The front page of today's Sunday Express has the headline "Millions turn off the TV"
The results of a Sunday Express poll shows that 53% of viewers believe that television is getting worse and one in four people watch less telly than five years ago
The paper says that more people are switching to the internet and DVDS.
A spokeman for media watch ,John Beyers is quoted
"I am afraid broadcasters have got used to giving us low-cost, low quality material because it is cheap and means more money for things other than programmes. We commend the BBC for programmes such as The Great British Summer, Planet Earth, Coast, Strictly Come Dancing, Who Do You Think You Are? “These are good high-quality programmes. But he added: “The ITV schedule is really past its sell-by-date, dominated by soaps and other predictable material.
“Dramas such as Strictly Confidential are a scandal that we have taken up with ITV chairman Sir Peter Burt and the regulator Ofcom.” He said ITV’s new boss Michael Grade “has a lot to do because the whole broadcasting environment has changed so radically in recent years I am not sure, even with his undoubted talent, he will succeed in restoring confidence all round”. He added: “The so-called ‘digital dividend’ of many channels filled with high-quality content competing for viewers has not materialised. In fact the opposite has happened. “There are allegedly fraudulent quiz channels, endless pop music channels and now huge investment in user-generated content from MySpace and YouTube. None of this can remotely be called quality. “I am afraid that these developments will lead to a growth of low-quality content without acting, scripting, staging or camera skills.”
Staying with the quality of Tv,the Indy reports today
"Michael Grade left the BBC because he wants to get back to making programmes. But with all the rubbish on, how hard can it actually be? "
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