The way TV stations happily talk over the ends of films and TV shows.

I think people go to great lengths to perfect music fitting in with images and credits matching lines in songs and the bloody continuity people talk over it all - often in a Geordie accent.

And another thing - I hate the way they shrink the picture and stick something else up... and then expand again too late to hear the wonderful Murder She Wrote theme or that fabulous Poirot theme - quite often the music is better than the bloody show, let alone the continuity person.

Shall we bring back capital punishment for continuity people?

I hatehatehate this loathsome practise too. It cheapens whatever you have just been watching since it shows zero respect for everybody that worked on the show or film because the BBC think its far more important to patronise the viewer by telling you what's on next, what's on here and everywhere.

I watched the vintage episode of Marty Feldman's show last night and as soon as the picture was shrunk into the corner, and some moron spoke over it, I really wanted to kick in the TV.

The BBC announced their plans for the current model early last year and despite many thousands signing a petition saying "we don't want this... this is wrong", of course they went ahead with the changes anyway.

I just don't like being patronised and having the entire mood created by a show or film suddenly being trashed and trivialised in this manner. Most people now watch digital TV and can find out at the press of a button what's on next.

Oh and then there's the ITV practise where a few minutes before the end of a show, an onscreen caption pops up to inform you what's on next. As if the programs aren't bad enough with constant reminders of what you've already watched.

Another thing that really p***es me off is vintage TV stuff being boxed in widescreen or worse, cropped for widescreen... generally as is obvious the state of TV today annoys me and I resent paying my licence fee.

Disgraceful.

Totally agree with you JK. Also when they cut an actor off mid sentence to go to the commercial break.

I think TV is no longer made for the viewers.

I agree..it's the hight of rudeness. I always watch the credits in cinemas as I like to see who wrote the music etc. Then again I know a lot of people who work on crews and they tend to work on the same fils so their names crop up and I find it fun to spot them..even transport drivers.

But that's their craft and cutting them off is part of the speed-up of TV where an advert has to squeezed into every second and one of those damned logs in the corner..adverts coming next permanently running acrossing the screen I reckon during films.

You would think this is so, so obvious that executives would have banned it years ago.

I think that is what bothers me about this century. Blatant, obvious mistakes simply don't seem to dawn of music, TV, government, police, media...

Time and again I think we are living, like Alice, in Wonderland.