I agree that there are too many adverts on television now, and even the funny or amusing ones get a bit boring after a while, i cant stand the ones where you have not got a clue what they are advertising and you guess all the way through..and then it is nothing to do with what you thought it was for in the first place!!
I will admit that i have actually turned off a film before and gone to bed, just due to the amount of adverts, they often cause me to lose the plot/interest or give general frustration.
YES, there are a lot more adverts between films/programmes than there used to be! AND YES! They do ruin my enjoyment of my Favorite programmes/films quite often!!

What I find annoying is a product advert will come on every break,it will follow you around from channel to channel. After a while you don't only hate the advert, you hate the product and everything to do with it, in fact you wouldn't buy it if it was the last one on earth. The whole thing has gone into complete over kill. ARHHHH!

I absolutely detest adverts and loathe being made to watch them for surveys...has anyone ever seen the film "How to get ahead in advertising?" that sums it all up for me...vile, repulsive, money-grabbing and awful. On principle, I keep well away from them.

John, if you think we have too many adverts, you should try and watch american tv. On my recent holiday over in the states I ahd a day off from the usual sight seeing, theme parks, shopping etc, to give my poor old feet a rest. I was able to watch 2-3 programs all atonce due to the amount of adverts and the time they are on. As an example I was watching a program called Boarder, when no sooner than the titles finished and it went to adverts, which lasted over 5 minutes or so. I then switched channels to some sports channel and was watching about fishing when it went to adverts. I checked the other channel I was watching and it was still adverts, so I tried another channel and the same thing, adverts. I never did get to watch a complete program as I was fed up of the adverts.

ohhh yes George is so right even the so called advert free 'public tv has plaintif cries for donations ..albeit at 'each' end of a programme.

I actually dont mind adverts these days simply because I dont watch much tv anyway and I often find when im doing surveys they'll ask me advert questions which I can never answer, its always no I havent seen it before lol so the only solution is record all or stop watching tv hehe.

George I agree.Each time I'm in the US I notice twice the advert breaks.At least with aHD drive recorder you record the whole series and fast forward all the adverts.Billions are spent on advertising.Do companies honestly think the payback exceeds the cost?

Oh yes, why do they do it?? Because TV is the absolute epitome of all bad taste and it gets shoved down everyone's throats....have you never read "1984????" Big Brother is ALWAYS watching you and hey, it works both ways....we buy into the biggest lie there is....that we are watching entertainment????? Balderdash!

1984 - one of my favourite books, Lizzie! I'm actually re-reading it at the moment, as it's been about 20 years since I last read it. Imagine if we couldn't switch off our telescreens, as Winston Smith described?

My son and I had a very indepth discussion on it the other night, he loves it and says it is one of the most powerful ever books and he is 18!! It is well worth a re-read and should be obligatory in all schools. I think some people can't switch off!!