Vegetable TV

I've don't watch many soaps especially Coronation Street or Eastenders. I prefer thrillers or mysteries. Though I do watch to Doctors, Neighbours, Bargain Hunt and Strictly - all recorded for a later 'veg out'.

I'm always amused by the doctors who either travel to hospital with their patients or rush in to see them as soon as they can. My husband, son and son in law have all gone into hospital as emergencies at the GP's instigation but none of the doctors have felt the need to take any further interest until they came out again. My GP did pop in to see me when I came home with my second baby, but that was the relationship we had. I wouldn't expect any of our current doctors to appear on the doorstep.

When DD was seriously injured in a road accident last year, one of the first things she said to us when we arrived at the hospital was: 'It wasnt a bit like Casualty, there wasnt any rushing around and dramatics' In fact she said it was incredibly calm. When she arrived at A&E in the ambulance the para medics took her at walking speed to a cubicle where a nurse and a Doctor began the medical examination to assess her injuries and called in the right specialists as needed to stabilise and protect her injury and give her the right medications until she could be transferred to a specialist unit at another hospital.

Yes! Property Ladder. There was a wonderful programme where two women did up a cottage in Wales just like a stage set, no real refurbishment, just window dressing. I think one of them actually was a widow dresser. And small trees were growing out of the gutters!

Was it Property Ladder? It used to drive me mad that she would offer her years of experience for free and they would simply ignore her or even tell her she was wrong.

That being said she did up a stately home near here as a wedding venue and got all sorts wrong. She started some of the work before she got the necessary planning permissions and at one point it looked like it would all go pearshaped. So maybe she doesn't follow her advice either.

Homes under the Hammer, Location etc, Escape to the Country, a Place in the Sun. And I loved the Sarah Beeny programme where people ignored her advice, spent twice their budget and didn't do essential repairs to the building they were restoring and STILL made a huge profit. I wonder why that series finished?

It amuses me on all the medical dramas when the staff get personally involved in the lives of the patients, running out into the grounds to find unhappy relatives, etc. They are also very happy to make home visits - Ha! My own hospital experience when my daughter came close to death after a botched operation was a million miles away - I was left alone for hours with no information.
I don't know who advises the producers of soaps on legal matters, but conveyancing is done in a day, and I agree that employment law appears to be an unknown quantity.
I am a little concerned about the Tyrone story, as it is giving out the wrong information to unmarried fathers in the same position. He is supposed to be of normal intelligence, so it beggars belief that he would not seek legal advice for himself.
None of this will stop me watching Corrie and Emmerdale - I just suspend disbelief!
I still get confused by the similarity between the brothers who play Jason in Corrie and Adam in Emmerdale. And when a well known character leaves and appears in a different soap I have to remind myself that they are just actors ('Why is that hairdresser now a charge nurse?)

I love "Coronation Street", and have been watching it for years. I can't stand reality TV, and feel I must just take a look at Jeremy Kyle now; am intrigued by what you all say!

(My mother always insisted that they only ever watched "the news and documentaries" and then my father would put his foot in it by mentioning something that they'd watched that would easily count as vegetable TV. Then she'd be furious.....)

Greatnan I have never understood how any woman cold go within 10 feet of malodourus, plooky Cain. I have to look away when he starts smooching. I love all the property and antique shows but only watch two soaps - Emmerdale and Corrie - which I find highly amusing. I particularly like all the changes of employment, the way people are hired and fired on a whim with never a mention of wages, contracts, benefits or tax. Also how the self employed and small businesses never spend their evenings doing estimates, invoices, VAT & Tax returns like real shopkeepers or tradesmen but are instead in the pub every night, along with all the parents of young children. As for the number of times residents drop into the Caff for their breakfast when their homes are virtually next door - it is beyond belief, but hilarious

Just remembered A Place in the Country! Do love watching all those couples asking for an old cottage with lots of character and then moaning because the ceilings are too low and the windows are too small

My GD went to a recording of Jeremy Kyle. She said he was very bad tempered with the production team and bad-mouthed them in front of the audience.

My real secret vice is Doctors.I record it every day so I can watch it when my husband's gone to bed. Actually I think the acting has got better lately and they do have some good guests, but I love the whole idea of a waiting room that never has more than one patient waiting, doctors who can apparently take weeks off with no notice and no locum cover and doctors and nurses to rush round to your home whether you've asked them to or not!

Well, I am always up for a bit of house porn, Grand Designs, Location, Location, New Home in the Country, rescuing old houses - and I will watch the repeats.

In warmer weather I'm out and about or in my garden - or at my p/t job. I don't react to cold weather and tend to hunker down in the sitting room and watch veggie tv in the afternoon. At the moment I am watching Crime Stories on ITV and Housewives of New York on ITV 3. The latter shows a bunch of totally self absorbed selfish well off women in NY and their ridiculous antics -all set up of course. It makes me feel better about myself, although not well off I wouldn't want their money and their behaviour.
I'm a real book worm, reading Ladies Paradise by Emile Zola at the moment, didn't watch the programme as these programmes, like Downton are so historically incorrect. However, I'm a soap fiend and watch all three!! There I've owned up I watch soaps. shysal do you watch Jeremy Kyle with your jaw dropping? I've never seen so many dreadful looking people in my life and not a decent set of teeth between them.

I must confess to watching Jeremy Kyle sometimes when I am ironing. It can be mind-boggling. Makes me realise I lead a very sheltered life!
I also admit to enjoying some reality programmes such as I'm a Celebrity, Big Brother and Peter Andre
Watching this trash along with listening to Radio 1 at least keeps me in tune with my GCs!

Re Emmerdale - Paddy or the dishy, interesting locum - hmm...........
And would any widow forgive the man who had been instrumental in ruining her marriage........(I don't fancy Cain, he looks unhygienic).

I watch a lot of TV, because of my isolated lifestyle. Much of it would be looked down on by some people, but I never feel ashamed or guilty!
Along with all the travelogues, wildlife, science and political programmes, I watch Doctors, Emmerdale, Corrie, Holby City, Casualty and every quiz I can find, but not game shows.
My sister and I do watch Jeremy Kyle when I am staying with her, purely for the comic element. Men with black teeth, big beer guts and ugly faces are described as 'gorgeous' and the audience say 'You are a beautiful girl' to somebody who very clearly isn't, presumably just to get themselves on TV for five seconds.
I like Judge Judy, with her sharp comments and good judgements.
At the moment, I am watching Law and Order UK every night - last night the story exactly mirrored what happened to my daughter when a previously excellent surgeon began making mistake after mistake, and everybody covered up for him. I like Bradley Walsh and I love all courtroom dramas.

I miss John Thaw, and watch repeats of Kavanagh QC and Morse whenever they are shown.

I have never seen TOWIE, sport, gardening, cookery, or any programme about Peter Andre or Katy Price - I do have certain standards! I started to watch Little England, but the self-promoting Brits were so unlike all the expats I have met in my ten years in France that, other than the Dordogne scenery, I cannot stand it.

Just watch whatever you like and enjoy it. And, of course, you can surf at the same time during many shows.

Doctors. I love the thread on Mumsnet about it where you all say WTF as you watch it together too.
Completely bonkers plots, wobbly acting and directing, actors reappearing as different characters, mayhem, carnage and about one patient per three episodes.

No, I hate to see people baring their lives for the whole world to see some of them in such pain , but OH loves Judge Judy and for reasons unknown anything psychic .