Gogglebox, you couldn't make it up!?

Yes that brother and sister are awful.

I love Googlebox and don’t look for any underlying agendas, it’s just a spot of Friday fun.

Dibbydod, couldnt agree more! Get the brother and sister off. They think they’re much funnier than they are.

I also love gogglebox it’s great entertainment, and love all who’s in it , especially the Siddigies family , and yes , dad is handsome , also are the three brothers , Mary and Giles are funny along with Mary? and Marina , but certainly don’t like the brother and sister pair , the come across as so childish and also can be disrespectful , they think their funny when they are not , wish they wouldn’t screech when they laugh!

Mary/Nutty grew up on the next street to me. Her accent is nothing like home, her dad was a local GP. I don’t think Giles is one bit stupid and just winds her up.

Love Mary and Marina. Jenny and Lee. And of course the Sidiqis.

Giles and Mary are very intelligent, and probably happily married, despite Marys constant belittling of her hubby! She writes for a newspaper and used to be a model.

I love Gogglebox. I'm sure that some bits are scripted but some just couldn't be. As to the swearing - lots of people swear especially in the comfort of their own homes.
I like Malones and their cakes which they are, understandably, never seen eating!
Giles writes for the 'Oldie'. He's not as daft as he might seem. I read a joint diary that they both wrote. It was very entertaining.
I'd love to be in that caravan with Jenny and Lee. Such fun!

I used to enjoy this when it first started, but its far too contrived now. I think the producers tell them to say silly things that have nothing to do with reviewing tv programmes. I am no prude, but I also feel there is far too much swearing! I love the dad with his two sons. They are one of the few intelligent families to appear on the show....and the dad is very handsome too!

Lucca, I agree. Her laugh is like nails scraping down a blackboard! They are a very strange pair.

I love Gogglebob, everyone has orders not to ring me while it is on, [unless urgent of course]
Mary often looks disgusted with Giles, and in the last weeks episode i think it ws he mentioned a flange, and she said" oh Giles please don't say that word its horrible"
I'm not keen on the brother and sister either, but i live Jenny and Lee,in the caravan, and the Siddiqes
I used to like Steph and Dom who used to be on when the show was first aired

I can't say I blame her!

Mary is beginning to sound like she's sick to death of Giles at the moment.

Maybe it's the thought of a second Lockdown?

Lucca

I love how the family with the big dog always have a plateful of cakes/biscuits artfully arranged. I like the gay man and his friend in the mobile home.

Me too, Lucca! A few months ago, they showed the dog's family's living room but it was empty although the cakes were in situ. The dog came in and wolfed some down!

Some of you may remember Scarlett Moffatt, a participant in an earlier series. She has carved out a TV career for herself with regular appearances on quiz shows. Recently, I heard Nutty being interviewed on Woman's Hour.

I cringe when I see the Manchester family with the display of cakes set up as a centre piece. Then they all have their outdoor shoes on while they rest their feet inches away from the cakes.

beverly10 I always think the same.
All their "bits" dangling over my fudge cake? No thank you!

I enjoy Gogglebox as I’ve already said, but I do agree with Jane43 in that those pre-arranged situations that are brought in for us to think are funny are rather silly and irritating. Sometimes the viewers are looking at empty chair/s with voices coming from another room and then some daft scenario takes place that it absolutely nothing to do with the programme that’s about to be discussed. What’s that all about?! It’s there to pad out the programme I should think. I do wonder whether some of it is scripted. That’s the negatives - I still find the rest of it really funny. I’ve never really noticed a political agenda in the programme - am I missing something there?!

MissAdventure
Who would eat those cakes with those large dogs jumping around ?

I love goggle box but think the brother and sister are quite nasty rather than amusing

Merlotgran
GB is repeated just check the listings or record it when first shown. My faves are Mary and Marina. Don't you just love this couple ?

Im not a regular watcher but switched over a couple of weeks ago, to find them watching Parliament. I didn't notice a political agenda Silent Games, more a reflection of how most homes round my area would be responding to Mr J. I won't of course repeat it but I spat my camomile tea out when I heard one your man say "ey up, it's T** Hancock. How I've never heard that before I do not know
Phoenix I wonder if your B*** or my t** is most offensive

SilentGames

I meant to add these kind of programmes have a political agenda

Don’t wish to be rude but are you being serious ?

Oh yes Polly That was hilarious. Something along the lines of 'Are you telling me that Dr Who is really a serial killer?'

A couple of weeks ago one of the young females seriously thought David Tennant was actually Dennis Nilson!

MissAdventure

I do think the dad in the black family is a very, very handsome man.

Yes I agree and so are the three black brothers, I think they are from Bristol.

I still watch Gogglebox every week but it is getting monotonous now because too many of them seem to prearrange things they think will be amusing. Jenny and Lee and Peter and Sophie are now guilty of this and so is Giles. My favourites by far are the Siddiquis from Derby, I think they are a lovely family with so much love for each other, they make genuinely entertaining and intelligent comments and I love how the father is so proud of his sons. The continual swearing of the Manchester Dad of the Malone family grates on me. Some of the newer families don't work for me. I think the friendship of the Bristol ladies, Mary and Maria is lovely.

I have watched some of the older programmes on All4 and it is lovely to see Leon and June.