This is what the TV licence tax SHOULD be used for!

[Churchill]

Would it not then be more appropriate to insert rather than remove something.

I am not getting into a discussion about inserting things up peoples botties!

It ain't natural!

[Jabberwocky]

The man is funny as feck, try getting a humour transplant!

I used to enjoy his column in "The Sunday Times".

Funny to the oily semi-illiterate working classes and the nouveau-riche maybe, but I am a middle class professional with extremely high standards.

Play for Today, the News Quiz, Old Harry's Game, The World Tonight, Gardener's Question Time - these are the sort of programmes we should be making on TV.

[boredsenseless]

Anyone see Top Gear last night when they got their mums to test cars?

Absolute classic TV...certainly much more entertaining (and educational at the same time, go figure? ) than that bullsh1t reality tv we get now thats for sure!

For the record I thought Mrs May was delightful

IF this was the quality of programming being released by the BBC then I would happily pay the tv tax. Unfortunately that is not the case and far too often Im fed some absolute crap about evil america through the baghdad broadcast companies rubbish news and current events programming!

Mailman

So you think the licence fee should be used to transmit repeats of programmes shown first nearly a year ago

Although I did like the programme so it would have been worth a second look

[John Galt]

This was a great episode - James May's face when his mum mentioned low profile tyres was priceless

[DodgyAgent]

Funny to the oily semi-illiterate working classes and the nouveau-riche maybe, but I am a middle class professional with extremely high standards.

Play for Today, the News Quiz, Old Harry's Game, The World Tonight, Gardener's Question Time - these are the sort of programmes we should be making on TV.

In other words you are an old fart

[Denny]

In other words you are an old fart

I agree with Jabberwocky, if he's not pulling a stunt to get a reaction.

The standard of TV programme making these days is abysmal. The BBC thrust their politically correct agenda down our throats, the commercial channels just show repeats and other reality TV garbage. We're all turning into jelly brains. I got a freeview box recently and hoped that would open my 'viewing pleasures' up to greater choice .....but alas no. Most of what I can see on there is worse than what I can see on terrestrial TV.

What I hate most of all are these current trends, some of which have been around for a while now.

(a) News broadcasts with newscasters chosen for their looks rather than their intellectual clarity and articulation skills. Have you seen an ugly woman presenter of them recently?

(b) News broadcasts where jokes and puns are added as insertions to serious bulletins. Wrong place and time for jokes.

(c) The trend toward docudramas. Whereby reality is merged with fantasy.

(d) Any kind of celebrity news and TV gossip being subjected to news bulletins. Who cares who wins Celebrity Big Brother? I certainly don't want any mention of the show on Question Time or Newsnight thank you very much.

(e) Unfettered voyeurism. Documentaries that pretend to inform and educate but are really scheduled to entertain us. Does anyone watch 'the fattest man in the world who weighs 50 stone to learn how to eat properly and exercise and really learn how someone could get into that state in the first place? Or do they watch it just to see how grotesque a 50 stone man looks and to have a snigger at his condition and how funny it looks seeing him sprawled out on a bed unable to turn over and seeing how far his belly hangs over the edge? Some programmes have deliberately exploited the 'unfortunate' - those who have grotesque facial distortions and disabilities and so on - and all of them, I suggest - are subjects chosen for their entertainment appeal and viewing figures not because such conditions relate to the majority of viewers who experience the same or could potential benefit from knowing more about these often rare medical conditions.

[threaded]

I thought the inbreeds who couldn't walk was particularly bad.

Didn't see the programme, but it was widely reported, with pictures, in the press in Denmark.

Poor people exposed for entertainment, quite sick.

[Jabberwocky]

In other words you are an old fart

I really admire you and your fellow dung beetles dodgy. Rolling all that sh*t must take a lot out of you. I just wish you wouldn't keep posting it on here.

[Fungus]

I really admire you and your fellow dung beetles dodgy. Rolling all that sh*t must take a lot out of you. I just wish you wouldn't keep posting it on here.

Dick Rider is almost amusing these days. Well, on this occasion.

[Fungus]

When I were lad, the TV was all American tulipe: Starsky and Hutch, Kojak, Hawaii Five-O and so on. At least we now have mostly UK stuff. Not that it's worth watching.