Sky Sports News on Saturday Afternoon
Nothing much happening - videprinter, 3 old blokes sitting watching a game each and making strange noises when something happens, and Jeff Stelling being very excited about everything (with an undercurrent of world-weary grumpiness).
Fantastically pointless, but highly watchable, TV

hits a similar spot for me - essentially just a load of blokes being tossed about on the high seas in a trawler and brandishing the big, thorny crabs they catch at the camera. Riveting. It also spawned, pardon the pun, a similar show called Lobstermen which was the same script, except with Lobsters.

American Chopper
Market Kitchen
Monster Machines

addictive non rubbish
Mythbuster
A Passion for Angling
The Compleat (sic) Angler
Jungle Hooks
River Monsters

I do not nor ever intend to go fishing, I just love those programmes
Matt Hayes with or without his Brummie mate are awful 'tho

that's another. What's with the fishing motif I wonder? I don't intend to go hunting in the deep for my tea either, in fact I can't even swim.

Haven't seen it yet but saw a trailer for it today. A bloke, who looked a little like a worn out H from Steps said, without any irony at all:

"It takes 10 years to become an overnight success. I've been working at it for 15 years."

You can't write stuff like that. And I'm going to have to watch it.

...is an absolute blinder for this sort of thing.

This Old House (with Steve and Norm)- a new renovation project every season. 12 to 20 episodes of stripping out and rebuilding old houses in the most minute detail, but not like the rubbish UK versions where "celebrity" builders tosh out a shell in the most bland way they can think of. Proper craftmanship from genuine artisans. Real renovation-porn, sadly now in short supply as I don't think they make it any more.

Then there's the ultimate - New Yankee Workshop. The aforementioned god-like Norm uses every power tool you'll never own to spend half an hour making things out of wood that you'll never be able to match if you work at it for 2 lifetimes.

Bliss... and I've never picked up a spokeshave in my life.

I cant explain it but if it is on when I am at home I will watch it.

It has a strange addictive quality for some reason.

Following companies that try and trace relatives of people that died and left large wedges to no-one. Real edge of the seat stuff.

I imagine Muslim Driving School will be rubbish too.

Start at about 6.57: television executives musing on the idiocy of the general public, saying that they'd watch anything: even film of a motorway. Not a million miles away from watching Big Brother live when they're all asleep, is it?

Largely for the commentary

Coach Trip is strangely compelling

Come Dine with Me is a big ticket around here too. Never have so many genuinely odd folk appeared so regularly on one show, and I'd include all those X Factor spin offs in that too. One of them will appear on the news at some point, and not for a good reason.

I bought a new TV that came with Freesat. The Japanese channel NHK is compulsive viewing every day in the Beany household; cooking, culture, music, sumo and language.

This series of lessons with Andy is on several times throughout the day and we watch it as often as we can - even if I have a great desire to give Andy a bloody great kicking in his smug fizzog!

Heaven help me, but I find this programme bizarrely compelling.

It's billed as an "anti-makeover" show: it picks people who wear too much makeup/fake-tan/etc and re-styles them with more subtlety. It's brilliant.

It's atrocious. The acting is unspeakable. The characters are whining bores. The English countryside is suspiciously cultivated when it should be barren. But still I watch... *head scratch*

That and 'Arm Wrestling with Chas and Dave' and 'Inner Cuty Sumo'

I found myself enthralled by " Brett Michaels: Rock Bus of Love" where the aging, balding lead-singer of Poison dates a squabbling coterie of tattoed "rock chicks" with very large breasts in order to find true love. Seeing as this is the fourt or fifth season of this cack , he doesn`t appear to be succeeding.

I even ended up getting the DVD, and I don't actively hunt for Come Dine With Me, but if I happen to come across it, it stays on.

Project Runway on Sky has a strange magnetic pull as long as you find high camp and incredible seriousness for fashion funny (Iron Chef likewise for cookery,) and I could probably watch Takeshi's Castle on an endless loop and be happy.

Wide-boy cockney car dealer Mike Brewer buys a battered 'modern classic', affable beanpole Ed China does it up, then they sell it.

Simple, effective, compelling.

I love them and Britain is the best (and only) provider of them.

The Mrs watches it. I view it as Zoolander 2 and it's comedy gold.

The show is completly without any sense of irony. Photoshots include being (david Croenenberg) crash style car accidents and sitting in a window in Amastdams red light arera.

"Rember to smile with your eyes. I call it smeyes" is a typical bit of dialog.

When they knock down someone's house and rebuild it and include all mod cons.

Usually a family with disabled children or there's been an untimely death in the family. The whole neighbourhood pitches in and building companies do everything for free (with lots of on-screen branding).

It's ridiculously mawkish, headache-inducing, cringeworthy and loud, but strangely compelling.

I find this show absolutely compelling. Even watch the repeats. Watching those guys push themselves exhaustion and beyond makes me almost ashamed to utter the words "I'm working".For any other regular viewers,did you hear about Cpt. Phil Harris dying last week? He had a stroke in January and never recovered. Only 53!

Wonderful TV.

gets preposterouser and preposterouser, but I get addicteder and addicteder.

I spend nearly all my time watching crap tv. Iron Chef America,Bobby Flay,Matt Hayes, Ax Men, A place in the Sun home and away,Costa del Crime, The Villagers, Industrial Revalations,Locks and Quays. I have to stop now as I'm missing homes under the Hammer.

I know let's have a TV show where contestants make their favorie Pixar character out of cake or make a 2 metre high Eiffel Tower out of chocolate - Genius.

Iron Chef America - Where Jamie Oliver is a reality TV show contestant being shouted at by a strange oriental gent - compelling

Wheeler Dealers - Ed china need we say more

May I say I don't activley seek this out but if I do come across it I will happily watch it.

Naked empty egotism. 'Look. I live in this vastly expensive house full of all this gear.' It's fascinating. Ted Nugent lives in a huge mansion basically made of timber, like a vast log cabin. He has a basement full of longbows, crossbows and automatic weapons. He kills something every day.

One of the Backstreet Boys has two, I repeat two, Trophy and Award Rooms. What The Fuck For?

And there all so clean. Clinically clean. You just know a fleet of maids has been air-dropped in to wipe every surface over a 5 mile radius.

The guided tours are wonderful. 'And, this is my shoe room. Actually I have 3 of these scattered around the house. Oh, and I just couldn't live without this chandelier in the garage...'

It's brilliant. There is too much money in the world. Those who have most of it do not know what to do with it.

I got addicted to M.A.N.T.I.S - a laughably bad series from the 90's about a rich paraplegic scientist who invents a cybernetic suit that allows him to run around and fight crime. How can you not love a show where the hero dies in the last episode from being eaten by an invisible Tyrannosaurus Rex?!

Yes, I know, my cheeks burn with shame as I type. It's socially more acceptable to admit to being a rubber fetishist.

No clear idea why, the 'narrative' is totally predicable plot development-by-numbers and the characters insufficiently endearing to be comfort blanket TV.

Most likely and wholly un PC reason is that Martin Clunes' eponymous Doc is clearly if not deliberately austistic and we have Aspergers in our family. (Hence also liking science nerd Sheldon in E4's woefully underrated "Big Bang Theory')

Makes lovely mouthwatering meals full of stodge and gubbins on some distant food channel. Then goes and spoils it all by being all gooey with bloody Jeffrey.

Mmm. A little too much sampling of your wares luvvie?

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