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Television programmes

bristolvr3

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?

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  • Hello, Autist.

    In my 1980s childhood days, there was an instant mashed potato advert featuring the martian characters. How I used to love attempting to imitate their robot-like voices back then, and even today for that matter, as there are some online videos available of classic adverts, TV programmes etc from the past. The only recent advert that I am even slightly interested in is the meerkat advert, where the main character would talk in this Russian accent. However, whether I'm referring to old or new adverts, they're not so bad when played on the odd occasion, but when they are played several times per day, per week or whatever, they annoy me.

    As for the TV programmes, I would usually be notified in advance by the presenter or the TV magazine whenever the series in question is about to end. This was the case with the game shows of my 1980s childhood, but today's game shows tend to be repeated so often, that they don't do that. However, the more often a specific series or edition gets repeated, the more boring it becomes.

    During the time when I was off school duty, I would watch the daytime quiz programmes that I wouldn't normally watch when I'm at school (i.e. Crosswits, Chain Letters, Supermarket Sweep etc - I'm not sure if you are familiar with any of the aforementioned titles though) I could have recorded them, but I didn't have my own television, or my own TV-Video combination until, I think, the early 1990s, when I would have reached double-figures in the age department. Not having my own television for much of that time was frustrating - I wanted to watch my favourite programmes, but if my parents were watching something else, I would get frustrated.

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  • Hello, Autist.

    In my 1980s childhood days, there was an instant mashed potato advert featuring the martian characters. How I used to love attempting to imitate their robot-like voices back then, and even today for that matter, as there are some online videos available of classic adverts, TV programmes etc from the past. The only recent advert that I am even slightly interested in is the meerkat advert, where the main character would talk in this Russian accent. However, whether I'm referring to old or new adverts, they're not so bad when played on the odd occasion, but when they are played several times per day, per week or whatever, they annoy me.

    As for the TV programmes, I would usually be notified in advance by the presenter or the TV magazine whenever the series in question is about to end. This was the case with the game shows of my 1980s childhood, but today's game shows tend to be repeated so often, that they don't do that. However, the more often a specific series or edition gets repeated, the more boring it becomes.

    During the time when I was off school duty, I would watch the daytime quiz programmes that I wouldn't normally watch when I'm at school (i.e. Crosswits, Chain Letters, Supermarket Sweep etc - I'm not sure if you are familiar with any of the aforementioned titles though) I could have recorded them, but I didn't have my own television, or my own TV-Video combination until, I think, the early 1990s, when I would have reached double-figures in the age department. Not having my own television for much of that time was frustrating - I wanted to watch my favourite programmes, but if my parents were watching something else, I would get frustrated.

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