What Tv Show Did You Once Love But Now You Hate

[eelcat]

The main one for me is The Bill. I watched this show religiously from the beginning and although it had it's ups and downs later on I kept faithful. That was until the Kathy Bradford incident where it lost all credibility and I threw the towel in and haven't watched it since.

"She conjured up being H.I.V. positive, assaulted a prisoner in custody, caused a doctor to lose her job - generally causing trouble wherever she went. Her colleagues remained oblivious, in particular DC Brandon Kane, with whom she had an unhealthy obsession. The only person to see through her veneer was Robbie Cryer, and look where that got her.

Cathy's ultimate downfall (aside from killing both her fiancé and Brandon's ex-wife) was abducting Brandon's children and holding them hostage in the boiler room of Sun Hill. Brandon swapped himself for his kids and she was eventually brought down. Cathy was then sectioned and found mentally unstable to stand trial for all her crimes."

[Dr Shipherd]

Maybe not a show I hate, but one that disappointed me when I revisited it decades later:

I always had fond memories of watching "Laugh-In" in the late 60's/early 70's. A couple of years back, I saw it on TV while visiting my parents (they have a dish, so they have more channels than I do with my pathetic cable package). I was amazed at how poorly that show has aged over the years. I could only watch about 5 minutes of it before I changed the channel.

[tabler]

Nice thread eelcat, I cant name one show in particular but here in the uk we have ITV4 which is a Digital channel which shows things like the Sweeney, Minder, the Prisoner,Randall & Hopkirk,the Champions all these are on at the moment along with many more like this.
Well the thing is I loved these shows and occasionally I switch them on and sadly they really just dont stand the test of time.
I dont hate the shows, they are part of my youth, however I cant bring myself to watch them:(

[eelcat]

Nice thread eelcat, I cant name one show in particular but here in the uk we have ITV4 which is a Digital channel which shows things like the Sweeney, Minder, the Prisoner,Randall & Hopkirk,the Champions all these are on at the moment along with many more like this.
Well the thing is I loved these shows and occasionally I switch them on and sadly they really just dont stand the test of time.
I dont hate the shows, they are part of my youth, however I cant bring myself to watch them:(

Yes I know what you mean. When I was younger I loved The Persuaders ( I even have the theme song on a 45 :)). However I bought the entire series a couple of years ago and looked forward to slowly making my way through the 2 box sets. So imagine my dismay when I was 3 episodes in and decided enough was enough. I can't stand it any more. Seeing Roger Moore and Tony Curtis ham it up between them was getting on my nerves. I guess as a kid I thought it was cute but as an adult I saw it quite differently.

Minder and The Sweeney I could never grow tired of :)

[27cows]

Big Brother. Gradually morphed into the freak show for wannabes we have now, but once great fun.

Also...not a show but a person. Peter Kay. Brilliantly funny in That Peter Kay Thing and Phoenix Nights...but turned into a boorish parody of himself as soon as he had major success. These days seems to do nothing but rake in the money from endless repackaging of his previous shows, plus that embarrassing annual charity song thing. What a waste of a great talent.

[ADA]

I dont hate it but I dont care about The Simpsons anymore.

[rockerreds]

I dont hate it but I dont care about The Simpsons anymore.
Ditto.

[BigBucket]

Battlestar galactica, (the new one) A great survivalist/ military show for seasons 1/2 became from season 3 onwards a turgid soap opera whith characters so hateful you didnt care is they survived or not. And dont get me started on the finale. I'd rather scrub my balls with wire wool and ajax than watch that shite again.

[Davemetalhead]

Friends. For the first couple of seasons it was fresh and funny, but it soon turned dull and turgid.

Scrubs. Was original, different and funny at first, but now it's just the same old, same old.

[chrissy]

All of them! TV sucks!

[eelcat]

All of them! TV sucks!
So you once loved all of them and now you hate all of them. Fair enough.

[avidfan]

i used to like the one show, but im sick of adrian and his faux grumpyness and im sick of waiting for christine to show us her knickers.

[tamsmith]

The Bill. Absolutely nothing like the good believable storylines they had in the late 90's.

More a soap now.

[scoundrel]

Emmerdale - utter tosh.

Anything with Lenny Henry.

Ditto - Dawn French.

Rossy - overpaid bad speaking bore

Ah yes: good old Emmershite.

Lenny Henry: I still like him but haven't seen much of him since he stopped doing Chef. I gather he is doing Shakespeare on the stage just now.

Dawn French: Nothing wrong with The Vicar of Dibley, although the best thing in it was the excellent Gary Waldhorn as the despairing chairman of the crackpot parish council.

Jonathan Ross, it rhymes with toss(er).

[The Black Baron]

Im with a couple of you guys--

"The Simpsons"--I didn't watch it, when it first aired. The first episode I ever saw in its first run was "Homer at the Bat", the softball episode. I was hooked, and for over 10 years, I made sure I was home Sunday nights at 8 to see the next episode (I know, I know, I could tape it, but it's not the same as seeing as it airs). And when the Fox affiliates all carried it in syndication, there was a period of 6 or 7 years where I could see two and a half hours every single day (6PM on Philadelphia's Fox channel, then 7:30 on NY Fox, then again at 11 on both of them). But in the last couple of seasons, the show has become so overtly political that it's not funny anymore. Not like they never did political humor, but it was more balanced, poking fun at everyone, and the jokes were funny. Now, they just hit you over the head with the jokes, and the characters became too one-dimensional.

"Family Guy"--Same thing as "The Simpsons". The first couple of seasons, before the first cancellation, and after the revival on The Cartoon Network, were really good (though never as good as classic Simpsons episodes). The cutaway humor was good, the writing seemed pretty good, and McFarlane didn't hit you over the head with his agenda (though he didn't make a secret of it). Now, it's just shock for shock's sake, McFarlane's saying, "This is my view of the world, F you for being a troglodyte if you disagree," and the humor has suffered as a result.

"Friends"--I liked the very first season, when it was a dopey little show that no one knew about. Then it took off, and it sucked big-time. How many times could we hear Ross whine about how "he wubbed Wachel so much". Ugh! I wanted to punch the TV. And yes, we get that Chandler is sarcastic, Joey's the dumb one, Courtney Cox was wasting away.

"Monk"--This was an excellent show, a retelling of Sherlock Holmes, basically. But the show has become formula in the last couple of seasons, and less about Monk solving the crimes, and more about OCD jokes. Characters change in ways that seem unnatural. This season, some of the episodes towards the finale were an improvement, but I'm glad that they've announced that the next season, the eighth, will be the last. I'd like to see the show end on a high note, instead of deteriorating.

And I'm with whomever said above that all TV is garbage-I finally cancelled my cable subscription, because I was tired of paying $70 a month (and that's without any premium movie channels like HBO or Showtime) for 100 channels of nothing I wanted to see. I can watch shows on the Net, and buy and rent DVDs.

If our cable companies would ever implement a menu style subscription, in which we could order a show and pay specifically for what we watch (which the current technology supports, anyway), maybe I'll go back.

[scoundrel]

To quote the song:

How looong.......has this been goin' on?

Too long IMHO. It was once original, broke new ground in presenting what a far from ideal world Accident and Emergency Departments really are, showing on screen something we can all recognise from our own unhappy experiences of having to go there.

Now? One of the most boring, tedious things on the ether. Let the poor thing die in peace and create a new hospital drama with fresh characters, new situations and scriptwriters who have something fresh and valid to say.

[billybunter]

Anybody remember George & Mildred!??

[sydney1]

Anybody remember George & Mildred!??

Mildred, eh.. she was a looker,not. One of those definite cases where your brain say no and your bollocks for once agree with you.

[eelcat]

Anybody remember George & Mildred!??
Unfortunately she led a sad life.
From IMDB.....
Battled alcoholism during her life, a battle she ultimately lost. She was said to be on a bottle of vodka a day. She died of hepatitis four days after her 53rd birthday. The actor, Brian Murphy, who played her on-screen husband in "George & Mildred" (1976), was at her bedside.

Ok George and Mildred probably wasn't that great but they were hilarious in Man About The House.
"George! You dirty little man"
Loved it :)

[Mal Hombre]

Big Brother. Gradually morphed into the freak show for wannabes we have now, but once great fun.

Also...not a show but a person. Peter Kay. Brilliantly funny in That Peter Kay Thing and Phoenix Nights...but turned into a boorish parody of himself as soon as he had major success. These days seems to do nothing but rake in the money from endless repackaging of his previous shows, plus that embarrassing annual charity song thing. What a waste of a great talent.
I could'nt agree more :(

[scoundrel]

Comedy sitcom which I used to love. I haven't watched it for years now because the actors who really gave it comic life are gone and only a dessicated husk remains. It ran really well and for a very long time but nothing lasts forever. Put it humanely to sleep, BBC.

[BustyEscortLovr]

Greys Anatomy - started watching from the first as I like medical shows, but it quickly became a soap in a hospital setting. I mean even from the start is was the "horny doctors show" but there was some humor about it.
The last straw was when George cheated on his newlywed wife. He was the one moral compass on the show, and he cheated? So out of character. And then the ex-wife gets turned lesbian? Whaa? And ALL the medical cases became the "Ripley's Believe it or not" or "Janes All The Worlds Medical Oddities" cases. No simple broken bones, no it had to be a broken arm with a live grenade stuck in it.

[pro450]

Heroes. Loved Series 1, but by the end of series 2 it seemed every character had died and been brought back to life and/or had turned from good to evil and back again. Utter drivel.

[snorkie]

ESPN's "The Sports Reporters." I like John Saunders but without the late Dick Schaap the show doesn't work as well. In poker terms, Lupica puts me on 'tilt'.

Along the same lines "The Nineteenth Hole" on the Golf Channel has just gone flat.

[groovesection]

Also...not a show but a person. Peter Kay. Brilliantly funny in That Peter Kay Thing and Phoenix Nights...but turned into a boorish parody of himself as soon as he had major success. These days seems to do nothing but rake in the money from endless repackaging of his previous shows, plus that embarrassing annual charity song thing. What a waste of a great talent.

My sentiments eaxactly.

[edward126]

Cold Case:- Gave up watching a couple of years ago after watching an episode where the murder occurred in 1932. Even though it was over 70 yrs ago the suspects and witnesses were all still alive and still had the most amazing clarity and memory recall. I'm only 44 and I have difficulty in remembering the last BJ my missus gave me. I'm moving to Philadelphia where people don't have Alzheimer's or die from old age. They all seem to die from (in a hushed voice) "murder".

Family Guy:- I miss Stewie being a homicidal megalomaniac and evil genius, trying to kill Lois and making himself dictator of the world. Really liking The Cleaveland Show though.

Scrubs:- The last season was an ordeal to watch. Boring story lines and to me the actors seem tired and uninterested in the proceedings. In the end I just wanted to punch JD in the face he annoyed me so much.

Tru Blood:- Season 1 was great, excellent characters and storylines with just the right amount of blood, sex and drama. Season 2 WTF, became a hippy soap opera written by a sexually inadequate frat boy.

Ricky Gervais:- Started out as a ........ no wait he's always been an unfunny twat.

[Aubrey]

I used to love Emmerdale Farm, when it had Amos and Mr Wilkes etc - when a trip to Hotton was a big day out and a trip to Leeds was a major expedition. Now - long before it started calling itself Emmerdale, really - it's horrible. Too many young people, and too many non-Yorkshire people. These days, even the village (Beckindale) seems to be called Emmerdale.

It used to be subtle, and funny, with great set pieces - in one, a fight between Jackie Sugden and someone lasted a whole episode, on and off - and the characters were good. I suppose they were all too old, though.

I even had a load of the books, which were functionally written but very readable and atmospheric.

I fancied the original Dolly - Katharine Barker - something rotten, and my brother fancied Jackie's sister, Sandie (Jane Hutcheson).


And The Simpsons - it is still funny, but it's just not loveable any more. Homer really is a big fat loud mouth now; you would not really want to go for a drink with him. Before he was never sure that he was doing the right thing; now he is sure, all the time, and it makes him much less sympathetic.


(I remember Ricky Gervaise on XFM (kind of indie London radio station). Then he was so awful that I assumed he was working under an assumed name ut of embarrassment. He has been a lot better since then.)

[Oswald]

I remember when Only Fools And Horses first appeared I thought it was very funny. The first four series (30 minute episodes) all had a crispness about them. However, when the format changed to 50 minute episodes and the introduction of the female characters it rapidly declined into a tacky pseudo-soap. The final three episodes that were broadcast in 2001-03 were nothing more than a huge embarrassment!

[Nelberto]

northern exposure...fantastic until joel replaced by new doctor and that final episode:mad::rolleyes::eek:

[Clouddancer]

Casualty the troubble with the BBC is they do show things to death, ITV are at it now with The Bill, they're bereft of ideas & or cash, they both seem intent in turning everything into a soap!!!

[kananga]

In my flash forward (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25kXHgWg938&feature=player_embedded) I saw a...
(actually I've only seen two episodes and so far I'm kinda liking it).

Where I had a problem was with the previous series "Lost", by the same producers.
I don't know if I ever really 'loved' it, but it started out well enough, from memory, but was seriously over-hyped by the media.
Just a airliner crash on a seemingly deserted island, with some kind of invisible monter. :confused:
Then I didn't watch after the first two or three episodes for about six months, or so.
I'm still not sure what I saw then was still the same show??

Altogether I'd say the scriptwriters Lost the plot, or they started adapting Flash Forward from the novel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZOya-9u8es) while still in the process and a little time driftin' just happened to fliter through? I dunno. I Lost interest.

[Greenman]

A Question of Sport-it used to be really good and it would be a lot better off without that clown Phil Tufnell and Sue Barker who seems to laugh at just about anything and everything he says-keep Matt Dawson but get another captain.

[reaction]

A Question of Sport-it used to be really good and it would be a lot better off without that clown Phil Tufnell and Sue Barker who seems to laugh at just about anything and everything he says-keep Matt Dawson but get another captain.

Maybe Phil is slipping her a sly one before the show. She aint half bad for her age :P

[John C. Holmes]

Not one show in particular but the works of superproducer Joss Whedon.

The first and 3rd seasons of Buffy The Vampire Slayer are must see television but we learned that the more Joss rambles on, the worse he gets. (See the musical episode and everything that followed for a reference.)

None of his shows have been watchable since. Dr. Horrible was hyped and had Neil Patrick Harris as a singing supervillain but once you got past this premise, the show sucked.

Dollhouse has been drivel from the get go. I tried to watch, tried to like it but even Eliza can't save this yet it won't go away.

Some people need to quit when they're ahead.

[edward126]

Not one show in particular but the works of superproducer Joss Whedon.
None of his shows have been watchable since.
Dollhouse has been drivel from the get go. I tried to watch, tried to like it but even Eliza can't save this yet it won't go away.



Very much agree with this up to a point as I really did like Firefly or maybe I only liked Firefly cause of Summer Glau. Dollhouse more like Poohouse, tried to watch and failed miserably.

[Oswald]

I remember watching this series - especially the Tom Baker, Jon Pertwee years - and whilst the sets and special effects were on the duff side, the scripts were better and all the actors beautifully enunciated their words. :)

Move forward to the recent series and I was immediately put off by the Tate women doing a variation of the 'I'm not bovvered' character (how we all didn't laugh the first time) and the actor(s) playing the Doctor spend their entire time simply gurning into the camera. :mad:

[doyle]

Lost. The title says it all. Fascinating stuff when it was first on, but it got lost itself, after drifting through various realities air-time wise.
Sorry boys, if I want my chain pulled, I'll just have to do it myself...

[windymiller]

The X-Files - Entertaining for the first couple of series but after that it seemed to go round in circles, never giving the audience any insight into the ever increasingly ridiculous storyline. After series 2 they seemed to have abandoned any attempt to tell the original story and were obviously intending to string the whole thing out for as long as possible. Many of the later episodes were just plain stupid.

[scoundrel]

The X Files certainly got more uneven as it went on but I found it watchable all the way to the end. But the first 2 series were the best, no question. I especially enjoyed one-offs like the ''Chaco Chicken'' episode Our Town from series 2, thematically linked to the over-arching series message of official deceit and paranoia, but not so up their own backside with the aliens rubbish. Our Town was set in Arkansas during the Clinton presidency and has sometimes been interpreted as a satire on the perceived hidden corruption and (frankly proven) sexual looseness of that administration. One of the strengths of the X Files was that it keenly observed and reflected the spirit of its moment in time.

As for Lost, I lost the plot almost straight away, so can't claim ever to have ''loved'' it. It was tosh, from its very first moment.

[haldane4]

Question Time - I have little time for the BNP, but last night's show was a set-up from beginning to end.

Still, at least I got to see the vile harridan Margaret Becket get the treatment a few months back.

[Davemetalhead]

Not one show in particular but the works of superproducer Joss Whedon.

The first and 3rd seasons of Buffy The Vampire Slayer are must see television but we learned that the more Joss rambles on, the worse he gets. (See the musical episode and everything that followed for a reference.)

None of his shows have been watchable since. Dr. Horrible was hyped and had Neil Patrick Harris as a singing supervillain but once you got past this premise, the show sucked.

Dollhouse has been drivel from the get go. I tried to watch, tried to like it but even Eliza can't save this yet it won't go away.

Some people need to quit when they're ahead.

I thought the musical episode of Buffy was superb - I expected it to be cringeworthy rubbish, but it was far and away the funniest episode from all 7 seasons.

As for Dollhouse - well that's a sleeper. The first 4 or 5 episodes are fairly lightweight and by-the-numbers TV, but much of that was down to the network wanting more action, less intrigue. The last few episodes of Season 1 are well worth watching (haven't seen any of Season 2 yet).

Firefly, IMO, was far and away the best sci-fi series that never made it, and I still curse the TV networks for screwing us over on that :mad:

[Aubrey]

Firefly was wonderful. It wasn't just Summer Grau (though she helped); it was everyone.

[Oswald]

When this programme was hosted by Magnus Magnusson it contained a high level of intellectual quality - many of the shows were recorded in seats of academia. However, the latest version, hosted by John Humphrys (who I detest with a passion :mad:), is a faint shadow of it's original show - it simply panders to a populist ratings-grabbing agenda.

[Staffsyeoman]

1. I agree with Oswald. All the flashy bits are tripe, and the subjects have dumbed down a bit. It has become a memory test.

2. For me? Monk with Tony Shalhoub. I went through phases. First, I thought it was a serious police procedural. Then it was explained to me that it was essentially Sherlock Holmes, but with Stottlemayer being a more sympathetic Lestrade than the books. OK, it works. But then I saew an episode in Series 5 where the villain would have got away with it, except his counterpart was... a trained dog, while he was live on the radio.

Jumped the shark, jumped the shark...

[edward126]

Question Time BBC 22-10-2009

[Wendigo]

Armstrong & Miller - the first few series of the original run was quite good, it helped that they had Sarah Alexander in them. Since they moved to the BBC the standard has dropped considerably.

[MisterOz_GatorLover]

American Idol. I can't believe I once thought that Mariah Carey melisma singing was actually good. So wrong of me!

[Mr Lucas]

I remember watching this series - especially the Tom Baker, Jon Pertwee years - and whilst the sets and special effects were on the duff side, the scripts were better and all the actors beautifully enunciated their words. :)

Move forward to the recent series and I was immediately put off by the Tate women doing a variation of the 'I'm not bovvered' character (how we all didn't laugh the first time) and the actor(s) playing the Doctor spend their entire time simply gurning into the camera. :mad:

Well the special effects were pretty advanced for the time and the budget. If you compare it with Doomwatch or the Tomorrow People, Dr Who was doing the best stuff by far. I tend to think that special effects used to be considered a way of finding an ingenious and cheap way to convey something that helps a story - whereas now special effects mean throwing money at CGI and lauding it as the selling point.

The actors and scripts of old - yes, far superior in every respect.

As for the duff sets, well again at least when Dr Who was a largely studio bound series they could wipe the slate clean and build a new environment - which is a sight more inventive than shooting on the streets of bleeding Cardiff or the local industrial park, or down the nearest chav estate. I think somebody forgot the premise of the series. I gave up on the new version after so many useless, glossy, plotless, female friendly, smug, soapy, shite episodes. But I remain hopeful that the new incarnation and the new producer might do a better job (he couldn't do much worse).

[edward126]

Season 9 of Scrubs. What the hell. I personally ended up by the end of season 6 hating Zach Braff and his character JD and really only watched for the supporting cast. You know Ted, Janitor, Doug, Tod, etc. They really shouldn't call this Scrubs, maybe Dire, Boring or Flogging a Dead Horse. I don't think that I can watch another episode.

[DrFishnets]

Dr Who.

This is the show that I grew up with and loved. As a kid I used to get scared watching the Tom Baker era. As a kid I thought Tom Baker was creepy too and the stories were full of mystery, humour and suspense. Next came Peter Davison who is my favourite and then Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy. most of the stories in the classic series were brilliant and I also loved the spooky electronic theme music aswell as the creepy and atmospheric electronic incidental music. The show was ahead of its time and was a wonderful way of escapism. During the 1990s i watched all of the William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton and Jon Pertwee stories and loved them just as much.

Fast forward to 2005 to the show's return and shock horror it has become a weepy, lovey dovey sci-fi soap opera:eek::mad: Worst of all the Doctor has become a teenage girl's wet dream as David Tennant poses his smug looking face. Billie Piper's "I'm in love with you Doctor" is enough to throw up and Catherine Tate was enough for me to throw something at the television. I also hate the "look what we can do with the Special FX" and that bloody orchestral music. Of Course the blame gets pointed to that gimp Russel T Davies the shows head writer. All I can say is thank god he is leaving and a new production team and Doctor are on the horizon. Don't get me wrong there has been one or two good stories in the new series but thats it.

The strange thing is that even though I hate the new show with a passion I always seem to bloody tape it on my dvd recorder.

Doc

[u5ername]

Anyone remember this show with Adam Faith as the title character? When first shown my brother and I loved it - "I'll put you through that bleedin' wall Hazel" & "Laughing Spam Fritter" etc. Several years ago it was announced that the series was to be re-broadcast. We were very excited at this news. However, after watching the first 10 minutes I had to turn it off. I couldn't believe how crap it was.

I also totally agree with the other poster who mentioned Last of the Summer Wine. The first few series were quite original, but as with most successful shows the BBC get hold of they flog them to death. Not that I ever liked Only Fools and Horses, but Christ did they ever over do that one! Thank goodness only 12 Fawlty Towers were ever made!

I used to be a TV junkie, but two years ago I began to realise just how shite TV had become. Documentaries dumbed down to the lowest level, endless,mindless soap shows, moronic reality TV shows, wildlife programmes where all the animals have to be given fucking human names, sports output which consisted mostly of football (soccer) matches portraying the antics of vastly overpaid, under achieving assholes, the same old, same old "celebrities" hosting programmes (okay I'll name some) "Brucie" (good to see you NOT!) "Desie" and "Rossie" - as you can see I could go on and on about what I think is wrong with TV in the UK.

So, 2 years ago I cancelled my Sky subscription - didn't miss one iota - then just before Easter this year (2009) I stopped paying my licence fee. Since then the TV hasn't been switched on. I spend my spare time listening to audiobooks on my iPod, surfing the net and playing games on the PC. I don't miss TV at all. If I ever feel inclined I've got a few DVD's of shows that I think I would still enjoy such as Jeeves & Wooster, The Sopranos and Seinfeld.

Glad to have got that off my chest!

[Leg10n]

Spooks

The location manager called on my mother to know if he could perhaps use her property for filming a sequence. She politely told him to fornicate elsewhere.
For those not iin the know, they come into your property, redecorate to their needs, turn it back to exactly the way you had it after filming but with everything brand new and give you a couple of grand for making them tea.

[kennyjackson]

I can't watch the Three Stooges anymore. I used to watch them before I went to school every morning where I live. I guess, unlike a lot of guys, I've outgrown them.

[GailFan]

The shows that I used to love as a kid, Knight Rider, The A-Team, etc, are replaying courtesy of the upteen channels on pay TV that need to be filled with something. I can't watch them. I managed a few minutes of The A-Team, but otherwise they're unwatchable.