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Guilty Daytime TV Pleasures

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Goodness Gracious Meme

13:51 / 05.04.03

oh, stoats, just thought of a bright spot of the end (sob) of SB.

No more sodding Meg. the single most annoying soap character ever. who couldn't tell she was shagging her fiance's long lost evil twin who hadn't seen him for years. silly bint. all hair and no brains, that one.

Tryphena Absent

17:47 / 05.04.03

They're cancelling Crossroads- oh, the agony!!!! My guilty daytime TV pleasure will be vanquished from the screen.

20:58 / 05.04.03

What was that one on one of the Channel Islands where the guy fought Masons every week? I was very impressed with the island's near-endless supply of shifty Masonic bastards.

I must have seen Must Kill TV about five times now- how I managed to see that, and not the one with vampires, or aliens, I'll never know...

And Quincy was just class on a stick, even if it never did have an episode that went CHEIF: My God! A murder! QUINCY: No, sir, it was a suicide.

It did, however, feature an episode where they ran out of possible ways to make what looked like a suicide turn out to be a murder and instead went on about food poisoning at a stadium that was about to host the final of the football world cup.

Regrettable Juvenilia

12:27 / 06.04.03

Channel islands? You must mean Bergerac, pin, although I don't remember any Masons. Ah, everyone my age remembers the island of Jersey turning on one side and becoming half of John Nettles' face in the credits. Dang-dang-DANG! Dang-da-dang-da-dang! That was what the 80s were all about. I remember being devastated when his ex-girlfriend washed up dead on the beach. Needless to say, it was no suicide.

13:08 / 06.04.03

I wish the BBC would show Lovejoy in the afternoons again, because it was fucking class. Silly Saturday evening entertainment that still wasn't as daft as Bergerac, despite usually linking organised crime, antiques theft, and Lovejoy trying to get posh totty again.

Theme tune ranks along side Bergerac's.

14:33 / 06.04.03

Yeh, Bergerac. This morning I thought it was Cojak, ut I don't know why...

I distinctly remember three days in a row last summer spent with the detective as he went to really really cheap functions where people would offer him sausage rolls from a cheap tin foil plate and everyone would say how swish these Masons had it. Then there'd be some threatening looks with a fat old man with grey hair and lots of "You threatening me?" dialogue.

Tryphena Absent

02:24 / 07.04.03

I will never forget the theme tune to Howard's Way. My mother was an avid viewer and went in to shock when she walked in to the kitchen to find me humming the damn tune a few weeks ago. It's been stuck in my head for years, Lovejoy as well, luckily I seem to have forgotten Bergerac.

Aethelwine Jedi

10:33 / 07.04.03

Speaking of DM, I found this so very creepy for some reason.

10:35 / 07.04.03

152%??

13:41 / 23.07.03

Charlie's Angels is being repeated on Five and I'm hooked. Completely daft. A real guilty pleasure, as I'm fairly sure that one of the only reasons I'm watching it is for Kate Jackson.

Feel my shame.

22:47 / 23.07.03

Two days ago was the world's least fun,most hetrosexual episode of Quincy ever. Both random, useless scene with Sam o the phone going "OK sweetie, I love you too" when Quincy walks in and also Quincy apparently having a girlfriend who runs errands for him and kisses his cheek a lot.

This is a tragic come down from last week, which was so fantastically slashtastic that even my girlfriend agreed that they were at it.

11:58 / 24.07.03

There seems to be a distinct lack of people owing up to watching the magazine and discussion programs here. So in the interest of embarassing honesty I'm admitting to watching BBC News 24, Rise, LK Today, The Matthew Wright Show, This Morning with Phil and Fern, The Gaby and Terry Show, Doctors occasionally, The Politics Show occaionally, Trisha occasionally.
Furthermore I want it on the record that the reason I watch most of these programmes is to get my Big Women fix.
Yes, for me the day is brighter with a little bit of Fern Brittan and Lorraine Kelly. Hey, I'm not sizeist, Natasha Kaplinsky brings me a glow to my nether regions as well.
TV: its cathode ray fetishism for some of us. After all, you wouldn't want to watch it for intellectual content, would you?
Apologies to anyone not familiar with British TV.

Foust is SO authentic

12:52 / 24.07.03

Doesn't anyone here watch Crossing Over and feel conflicting emotions for John Edwards? Hate, because he's messing with sad people's heads. Amusement, because he's taking advantage of stupid people.

22:09 / 24.07.03

Sometimes I watch Loose Women, that's always fun. In the space of three minutes they'd not only advocated domestic violence but also tried to tell me that when women flash their vaginas at men in bars this is in no way sexual at all. No, really.

That's just three minutes- I don't remember the last series of this being so fantastically remedial. I must remember to watch more.

22:13 / 24.07.03

Oh and The Daily Politics (which is the one that actually fits the DAYTIME TV description), and it's post-Quesiton Time counterpart The Politics Show are both sorely missed, if only because Andrew Marr had no idea what he was doing there, the blonde reseracher was the televised equivlent of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue's Samantha, and Andrew Neil was just the worst fucking chairman ever, wasn't he??

The way he would lean in and cut people off and only ever push his own agenda... Ugh! Perfect!

22:37 / 24.07.03

Quincy kicks because Klugman is always "takin' it to the man!" I've never seen a character take on so many government officials in a TV show in my life. Quincy and Dia. Murder fan should check out Barnaby Jones if they can find it. It's the best!!!

08:57 / 28.07.03

Oh good God. It's started. Dawson's Creek, 9:30, every single day for the rest of my life.

Damn Big Borther for finishing (did you know it was actually keeping the shit out of the schedule??).

I think I'm going to go and cry now, in a fantastically elloquent manner.

10:50 / 28.07.03

I've almost stopped watching daytime telly, which is amazing seeing as I am a fucking shut-in. Diagnosis Murder started to grate on my nerves, eventually (I know, who would ever've thunk it?), but people still take the piss out of me for having the same taste in crap telly as my nan. Neighbours and Doctors, similarly, though I am vaguely curious about what will happen when Darcy gets his comeuppance. *Very* vaguely. Neighbours and Hollyoaks have started to draw out their plotlines for too goddamn long - in Hollyoaks it took them like three years to have Laura lose it completely, and now with the Toby The Murderer plotline - dear jesusgod, just get on with it, will you? It's delayed gratification without the gratification. They need to make it more like those fucked up American soaps... and having Cameron and friends have an implied circlejerk in the back of their van doesn't cut it (ok, that's not exactly what happened, but it has definitely gone off the rails a bit recently, got kind of slashy and almost *almost* sexually experimental - they just need to push it even further and then it might actually be interesting).

Because I got up before 6am and finished everything I had to do before 10, I am going to sit and watch 'The Sentinel' on the Sci-Fi Channel this afternoon. After slagging it off on another thread yesterday, I've decided that it actually *is* crap enough to watch for a second time...and the fact that it's on during the day makes its crapness seem more appropriate and watching it seem like less of a waste.

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