[OT] Most modern comedy is crap.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Do you actually mean R4? It doesn't broadcast overnight. And doesn't broadcast comedy first thing in the morning.

R4 Extra specialises in old BBC progs.

[Davey]

A shame that was not available when they were broadcast!

[whisky-dave]

I quite like Trailer Park Boys and Southpark. Even family Guy and american dad have their moments. Newszoids isn't bad a modern spitting image.

I also liked Monkey Dust & Jam , there was another can't remmeber the name not big train....

[whisky-dave]

That'd be funny if someone you didn't like had those conditions...

[thescullster]

I've been watching these as repeats on an obscure (but free) Sky channel, so a laughter filter isn't an option unfortunately.

Phil

[stuart noble]

Ah, now Monkey Dust was in very bad taste, and all the better for it. I have it somewhere but not easy to find nowadays

[Nightjar]

I would like an option to kill or at least have a volume control on the music on many modern TV productions. Far too often the music drowns the speech.

[Davey]

Hear, hear.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Very often, it's down to poor dialogue quality. A mixture of rubbish microphones and mumbling actors. Apparently what the public want.

[Tim Watts]

Did you mean "what the TV company got away with long enough that the numbers of the public who remember TV done properly is now

[whisky-dave]

I think the sound quality is fine, I have no problems with it. When the adverts come on that's differnt while they claim they don;t increa se the volume level during adverts I'm pretty certain they turn up the comp ression so any advert plays at a high volume, I often have to turn down the volume when the ads come on. It's worse on some channels as is picture quality, ITV2 can be pretty bad a s well as some of the other channels but luckily there's not usually much w orth watching on them. I think the sound qaulity on towie is pretty bad but I've been told that's the essex accent ;-)

[Nightjar]

Not megalomaniac musical directors who are convinced that the viewers are incapable of feeling the proper emotions if they don't have the right music to guide them then?

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Very unlikely the person writing the music has any say in the sound balance between music and dialogue.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

I have my own theories just why things have got so much worse.

Much of Eastenders is made in a studio, and is far from being the worst offender. X factor isn't a drama which I assume the OP is referring to?

[whisky-dave]

I heard that A. Hitchcock didn't want the volin playing during the stabbing shower scene is Psycho. But agreed to keep it in after he viewed/heard the scene once filmed and soundtrack added.

[soup]

The Humblebums with Ralph MacTell ?

[soup]

On 11/06/2015 08:48, Nightjar The only thing I recall of his performance was him playing the Celtic

Bodhrán ?

[Chris French]

The absence of sharks in Jaws (IIRC you don't see one until about 80 minutes in or something) is because the mechanical life size models they had made were very unreliable. Hence the reliance on the sound track and shots to build the suspense in the shark attacks. Probably a much better film because of it.

[S Viemeister]

He was a decent banjo player.

[S Viemeister]

No, the Humblebums with Gerry Rafferty.