People who don't like television programmes should switch them off rather than lobbying to take them off the air.
Games, they say, ought to be more like television programmes, not films: delivered in small, short, regular chunks.
However, if the assumption is that you've always got to present music like television programmes, then we're losing the essence of classical music.
What is poisoning Britain's exhibitions is the PR sophistication that has become so deeply ingrained in the way galleries and museums operate, that exhibitions – large and small – are now planned like television programmes, all big brash concepts and all too often, a by-the-numbers familiarity.
A proxy, which anonymises the users actions on the web by routing any data requests through an extra server, is the tool of choice for hackers wanted to cover their tracks - but also by people wanting to access location-blocked content like streaming television programmes.
So do state broadcasters like the BBC.Thinking people naturally deplore the rise of lowest-common-denominator blockbusters, and wish that more money were available to produce the kind of music, films and television programmes they like.
Polling by Barnardo's, a charity, found that 54% of people thought that children were "beginning to behave like animals"—perhaps because, in television programmes such as "Skins" and films such as "Kidulthood", hoodie-wearing teenagers occupied themselves largely with cocaine, wild sex and stabbing one another.
This has been suspected for some time, so why we are still applauding television programmes like The Biggest Loser, where people lose large amounts of weight each week?
America may have its yard sales and France its flea markets, but it is the Brits who flock in droves to car-boot sales every weekend, cruise high street charity shops, queue outside village hall jumble sales and are glued to television programmes like "Bargain Hunt", "Cash in the Attic" and "Bootsale Challenge", which are mostly about buying and selling tat.
The Wales head coach is normally sure-footed with the media, and while he was trying to support his player, who wanted the apology he received from Marler at half-time at Twickenham to mark the end of the affair, he harked back to a time when television programmes like Love Thy Neighbour passed for humour.
At a time when archaeology has never been more popular, with television programmes like Time Team (sneered at by the academics, but they all seem to watch it) reaching remarkable and growing audiences, the profession in Britain is fragmented and under-funded.
