The Shooting Yourself in the Foot Award for April 2012 goes to the BBC for their stupidity in showing repeats of the game show Pointless and treating their viewers with what must approach contempt.
There we were approaching the halfway stage in Series Six when suddenly, and for no apparent reason, we reverted back to series four. So not only are we now subjected to repeats of shows shown just a year ago, we seem to have no guidance as to when we will return to the current series. It makes me turn to another channel and, of course, once somebody does that the BBC could be in danger of losing them when they do start broadcasting up to date shows.
It's all very confusing because the format of the show has changed somewhat between series four and six. I have no idea why we have gone backwards. Some people seem to think it's because of the Easter break but that makes no sense. It's like watching Coronation Street or Eastenders on Friday and then tuning in the following Monday to find the storyline has regressed and they are showing repeats from two years' previously with Jack Duckworth still alive (as far as Corrie goes).
The point I am really trying to make is that this kind of thing assumes that BBC viewers are idiots and won't realise they are watching stuff from two years ago with questions relating to 2010. It is a lack of respect as in "we will show you what we want to and not what you want to watch." It happens in other programmes as well but quizzes are particularly prone to this kind of thoughtless television vandalism.
This morning we have suffered a number of short power cuts which has been annoying, particularly as I'm trying to finish off writing a quiz for next Saturday to raise money for the coming June Jubilee Fair in the village. Seven rounds written, three to go. Whilst on the subject of quizzes we came fourth in last night's event at Wymondham Railway. The main problem is we were handicapped for having seven in our team as we didn't get too many answers wrong. Seems that the optimum number is four. Oh well it was another good night and the pub's 100th quiz. We did come away with a chocolate bottle!!!! and a large bottle of bubbly which will go down nicely when our first grandchild is born in September.
Well they got the weather forecast spectacularly wrong again. Today was supposed to be cloudy and wet. At the moment it's sunny and warm!!!
Had one of those highly annoying cold calls from India this morning. The most annoying thing about them is not that they ring in the first place and not that the assure you they aren't selling anything, but that they have a complete inability to pronounce my name. It's Steward as in a servant. They somehow always pronounce it Steeeward with long emphasis on the Steeeeee bit. Today's was even worse. They kept asking for Mr Annie. My wife's name is Anne so this is probably where they got it from. To me if they can't be bothered to get my name right I can't be bothered to be polite to them. It's another example of being treated with disrespect and as an object rather than a human being.
There we were approaching the halfway stage in Series Six when suddenly, and for no apparent reason, we reverted back to series four. So not only are we now subjected to repeats of shows shown just a year ago, we seem to have no guidance as to when we will return to the current series. It makes me turn to another channel and, of course, once somebody does that the BBC could be in danger of losing them when they do start broadcasting up to date shows.
It's all very confusing because the format of the show has changed somewhat between series four and six. I have no idea why we have gone backwards. Some people seem to think it's because of the Easter break but that makes no sense. It's like watching Coronation Street or Eastenders on Friday and then tuning in the following Monday to find the storyline has regressed and they are showing repeats from two years' previously with Jack Duckworth still alive (as far as Corrie goes).
The point I am really trying to make is that this kind of thing assumes that BBC viewers are idiots and won't realise they are watching stuff from two years ago with questions relating to 2010. It is a lack of respect as in "we will show you what we want to and not what you want to watch." It happens in other programmes as well but quizzes are particularly prone to this kind of thoughtless television vandalism.
This morning we have suffered a number of short power cuts which has been annoying, particularly as I'm trying to finish off writing a quiz for next Saturday to raise money for the coming June Jubilee Fair in the village. Seven rounds written, three to go. Whilst on the subject of quizzes we came fourth in last night's event at Wymondham Railway. The main problem is we were handicapped for having seven in our team as we didn't get too many answers wrong. Seems that the optimum number is four. Oh well it was another good night and the pub's 100th quiz. We did come away with a chocolate bottle!!!! and a large bottle of bubbly which will go down nicely when our first grandchild is born in September.
Well they got the weather forecast spectacularly wrong again. Today was supposed to be cloudy and wet. At the moment it's sunny and warm!!!
Had one of those highly annoying cold calls from India this morning. The most annoying thing about them is not that they ring in the first place and not that the assure you they aren't selling anything, but that they have a complete inability to pronounce my name. It's Steward as in a servant. They somehow always pronounce it Steeeward with long emphasis on the Steeeeee bit. Today's was even worse. They kept asking for Mr Annie. My wife's name is Anne so this is probably where they got it from. To me if they can't be bothered to get my name right I can't be bothered to be polite to them. It's another example of being treated with disrespect and as an object rather than a human being.
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