The Worst Shows On TV Are....`

[RallyCola]

The Honey Boo Boo thread got me wondering about what the worst shows on TV are...

do you hate political shows that don't agree with your ideology?
do you hate "you are the father" maury episodes?
do you hate reality shows that show the underbelly of american society?
do you hate sesame street because furry things scare you?

what say you?

[bassman2546]

I watch mostly sitcoms since I don't have the patience to sit through one-hour dramas. That being said, the worst sitcoms are:

1) Two and a Half Men
2) Two Broke Girls
3) Whitney

[Stavros]

In the case of non-fiction, its about the whole package -the production values, the writing, the acting -too many programmes on UK TV are made to a formula, short 2-3 minute scenes, saturated with anonymous muzak, with stereotypical characters who constantly repeat the words in dialogue -for example someone says 'are you going to the movies?' and the reply is 'the movies?' rather than yes, no, or maybe. Most programmes these days anyway are about cops or detectives or forensics -drunk cops, divorced cops, classical-music loving cops, jazz-loving cops, Danish cops, misogynist cops; cops in uniform, cops in jumpers, cops who wear ties, cops who don't wear ties; amateur cops, African cops.

I liked The Wire because I thought it was challenging and original, and because it is unusual to see characters develop over six series; I like Homeland because it tries to deal with serious issues, but it does have plot holes and is unlikely to survive increasingly unbelievable storylines.
There is a profound lack of imagination and creativity, it means I rarely watch tv these days.

Factual tv also suffers from the formula curse. If its history then park the historian in front of the usual global icons: Taj Mahal, Eiffel Tower, Brooklyn Bridge/Statue of Liberty, Kremlin, Colosseum, etc. Then give them something pompous to say to mark a commercial break: With this one decision, Henry, without realising it at the time, was changing the fate of the English monarchy, indeed of his Kingdom...It was here, on this piece of New England that history was made: neither the British Empire nor its American Colonies would ever be the same again...gasp!

Stick to the movies, much more reliable and much better entertainment.

[Dino Velvet]

No likey reality shows or Whitney.

[ImpulZ]

Fuck fakeshows like,hardcore pawn,repoman and that *Dog* bountyhunter shit...

[Dino Velvet]

Fuck fakeshows like,hardcore pawn,repoman and that bountyhunter shit...

That Bounty Hunter ain't even strapped. Don't be coming after Josey Wales.

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[Prospero]

The worst programmes on contemporary TV are reality programmes and celebrity led twaddle. House makeover shows and cookery programmes are just tedious. I hate soap operas too - and medical dramas. I agree with Stavros about the bulk of contemporary documentaries - all too often an once amusing comedian fronting a programme which offers little in the way of new information.

The TV I like best are factual programmes which do delve deeper, and well written contemporary drama. So The Wire, yes, The Sopranos Yes, Homeland yes, The Good Wife (a qualified yes), Madmen, The Newsroom (for its political stance otherwise rather hokey), Nurse jackie, Sherlock Holmes.... and good comedy. But what is funny is so subjective that anything I say I have found hugely funny is likely to simply irritate others. So - subjective choice... Fawlty Towers and, long ago, Monty Python. More recently Have i Got News For you, Outnumbered, London 2012 (a spoof about the planning of the 2012 Olympics). Classics - the Marx Brothers and the best of Woody Allen (long long go now sadly)

[Dino Velvet]

The worst programmes on contemporary TV are reality programmes and celebrity led twaddle. House makeover shows and cookery programmes are just tedious. I hate soap operas too - and medical dramas. I agree with Stavros about the bulk of contemporary documentaries - all too often an once amusing comedian fronting a programme which offers little in the way of new information.

The TV I like best are factual programmes which do delve deeper, and well written contemporary drama. So The Wire, yes, The Sopranos Yes, Homeland yes, The Good Wife (a qualified yes), Madmen, The Newsroom (for its political stance otherwise rather hokey), Nurse jackie, Sherlock Holmes.... and good comedy. But what is funny is so subjective that anything I say I have found hugely funny is likely to simply irritate others. So - subjective choice... Fawlty Towers and, long ago, Monty Python. More recently Have i Got News For you, Outnumbered, London 2012 (a spoof about the planning of the 2012 Olympics). Classics - the Marx Brothers and the best of Woody Allen (long long go now sadly)

Are soap operas popular in the UK? They're getting easier and easier to avoid over here. They replaced them with cooking shows, home improvement, or The View ripoffs. Sometimes the cooking shows aren't too bad. I do like to eat.

Afternoon television will always be shit. Thank God for TIVO and DVR.

[Prospero]

Yes - the longest running show on british TV is a hugely popular soap opera called Coronation Street - sent in a fictional working class street in Manchester. And we also have a radio soap that has been on since the 1950s - every evening monday thru friday - called The Archers which has an agricultural plotline. Just about every living brit has listened to it - by intent or accidentally - at some point. The Archers are a farming dynasty.

There are plenty of other long running soaps. Another is called Eastenders - about life centering around a working class pub in the East End of London.

[Dino Velvet]

Yes - the longest running show on british TV is a hugely popular soap opera called Coronation Street - sent in a fictional working class street in Manchester. And we also have a radio soap that has been on since the 1950s - every evening monday thru friday - called The Archers which has an agricultural plotline. Just about every living brit has listened to it - by intent or accidentally - at some point. The Archers are a farming dynasty.

There are plenty of other long running soaps. Another is called Eastenders - about life centering around a working class pub in the East End of London.

Is there an exact definition of what a soap opera is? I've watched much episodic television over the years that had a soapy feeling to it even though it was action driven toward a male demo.

Do soaps usually need to be afternoon(sometimes prime-time too) melodramas that are geared toward women?

[Stavros]

The worst programmes on contemporary TV are reality programmes and celebrity led twaddle. House makeover shows and cookery programmes are just tedious. I hate soap operas too - and medical dramas. I agree with Stavros about the bulk of contemporary documentaries - all too often an once amusing comedian fronting a programme which offers little in the way of new information.



I could have mentioned all those programmes too but didn't, as for soap operas, even the longest established transexual character on tv, 18 years in Coronation Street (and leaving later this year) doesn't make that crap worth watching. Comedy is also beyond belief -I stumbled on something on BBC called Mrs Brown's Boys and couldn't believe it was possible in 2013. Apart from some moments in The Fast Show, Fawlty Towers was the last funny show on tv, but the Marx Bros? Dire.

[Prospero]

Nope - soaps were originally called soaps because they were long running dramas, usually with a semi domestic setting - because they were originally radio dramas on the US sponsored by soap manufacturers such as Palmolive. In the US they do seem to be a daytime phenomenon - but in the Uk and many other parts of the world - they're on in the evenings. Coronation Street traditionally is at 7.30 in the evening on the UK's most watched network ITV. The Archers is scheduled on the radio every day at 7.00 pm for fifteen minutes. Eastenders is an evening show as have been many other soaps - Neighbours (imported from Australia - a show which launched the careers of "music" performers such as jason Donovan and Kylie Minogue) Grange hill - a school soap, Hollyoaks. There have been many more that I can't recall.

[Stavros]

They can also become famous in terms of kitsch as the worst programmes ever made -once there was Crossroads, then El Dorado, but does anyone remember Triangle?

[Dino Velvet]

Nope - soaps were originally called soaps because they were long running dramas, usually with a semi domestic setting - because they were originally radio dramas on the US sponsored by soap manufacturers such as Palmolive. In the US they do seem to be a daytime phenomenon - but in the Uk and many other parts of the world - they're on in the evenings. Coronation Street traditionally is at 7.30 in the evening on the UK's most watched network ITV. The Archers is scheduled on the radio every day at 7.00 pm for fifteen minutes. Eastenders is an evening show as have been many other soaps - Neighbours (imported from Australia - a show which launched the careers of "music" performers such as jason Donovan and Kylie Minogue) Grange hill - a school soap, Hollyoaks. There have been many more that I can't recall.

We had Dallas and Dynasty on prime-time. Falcon Crust or something too.

[Stavros]

Weren't there a couple of popular soaps from Sunny California? Beverley Hills 911 and Orange County or something?

[Dino Velvet]

Weren't there a couple of popular soaps from Sunny California? Beverley Hills 911 and Orange County or something?

I wish there was a Beverly Hills 911. Nothing but Home Invasion Robberies on celebs like Justin Beeber and Tori Spelling.

[Queens Guy]

'Reality' shows that aren't real.

'Catfish' the movie and the MTV series was interesting at first, but I can no longer suspend my disbelief.

[Jericho]

Best program ever, Prisoner Cell Block H!:hide-1:

[RallyCola]

anyone ever see dance mom's where it there is a bitch as fat as shrek trying to teach little girls to dance?

the only good thing about that show is that when it is on, little kids can frolic in the street because all the pedos are glued to the tv

[ImpulZ]

Life goes on....corky my hero :party:

[RallyCola]

Also, I have to mention that I truly hate Oprah, Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz. each of these holier than thou fuckers need some good dick to calm them down

[ImpulZ]

i missed jerry springer!!!

[RallyCola]

i missed jerry springer!!!

huh...he is still on the air

[ImpulZ]

huh...he is still on the air

no...that's why i missed him :)

[ImpulZ]

and steve afcourse.

[RallyCola]

steve sucks. i watched his show once a year or so ago. he is terrible. there is no reason he needs his own show

[Dino Velvet]

steve sucks. i watched his show once a year or so ago. he is terrible. there is no reason he needs his own show

Steve is like a Polak version of Springer.

Stay tuned tomorrow as Officer Wilkos fishes out a family that's been locked inside a convertible.
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[tsadriana]

the worst shows on tv are:
1..casino gamble
2.take me out
3.hard talks {and there nothing]
4.xfactor
5. Big Brother
6.Dancing on ice
All this mentioned are total failure

[fred41]

I hate most of what people already posted on this thread.
I also hate all of those damned "judge" shows. Thank God they're usually relegated to daytime television.

[robertlouis]

.....anything that dares to call itself "reality".

[robertlouis]

the worst shows on tv are:
1..casino gamble
2.take me out
3.hard talks {and there nothing]
4.xfactor
5. Big Brother
6.Dancing on ice
All this mentioned are total failure

Adriana, cara mia, you need to discover the delights of BBC4. Seriously.

[Dino Velvet]

Adriana needs to watch COPS with me and get ridiculously liquored up. I'll drink water.:fuckin:

I ain't your Papi!! - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poat6y9bkbk)

[Prospero]

I deeply dislike reality shows - and that seems to be something of a consensus here. Yet for the wider public they are hugely popular with very high ratings.

I wonder if there are those who love them present on this board - yet not prepared to raise their head above the parapet for fear of ridicule? I'd love to hear what it is about these shows that makes you enjoy watching them?

[akduck]

I deeply dislike reality shows - and that seems to be something of a consensus here. Yet for the wider public they are hugely popular with very high ratings.

I wonder if there are those who love them present on this board - yet not prepared to raise their head above the parapet for fear of ridicule? I'd love to hear what it is about these shows that makes you enjoy watching them?

I agree with you I hate so call Reality Shows that look very much scripted

[tsadriana]

Adriana, cara mia, you need to discover the delights of BBC4. Seriously.
I love documentarys,about planet and animals ,documentary wars and especially the history....hahahaah and i love the shows with the cops in action .x

[ImpulZ]

about the life goes on serie....damn that corky becomes a monster these days :crazy

http://i.imgur.com/CRzPR.jpg

[Cuchulain]

I pretty much hate the so-called reality shows. Some have potential, but are ruined because the producers play to the lowest common denominator. Yeah, I know, that's where the money is.

There's one that really disappoints - Black Gold. I somehow doubt that the average roughneck is willing to take so much verbal abuse or that the industry can get away with so many blatant safety abuses.

I know what would be true treat. Take all the 'real' housewives and put them on an oil rig. Now that would be hilarious.

Some of the home improvement shows are informative.

[Jimmy W]

American Pickers on the History(?) Channel. Two dimwits orgasm over rusted garbage some hillbilly has had rotting outside since 1962 then the screen shows what they paid versus its "value" and then the Cha-Ching! sound effect as if they sold it and that was the profit.

[eccentricBlue]

With 1000 channels and nothing ever on I say all TV sucks.

[Quiet Reflections]

Adriana needs to watch COPS with me and get ridiculously liquored up. I'll drink water.:fuckin:

I ain't your Papi!! - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poat6y9bkbk)
I love how the cop held his gun sideways

[RallyCola]

American Pickers on the History(?) Channel. Two dimwits orgasm over rusted garbage some hillbilly has had rotting outside since 1962 then the screen shows what they paid versus its "value" and then the Cha-Ching! sound effect as if they sold it and that was the profit.


first off, its really just another version of "hoarders" but as expected, this show is fake, but i didn't realize how much.

i figured that it was all just pre-arranged and they were just acting like they buy things they find in the layers of crap but nope...apparently the production staff plants most of the items.

The only 2 of the reality shows on history channel that are partly real are in fact american restoration and counting cars. The reason i say they are partly real is that the customer interaction and pricing is likely all fake, but someone does have to repair and repaint the stuff they actually do fix up (notwithstanding the coke machine incident with pawn stars) so someone is actually doing some real work on these machines and cars at some point in these shops.

[fred41]

about the life goes on serie....damn that corky becomes a monster these days :crazy

http://i.imgur.com/CRzPR.jpg

For those that don't know - because this pic seems to be making quite the rounds lately- that picture is a distortion. He actually looks like this:

[RallyCola]

For those that don't know - because this pic seems to be making quite the rounds lately- that picture is a distortion. He actually looks like this:


is that really any improvement

[fred41]

is that really any improvement

Well yeah, without the smile..not everyone's a smiler.

[Ben]

The Honey Boo Boo thread got me wondering about what the worst shows on TV are...

do you hate political shows that don't agree with your ideology?
do you hate "you are the father" maury episodes?
do you hate reality shows that show the underbelly of american society?
do you hate sesame street because furry things scare you?

what say you?

Usually watch: Family Guy, The Cleveland Show and Bob's Burgers. American Dad, too. That's about it.
Don't watch "Reality" Shows.... Plus they can't be Reality shows, as it were. Reality is 3 dimensional. TV is two -- :)
And people usually gravitate to "political shows" that align with their own political ideology.

[Ben]

Adriana needs to watch COPS with me and get ridiculously liquored up. I'll drink water.:fuckin:

I ain't your Papi!! - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poat6y9bkbk)

That kid is bad -- smokin' dope. Just plain bad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCDnR6Px-co

[Jimmy W]

I used to like American Restoration on the History Channel but rather than show how these items are restored we now have become scripted tension (I wanna wear a purple shirt - from that fucking nobody whatever his name is) and the stripper he married and that girly arm son of hers suddenly appearing as if either the whore or the jizz cake she shit out contribute anything. I imagine that slut telling him "Brettley should be on the show more" and suddenly my cable bill pays for Ricks blowjobs. No interest anymore.

[phillyguy21]

Big Bang Theory
Any of those hood rat shows (i.e., Bad Girls Club, Basketball Wives, Real Housewives of Atlanta)
The Tyler Perry Shows (House of Payne & Meet the Browns)

[timid1]

the worst shows on tv are:
1..casino gamble
2.take me out
3.hard talks {and there nothing]
4.xfactor
5. Big Brother
6.Dancing on ice
All this mentioned are total failure

Spot on Adriana , rubbish tv, plus "I'm (no longer ) a Celebrity Get Me Outta Here"

Soooo much dross on UK tv

[tsadriana]

Spot on Adriana , rubbish tv, plus "I'm (no longer ) a Celebrity Get Me Outta Here"

Soooo much dross on UK tv
hahaha i forgot about Jeremy kyle crap and loose women...4 idiots on the same table talking about their husbands and sex life.

[nysprod]

IDK about the worst ones, but here's my Top 10 List for a few I'd like to see:

Big TS Bang Theory
Late Night with Domino Presley
Two Broke TGirls
American TS Idol
Leave It To Bailey Jay
TS Person of Interest
The TS XXX Factor
Dancing With The TGirls
The Golden TGirls, starring Joanna Jett and featuring TV Kim

and last but not least,
The Grooby Family, with Seanchai as Gomez, Morgan Bailey as Mortisha, Blondie Johnson as Uncle Fester and Christianxxx as Lurch

[phillyguy21]

IDK about the worst ones, but here's my Top 10 List for a few I'd like to see:

Big TS Bang Theory
Late Night with Domino Presley
Two Broke TGirls
American TS Idol
Leave It To Bailey
TS Person of Interest
TS XXX Factor
Dancing With The TGirls
The Golden TGirls, starring Joanna Jett

and last but not least,
The Grooby Family

I like this theme... I would totally watch a TS version of HBO's "Girls".

[RyderMonroe]

NBC's 'Whitney" has to be the worst..

[LibertyHarkness]

anything reality based ... then the drivel of soaps such as eastenders, coronation street, holly oaks etc .. mehhhh

[Dino Velvet]

NBC's 'Whitney" has to be the worst..

Heck yeah! Another thumbs down for Whitney! Throw that broad in the river!:rock2

Neil Young - Down By The River (with lyrics) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f2Up5HinNM)