Worst TV program for time wasting

[Adrian W]

The amount of time wasting in the wheel is unbelievable, the program could be over in half the time, then there’s House of games, and then all of the programs that recap the whole program every ten minutes.

Which one is the worst

Edited by Adrian W on Monday 10th January 08:08

[scooby1994]

got to be homes under the hammer

[Ivo Shandor]

Worst programme is Coach Trip, a quarter of it is what just happened/what happens next.

[aponting389]

The curse of oak island

[RobbieTheTruth]

The Masked Singer.

Should just be like Through the Keyhole.

Someone sings, panel have a guess, then it's revealed.

[Bright Halo]

aponting389 said:

The curse of oak island

How on earth have they managed to make series after series of nothing being discovered, and who bothers watching it?

[essayer]

any of those “most dramatic escape” type programs where they construct a ten minute segment around a 10 second portrait iPhone video and an interview with the person who filmed it

[Twig62]

Four In A Bed. There must be a maximum of 10 minutes of actual programme in each episode, the rest is just recapping of what has already been shown !

[Truckosaurus]

The show 'Pointless' must have the lowest questions per minute ratio of any serious quiz.

[Vasco]

Amazed that anybody is watching these rubbish programmes in order to comment!

Aren't they all looking hopeless before you even tune in?

[Radec]

Ramsey's kitchen nightmares used to be bad for it.

[valiant]

Ice road truckers and those of a similar vein were quite bad.

Intro tells us what’s going to happen, then loads of faux peril then maybe a few minutes of driving before telling us what’s going to happen after the break and then when we’re back from the ad break, a recap of what’s just happened.

Add in the final few minutes of what’s going to happen in next weeks episode and we’re just left with some driver making it out his depot before we’re in episode 2.

[Ivo Shandor]

Twig62 said:

Four In A Bed. There must be a maximum of 10 minutes of actual programme in each episode, the rest is just recapping of what has already been shown !

I think it's a C4 format.

[Ivo Shandor]

Bright Halo said:

How on earth have they managed to make series after series of nothing being discovered, and who bothers watching it?

That's all History channel now isn't it? Complete rubbish about buying stuff from containers, driving on ice roads or fishing, all overly dramatised and stretched out, like too little butter on too much bread.

[Vasco]

Probably a shorter list if anybody can identify what is actually worth watching!

[wolfracesonic]

What’s the one on the Discovery channel where they’re looking for Bigfoot? A camera man inadvertently steps on a twig and breaks it, followed by ‘Oh my God! did you hear that, he’s close, really close, careful guys’. This is dragged out over 6 episodes and a making of special.

[Jader1973]

Bright Halo said:

aponting389 said:

The curse of oak island

How on earth have they managed to make series after series of nothing being discovered, and who bothers watching it?

I watch it occasionally - I’m not completely convinced it isn’t the same episode on repeat:
- they’ve found some wood
- there might be something in this bog
- bald bloke with metal detector finds something: WOW!
- everyone sat round a table discussing the bit of wood: it is old wood!

One thing that fascinates me is where on earth do they get the money from? It must be costing them a fortune!

[Mcphisto]

Fellowship of the dig War room Trying hard to make themselves out to be Indiana Jones types when it's actually a bunch of middle aged blokes with a metal detector sitting in a hut discussing the latest bit of wood or a top pocket find of a "ook or a "ammer"......who would watch 10 series of this crap..... Me

[aponting389]

Same I can’t get enough

[airsafari87]

Mcphisto said:

Fellowship of the dig War room Trying hard to make themselves out to be Indiana Jones types when it's actually a bunch of middle aged blokes with a metal detector sitting in a hut discussing the latest bit of wood or a top pocket find of a "ook or a "ammer"......who would watch 10 series of this crap..... Me

And me...

We only watch it now to see how much more ludicrous they can get and to swear at Gary f*****g Drayton every time he pops up on screen. Ohhh and to see what rotten job the excitable and dim puppy that is Jack Begley gets given.

Like someone else said earlier. The costs involved must be eye-watering. Either Marty's wine business makes a killing or the Oak Island tourism must pull in a fair whack for them to fund it?

Or the Masons.