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What would be your ideal Friday/Saturday Night line up?

(February 2005)

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KA
Katherine Founding member
I would have a feast of news and documentaries!

17:00 - Robert Winston's Science on the Box
18:00 - BBC Six O'Clock News, weather
18:30 - Look North
19:00 - Owls: Silent Hunters - http://www.nationalgeographic.com/tv/explorer/exp111702.html
20:00 - Local Heroes with Adam Hart-Davis
20:30 - Brainiac: Science Abuse with Richard Hammond
21:30 - Wildlife on One
22:00 - BBC Ten O'Clock News, weather
22:45 - Look North
23:00 - Top Gear with Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May
00:00 - Programme featuring routines by stand-up comedians, preferably Lee Hurst..
01:00 - An hour of chillout music videos to see me to bed!
TV
tvmercia Founding member
Katherine posted:
00:00 - Programme featuring routines by stand-up comedians, preferably Lee Hurst..
01:00 - An hour of chillout music videos to see me to bed!

youre in the bath at midnight so you'd miss the comedy - and shouldnt you be reading that national geographic magazine by your bed anyway? who needs comedy when theres an amazing world to entertain you ... or whatever it was you said a couple of days ago.
KA
Katherine Founding member
tvmercia posted:
who needs comedy when theres an amazing world to entertain you ... or whatever it was you said a couple of days ago.


Erm.... surely 'dramas, soaps, reality TV and sitcoms'? Lee Hurst did none of these.... oh, and his routines are all to do with real life.... just for your information there.... Mr. Green
TV
tvmercia Founding member
Katherine posted:
tvmercia posted:
who needs comedy when theres an amazing world to entertain you ... or whatever it was you said a couple of days ago.


Erm.... surely 'dramas, soaps, reality TV and sitcoms'? Lee Hurst did none of these.... oh, and his routines are all to do with real life.... just for your information there.... Mr. Green

soaps deal with real life issues, dramas are often based on fact, i could go on. your tenuous high and mighty dislike of fiction is nothing more than a sham. you don’t like drama, fair enough, but do not look down your nose at everyone else.

*HYPOCRITE*
KA
Katherine Founding member
tvmercia posted:
soaps deal with real life issues, dramas are often based on fact, i could go on. your tenuous high and mighty dislike of fiction is nothing more than a sham. you don’t like drama, fair enough, but do not look down your nose at everyone else.

*HYPOCRITE*

It mot certainly is NOT a sham. Soaps deal with issues in an overdramatised, oversentimentalised, sometimes schmaltzy and excessively emotional way. I do not get the level of information about situations I want from this format. It's surface-level facts I already know. If I want facts on a medical condition like HIV, I would prefer to have it in documentary format, explained by doctors in the deeper level of info I want from it and specialists in the field. I don't want the emotions soaps give about the subjects, I want facts, more than soaps give. I want to know in greater detail how the medical condition works within the body and what's available out there to ameliorate the condition if at all possible.

Dramas may be based on fact but again, it'll turn more of a focus on emotions. If it's a drama about disability, it's usually the norm for a non-disabled actor to take that disabled role. That to me in unacceptable. I believe that if the character scriptwriters produce has a disability, then that role should NOT go to an able-bodied actor. Non-disabled actors don't fully understand all the ins and outs of the disability in hand. That is one of my main gripes about dramas.

My basic thinking is that documentaries are the clear leader when it comes to reporting the facts, ins and outs of a situation, whereas soaps and dramas overdramatise, oversentimentalise and sensationalise the situation, to the detriment of factual reporting. Maybe it's the way my brain works....

The sole reason I look down my nose at it is the way the tabloids apportion excessive reporting to these soaps, reality TV etc.. than is actually required in the global scale of things, and the people who watch them just to try and be like everyone else and fit in to perpetuating the ridiculous level of hype soaps and reality TV generate. I also dislike soaps as they hardly reflect the actual goings-on in the area they're trying to portray. It's sensationalist storylines over the reality of the areas of the country they're supposed to represent.
TO
Topov
JFC On The Web posted:
Topov posted:
Well, let's just hope neither of you are ever put in charge of scheduling..! Shocked


Tell us yours then! If you're one of those people who adore Reality and Soaps ona Friday night,


Mate, if the best you can come up with for a primetime schedule to entertain the public in the 21st century is Keeping Up Appearances and Bullseye, then your career as a scheduler is going to be as successful as Maureen from Driving School was as a pop star.

JFC On The Web posted:
then please, sh*t off.


Sorry sonny, that may be a sophisticated retort in your playground, but it don't cut the mustard round here.
CT
Chris Turnbull
JFC On The Web posted:
23:00 Saturday Night (Live show with Sketches, Interviews and Music)
Would that be the America show that's " Live from new york it's saturday night" ?

Me wonders if it will ever be shown on UK Television ever again?
JC
JCB
I can't belive some of these schedules. They thought of people's ideal saturday night's consisting of Keeping Up Appearences, Bullseye and documentaries about owls is hiarious. Laughing
KA
Katherine Founding member
JCB posted:
I can't belive some of these schedules. They thought of people's ideal saturday night's consisting of Keeping Up Appearences, Bullseye and documentaries about owls is hiarious. Laughing

Well, they did ask us for pur PERSONAL IDEAL setups after all.....
JF
JFC On The Web
Chris Turnbull posted:
JFC On The Web posted:
23:00 Saturday Night (Live show with Sketches, Interviews and Music)
Would that be the America show that's " Live from new york it's saturday night" ?

Me wonders if it will ever be shown on UK Television ever again?


Well actually it's a coincidence, as I didn't have a clue what to name it.
TV
tvmercia Founding member
Katherine posted:
tvmercia posted:
soaps deal with real life issues, dramas are often based on fact, i could go on. your tenuous high and mighty dislike of fiction is nothing more than a sham. you don’t like drama, fair enough, but do not look down your nose at everyone else.

*HYPOCRITE*

It mot certainly is NOT a sham. Soaps deal with issues in an overdramatised, oversentimentalised, sometimes schmaltzy and excessively emotional way. I do not get the level of information about situations I want from this format. It's surface-level facts I already know. If I want facts on a medical condition like HIV, I would prefer to have it in documentary format, explained by doctors in the deeper level of info I want from it and specialists in the field. I don't want the emotions soaps give about the subjects, I want facts, more than soaps give. I want to know in greater detail how the medical condition works within the body and what's available out there to ameliorate the condition if at all possible.

Dramas may be based on fact but again, it'll turn more of a focus on emotions. If it's a drama about disability, it's usually the norm for a non-disabled actor to take that disabled role. That to me in unacceptable. I believe that if the character scriptwriters produce has a disability, then that role should NOT go to an able-bodied actor. Non-disabled actors don't fully understand all the ins and outs of the disability in hand. That is one of my main gripes about dramas.

My basic thinking is that documentaries are the clear leader when it comes to reporting the facts, ins and outs of a situation, whereas soaps and dramas overdramatise, oversentimentalise and sensationalise the situation, to the detriment of factual reporting. Maybe it's the way my brain works....

The sole reason I look down my nose at it is the way the tabloids apportion excessive reporting to these soaps, reality TV etc.. than is actually required in the global scale of things, and the people who watch them just to try and be like everyone else and fit in to perpetuating the ridiculous level of hype soaps and reality TV generate. I also dislike soaps as they hardly reflect the actual goings-on in the area they're trying to portray. It's sensationalist storylines over the reality of the areas of the country they're supposed to represent.

thats tosh and you know it is

you are very misguided indeed, not because you dislike soaps, but because you fail to see the function they perform.

now while you may sit at home all day twiddling your thumbs waiting for look north, other people have all sorts of things going on, so at 5.00, they may want to wind down with a cuppa and disengage their brain.

its childish and narrow-minded of you to only see the world from your more than slightly blinkered point of view.

come join the real world katherine. and please - no more about disability, its tiresome.
SE
Square Eyes Founding member
Katherine, how about a documentary about a soap ? Would that fulfill your televisual appetite ?

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