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13-12-2004, 17:45
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petiton email sent to me today
Hello Christine
Before you go mad with me I have started some more petitions over the weekend because television is in a disgraceful taste and I can see us going down the gutter even further unless we start to get our fingers out and do something about it and prove that we are fed up with the state that British Television is in. As we are reaching the end of 2004 I have counted up the number of petitions that I have in total and there are 43. Some you may have already signed some you won't have signed. Please consider signing at least some of them. I don't for one minute expect you to sign everyone that is quite understandable, people have different views on things don't they. See below the titles of the petitions with their URL's beside them and they are listed in alphabetical order by the way. 1) A Knighthood for Angela Rippon - www.petitiononline.com/rip1210p/petition.html 2) A Knighthood for Bill Cotton - www.petitiononline.com/bill234c/petition.html 3) A Knighthood for both Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett - www.petitiononline.com/rb1971rc/petition.html 4) A Knighthood for David Jason - www.petitiononline.com/david65j/petition.html 5) A Knighthood for John Nettles - www.petitiononline.com/j1948net/petition.html 6) A Knighthood for Michael Kitchen - www.petitiononline.com/kit1948c/petition.html 7) A Recognition for Simon Rouse who plays Jack Meadows in The Bill - www.petitiononline/Jack3CID/petition.html 8) All Soap Operas Must Go Back to Twice a Week - www.petitiononline.com/soap1960/petition.html 9) Axe All Hunks and Babes from All Soap Operas and Drama Series's and Bring Back the Proper Professional Actors - www.petitiononline.com/hunkbabe/petition.html 10) Axe All The Current Daytime Television Programmes on both BBC-1 and ITV-1 and Then Use the Daytime on both Channels to Repeat All The Old Quality Programmes That Were on BBC-1 and ITV-1 Years Ago at Prime Time - www.petitiononline.com/day13tim/petition.html 11) Axe All The Current Producers and Scriptwriters from All Soaps and Drama Series's and Bring Back The Old Producers and Scriptwriters from Years Ago Who Knew How to Make a Decent Programme - www.petitiononline.com/pro77scr/petition.html 12) Axe Bad Girls and Footballers Wives Altogether - www.petitiononline.com/bad8girl/petition.html 13) Axe BBC-3, BBC-4, BBC News 24, BBC Parliament, CBBC Channel, and C Beebies Altogether - www.petitiononline.com/bbc34bbc/petition.html 14) Axe Channel 4 & Channel 5 Altogether - www.petitiononline.com/cha45nel/petition.html 15) Axe Doctors and Holby City Altogether - www.petitiononline.com/doc999hy/petition.html 16) Axe Eastenders Altogether - www.petitiononline.com/vg444vsr/petition.html 17) Axe Every Bloody Cheap Made Chatshow on BBC-1, BBC-2, and ITV-1 Excluding Parkinson and Friday Night with Jonathan Ross - www.petitiononline.com/chatshow/petition.html 18) Axe Every Bloody Cheap Made Cooking, Gardening and DIY Show on BBC-1 & ITV-1 but not the ones on BBC-2 - www.petitiononline.com/cook6diy/petition.html 19) Axe Every Bloody Reality Show on BBC-1 , BBC-2 and ITV-1 Including I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here - www.petitiononline.com/realityt/petition.html 20) Axe Every Cheap Made Programme with the words "How To" and "From Hell" in the Title on BBC-1, BBC-2, and ITV-1 - www.petitiononline.com/howtohel/petition.html 21) Axe Every Crap Quiz Programme on BBC-1, BBC-2, and ITV-1 - www.petitiononline.com/quiz321d/petition.html 22) Axe Hollyoaks and Family Affairs Altogether - www.petitionline.com/holl45fa/petition.html 23) Axe ITV-2 and ITV-3 Altogether - www.petitiononline.com/itv2itv3/petition.html 24) Axe Neighbours and Home and Away Altogether - www.petitiononline.com/neighome/petition.html 25) Axe Paul Marquess and Bring Back The Old Bill - www.petitiononline.com/tbi999ll/petition.html 26) Axe Saturday Night Television Full Stop on Both BBC-1 and ITV-1 - www.petitiononline.com/sat13tel/petition.html 27) Axe The 10pm News Bulletin on BBC-1 and Put it Back to 9pm and also Axe The 10.30pm News Bulletin on ITV-1 and Put it Back to 10pm - www.petitiononline.com/bbc10itv/petition.html 28) Bring All American Drama Series to BBC-1 and ITV-1 - www.petitiononline.com/americad/petition.html 29) Bring Back Crosswits on ITV-1 - Monday-Friday at 9.30am and also Bring Back The Krypton Factor on ITV-1 on Monday Nights at 7pm -www.petitiononline.com/croskryp/petition.html 30) Bring Back Fifteen to One and put it on ITV-1 - Monday-Friday at 4.45pm and also Bring Countdown to ITV-1 - Monday-Friday at 5.15pm. www.petitiononline.com/count151/petition.html 31) Bring Back Four Square and Going for Gold on BBC-1 for the Daytime Schedules - Weekdays and also Bring Back Telly Addicts on BBC-1 on Monday Nights at 8pm - www.petitiononline.com/fourgold/petition.html 32) Bring Button Moon out on Dvd - www.petitiononline.com/dcd342mc/petition.html 33) Bring Cockleshell Bay out on Dvd - www.petitiononline.com/lhg75plm/petition.html 34) Bring Look and Read Stories out on Dvd - www.petitiononline.com/wtr67wsq/petition.html 35) Bring Pigeon Street out on Dvd - www.petitiononline.com/tyr766bb/petition.html 36) Bring Portland Bill out on Dvd - www.petitiononline.com/yt931tpk/petition.html 37) Bring T-Bag out on Dvd - www.petitiononline.com/sa227rdw/petition.html 38) Bring The Children of Green Knowe out on Dvd - www.petitiononline.com/green61k/petition.html 39) Bring The Complete Series 1-3 of The Bill Including The Pilot Woodentop out on Dvd - www.petitiononline.com/bill123w/petition.html 40) Bring The Lone Ranger out on Dvd - www.petitiononline.com/fc788yhj/petition.html 41) Bring The Phoenix and the Carpet out on Dvd - www.petitiononline.com/car34pet/petition.html 42) Bring The Snow Spider out on Dvd - www.petitiononline.com/spi50der/petition.html 43) Bring The Telebugs out on Dvd - www.petitiononline.com/bug55bug/petition.html As you can see there are a lot of petitions here and what I suggest you do is highlight the whole of this email with your mouse, click on edit at the top of the screen, then click on copy, then go out of the internet altogether, go into word, then click on edit again, click on paste and then lastly print it off. This is the only way that you will be able to get a complete listing in front of you at all times because if you try and print this email off the internet it won't work I'm afraid. I only started certain petitions yesterday and I could do with you spreading the word because out of all these petitions that are available to sign a lot of them will appeal to the whole family not just one individual. Please make sure though that you read each of the main pages of all the petitions first before whether deciding to sign them or not as it will hopefully make sense then why the titles of the petitions are worded the way they are. Thank you for taking the time to read my long email and can you please email me back as soon as possible. Yours sincerely Robert |
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13-12-2004, 17:52
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What the...hell?
& doesn't Sir David Jason already have a knighthood..? & why should Holby & Doctors, EastEnders be axed?! What a load of rubbish, AXE petitions altogether! |
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13-12-2004, 17:59
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13-12-2004, 18:04
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Lol, I never saw that! I just scrolled down thinking what the hell?! & also axe Saturday night T.V, what the hell is everyone supposed to do? Go out and get pissed up?!
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ITV would be left with almost a 'monopoly' over the soap market...axing Hollyoaks & Family Affairs too... |
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13-12-2004, 18:06
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Go back to 3 terrestrial channels - I think not.
Although I did agree with some of those petitions, it would be like returning to the 1980's and I think once was enough for most people. |
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13-12-2004, 18:07
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Sir Angela Rippon - has quite a ring to it.
Loving no.29 - 'Bring back Crosswits and The Krypton Factor' - I'm sure many Gordon Burns fans will agree. |
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13-12-2004, 20:17
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No way!!!Some of the producers on the soaps today are very good! Bad Girls is a great drama. Channel 5 atleast has some really good shows, C4 has a few. EastEnders doesn't need to be axed as it should be improviding over the coming months, and a soap does not deserve to be axed just because of a bad period, it deserves the chance to improve first! Family Affairs is a brilliant soap! Same goes for Neighbours. And i love The Bill as it is, the only reason it is more like a soap now is because it was on the verge of being axed! |
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13-12-2004, 20:26
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13-12-2004, 20:44
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This is pathetic and sad. If you don't like some shows don't watch them. If you want less soaps, watch less or stop watching.
There are people who like this. Whoever comes up with these needs to grow up and respect other people's views |
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13-12-2004, 20:45
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Oh dear lord
 As if online petitions weren't a big enough joke already! |
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13-12-2004, 20:45
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Looks like we have a spammer, this thread is also on the Channels and Programming forum - where else I wonder ....?
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13-12-2004, 20:46
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i seem to know all sorts of people, the weird, wonderful ,some famous and so on
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13-12-2004, 20:47
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only on those two as is appropriate to the two as mentions soaps in petition lists and it mentions programmes, also i only post on digitial spy forumn no others thank you.
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13-12-2004, 22:17
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...Because everyone knows that online petitions work.
Anyone remember the one a few years back where someone claimed that naming LOTR: The Two Towers was offensive because of 9/11? Never mind that the book was written fifty years beforehand! What a waste of time. |
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13-12-2004, 22:21
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Alls I can say is, why dont' we just throw out our tellys altogether eh? If all the soaps get reduced, what do you plan on filling the gaps in the schedules with? I love these people who say axe the soaps, axe EastEnders, reduce Corrie to twice aweek. Ok then, but what do you propose to fill the schedules with?
As for you axeing EastEnders! why? because its had a really bad year? And I suppose you could keep a show firing on all cylinders four nights a week, week after week, year after year, with no breaks? There are some really good Producers on soap these days i.e. Carolyn Reynolds, Tony Wood, Keith Richardson. Not to mention John Yorke who Produced EastEnders when it was good and then produced a cracking drama called Shameless this year. Bad Girls is also very good. I could go on and on, but I'm bored already lol Axe the petitions thats what I say! |
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13-12-2004, 22:24
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Agreed! You can't enforce your points of view on others
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13-12-2004, 23:16
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 A former work colleague of mine was on the Krypton Factor in 1990. I miss that show.  Crosswits was good too with Tom O'Connor. T-bag - wow a classic from my younger days The petitioner is obviously trying to be the Margaret Thatcher of television, but fails miserably! 
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13-12-2004, 23:19
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Ooh T-bag, I remember that show, that was good, but purlease! that was 16 years ago! get over it! lol
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13-12-2004, 23:24
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13-12-2004, 23:25
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13-12-2004, 23:33
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Well I think it is a genuine hoax - meaning the thread starter didn't make it up, but the survey itself is just a joke. The reason I say this is because brooksider has trouble spelling and using grammar (for whatever reason - no offence Brooksider
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13-12-2004, 23:41
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All links to the petitons work i have checked just to see what they say, and i think the person who emailed them to me believes in all these for some reason, quite weird i know.
Like the time i thought there was hope Brookside would actually return. |
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14-12-2004, 02:16
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Having read the petition email, and seeing all the things they want axed, it seems to me they would be far happier just watching the test card.
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