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@machel posted:

Mmmmm, undecided, I do not want to see Nikki screaming β€œwho is she”

Quite,

 

"Best Shows Ever": as defined by whom? I'm assuming it will be BB/Endemol.

Any impartial selection must include "The Trial of Nasty Nick" and "Fight Night" - both show-defining (and indeed genre-defining) episodes, but I'm not sure they'll be so high on the producers' list... 

Eugene's Lair

Quite,

 

"Best Shows Ever": as defined by whom? I'm assuming it will be BB/Endemol.

Any impartial selection must include "The Trial of Nasty Nick" and "Fight Night" - both show-defining (and indeed genre-defining) episodes, but I'm not sure they'll be so high on the producers' list... 

Well it will at least be something to moan about during lockdown Eugene 

Baz

I won't be watching.  It's just cheap filler programming.  Big Brother ran its coarse and outstayed its welcome.  Like those boring football matches from yesteryear that the BBC and ITV keep showing. 

 

The BBC now plan to show 'vintage' episodes of EastEnders to fill the gap as there are no new episodes of the show.  So we get to see "Den and Ange" for the millionth time!  This isn't "the envy of the world" the BBC likes to tell us it is! It's TV on the cheap. Why not just make some decent programs for a change rather than scheduling like a Mickey Mouse UK Gold type channel! 

 

The state of terrestrial TV right now is rubbish, bland and bereft of any creativity and imagination.  Terrestrial TV channels schedule almost exclusively for conservative (with a small 'c') old people.    No wonder millions are shelling out for streaming services.

Carnelian
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@Carnelian posted:

The state of terrestrial TV right now is rubbish, bland and bereft of any creativity and imagination.  Terrestrial TV channels schedule almost exclusively for conservative (with a small 'c') old people.    No wonder millions are shelling out for streaming services.

Others may disagree with my rebuttals as to being either "conservative" or "old" (   ), but I rely on so-called "terrestrial " TV, and I just want to give a few counter-examples of shows I've enjoyed during the lockdown period.

 

On the BBC, I've enjoyed "Killing Eve", "The A Word" and the extraordinary "Normal People" (OK: the last one was created for the digital channel BBC3, but it still pulled in millions on BBC1). I'm also looking forward (though I'm not sure that's the right phrase...) to "The Salisbury Poisonings" tonight, although I'm going to make sure I've a stiff drink to hand first...  (The same is probably true of "I May Destroy You", which I've been recording but haven't watched yet...)

On ITV, their lockdown scheduling started with the quite excellent "Quiz".

 

TV made during (and generally about) lockdown was always going to be difficult, and a lot of it has effectively been a live experiment (c.f. the recent series of "Have I Got News For You"), but I disagree that they've all been "bereft of any creativity and imagination": BBC2's "Comedians: Home Alone", for example, shows just what is possible with some imagination.

I haven't been following it entirely myself, but C4's "Grayson's Art Club" was well-received.

In terms of drama, I thought ITV's quick-off-the-block response "Isolation Stories" was uniformly excellent. The BBC's equivalent "Unprecedented" was more of a mixed bag, but had it's moments: the high point was the incredibly powerful "Fear Fatigue", which IMO should be compulsory viewing for all those who are already forgetting just how bad it was at the start of the outbreak. The new BBC1 series "Staged" with Michael Sheen and David Tennant is a lot lighter, but still worth a look.

Eugene's Lair
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