Metropol

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.

I joined so I could moan about the morons on TVF without being banned from TVF.

Moan about them away from TVF, not on it... right. Knew I did something wrong.

Much the same reason as Chie, but mainly out of guilt cos I'd been lurking for ages and it started to feel dirty.

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...)

You mean people are ever pleased to see him?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.