Complaining about TV on TV

Going out on early Sunday evenings on BBC1 is Points of View, the programme that gives the TV Licence paying public the chance to either praise or damn BBC TV programmes. Running since 1961 (with the exception of a ten year gap between 1969 and 1979) Points of View has been hosted by the likes Robert Robinson, Barry Took, Anne Robinson, Terry Wogan and currently Jeremy Vine. Perhaps the major change the programme has seen is how the viewers deliver their views, with E-mails and Tweets replacing letters. Points of View is the only programme of it's kind on British TV at the moment. But that was not always the case.
Between 1986 and 1990 Open Air was BBC1's first attempt at a daytime magazine format. Hosted by a rotating team of presenters including in his first major UK slot Eamon Holmes. The programme was a mix of famous people plugging upcoming programmes that they were in, discussions about topics raised in a programme and viewers phoning in to share their opinions (good or bad) on programmes. Open Air fell victim to a ratings linked axe as This Morning (a programme that ironically would be hosted by Holmes) took a grip on daytime TV schedules.
Biteback shown on Sunday early evening on BBC1 between 1991 and 1997 on a monthly basis, hosted by at different times by Sue Lawley and Julian Pettifer.  It had a mix of discussion as programme makers faced questions by an audience made up of viewers making their opinions known, reports on different aspects of programme making and a slot where programme makers gave brief response to viewers opinions.
Channel 4's Right to Reply was a programme with some notable variations, one was that in addition to more tradtional means viewers could make their views known through a video taping booth that was situated at the headquarters of a ITV franchise owner, reports presented by viewers themselves and 1-1 discussions between programme makers and viewers. When in after 19 years Right to Reply was axed in 2001 to much fury. When after the 2007 Celebrity Big Brother race row, broadcasting regulations body Ofcom ordered Channel 4 to make a programme of the same type however the result The TV Programme was short lived.

Below are examples of the 4 programmes you can find on Youtube

Points of View

A whole edition from January 1992 where viewers praise a documentary about Breast Cancer and lambast a long forgotten BBC knock off of You've Been Framed.


Open Air

2 viewers share differing opinions about the use of swastikas in an item about stockings on the Clothes Show


Biteback

2 of the producers of the infamous Ghostwatch (read Remembering Ghostwatch for more on that) field questions from angry viewers. In an another clip Chris Morris gives a funny response who believed an 'news item' on The Day Today in which members of the Royal Family taking part in a cull of household staff.


Right to Reply

Left wing fire brand politician Derek Hatton discusses with a Channel 4 executive over whether or not the character of Michael Murray in Alan Bleasdale political drama  G.B.H. is based on him