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Updated: 03-04-08
This month's The TV Show (aired 5 April) is available on 4oD.
Give your opinion on the latest show, and continue the debates on property shows and the watershed and check out the forum debate with Krishnan and guests after The TV Show, on Saturday.
Let us know which programmes have made you cheer or grumble this month: March Top 10
This month's The TV Show (aired 5 April) is available on 4oD.
Give your opinion on the latest show, and continue the debates on property shows and the watershed and check out the forum debate with Krishnan and guests after The TV Show, on Saturday.
Let us know which programmes have made you cheer or grumble this month: March Top 10
Tell the folks at The TV Show what you want to debate on the next programme (Saturday 3 May). NB: This month's property debate started with a suggestion from a viewer here.
Boom and bust
With one mortgage lender after another getting cold feet – see the The Guardian or C4 News, for example -, the housing market stagnating and the threat of repossession rearing its ugly head, The TV Show debates role that property shows play in the rise and fall of the market.
What’s fine before 9?
The new Channel 4 food series A Cook’s Tour of Spain is the latest to draw criticism for showing scenes of animal slaughter, while children will be watching before the 9pm watershed.
Here little is left to the viewers' imagination as a pig is led to the slaughter, the knife is put to its throat, and blood is collected for morcilla (Spanish black pudding).
The March edition of The TV Show is also available on 4oD.
Continue the debates from the last show on Prince Harry, Jon Snow and the Blackout and Shockdocs.
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dstubbings40
re Location Location
re Location Location
wrote on 10-04-08 16:14
I have a great idea for a programme, the presenters of Location, Location, can go back and visit those to whom they gave their 'expertise' and say sorry to them now they are in negative equity, as property prices will fall 30 per cent, there will be a lot of people to visit, maybe channel 4 will buy back the property for exposing them to this madness
Phill30
Boom or Bust
Boom or Bust
wrote on 05-04-08 15:47
Myself and my husband watch all the property programs and find them interesting and educational, 1) because we invest in property ourselves and at present rent them out and 2) because I am currently undergoing a HNC in construction and property. I don't feel any of them are irrelevant or wrong they are purely educational and interesting. Any one who feels they mislead people are blaming an outside entity instead of blaming the person who can not control their own lives, because noone can be misled unless their bank allows them to is it then the banks fault for people not managing their finances?. why as a society do we make excuses and blame other people for our own faults, we blame 24hr drinking for more and more people excessivly drinking, we blame society or television for those who don't think things through and just spend, smoke, gamble, drink are we all not individuals with our own choices to make in life? If so why can't interesting programmes be shown for people to enjoy
viccainatutu
irony!?!?
irony!?!?
wrote on 05-04-08 15:44
re the pre watershed animal slaughter discussed on todays programme.it seems a tad ironic that i didnt watch the original programme - but got treated to it in full glorious technicolour with my children whilst watching the TV show....thanks for that! pre-watershed - i would call 4.15 on a saturday afternoon pre-watershed! why repeat the scene that caused controversy in the first place? vic
Notyetavet
pre 9 o'clock watershed
pre 9 o'clock watershed
wrote on 05-04-08 15:38
So what if foreigners slaughter pigs in the fashion we used to when I was a child. What annoys me is that I am being censored in what I watch, and I pay both license and fees, because other people cannot monitor a TV programme for their children. I used to let the kids help at slaughter time and black pudding was and still is a great favourite. What is more, they are growing up to be well balanced and decent people. If they do not want their children to grow up, tell them to put them in bed as soon as they get in from creche.
melaniec
Cooks Tour of Spain
Cooks Tour of Spain
wrote on 05-04-08 15:38
my boyfriend has a house in rural spain, his neighbours kept 2 pigs and killed one recently, her watched,similar to tv programme u showed, totally everyone gets involved, even the kids are around, its a way of life in spain, better than buying cheap mass produced crap ... thankfully not yet in rural spain.....his neighbours still keep and kill chickens, birds(they eat small birds they catch in traps), grow veg, eat well and live well. they have a better way of life than mass produced and materialistic britain, the kids grow up with it all around and are used to it, nothing wrong with seeing it on chan 4 before 9pm, we loved watching it, great programme, more like it please!!!! Didnt we live like this before end of second world war??? rabbits in garden were kept for food,not as pets, my great gran kept, killed, prepared and ate her chickens. letgs get back to this way of living.
TimmH
Boom and Bust
Boom and Bust
wrote on 05-04-08 15:24
The problem with property porn shows are that they tend to show aspirational properties with high prices. This creates a false national heuristic that anchors expectations of price at increasingly high prices. Comments by presentors that prices will not fall, and that prices only go up, only cement this mental shorthand.
Camgw2
Hollyoaks
Hollyoaks
wrote on 04-04-08 22:30
There were complaints about Hollyoaks, many of which were due to a kiss between two men and some sexual references which some people thought was unappropriate. As Hollyoaks is aimed at teenegers i believe that it is good to show gay relationships as it can help prevent bullying and make teenagers see that gay relationships are normal in the society that we live in today. By showing kisses between both men and women as regularly as men and women kissing it can also help viewers to see gay relationships as normal & something that everyone should accept in society. In regards to the sexual references made on Hollyoaks, viewers have to remember that the show is aimed at teenagers, and sex & relationships are what teenagers talk about & without broadcasting these comments made by some characters, it wouldnt be portraying life realistically. Hollyoaks has also tackled issues such as anorexia & sexuality amounst teenagers & should be recognised and praised more, rather than complained about.
