TV series which should be pensioned off

Get rid of

Soaps
Come Dine with me
House under the hammer
Three/Four in a bed
Most American so called comedies
Period dramas
Big Brother, all versions

Keep

Monkey Life
Still open all hours
NCIS
Criminal Minds
Mrs Browns Boys
Duck Dynasty

And that's just off the top of my head

Still Open All Hours reminds me of something I learnt years ago: don't try to relive the past. It's inevitable that you remember the best bits and forget the bad bits, so you quickly end up with a memory that no reality can live up to. If you try to relive it, you inevitably end up disappointed, and that often spoils the memories too.

Everybody agrees that the telly is a load of rubbish, they just disagree about which bits are rubbish and which aren't. For my money most of ITV is over commercialised, and the BBC is dumbing down in order to compete for fear that the licence fee will get scrapped. It seems to me that the whole point of a licence fee is to subsidise programs that are not economical for the commercial sector to produce, not to just fund more of the same.

I don't agree that telly is a load of rubbish sorry crun! I know its horrendously uncool but its my secret vice. Looking at all the posts there's no consensus on what to cancel. Looks like something for everyone is available. Of course you can't please all the people all the time!

Programmes should only be got rid of if viewing figure show that not many people are watching!

Otherwise switch over or switch off and do something that does interest you! Simples!
One man's meat and all that.

No! Not Holby City and Casuality! Love 'em!

I caught the very last episode of Winter Watch yesterday (or the day before ) It was very good. Wish I'd watched it now. I didn't know mice jumped in the air when they were startled.

Blimey mice jump as well as fart! What a lot I've learned about them this year!!

Ninathenana. You don't need Sky to watch Mash. It's on free view. 5usa or 5*

"I don't agree that telly is a load of rubbish sorry crun!"

What I was getting at is that you will often hear someone grumble "what a load of rubbish on telly", and everyone will chime in agreeing with them without any consensus which programs are rubbish and which ones aren't. As you say, all of the people some of the time etc. etc.

I resent the direction that the Daily Mail are trying to drag the BBC in, because I like a lot of minority programs like science etc. The plethora of wildlife programs are good, but I reached the point of overdose long ago. I had more enjoyment from mundane stuff like watching a pygmy shrew eating a dead mole, or releasing a trapped seagull from the barbed wire on St Bees Head, than watching exotic stuff on TV.

I resent the direction that the Daily Mail are trying to drag the BBC in,

now, did I miss something? I didn't know the Daily Mail ran the BBC. Are they anti-science programmes? We like those too.

exotic? I must have missed that too .....

I keep hearing how the Daily Mail are on a mission to get the licence fee scrapped, no?

As I said above, the wildlife programs are good, but they've been done to death, so that lions and tigers become commonplace, whilst the chance to see a red squirrel or a pygmy shrew for yourself feels like a treat.

Got it now

crun, I sometimes feel that I've seen all that is to be seen in wildlife programmes and then along comes something like the footage of Orca hunting coooperatively. Of course, in the last 60-odd years we have seen a lot, starting with Armand and Michaela Dennis. However, I do bear in mind that my GC haven't yet seen it all and now have a new slant on wildlife with programmes like 'Deadly Sixty'. The worrying thing is that whereas we had the privilege of seeing spectacular wildlife in the flesh and in situ, poaching could make this impossible for our descendants who may have to be content with the archives of the BBC Natural History Unit.

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If series were pensioned off, would we just get more repeats? Or new programmes? Or more series of others?

There seems an awful lot of room to fill on the schedules. I like the variety.

I dont think tv does too bad of a job <gets coat, dons hard hat, and leaves building!>

I do think though that good comedy programmes have all but disappeared.

We have sky though.

I guess that series stop partly do to viewer numbers.
Though I wouldnt have thought there is a number by which, if say regular viewers go less than say 300,000, then the series stops?