Does anyone else think that the voiceovers between shows on Dave are actually... funny? They had Phill Jupitus at the start and Finchey from The Office at the moment... they make a change from the dull 'Eastenders is next' sort of stuff you normally get... and is that Greg James from Radio 1 in the day...? Does anyone else notice this sort of thing, or am I just weird?

Hello,

Yep, that's right - We launched with Phill Jupitus in peak and Greg James [Radio 1 Early Breakfast] doing our daytime line-up, and now Ralph Ineson (who played Finchy in The Office) has come on board for peak.

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I dont like these voice overs

They try so hard to be funny and random, its just really not funny, more 'normal' introductions may be boring, but they do the job. These introductions are tiresome and not funny normal introductions, actually funny introductions or mnore informative would be better.

I have expressed this opinion before but thought id let you know again haha

I think the voiceovers are bad. It sounds like the voice over is trying to act like doing the voice over is extreamly hard work. I dont think they dont say enough about programmes comming up and the sound dips too far when the voice over is talking making it sound like in a supermarket/department store when they make announcemnets.

Another thing, what is with the idents? They seem to be people dressed in different types of clothes applauding someone riding an elephant. What is it suposed to mean?

It means they like 'witty banter'. Guess we were supposed to laugh at it. ha. ha. ha. ha. ...ha.

What I hate about Dave is that it is what I like to call an "am I trendy" channel, which is basicaly a channel run by people in their 40s+ trying to be teenagers but because they are not they have programming they would have liked when they were in their teens which is not actuly what todays teens want. The reason why I call it "am I trendy" is because no one these days under 40 uses the word trendy now, an example of an "am I trendy" person would be when you go to your friends house and their mother trys to talk to you / chat you up and they use words like trendy.

Unfortunatly there are people under 40 who I like to call "we're so random" gangs (I like making up names for different types of people). Basically these people copy each other and try to like the same things as each other however this means that they usualy assume other people in the gang like something such as the words witty and banter so they all start using the words but really none of them like the words witty or banter.

Can't agree with you more mseven, my teenage cousins of different stages all just ignore It. The other day when they saw the slogan, the 14 year oldds actually thought It WAS a channel for those what enter a midlife crisis!

What's wrong with you lot. Would you rather have a link person who starts every intro with 'Next up' like the rest. Dave is the best thing on TV and the links just increase our enjoyment. Much, much more intelligent witty banter please!

My guess is that you are over 35 or are trying to fit in to the under 35 age group as the channel is for it's target audience 10 to 20 years ago, not today.

If you look at the schedule for Dave it seems like a group of old people had a conversation (possibly while waiting in a queue at the post office to post a letter to the local newspaper for the reader's letter's page) and tried to think what programmes young people like to watch. As they remember the early 90s when their children were that age they put what they think young people like with a mix of programmes from what they hear young people pretend to like. Then they go to a company such as UKTV and their teeth squeak about how young people would like it.

And my guess is that you're more than a little grumpy and should possibly turn off the telly and go for a nice walk. Or maybe simply watch something else...

Anything's better that getting all ire-filled and cross about things that really don't matter.

I should tell you all for the last moment: Dave's bad. VERY bad. I'd rather tell what's next then this.

Now, noticing I don't seem to appear on this darn thing anymore, I watch Animal Cops and such on Animal Planet (if anything but news...I'm not fun anymore, I know )

Farrwell, my piece of s-sILLY things. yes...I'll be on current.com with the same name, if of any intreast.

I rather like Dave. And the voice overs. And I'm under 35. Aparrently that makes me insane... Well according to the lunatic fringe on here (that have admitted they don't even watch it). Well nay mind.

I love the voice overs, keep them coming! They may not be hilarious but at least they divert from the boring old normal ones, they do make you smile.

You should get Craig Charles to do some, he does an excellent job on Takeshi's castle.

I really like the voiceovers in the evening sooo funny and clever and i lik how they trail off in their own thoughts while announcing

I quite like Dave - it appeals to me as as average kind of, forty year old bloke called Dave - the voiceovers are all right. There are some quite good programmes - Top Gear/motor sport - Whose line etc etc, but the are far too many repeats.

The voice overs on Dave drive me insane - I love the channel but the voice overs are just so cringe worthy! Its like they're trying to pretend to be funny - like when people know its not funny but think its funny cos its not funny. It doesn't really bother me who does the voice overs & i do think having a bit of banter's better than just 'and such and suchs is on now' but it'd be SO much better if it wasn't so irritating!!!!

The voiceovers are ok, but who really cares if they're not funny? You're going to watch something decent if you just wait a minute, so why complain about a short clip telling you what's next?

Now, people like "mseven" really need to realise that the world might just, maybe, in some small, tiny and insignificant way, not be how they think it is.

Firstly, different people have different opinions. You might not like it, but others do. I'm 17, and Dave is pretty much the only channel I watch in the evenings. Top Gear, Qi, Mock the Week, all great comedy programs. Hell, this stuff is pretty much the best on TV, although that doesn't really say much compared to mindless idiocy like Big Brother.

Of course, since I'm only 17, I'm probably just a kid to you, so my opinion is immediately null and void, as I'm too young to understand anything. Or maybe you see me as a teenager, so that means I'm a hooligan and I spend my spare time drinking, fighting and destroying whatever I can find, with my gang of mates who all stash an armada of weaponry in their hoodies. Yeah, that's really me.

Alex Green said:

I really like the voiceovers in the evening sooo funny and clever and i lik how they trail off in their own thoughts while announcing

All voice overs are not just made up on the spot, they would have to be written and planned. So they would have probably have put some thought in to how to sound like they are going off in their own thoughts


I agree with lex42 that the voice overs are crindge worthy. I think they try too much to make it sound funny or like they are making it up as it goes along.


TheDarkFlame said:

The voiceovers are ok, but who really cares if they're not funny? You're going to watch something decent if you just wait a minute, so why complain about a short clip telling you what's next?

I dont care if they have funny links or not but what bothers me is they try to make it seem funny and act like they think they are funny. Also their idents make no sense, why would any one applaud someone riding an elephant? is seems like 2 people have got high together and come up with the ideas for their idents


TheDarkFlame said:

Now, people like "mseven" really need to realise that the world might just, maybe, in some small, tiny and insignificant way, not be how they think it is.

Of course, since I'm only 17, I'm probably just a kid to you, so my opinion is immediately null and void, as I'm too young to understand anything. Or maybe you see me as a teenager, so that means I'm a hooligan and I spend my spare time drinking, fighting and destroying whatever I can find, with my gang of mates who all stash an armada of weaponry in their hoodies. Yeah, that's really me.

I am 21, a shareholder in 2 TV companies and I have worked on TV programmes. I have to say that the TV industry is kind of ruled by old people.

Programme ideas are only commissioned if the person thinking up the idea has decades of experiance, this means that if some one our age went to a TV company with an idea which would bring millions of viewers to their channel because we know the aduience they would rather commission a programme by some one in their 40s who has a programme 10 years out of date because they have worked on programmes for a long time and the commissioners idea of what people our age in our generation likes is not what they think.

They see videos on the internet getting millions of views and put millions in to 4OD and BBC iplayer but they don't realise that some people are sad enough to repeatibly watch their own video non stop to bump up the anount of views

Like you say people not in our age group think teenagers and young adults are all hooligans. People our age know that is not true it's is just that now the news is not just at 3 times a day, news is now a 24 hour industry where more stories are reported. A coupple of decades ago mods and rockers were killing each other non stop but there was never enough time to put it in the news but now if some one is killed it is reported non stop.