Hello everyone.
Since my childhood days, I have always loved watching various television programmes, especially cartoons and game shows. Being an autistic person, I didn't understand the jokes told by some of the cartoon characters or television presenters, but as I got older, I learned more things, and I eventually started to understand the jokes.
However, I always avoid watching programmes or films broadcast after the watershed, which I believe is between 9pm on one evening, and 5am or 6am the next morning. Before the watershed, any violence or bad language would be edited out, but this is not the case after the watershed. Admittedly, I have watched the odd post watershed programme, but the violent or sweary content would upset me.
As I got older, I became less interested in animated cartoons, but as of today, I watch classic game shows. I prefer these to today's game shows due to the newer ones containing much brighter and potentially more distracting studio lighting. By comparison, a game show of the 1980s would contain only minimal multi-coloured lighting, including the score displays. I would watch these game shows, and answer the various general knowledge questions like I was an additional contestant.
The one thing I hate watching on television is adverts. I find them so repetitive, and so distracting, that when an advert break starts, I would mute the sound and look away from the screen. Back in the 1980s, I would only see advert videos on television advert breaks, but these days, they are absolutely everywhere - internet, mobile phone, everything. I just cannot avoid these things. Whereas only one or two programmes would be 'sponsored by' a commercial company in the old days, almost every programme is 'sponsored' these days, including entire programme broadcasting periods on some channels.
What types of television programme do you like or dislike?
