When will the #BBC listen to The Voice of viewers and bring back real Saturday night entertainment

I seem to remember, albeit vaguely and in black and white, when a Saturday night was something to look forward to on television. Families would gather round the box with appropriate snacks while grandma fiddled with her false teeth and they would all settle down to a bonding session mixed with laughter and teasing.

But that was a long time ago. Tastes and families have moved on but there is still a substantial core of viewers looking for something to enjoy after the evening meal while clasping a glass of some chosen libation.

So what did we get last night on the main channels.
BBC One:
7pm The Voice: I'm really stunned that this over-hyped and boring rubbish has made it to a second series but I suppose they have done some kind of two year deal to bore every living adult to death. Note that I say ADULT. Nobody over 35 has a need or interest in more bland pop music in the world. There is more than enough already and many times more than enough pop singers too.
I thought that the show's raison d'être was the promotion of aspiring young artists. So why is so much emphasis given to the entirely faked competition between the judges? Again, if the aspiring talent(?) is to be helped, why have they chosen two judges who have only been in the business for five minutes - one of whom (Danny O'Donnelly) nobody had heard of until the first series, a judge with too many punctuation marks in his name and Tom Jones who is too wealthy and still too busy to give any worthwhile time to these talentless nobodies and their wrist slitting back stories.
8.35pm The National Lottery: How they manage to justify nearly an hour of this screaching twaddle stuns me. Nick Knowles is ear drum bursting enough without the inane members of the public. The lottery draws take 10 minutes max and there is no excuse for any more time to be spent than that.
9.25pm Casualty: Why do we need two dramas set in the same hospital every single week. The truth is that we don't even need one of this calibre. But at this time on a Saturday we could do with something a lot more gritty.
BBC Two:
7pm Richard Briers - A Tribute: Frankly half an hour would have been enough of this. His shows mercifully only lasted that long anyway. I always hated the way his characters treated women so poorly, his wives were patronised and condescended to. And his false teeth were too big for his mouth.
8pm Bach - A Passionate Life: I love Bach's music and I recorded this for a late night when I'm lying sleepless in bed. It's not Saturday night entertainment though.
9.30pm QI: There's only so much of Stephen Fry's endless clever witticisms I can take on a Saturday night and I reached that point years and years ago. It's one of the shows that they seem to record at high volume as if to prove that it is funny and everyone is having such a marvellous time.

ITV One
7pm Ant & Decs Saturday Takeaway: Frankly the less I say about this the better. I cannot abide Ant & Dec's illiterate and poorly enunciated rubbish. Yes, yes I know some people have to have Geordie accents but I don't want to have them in my living room on a Saturday night or indeed any other.
8.20pm: The Cube: This is such arrant nonsense that it's not worth spending time on it.
9.20pm: The Jonathan Ross Show: I never liked Jonathan Ross even before that obscene collaboration with Russell Brand. At best it's lager commedy and he is certainly no substitute for Parky as a chat show host.


Channel Four
Not generally home for anything that appeals to me but here we go.
7pm Sarah Beany's Selling Houses: I really like Sarah Beany but let's face it this is an afternoon programme.
8pm Walking Through History: A weekday evening perhaps. And not Tony Robinson who really belongs on a children's programme. It ought to be presented by someone serious. But we've seen all this before and done much better.
9pm Labrynth: I was initially attracted to this but then saw it was a) written by a feminist and b) featured stories split by time which I cannot be bothered with after a few glasses.
Channel Five
All American crap. Simply not worth discussing on any level at all.

Conclusion
The only thing I have looked forward to recently on a Saturday night was Borgen which was on BBC Four. It was in Danish and featured the very fragrant Sidse Babett Knudsen(right) as Birgitte Nyborg but it has gone now leaving Saturday night a complete entertainment wasteland.
According to government statistics we are living in an aging population. I wonder where the television companies think we all go on a Saturday night. Their target audience seems to be lager louts and teenagers.
I don't know why we pay the license fee as we are being ripped off completely.