The faux outrage from certain posters every time restrictions are either tightened or loosened is starting to get on my nerves! It's just virtue signalling from certain people.

I've never quite understood the love affair that TV Forum has for Alastair Stewart. To me he was always smug and a bit too self important. For me it was overdue that he left.

Coronavirus forces STA Travel out of business

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53868447

Starbucks UK accepting own cups from today, according to their social channels. Expect some issues though. Apparently it doesn’t apply in all stores. Equally a large number of stores aren’t even open yet so expect some people to turn up with their favourite cup to find their local store closed!

This ‘Donald Trump bans media from nomination’ thread by Ne1LC is surely one of the oddest ever, with precious little relevance to TV presentation!

james2001 wrote: ↑Sat 01 Aug, 2020 00.17 Cobbles has been banned.

Good. The post that got him banned was ridiculous.

Whilst there’s way more posts on the site than there would usually be there seems to be fewer posters who simply post a lot of stuff! It’s not just the Newsroom where debate is between a handful of posters, it seems to be like that across the whole site.

Rather unpleasant reaction from some posters in the Coronavirus news thread to thousands of people’s holiday plans being ruined. Not a good look at all.

I was in Dublin for a few days last week and I'd say about 30% of people I saw were wearing a mask, they only became compulsory in Ireland yesterday (on public transport last week). Mitigating this was better enforcement of social distancing in shops. Whilst some bars and restaurants were open you a...

The desire to watch the footage of Tommy Cooper die on television seems to be a rite of passage that many new Tv Forumers feel the need to go through. There seems to be a thread dedicated to this every year or so!

People holding out hope for a vaccine to be developed quickly, even this year, is ridiculous. Edward Jenner invented the vaccine for smallpox in 1798 and smallpox wasn’t declared eradicated until the early 21st century. I know medicine has moved on and it’s not a fair comparison but vaccines still t...