Crappy game shows (and crappy TV in general). Working from home I sometimes put the TV on at lunchtime or just as something to keep an eye on in the background, and it's like being exposed to a whole new world of mediocrity and trash. I used to think the TV on in the evenings and at weekends was bad enough, but strawberry floating hell. There seems to be an endless stream of really bad quiz shows and game shows. And Gordon Ramsay and Danny Dyer are both fronting awful-looking new game shows now, as if we need any more to add to the list.
You might as well bucket TV into a few categories:
- crap game shows and quiz shows fronted by the same handful of people, and shitty panel shows with the same 'celebrity' guests and comedians doing endless rounds on all of them
- property programmes
- cooking programmes
- reality TV / karaoke / 'talent' programmes
- everything else
95% of it is utter, utter gooseberry fool.