Enough (!) of the Endless Lazy TV Programmes
It’s always good to spend time outside or reading a book or doing most things, apart from watching TV. BUT – most of us do sometimes just like to make a cup of tea, put our feet up and just watch something good or light-hearted now and then.
But just like building another lane on the motorway just creates more traffic, the mass of free-to-view TV channels now means it’s almost impossible to find anything to watch, when you decide to watch something on the box!
Lazy – that’s the only word to describe most TV programming. Endless and endless channels of:
- Rolling news (depressing and could give you a breakdown)
- Teleshopping channels (useless tat that nobody wants or needs)
- Endless repeats of The Big Bang Theory (on every day, usually on two channels)
It can’t be lack of money, because it would be cheaper to re-run better quality programs of old, like popular comedy series and films, that are hardly ever shown on TV.
Endless home programs, usually with people on massive budgets, so it does not really give the average person any ideas or inspiration.
Same with antiques programs. Unless someone is having that antique valued or mended, it’s not that interesting to have these programs on every day, all day.
Same with holiday homes in the sun, again only interesting mostly if you’re going there. There is only so many times we can listen to ‘I like the view, I like the colour of the tiles’.
And finally – quiz shows!
As well as being boring, noisy and encouraging a materialistic society, some are now so dumb-downed, that people are making official complaints.
Recently on Mastermind, one general knowledge question seriously was ‘Which pet animal goes woof-woof?’)
When someone on another show was asked Gandhi’s first name, the contestant replied ‘Goosey!’
If people want to watch these programs, of course that’s fine. But just like supermarkets should give discerning eaters good food, if the program makers want us to pay a license fee, it should be offering at least one or two decent programs a day.
The focus on ‘win money and your life will change’ also goes against Biblical beliefs that you should work for what you do, not just rely on luck. It’s not a healthy attitude, which is why Quakers won’t even take lottery money to mend church roofs, as they would win, but someone desperate likely now can’t pay their electricity bill, as they spend the money on the losing ticket.
Last week, I saw on more than one occasion a contestant being visibly upset, because another person lost to ‘the banker’. It’s a show, not life or death. Online review of a quiz show
