worse still a bit of sobbing along the lines "I'm doing this for my dead granny/dog/gerbil" or recordings of teared up aged relies saying how proud they are with contestants sobbing in the background responding with the usual hackneyed drivel such as "this journey has changed my life" Too padded out, too long, after watching all of that year on year it was very much a matter of "ffs just do the dance" really don't care about the rest of it, that's when we decided we'd had enough.

I loved watching years ago it was very formal but still enjoyable a different format. I loved the talent the music everything about it but it’s not the same now it’s changed not for the better.
I did watch it because I love the glamour and glitz but I was recording it and fast forwarding it. I got sick of all the chatter with the presenters that goes on in between the dancing I just don’t watch it now.

Joseanne

As this is chat, I'll chat about Strictly on here indefinitely! Mainly because I danced and DD is a dance teacher by profession. DgodD is on West End stage too. I love all forms of dance.

Like others, though, on Strictly I am fed up with the two female judges, the nastiness, the long winded rehearsal videos, the emotional stuff, the hype, the woke nonsense etc etc. Why can't we have a decent master class in say the tango or the Charleston explaining the moves from start to finish with a teacher and a professional? Why can't we have more about the origins of the dance and travel the world a bit to discover these? Instead all we get is boring old wittering.

I think the presenters on your radio programme might actually want it to be all about them and their rantings. Switch them off if they jar.

Great post Joseanne - I'd definitely watch what you suggest.

As this is chat, I can diverge.

Anyone who says they don't watch Strictly because it's "woke" or men should be in tails, you missed Nikita and Carlos, and Adam's singing. My goodness, your loss.

Side note - how do you samba in tails?

As this is chat, I'll chat about Strictly on here indefinitely! Mainly because I danced and DD is a dance teacher by profession. DgodD is on West End stage too. I love all forms of dance.

Like others, though, on Strictly I am fed up with the two female judges, the nastiness, the long winded rehearsal videos, the emotional stuff, the hype, the woke nonsense etc etc. Why can't we have a decent master class in say the tango or the Charleston explaining the moves from start to finish with a teacher and a professional? Why can't we have more about the origins of the dance and travel the world a bit to discover these? Instead all we get is boring old wittering.

I think the presenters on your radio programme might actually want it to be all about them and their rantings. Switch them off if they jar.

Stopped watching Strictly ages ago. Occasionally watch one or two dances but it really is boring. They are trying desperately to make it "new" and "relevant" but actually it's the same boring stuff.
My mum and dad were dedicated ballroom and sequence dancers, but my mum hated Strictly. "Men should be in DJs or White tie and tails, and women should look like ladies, and no one threw anyone around".

I've never watched Strictly (or any reality shows or soaps). It doesn't stop some people I know really well starting almost any interaction with the phrase, 'Did you watch Strictly?'

It seems to be one of those shows where if you love it you think everyone must love it and if you've no interest then the level of interest in it baffles.

I listen to radio 6 Music and I don’t think they mention Strictly much, if at all. I used to watch Strictly in the early years but found Bruce Forsyth so annoying I gave up. I haven’t gone back.

Yammy

WadesNan

OK before you all pile in on me let me explain!

This is not my kind of programme but I know it is very popular and it is not compulsory so I watch something else, no problem with that, my local newspaper prints several articles about Strictly every day, again I don't have to read them so skip past them. What is really getting to me is the presenters on my local radio station seem obsessed with it. Every other item is about Strictly!

I listen to this station because it is the only local "talk" station rather than playing music all the time. I like to hear local news stories, local weather and traffic news. What I am getting is Strictly, local news story, Strictly, traffic news, Strictly, news bulletin, Strictly!!!!! It is driving me mad

Will now don my tin hat and hide behind the sofa!!

I agree with all you said,a load of D listers and judges who are getting nastier by the year. All that money spent on sets and costumes when we should be looking at the footwork and dancing which now seems secondary to the programme.

Nasty judges ??? Craig is honest and sometimes negative but he knows his stuff. The others just gush . No idea who you are talking about.

Oops thread is about overkill. Sorry. Not aware of it and would switch off anyway.