i've long been interested in tv pres, i started off by posting in the notbbc forum (maybe around 1998? when i first got the internet) and then somehow i found tv forum when it opened, can't actually remember how i stumbled across it, i've been contributing in tv forum and metropol since the beginning.
i never liked digitalspy, it was too heavily moderated - i remember in the early days there was about 6 sticky topics with various dos and don't.
my interest in presentation has sadly waned in correlation with my ever decreasing interest in television generally, but i do pop in now and again to tvf.
Why and when did you join?
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Dr Lobster*
- Posts: 2123
- Joined: Sat 30 Aug, 2003 20.14
I found Metropol while bored late in a nightshift during an hour where the only channel I had on air was The Community Channel. Such times called for desperate measures. Try staying awake in that situation. At 4.30am. It's probably the only anyone's been glad to see Ainsley Harriot's face at 5am. (Ready Steady Cook for the 3 people watching BBC Food Europe on cable in Sweden you see...)
i joined tvforum in mid 2001. i think i boycotted metropol (or metropoo as i called it, teehee) for a month or so after it opened, due to the unjust closure of the lounge.
i tend to lurk more nowadays, as there isn't an awful lot to say about telly, or the people talking about telly these days.
i tend to lurk more nowadays, as there isn't an awful lot to say about telly, or the people talking about telly these days.
Joined TVF in December 2001 because it seemed more active than the TV Ark forum which I was posting in at the time. Don't post as often these days being that TV pres has gone decidedly shit since that time. Joined Metropol within a few days for the same reason a lot of people did - to prevent someone stealing my username.
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Ebeneezer Scrooge
- Posts: 326
- Joined: Tue 23 Sep, 2003 13.53
- Location: Scrooge Towers
I originally joined TVF way back in 2001 to try and respond to inaccuracies about my place of work... but bowed to the superior knowledge of other forum members who clearly knew better without setting foot in the place.
Then I returned to metropol as it seemed a pleasant place - I had the intention of trolling, but I couldn't be bothered.
Then I returned to metropol as it seemed a pleasant place - I had the intention of trolling, but I couldn't be bothered.
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Lorns
- Posts: 3149
- Joined: Thu 24 Mar, 2005 22.48
- Location: A room with a view. 15 Hookey street, the Edge.
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I was a member on the sky news tribute site and someone posted a link to TVF on their forums. I signed up got on the wrong side of several members, so signed up to this place instead not realising at first that the same members frequented both. I still prefer metro to TVF.
Mental anxiety, Mental breakdowns, Menstrual cramps, Menopause... Did you ever notice how all our problems begin with Men?
I joined TV Forum because it was the biggest and most popular forum I'd ever seen on the internet, as a precocious young 12 year old back in 2001. One of the few others at the time was the TV Ark forum, still on Bravenet (this was when most forums were Bravenet forums) where you'd get a couple of posts a day at the most. TV Forum had a thread about BBC News 24 that was fourteen pages long and I thought that was an incredible size.
Given that I'm 20 in mere days it means that I've spent my entire teenage life on TV Forum, which is a bit of a depressing thought. For Metropol I lurked anonymously for about five years before thinking oh go on then.
Given that I'm 20 in mere days it means that I've spent my entire teenage life on TV Forum, which is a bit of a depressing thought. For Metropol I lurked anonymously for about five years before thinking oh go on then.