Ah. My Mum was consistent in not watching Corrie OR Eastenders (just a bit of Neighbours and Home & Away out of the corner of her eye while I had it on (noting that by the time H&A started the ITV rule wasn't as stringent)).
Someone I talked to last month did think there was a grain of reasonableness to it in that ITV's children's offering at one time was not to the standard of the BBC's overall (e.g. more noisy cartoons & other fayre of often dubious overall quality, and of course adverts for toys, junk food and so on) so I see the parents' original point somewhat - I didn't like my lot watching children's TV with adverts in it either, nor too many versions of pow this and screech that without much plot, however obtained. There are several channels now available for that but also several with halfway decent children's offerings (I think, we're almost grown out of children's telly now. Again. Til I get the flu and watch some!) Now we hardly watch any ads anyway due to the wonder that is the PVR.
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Date: 2011-01-04 09:24 pm (UTC)Someone I talked to last month did think there was a grain of reasonableness to it in that ITV's children's offering at one time was not to the standard of the BBC's overall (e.g. more noisy cartoons & other fayre of often dubious overall quality, and of course adverts for toys, junk food and so on) so I see the parents' original point somewhat - I didn't like my lot watching children's TV with adverts in it either, nor too many versions of pow this and screech that without much plot, however obtained. There are several channels now available for that but also several with halfway decent children's offerings (I think, we're almost grown out of children's telly now. Again. Til I get the flu and watch some!) Now we hardly watch any ads anyway due to the wonder that is the PVR.