I mean the TV executives only have themselves to blame for making shows no one wants to watch.
TV ad revenue is down because more people are realising there’s much better long form content online. YouTubers are now making 30+ minute videos that absolutely beat any show on TV.
The only thing I watch live is sport, the rest I just watch when I want.
Okikoki, join the queue. Retail is fucked, TV was bound to be next in this day and age. It’s sad for a lot of people. Welcome to an industry trough.
I’m 45 years old. I haven’t watched TV in 20 years. I don’t know anyone aged 25-45 in my friendship and family circle who watch TV. Most don’t even own a TV, preferring to consume the internet/streaming/social media on tablets, phones or laptops ..
Even my boomer parents who were 100% goggle eyed for most of their lives stopped watching TV about 5 years ago when I got them iPads and introduced them to YouTube and Amazon Prime/Netflix.
In fact I would even go as far to say that my elderly parents watch way more YouTube on a daily basis than they ever did TV. Which worries and delights me. Every Sunday lunch is dominated by *seriously* broad current affairs discussions which they are hugely informed about thanks to the diversity of viewpoints and channels they soak up.
This is such a noticeable and amazing change in the scope of their opinions and awareness it blows me away..
We’ve often discussed going back to “telly” and what the reasons are for their lack of appetite for it now. The main factors are always. 1. Its highly politicized and propagandist and agenda driven. In very unsubtle ways which is a huge turn off for them now. Especially since its not “free”. 2. Its not interactive. 3. There’s no public forum for discussion. 4. Its not truly “on demand” in the way streaming platforms are. 5. Advertising.
Pretty much in that order.
TV was absolute wank today, that shite wheelofFortune and masked singer I mean any wonder why TV is shit?
I’ve not had a TV licence since 2016 and hadn’t watched TV in years. We spent this Christmas at my parent’s and sat down to watch a few movies on ITV. It was odd to see the same products being advertised over and over again – almost exclusively:
1) Incontinence pads
2) Online bingo
3) Pet food
4) Food ordering/delivery services
5) Junk food
I’d imagine a foreigner watching our TV must think we’re a nation of gambling addicts who wet themselves and feed their dogs better than they do themselves.
Stayed with parents over Christmas, who still watch a few hours of TV every evening.
It was strangely enjoyable having a set time to watch things again, and the feeling that you had to pay attention because you couldn’t pause or rewind it. Felt like much more of an event to look forward to, and the gaps between episodes of some shows prompted discussion over what might happen next at the dinner table.
Completely different to the instant gratification of online content, and the ability to mindlessly binge it all in one sitting
TV is crap because:
1) adverts, back-to-back adverts for 5 plus minutes continuously – I can’t believe I ever put up with it
2) bad shows
3) lack of control over what you watch, you get to pick a few / many channels – all showing rubbish
I haven’t sat down and watched TV in the traditional sense of just sitting down to see what’s on since like 2003. Boring af.
Broadcast TV caters exclusively to the Boomerati.
Dancing contests, singing contests, similar singing contests with a mask, dancing but on ice contests, cooking contests, other more different baking contests, gameshows, quizzes, slightly more difficult quizzes, more funny quizzes, perpetual non-concluding soap operas, James Bond movies you’ve already seen 10 times on the same channel this year alone, boomers with antiques which might be worth money, boomers with antiques which are worthless and in need of repair. Repeats, reruns, reboots, creatively bankrupt variations on all of the above, and in most cases 15 fucking minutes of adverts every hour, all locked into finishing exactly on time before the next shitshow begins, and spread thinly across 190 different channels.
That’ll be £160 quid per year please.
Don’t own a tv, haven’t since 2000. I pay to watch films at the cinema, but will get what I want for the high seas. As other’s have mentioned, youtube has tonnes of stuff to watch that’s better than 90% of what on the box.
My 60 year old dad occasionally tunes into the telly just to get immediately enraged by all the adverts. Then he complains that there’s ‘nothing on’ and goes over to youtube.
I cannot imagine he’s in the minority of TV liscensees nowadays.
I almost never watch any advertiser sponsored things any more because I don’t want to spend the time watching the adverts. I get that TV programs need to be paid for somehow but I would rather pay to watch a streaming service than waste my time watching the same unwanted content over and over again to save the price of 2 pints a month.
Recently I tried to watch something on channel 5, which does not have the option to pay and remove the adverts. It was horrible. Ads interrupted things every 10 minutes and the breaks were about 5 minutes long. A full 1/3rd of the time was spent watching the adverts. And to make things worse TV doesn’t allow any sort of ‘call to action’ in their advertising, because they’re basically interrupting you and you will go back to the program and forget the ad. So to fix that they have to show the same few adverts over and over and over again. If I didn’t want to buy it after the second time, you can guarantee I absolutely hate whatever company it is after the 6th or 7th time.
Eventually the TV and streaming industry will need to consolidate around subscriptions that let you see the things you want to see without wasting time on advertising (and provide an ad option for those who want that). The music industry has similar things with Spotify, amazon music, apple music, etc. Why does TV have to fragment things and force advertiser sponsorship onto people who can’t stand it?
Traditional TV companies are just out of ideas, they have the Weakest Link back on the BBC, Wheel of Fortune on ITV. Does anyone really want to watch these tired old gameshow formats now days? Time to realise the audience have moved on and they’re not coming back for some reboot
Make something good then, damn. Shit ain’t that hard to figure out.
Yeah, TV is dying, and it has been since at least around 2015.
The only TV I’ve watched in the last ten years, is live news and live sports such as football, rugby, and Formula 1.
Everything else is just complete nonsense.
You need to pay stupid set up fees, have some bloke come round and install it, pay a stupid amount a month just to pay for TV services that have next to fuck all interesting on, and are also riddled with ads every 15 minutes.
No fuckin’ wonder!
YouTube is where it’s at nowadays. I only need that.
I often visit my Gran’s at the weekend and have to endure Saturday night tele. I think if there is a hell, it is forever as a contestant on an Ant and Dec show trying to win a trip to Benidorm by singing Abba songs with an apple in your mouth. Jill from Leicester has to guess the song but she just can’t stop laughing. Ant is shouting inspiration to you both, Dec gives a few hints, Jill gets a few points, you can start to see the plane taking you off to Benidorm but then the timer cuts off. Don’t worry though you now get to compete in blind egg and spoon with James from the Isle of Man. It goes on and on. Never ends.
On a serious note, it feels like British Tv shows have gone way down hill in the last decade.
Im trying to help with the capitulation of mainstream media by never paying for the BBC again.
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Markets boom, markets die.
Boo fucking hoo. Get with the times.
I mean the TV executives only have themselves to blame for making shows no one wants to watch.
TV ad revenue is down because more people are realising there’s much better long form content online. YouTubers are now making 30+ minute videos that absolutely beat any show on TV.
The only thing I watch live is sport, the rest I just watch when I want.
Okikoki, join the queue. Retail is fucked, TV was bound to be next in this day and age. It’s sad for a lot of people. Welcome to an industry trough.
I’m 45 years old. I haven’t watched TV in 20 years. I don’t know anyone aged 25-45 in my friendship and family circle who watch TV. Most don’t even own a TV, preferring to consume the internet/streaming/social media on tablets, phones or laptops ..
Even my boomer parents who were 100% goggle eyed for most of their lives stopped watching TV about 5 years ago when I got them iPads and introduced them to YouTube and Amazon Prime/Netflix.
In fact I would even go as far to say that my elderly parents watch way more YouTube on a daily basis than they ever did TV. Which worries and delights me. Every Sunday lunch is dominated by *seriously* broad current affairs discussions which they are hugely informed about thanks to the diversity of viewpoints and channels they soak up.
This is such a noticeable and amazing change in the scope of their opinions and awareness it blows me away..
We’ve often discussed going back to “telly” and what the reasons are for their lack of appetite for it now. The main factors are always. 1. Its highly politicized and propagandist and agenda driven. In very unsubtle ways which is a huge turn off for them now. Especially since its not “free”. 2. Its not interactive. 3. There’s no public forum for discussion. 4. Its not truly “on demand” in the way streaming platforms are. 5. Advertising.
Pretty much in that order.
TV was absolute wank today, that shite wheelofFortune and masked singer I mean any wonder why TV is shit?
I’ve not had a TV licence since 2016 and hadn’t watched TV in years. We spent this Christmas at my parent’s and sat down to watch a few movies on ITV. It was odd to see the same products being advertised over and over again – almost exclusively:
1) Incontinence pads
2) Online bingo
3) Pet food
4) Food ordering/delivery services
5) Junk food
I’d imagine a foreigner watching our TV must think we’re a nation of gambling addicts who wet themselves and feed their dogs better than they do themselves.
Stayed with parents over Christmas, who still watch a few hours of TV every evening.
It was strangely enjoyable having a set time to watch things again, and the feeling that you had to pay attention because you couldn’t pause or rewind it. Felt like much more of an event to look forward to, and the gaps between episodes of some shows prompted discussion over what might happen next at the dinner table.
Completely different to the instant gratification of online content, and the ability to mindlessly binge it all in one sitting
TV is crap because:
1) adverts, back-to-back adverts for 5 plus minutes continuously – I can’t believe I ever put up with it
2) bad shows
3) lack of control over what you watch, you get to pick a few / many channels – all showing rubbish
I haven’t sat down and watched TV in the traditional sense of just sitting down to see what’s on since like 2003. Boring af.
Broadcast TV caters exclusively to the Boomerati.
Dancing contests, singing contests, similar singing contests with a mask, dancing but on ice contests, cooking contests, other more different baking contests, gameshows, quizzes, slightly more difficult quizzes, more funny quizzes, perpetual non-concluding soap operas, James Bond movies you’ve already seen 10 times on the same channel this year alone, boomers with antiques which might be worth money, boomers with antiques which are worthless and in need of repair. Repeats, reruns, reboots, creatively bankrupt variations on all of the above, and in most cases 15 fucking minutes of adverts every hour, all locked into finishing exactly on time before the next shitshow begins, and spread thinly across 190 different channels.
That’ll be £160 quid per year please.
Don’t own a tv, haven’t since 2000. I pay to watch films at the cinema, but will get what I want for the high seas. As other’s have mentioned, youtube has tonnes of stuff to watch that’s better than 90% of what on the box.
My 60 year old dad occasionally tunes into the telly just to get immediately enraged by all the adverts. Then he complains that there’s ‘nothing on’ and goes over to youtube.
I cannot imagine he’s in the minority of TV liscensees nowadays.
I almost never watch any advertiser sponsored things any more because I don’t want to spend the time watching the adverts. I get that TV programs need to be paid for somehow but I would rather pay to watch a streaming service than waste my time watching the same unwanted content over and over again to save the price of 2 pints a month.
Recently I tried to watch something on channel 5, which does not have the option to pay and remove the adverts. It was horrible. Ads interrupted things every 10 minutes and the breaks were about 5 minutes long. A full 1/3rd of the time was spent watching the adverts. And to make things worse TV doesn’t allow any sort of ‘call to action’ in their advertising, because they’re basically interrupting you and you will go back to the program and forget the ad. So to fix that they have to show the same few adverts over and over and over again. If I didn’t want to buy it after the second time, you can guarantee I absolutely hate whatever company it is after the 6th or 7th time.
Eventually the TV and streaming industry will need to consolidate around subscriptions that let you see the things you want to see without wasting time on advertising (and provide an ad option for those who want that). The music industry has similar things with Spotify, amazon music, apple music, etc. Why does TV have to fragment things and force advertiser sponsorship onto people who can’t stand it?
Traditional TV companies are just out of ideas, they have the Weakest Link back on the BBC, Wheel of Fortune on ITV. Does anyone really want to watch these tired old gameshow formats now days? Time to realise the audience have moved on and they’re not coming back for some reboot
Make something good then, damn. Shit ain’t that hard to figure out.
Yeah, TV is dying, and it has been since at least around 2015.
The only TV I’ve watched in the last ten years, is live news and live sports such as football, rugby, and Formula 1.
Everything else is just complete nonsense.
You need to pay stupid set up fees, have some bloke come round and install it, pay a stupid amount a month just to pay for TV services that have next to fuck all interesting on, and are also riddled with ads every 15 minutes.
No fuckin’ wonder!
YouTube is where it’s at nowadays. I only need that.
I often visit my Gran’s at the weekend and have to endure Saturday night tele. I think if there is a hell, it is forever as a contestant on an Ant and Dec show trying to win a trip to Benidorm by singing Abba songs with an apple in your mouth. Jill from Leicester has to guess the song but she just can’t stop laughing. Ant is shouting inspiration to you both, Dec gives a few hints, Jill gets a few points, you can start to see the plane taking you off to Benidorm but then the timer cuts off. Don’t worry though you now get to compete in blind egg and spoon with James from the Isle of Man. It goes on and on. Never ends.
On a serious note, it feels like British Tv shows have gone way down hill in the last decade.
Im trying to help with the capitulation of mainstream media by never paying for the BBC again.