I'm the opposite of the anti tv licence brigade
I'd pay more to get adverts off all channels. I hardly ever watch TV but when I do I never watch commercial TV. I stopped watching the Grand Prix when it moved to ITV because I couldn't stand the ads. It just lie after lie to make you buy absolute shit. Hair is dead you can't give it life, you can't stop the ageing process and wearing lynx doesn't make women want to fuck you. Interesting fact. The same advertising company that do the adverts for Lynx with all the hot girls wearing very little, also do the ads for Doves campaign for real beauty slagging off those types of advertisements. Grrrrrrr we don't let our 2 year old watch commercial channels, I think a bombardment of adverts telling you what you should be buying, eating and wearing can be far more damaging to children than all the sex and violence they show on TV. /sanctimonious arsehole
( Peej, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 14:44, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

I also despise tv with adverts
Which is why I love watching live football (o.k so ads at half-time, but I can get TEA!!), box sets (Sopranos, The Wire, what's next?) and I sometimes watch things like that guy who's cycling the Americas on the beeb..

Sometimes I'll be watching something on More4 or whatever, the advert will come on so I'll instantly switch to a beeb channel (I think the various private channels synchronise their ad breaks!) and end up watching that!!

Hate them!
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 14:54, Reply)

I've watched 'The Filth & The Fury'
four times in the past month, for I, too, loathe commercial programming, but unfortunately I also loathe those self-consciously 'cult' US box-set type shows as well.

*loathes everything*
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 14:59, Reply)

you loathe the Wire?

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 15:02, Reply)

I watched the first half of the first 'season'
or 'series' as we call them in this country, and then gave up.

I thought it was overblown, over-long and frankly dull. And that helmet who played 'McNulty' is a fucking shirter. My dislike of the show was compounded by the whole fucking world crapping on about how 'amaaaazing' it is.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 15:06, Reply)

I liked the wire
And having seen them all I can confirm that McNulty is a fucking shirter. The guy who plays him is a pervert and tried to fuck all the extras.
( Peej, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 15:11, Reply)

I knew it.
Like it or not, it's not as good as 'The Filth & The Fury' though.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 15:15, Reply)

I couldn't agree more
I hated the Wire. I watched three episodes and it was so dull, nothing happened. I don't get why everyone is jizzing over it. I've practically been lynched by all my Wire loving friends. I love Dexter and 24 and the West Wing so I was really hyped up after everyone had been raving about the Wire, which just increased my utter disappointment when fuck all had happened by the end of the third episode.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 15:16, Reply)

yay!
I am not bothered by them ALL. You could probably name every single US drama serial (and almost all the UK ones too) of the last fifteen years and I haven't seen any of them. I see no problem with this, although other people sometimes do...
(beanojam isn't really Ricardo Flange, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 15:21, Reply)

Good on you, and welcome to what is a disturbingly small club.
I'd rather watch The Sweeney any day.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 15:24, Reply)

it certainly seems that way
i'd rather play guitar
(beanojam isn't really Ricardo Flange, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 15:27, Reply)

Me too.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 15:30, Reply)

I think he's called Dominic West
and he presented HIGNFY a few months back. He was quite funny
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 15:30, Reply)

funny gay
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 15:31, Reply)

maybe so
but he's no brian blessed is he?
(beanojam isn't really Ricardo Flange, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 15:32, Reply)