Gluten-Free Television
I don’t ever take my television with adverts, unless I actually really want to watch the program. So of the major programs on ITV like X-Factor, Downton Abbey and I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, I’ve not seen a single episode.
Today my son came up the M11 and he was watching a channel showing endless repeats of Frazier, which is a series of which I’ve never watched a single minute. Nearly all of the adverts were for products that I couldn’t eat, except for one for the Halifax Bank, for which I have no need.
I actually wonder whether these adverts have any positive effect for the companies involved as many households would actually be turned off by them. There was one advert for Iceland, that really convinced never to go near the shop, if all their customers were like those shown.
The Anonymous Widower 
Try a PVR. We record all the TV programs we watch and if there are adverts we wait 20 minutes or so before starting to watch them. We can then skip the adverts as well as pausing the programme if the ‘phone rings, or a glass needs filling.
Comment by John | November 21, 2010 |
I know, but there’s always something more interesting often on the radio.
I’d pay a premium for advert free television.
Comment by AnonW | November 21, 2010 |
Regarding the TV shows, you have missed nothing. I saw a few minutes of I’m a celebrity because I was in the middle of something and it took me a few minutes to change channel (I have to admit to watching Coronation St). I havent watched any of the others ones.
Adverts – there are a great many about insurance of various sorts, and loans of various sorts, including several for companies which lend you several hundred pounds until payday at a rate of 2000%+ pa.
It is very very rarely that I will be influenced to buy something by an advert, indeed, I dont recall any occasions. However, they do work for some people. I remember when my daughter was about 3 or 4, she was in child seat in the trolley at the supermarket, and pointed out some overpriced over sugared fibre free breakfast cereal and announced “we have to buy that because it says so on the television”. So we had to have a long conversation about adverts not being fact!
Comment by liz | November 21, 2010 |