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General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: Walter on November 16, 2016, 12:55:17 PM

Title: GUILTY pleasures, TV programs you make a point of watching
Post by: Walter on November 16, 2016, 12:55:17 PM
but you know you shouldn't

mine, Coronation Street.

what's yours?
Title: Re: GUILTY pleasures, TV programs you make a point of watching
Post by: Aruntraveller on November 16, 2016, 06:01:48 PM
It used to be the Street but I've weaned myself off it over the last couple of years.

Would Holby City count as a guilty pleasure?

It certainly bears little resemblance to a real hospital or the people who work in them. For a start they all seem liable to contract or develop very unusual and rare conditions on a regular basis. Despite this complete lack of realism I am hooked.
Title: Re: GUILTY pleasures, TV programs you make a point of watching
Post by: Walter on November 16, 2016, 07:36:44 PM
I stopped watching it for that same reason, plus I kept getting it mixed up with that other one.
Title: Re: GUILTY pleasures, TV programs you make a point of watching
Post by: Jack Knave on November 16, 2016, 08:05:40 PM
I only caught the tail end of Red Dwarf XI. A little annoying - I know it'll be round again.

 
Title: Re: GUILTY pleasures, TV programs you make a point of watching
Post by: Brownie on November 16, 2016, 08:07:11 PM
I like both.  Just saw the Street.

Re-runs of The Bill.
Title: Re: GUILTY pleasures, TV programs you make a point of watching
Post by: jeremyp on November 16, 2016, 08:08:56 PM
I take pleasure in watching lots of TV programmes but I don't understand why anybody needs to feel guilty about any of them.

Title: Re: GUILTY pleasures, TV programs you make a point of watching
Post by: Jack Knave on November 16, 2016, 08:14:41 PM
Big Bang.  ;D
Title: Re: GUILTY pleasures, TV programs you make a point of watching
Post by: Anchorman on November 16, 2016, 08:30:09 PM
Doctor Who - all of it. I have all the DVDs, but still watched the re-runs on the Horror channell. BTW, the animated DVD of 'Power of the Daleks' (Troughton) is released next week. (The actual episodes were deleted by the Beeb, but the soundtrack survived)
Title: Re: GUILTY pleasures, TV programs you make a point of watching
Post by: Brownie on November 16, 2016, 08:45:30 PM
I take pleasure in watching lots of TV programmes but I don't understand why anybody needs to feel guilty about any of them.

Agree there.  I don't feel guilty either.

I love Strictly Come Dancing.
Title: Re: GUILTY pleasures, TV programs you make a point of watching
Post by: Walter on November 16, 2016, 09:10:29 PM
I take pleasure in watching lots of TV programmes but I don't understand why anybody needs to feel guilty about any of them.
educating Joey Essex?
Title: Re: GUILTY pleasures, TV programs you make a point of watching
Post by: trippymonkey on November 16, 2016, 10:17:36 PM
Doctor Who - all of it. I have all the DVDs, but still watched the re-runs on the Horror channell. BTW, the animated DVD of 'Power of the Daleks' (Troughton) is released next week. (The actual episodes were deleted by the Beeb, but the soundtrack survived)

They still kept ep 2, didn't they because they used part of it for another prog & that's ALL we have of Power.
Title: Re: GUILTY pleasures, TV programs you make a point of watching
Post by: Anchorman on November 16, 2016, 10:22:04 PM
They still kept ep 2, didn't they & that's ALL we have of Power. [/quote Apparently, the DVD released on the 21st of this month is entirely animated (like underwater Menace, but as far as I know, better quality). If the animation is half as good as the missing ep recons of "The Invasion" and "Web of Fear", it should be worth a watch. Next stop 'Macra Terror' or 'Marco Polo', I hope (Hey, I can dream). You can already download 'Power' from the BBC store. http://www.doctorwho.tv/whats-new/article/the-power-of-the-daleks-dvd-artwork-and-extras-unveiled/
Title: Re: GUILTY pleasures, TV programs you make a point of watching
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 22, 2016, 12:36:22 PM
I went to mock The Good Wife. I stayed to admire it.
Title: Re: GUILTY pleasures, TV programs you make a point of watching
Post by: floo on November 22, 2016, 01:26:24 PM
I enjoy Casualty and Holby City, having watched them from the start. I don't think they are guilty pleasures though.
Title: Re: GUILTY pleasures, TV programs you make a point of watching
Post by: Brownie on November 22, 2016, 03:14:56 PM
I went to mock The Good Wife. I stayed to admire it.

Oh yeah, me too, didn't miss an episode.  I was gutted when it ended.
Title: Re: GUILTY pleasures, TV programs you make a point of watching
Post by: Gordon on November 22, 2016, 03:47:26 PM
Crazyhead - I know it is aimed at a younger audience (being on E4) but I stumbled on it and, surprisingly, I kept watching.