TV programmes that have run their course

Bobson Dugnutt

Most of the shows being mentioned are still very popular. Not everything made is geared towards the Boards.ie demographic. Families like dancing shows, fittest family type stuff etc.

Strumms

Cooking competition shows are such a load of BS…. Cooking shows where it’s instructional and a qualified and experienced chef shows you step by step how to make X dish, grand, usually you can reference the steps and ingredients online but just watching D list celebrities cook…why ? . Some failing TV presenter head who once presented ‘strictly come in your mouth’ vs some ex pro footballer… but they are both very enthusiastic and laugh a lot, especially if it’s Ian Wright, who is on everything now.

Hotblack Desiato

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121635784#Comment_121635784

They're still shite though.

Hotblack Desiato

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121639167#Comment_121639167

The idea that people would actually try to cook the recipies they saw on TV went out with Delia.

They moved on to flogging "books of the series" with the recipes, but people bought them and didn't cook them either (as if you could get half the ingredients anyway)

It's just food porn really.

Sardonicat

Celebrity Baking on Ice while Dancing with the Stars doing a Pottery Throwdown in a Minature House for an all singing Sewing Bee.

Utter sheeite.

ohnonotgmail

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121641987#Comment_121641987

Don't you diss throwdown and sewing bee. They are not anywhere close to those other shows.

animalinside

University Challenge.

It was great for a long time as a kind of self-parody of the "intellectual classes" and people competing to know absurdly arcane knowledge, that goes on at universities and beyond, that I have to believe must have become a least a little bit self-aware at some point surely.

Jeremy Paxman worked because of his accent and his posture and everything about him. The queen's english high faluting talk, a stick so far up his ass. It was hilarious. god help me for saying this but Kevin Myers also produced the proper effect, in possibly the only job that man could ever do right.

Now in keeping with the times they've gone woke. Here's the new presenter, and it just doesn't work anymore as a package, for me anyway. It's not funny anymore.

Hande hoche!

Finished Fear the walking dead this year. The original series last year. Will probably not be tuning in for any of the three (!?!) spin off series that are in production.

Fr Tod Umptious

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121651407#Comment_121651407

Mastermind has gone to hell since the chosen specialist subject was dumbed down.

Much better when the subjects were the likes of The Duke of Buckingham 1592 to 1628 than now when it's Only Fools and Horses.

BoardsBottler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121652132#Comment_121652132

stick a pony in me pocket! i'll fetch the suitcase from the van! cuz if you want the best ones, but you don't ask questions, then BROTHER! I'M YOUR MAN!! cuz where it all comes from is a mystery, like changing of the seasons and the tides of the sea.

But here's the one that's driving me berserk, how do only fools and horses work?

Galwayguy35

Not really a show as such but Lottie Ryan and her showbiz news.

Only there in the first place because of her her father was.

animalinside

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121652132#Comment_121652132

Right. Knowing things by itself obviously does not make you intelligent or informed. It just means you have a good memory and have spent time on that subject. Mastermind and Eggheads etc., always imply more than just a good memory but a very high intelligence.

Knowing things that are relevant in society and common interest is a sign of intelligence and awareness of the world sure, not just any old thing. You could argue that knowing some things show more a LACK of intelligence and awareness of the world because that's what you have been occupying your time with. The intelligent and informed of society would generally fail a test on some tiktok etc. terminology I'm sure. Much as I love them, Only Fools and Horses/Father Ted specialist Mastermind subjects is really just taking the piss. Those are shows we try to AVOID rewatching surely.

BoardsBottler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121679987#Comment_121679987

yes, but why? only fools horses has alot of funny moments and both of those shows you've mentioned have become cultural icons in their respective countries. Comedy does't have to be intelligent, it just has to be funny. No Awareness of societies problems is needed. Comedy is meant to be an escape from all that.

K-9

I'd read somewhere that they'd banned a few topics like Fawlty Towers or Only Fools because they became over used.

Hotblack Desiato

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121652132#Comment_121652132

Name:

Steve Fannyhead

Specialist subject:

DJ Assault

Your time begins.. now

Complete the name of DJ Assault's most well known song, Ass and...

Titties

Correct

In that song, what designer label does he describe the "big booty bitches" as wearing?

Guess

Correct

What cleaning solution does DJ Assault suggest that "stanking ass bitches" should use?

Soap and water

Correct

What compound adjective does DJ Assault use in relation to impecunious hoes?

Broke-ass

Correct

Where does DJ Assault suggest that freaky-dancin' hoes should shake their shít?

On top of my dick

Correct

What action *bwap bwap bwap* I've started so I'll finish, what action does he suggest will happen to those taking part in the previous question?

Cumming

Correct.

Mr Fannyhead you have answered six questions and no passes.

Hotblack Desiato

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121678054#Comment_121678054

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TVs, deep freeze and David Bowie LPs

Pool games, gold chains, wotsitnames and at a push

Some Trevor Francis tracksuits from a mush in Shepherd's Bush

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No income tax, no VAT

No money back, no guarantee

Black or white, rich or poor

We'll cut prices at a stroke

God bless 'Ooky Street

Viva 'Ooky Street

Long live 'Ooky Street

C'est magnifique 'Ooky Street

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BoardsBottler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121683216#Comment_121683216

Thank you so very much <3 you're my personal hero for the day!

Dazler97

The kardashions like feck off its all scripted anyway

Greengrass53

Qi, now there's a candidate for a mercy killing.

BoardsBottler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121683391#Comment_121683391

its one of my most favorite shows, please do come back and talk about i after watching it. i would love to see some discussion about it

Hotblack Desiato

Cushty!

BoardsBottler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121684359#Comment_121684359

Lovely jubbly! you know it makes sense.

it's like my mom used to always say, he who dares wins!

K-9

Only Fools is one of the few comedies that got better as it went on, Blackadder the same, Yes Minister as well.

Then you'd Fawlty and the UK office which left it at the perfect 2 seasons.

"But you started it".

"No, you did, yous invaded Poland".

BoardsBottler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121684849#Comment_121684849

oi! now just what exactly is your game!? any more of that carry on and i'll be getting ghandi's revenge! that ruby did'nt go down so well last night.

although at the time it went down a treat as it happens

thereiver

I think first dates is still worth watching as it has different types of people on it some boring some awful some charming .dancing with the stars Ireland should be called dancing with random actors

I can see no point in The voice now that anyone with any singing talent can put a video on TikTok or YouTube

I think the masked singer is mainly watched by kids who think the costumes are funny

I presume anyone that watches fair city is over 50 and has only saorview channels

Rte is like the bbc a public service tv station they have to make news and current affairs programs

Someone must be watching them otherwise why do EastEnders Coronation street random soap opera,s still exist

British bake off is a well made program with a good cast ,judges and presenters who can be funny sometimes and you do need some talent to get on the program

Neighbours was good in the 80s the new version looks awful

randd1

Do you know what we need? A TV gameshow where contestants get mashed regularly. Something like Takeshi's Castle or Wipeout, but with an Irish flavour. With games like having to get past a narrow footbridge while the opposing throws soccer balls at you form 20 yards to knock you off, and other such obstacles.

Go around to the various colleges and get volunteers per episode, give them a few drinks beforehand and let the madness ensue.

BoardsBottler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121694101#Comment_121694101

sounds like alot of the kids challange based shows that already exist, well minus ireland and alcohal parts. Perhaps your idea + putting celebritties as the contestants. Now thats something i can imagine people wanting to see the celebs get mashed lol.

i remember episodes of various kids gameshow/physical challange/obstical course things like the likes of crystal palace, raven, jungle run, that sort of thing, and loving it when adults come onto those shows as contestants and absolutely dominate blowing through all of the challanges and ruining the game. Sometimes contestants are dumb do and lose to kids or get locked inside of that big fat golden buddha thing.

Very funny now that i look back on it.

i think your idea is a really good one, perhaps we could add 2 commentators to roast the celeb contestant, or have 1 on their side and the other on the audiences side mocking them in a jokey way.

Badly Drunk Boy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121683456#Comment_121683456

It can die a natural death soon enough. They do a letter of the alphabet every year, and are on 'U' at the moment. 5 more left.

Hotblack Desiato

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121684694#Comment_121684694

Some of the OFAH specials done in the last few years of its run were a bit ropey to be honest. Should've quit when they were ahead really.

OTOH Rock and Chips was interesting, would have liked to see another series or two of that but it wasn't to be.

its_steve116

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121694937#Comment_121694937

James Buckley was in Rock and Chips, and the creators of his most famous show, The Inbetweeners, went on to create a BBC Two sitcom called The First Team which again only lasted one, six-episode season.

BoardsBottler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121694937#Comment_121694937

Make sure to check out "the green green grass" its following the events of OFAH, a sequal spin off sort of thing with boyice and his wife.

i still havent been able to watch rock and chips yet, no where is uploading it free lol.

animalinside

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121684694#Comment_121684694

I wouldn't phrase it like that exactly, I think a lot of comedies need a season or two of "breaking in" and then reach their full stride from the third season or so onwards and can be around the same level then for years. If you notice characters are often somewhat different in the first season before they settle into their role.

Naturally over the years comedies can start running out of material, actors reach different stages in their lives, a sense of having done it all before/monotony, and so the quality can go down and then it's cancelled. Some British comedies had this idea of going out on a high, which I don't believe was the right way at all.

Strumms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121696183#Comment_121696183

Didn’t enjoy the green green grass… it lacked for me the writing… wit, pathos and cleverness of OFAH…. Which is an issue when you have two of the main reoccurring and liked OFAH characters as suddenly the lead characters …. The GGG had 41.7 % audience share for the first episode, 16.5 % for the last one. It just didn’t resonate with the public and they deserted it… it was too hammy or something……think what was great about OFAH was most of the characters were true to real life, in every family, or pub setting or workplace you could pick someone even if they were slightly eccentric who was a bit like a character from OFAH…. Especially in the early days of Fools, Boycie as funny as he was, could be a right dastardly, spiteful, seriously malevolent cúnt, where he was just a cranky buffoon in GGG and a lot of the other characters the same…buffoons, Boycie…. Raise the eyebrow, give the look and deliver the line……rinse, repeat…

you had all these buffoonish hammy, clownish country bumpkins turning up and it just was a bit meh…..

whereas in Fools, a Trigger, Mike, Grandad, Albert, Raquel, Cassandra…. Were more real, relatable but still funny…

BoardsBottler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121698279#Comment_121698279

yeah there was some annoying parts to it, not gonna lie. Is Rock and chips any good? is it worth giving a watch?

Greengrass53

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121694449#Comment_121694449

Well god speed to it.

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121694101#Comment_121694101

….

thereiver

Googlebox is entertaining they look at different programs every week if you don't like it don't watch it .the UK and American version of dancing with the stars have semi famous people on them .it takes skill and training to dance to a high standard in public I think at this point most people are tired of watching people singing cover songs on the voice

Shows like the British bake off gets millions of viewers. If you can invent a new reality show format it can be sold to country's around the world

its_steve116

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121684491#Comment_121684491

Reminded me of this Harry Enfield sketch...

"Eff Off!"

(Lovely Jubbly is second from left.)

BoardsBottler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121884938#Comment_121884938

the JVC on the jerseys takes me back many years, thanks for that nostalgia <3

tomhammer..

Ramsey's American nightmares

It's the same every show he fukks the head of one of them

Comes up with a new menu usually a beefburger

coogy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121886707#Comment_121886707

I used to quite enjoy this at the start but then found myself getting itrritated (as I do with other shows of this ilk) about how contrived it all is.

The 'suspenseful' style of editing of these shows also gets on my wick.

coogy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121683407#Comment_121683407

There's hardly a reality show around that isn't scripted to within an inch of its life.

ILikeBoats

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121886707#Comment_121886707

It used to be good. Now he's a family counsellor

KevMayo88

Uk comedy 'panel' shows in general. There seems to be a dumb panel show on every conceivable concept these days, with the most unfunny, woke, insufferable "comedians" around. I'm sure these comedians make their entire salary from appearing on the conveyor belt of these shows, because there is no way on earth anyone would pay to see some of these people in an actual gig.

Ashbourne hoop

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121698297#Comment_121698297

Rock and Chips is well worth a watch. Not as funny as OFAH, probably more drama than comedy to be honest, but worth checking out.

tomhammer..

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121887042#Comment_121887042

TV is a conveyor belt of sh1t

There's no end to it not without WW3 anyhow

Dazler97

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121886772#Comment_121886772

Eh yes it is

Strumms

Have I Got News For You.. Just watched a 2020 episode 🥱

awful stuff… the guests were just silent for the most part and Hislop and Merton were just phoning it in… the guest host Jennifer Saunders despite her funny woman reputation just not able to spark anything funny controversial or outrageous, just reading from the prompter verbatim it looked like, totally a zzzz fest.

the dynamic was great with Deyton… when they’d pile onto him, he was pretty good at taking it and giving a bit back… what I just watched was horrendous… no appetite to go after the host… almost as if they’d been asked not to, no spontaneity. Guests too were almost mute 🤐

should have gotten a permanent Deyton replacement who could have become part of the permanent dynamic, at time’s actively the butt of jokes….someone the lads won’t have been hesitant to go after…or else just bin it for good…

coogy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121889999#Comment_121889999

Yes what is? Do you mean 'yes there is'?

I'm all ears.

its_steve116

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121899766#Comment_121899766

A friend of mine thought Angus Deayton was a member of AC/DC!