with a woman who, I think, used to be in the vile HearSay and went into some soap. Trivial topics usually involving WIMMIN (the only target group for morning TV these days - Covid and lockdowns never happened). So switch over to BBCNews. AAARGH! Victoria Derbyshire, the worst presenter on TV, has been demoted from having her own (appalling) shows to a standard news presenter (bet they haven't cut her salary down). It clearly hasn't dawned on anybody - the reason her series of making people pretend to cry on TV got zero ratings because of her.

What have we done to deserve this? Lowest common denominator has got lower and more common.

Television should cater for all types of people, not just the "intelligent". Particularly the BBC.
If thick, dull or "uncultured" people want to watch Piers Morgan, Kym Marsh, and Victoria Derbyshire why shouldn't they?
Everybody else can switch off.

Honey wrote:
Television should cater for all types of people, not just the "intelligent". Particularly the BBC.
If thick, dull or "uncultured" people want to watch Piers Morgan, Kym Marsh, and Victoria Derbyshire why shouldn't they?
Everybody else can switch off.

Yes but where is the cultured and intelligent stuff on the BBC for me to go to Honey?

Wyot wrote:
Honey wrote:
Television should cater for all types of people, not just the "intelligent". Particularly the BBC.
If thick, dull or "uncultured" people want to watch Piers Morgan, Kym Marsh, and Victoria Derbyshire why shouldn't they?
Everybody else can switch off.

Yes but where is the cultured and intelligent stuff on the BBC for me to go to Honey?


Intelligent people claim they don't watch television, apart from fawning over David Attenborough, so you wont need it, Wyot.

I would quite like to watch the early morning shows, but both channels only ever employ people that I have an irrational hatred of, so it is not possible.

I do often catch the first half hour of the Schofield show though, the one that has Mark Williams Thomas as the expert for all things.


I wonder if the type of programmes we like really does reveal our intelligence? I don't watch anything that wouldn't be suitable for a chimpanzee.

I’m glad to say I can pretty much live without TV.

For stock car racing there’s online radio stations with live commentary.

Honey wrote:
[quote]Wyot wrote:
[quote]Honey wrote:


I wonder if the type of programmes we like really does reveal our intelligence? I don't watch anything that wouldn't be suitable for a chimpanzee.

I suspect in your case Honey intelligence is simply "resting" when you watch these shows, but is soon engaged once more after you turn off the TV and settle back in your arm chair with a volume of Proust...