Films shown on UK television which have been repeated so often it's sickening ?

Telejester

I will start this one off, if I see that bloody Mrs Doubtfire in the TV listings again then I will explode. That syrupy and schmaltzy pile of crap wasn't funny when it was released in 1993 and it has been repeated so often on UK TV that it just needs to disappear forever.


What films which have been flogged to death  by endless repeats on UK TV can you think of ?

Wizard of Oz gets a pass because we were all sick to death of it decades ago.

Funkfingers

Pretty much all of the all-time classics have been re-transmitted ad nauseam. 

It is possible to spare oneself the sickening tedium by joining Club 27.

guitartango

I was going to say the sound of music, never watched it until this Christmas. Nazi's, Nuns and a Godin guitar, can't be that bad then!

Philly_Q

ITV2 seems to have the Hobbit films on constant rotation.  Before that they seemed to show nothing but Along Came Polly, You, Me and Dupree and the Scorpion King.

kennedydream1980

The Goonies has been on 4 times over Christmas on various channels. I don’t actually mind though as I love it. 

EricTheWeary

I remember She Wore a Yellow Ribbon being the most broadcast film on British TV, I think the BBC had it royalty free and used it to fill gaps in the schedule for years after it started broadcasting in colour.

Anyway, the Cornetto films ( Shaun of the Dead,etc) seem to be on a channel somewhere if I’m flicking through the channels at night. 

ICBM

Love Actually.

I ‘actually’ quite liked it when I first saw it - despite being crap it had a sort of cheesy 90s charm about it - but with each repetition it lost that and is now just nauseating.

boogieman

That Cher/Christina Aguilera Burlesque thing seems to be on constant repeat on one of the minor Freeview channels. I watched about 30 minutes of it once... utter bilge. 

prowla

ICBM said:

Love Actually.

I ‘actually’ quite liked it when I first saw it - despite being crap it had a sort of cheesy 90s charm about it - but with each repetition it lost that and is now just nauseating.

Sky even offered it as a "watch & keep" freebie in December.

p90fool

Well apart from The Wizard of Oz I have never seen any of the films mentioned so far. 

Maybe you should all put the TV in another room, not opposite where you naturally tend to sit. 

Telejester

ICBM said:

Love Actually.

I ‘actually’ quite liked it when I first saw it - despite being crap it had a sort of cheesy 90s charm about it - but with each repetition it lost that and is now just nauseating.

Four weddings and a funeral.......damn I cannot abide Hugh grant

ICBM

Telejester said:

Four weddings and a funeral.......damn I cannot abide Hugh grant

It took me until the Jeremy Thorpe thing to realise that he is a very good actor who has been unfortunately typecast for most of his career. There was a documentary about him recently where it sounded like he stumbled into acting and didn't realise he was good at it, so allowed himself to be given the same roles over and over until no-one, including himself, could abide it...

Wolfetone

I'm staggered that nobody has mentioned Back to the Future which, I'm sure, is on every week on my TV any various channels.

boogieman

ICBM said:

Telejester said:

Four weddings and a funeral.......damn I cannot abide Hugh grant

It took me until the Jeremy Thorpe thing to realise that he is a very good actor who has been unfortunately typecast for most of his career. There was a documentary about him recently where it sounded like he stumbled into acting and didn't realise he was good at it, so allowed himself to be given the same roles over and over until no-one, including himself, could abide it...

He was excellent in Paddington 2 (too! ) . I always get the impression that he’s so laid back he just accepted whatever roles he was offered, and then it gets to be a self fulfilling thing. A bit like the modern equivalent of John LeMesurier   

crunchman

Wolfetone said:

I'm staggered that nobody has mentioned Back to the Future which, I'm sure, is on every week on my TV any various channels.

Back to the Future is such a good film that it doesn't matter.

Mary Poppins has to be the worst.  Total drivel and it always seemed to be on opposite something like Star Wars - so my mum would let my sister watch it when all three of the boys in family wanted to watch Star Wars.  This was back in the days when there was only one TV in the house.

strumjoughlamps

Telejester said:

ICBM said:

Love Actually.

I ‘actually’ quite liked it when I first saw it - despite being crap it had a sort of cheesy 90s charm about it - but with each repetition it lost that and is now just nauseating.

Four weddings and a funeral.......damn I cannot abide Hugh grant

Brilliant in Cloud Atlas tho

CHRISB50

The Hangover films seem to be on constant repeat on ITV2 for the past couple of months. 

Pulp Fiction has been on quite a lot recently too, although can’t remember which channel. 

bbill335

haven't had pez TV/freeview in ages but i seem to remember the itv offshoot channels constantly showing one of either

rambo 1-3
under siege 1 + 2
shaun of the dead
hot fuzz

and castaway was on C5 seemingly once a week

Snap

ICBM said:

   so allowed himself to be given the same roles over and over until no-one, including himself, could abide it...

That has worked equally well for De Niro, Pacino and Pesci, to be fair.

ICBM

Snap said:

That has worked equally well for De Niro, Pacino and Pesci, to be fair.

That's exactly why I can't be bothered with The Irishman... yawn.

dafuzz

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