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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 everyone,

    When I was little, I used to watch cartoons a lot, particularly on Cartoon Network. Many of the more recent cartoons from Cartoon Network (CN) are not quite as good as the old 90s era. In the late 1990s, CN used to have Dexter's Laboratory, Cow and Chicken, and Tom and Jerry. But these days, many cartoons have poorly written jokes and badly designed characters (E.g. Ed, Edd and Eddy and Adventure Time). 

    Because of the lack of good cartoons, I watch less TV, and more YouTube and Netflix. I do watch a few TV shows every now and then, like Alias (Action) and Garth Marenghi's Darkplace (Comedy). Nowadays when I do watch stuff on the TV channels, I tend to gravitate mostly on cooking shows, such as Great British Bakeoff and Masterchef. I think the Masterchef with Lloyd Grossman was good to watch as well. I occasionally watch the Food Network channel, because sometimes they show old episodes of Nigella and Keith Floyd. 

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  • Hello everyone,

    When I was little, I used to watch cartoons a lot, particularly on Cartoon Network. Many of the more recent cartoons from Cartoon Network (CN) are not quite as good as the old 90s era. In the late 1990s, CN used to have Dexter's Laboratory, Cow and Chicken, and Tom and Jerry. But these days, many cartoons have poorly written jokes and badly designed characters (E.g. Ed, Edd and Eddy and Adventure Time). 

    Because of the lack of good cartoons, I watch less TV, and more YouTube and Netflix. I do watch a few TV shows every now and then, like Alias (Action) and Garth Marenghi's Darkplace (Comedy). Nowadays when I do watch stuff on the TV channels, I tend to gravitate mostly on cooking shows, such as Great British Bakeoff and Masterchef. I think the Masterchef with Lloyd Grossman was good to watch as well. I occasionally watch the Food Network channel, because sometimes they show old episodes of Nigella and Keith Floyd. 

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