Programme Adverts/trailers far too busy?

Am I just being a grumpy old man (yes) or are trailers for television programmes now so fast and ‘busy’ that they are more offputting than enticing? Is the autistic brain more easily overwhelmed by this phenomenon or do you think many NT people are just as hacked off with it? There were three in a row there on after that amazing David Attenborough thing about the British Isles. 
 
The first was for various things in the iPlayer. It was all rapidly intercut snippets of noise and nauseatingly contrastive bright colours - a meaningless collage, the worst aspect of which was a sort of rapidly escalating Mexican wave effect of all the endless choices on offer. This adding motion sickness and a kind of paralysing panic (oh god, look at all that stuff, where would you even start? And why?!) to the whole experience. 
 
Next was some sort of light drama with Greg Davies and for something that had all the palpable characteristics of a cosy midweek watch that you could make a cup of tea during without losing your bearings it was cut like a movie trailer, with not a single moment’s consession to the possibility that potential viewers might have an attention slightly beyond that of a hyperactive child. 
 
Finally, there was Great Expectations. Slightly improved on the first trailer I saw for it, which was styled like a Marvel action film trailer. All heavy accelerating drumbeats (with one shot per beat) and drowned out dialogue. To what end? Do they think we don’t know what Charles Dickens stuff is like? Are they thinking ‘this will make them want to see it, high octane vibes that… won’t actually be in it’ (thank goodness). 
 
It would be so refreshing to see an ad that gives us a moment to process a brief dialogue exchange, or even slows the pace to something graceful and all the more powerful for it. I appreciate that there is a place for ‘crash bang wallop’ trailers (one or two Doctor Who ones over the years have suited it, though even those look positively sedate by comparison to the above assaults on the senses) but surely not in every single ad shown? 
 
Wait, what do you mean this isn’t Points of View? Does anyone have Barry Took’s phone number? 

  • I hate the adverts because on some channels such as the music of the sixties it's the same adverts over and over again, asking for charity money for people in Ukraine or Yeman, over 50s life insurance, funeral plans etc.   Also on some of the streaming channels it's even worse, the repetition is driving me nuts.

  • Yes. I used to like BBC because no adverts which are louder, but now we have to have loud adverts for programmes, even on iPlayer.

  • I think you maybe right, I’ve actually cutdown on tv massively, I’ve always had a problem with reading, I can read a paragraph 5 times and it means nothing, it’s just a collection of words. I really love audiobooks, I understand how it’s all worded when someone else reads it. Things like ‘Love Island’ on tv,  just want to make me stick pins in my eyes!

  • That's because they know you've disapreared to get a cuppa Roy, they amp the volume up because they are literally shouting after you to buy their rubbish.

  • Oh gosh yes, the constant scene cuts, and they sample almost everything in the programe too so I don't bother watching because they showed so much my pattern recognition just spoiled the ending for me already, then after not watching and I start hearing about the ending from others I'm just like... I knew it. I'm sick to the back teeth of the non-twist "twist-" endings.

  • I ebayed my TV because i rarely used it and it wasn't worth the license fee

  • I seldom do. The news. And dvds. And very occasionally something else. Obviously Doctor who and it’s rumoured spin offs when they come along again. 

  • I don't watch TV, anymore, and don't regret that decision.

  • ‘I don’t like to watch things like that’. That’s half the problem- the programmes themselves might be perfectly well paced, but the ads do them no favours. pretending for thirty seconds that Casualty was directed by Michael Bay does what exactly? Annoys the majority, sets the rest up for disappointment 

  • What I really dislike with adverts is how the volume level rises and people seem to shout. There are often internet hints  to the previous night’s soaps. “ fans were left aghast.” After agreeing to about 4 cookies,  ( not) the link is boring.

  • I have noticed the same thing. Everything is cut to seem as dramatic and OTT as possible. It is quite offputting as I don't like to watch things like that. I mute most trailers and adverts these days