I have a shorter list. Commercials/Advertisements get the best of me. The nice thing though is that with a DVR you can FF through them. 

 Not just the commercials but the repetitive commercials. They show the same commercial multiple times in the same show....for goodness sakes at least give me some variety.

  Closing a segment just before you get to hear what you've been sitting there waiting to find out for the last 15 minutes. Don't think I don't know they do that on purpose. Then the juicy thing you waited to hear isn't as juicy as you thought it was. 

 Any show involving ghosts or sasquatch or UFOs that portend to be getting to the bottom of something never does. Blah blah blah blah commercial, blah blah blah blah, commercial, rinse repeat show over....and I'm paying for this.

 I have seriously considered getting air TV...forget the cable. In my case over 150.00 a month for a bunch of mindless muckety muck.I get that for free here:)

 I don't mind watching the weather though.....

• Obviously scripted 'conversations' on the news
  The presenter asks an expert correspondent a series of interesting questions that have obviously been scripted in a vain effort to make it look like they're actually having a conversation.
  Just let the correspondent tell me the facts - simples.

Commercials that are interesting or funny the first one or two times they're broadcast.  The disagreeable parts is when they air them 3-4 times an hour for six months after they get boring.  

"Scan & pan" instead of letterbox formatting.  a. The panning looks artificial and mechanical.  b. Two characters each at opposite edges of the screen are rarely on-screen at the same time--even while having a conversation.  

Make-up artists who didn't make a proper adjustment to HD.  They simply used heavier make-up which tended to attract more attention and exaggerate personalities who weren't "ready for HD".  

Maybe we could start a smaller thread entitled: "Things on TV that are NOT really annoying?"

Might be just a UK thing, but I hate the volume goes right up when the ads start as if to make you pay attention. Totally counter productive as I always turn it down lower than it would have been had they just left it at the same level. Also, the way that they have now made almost all channels have the ads on at the same time so that switching to a different channel for a few minutes to avoid them is almost impossible without having to endure the tripe that is usually on the BBC (no-ads allowed channels for the benefit of non-Brits).
 
 

Not only audio volume issues with commercials but movie mixes are nuts too. Soon as the action scene starts the volume is
just to loud. Turn it down and then have to turn it back up for dialog. 

Audio mix and having to pay for "packages" are really my only gripes. And really I don't watch much anyway. Most all of the time
I spend in front of a TV is watching a new DVD.

If not for the family I'd trash the dish. I spend over $150.00 a month for it and mainly for it to just be there when somebody does
want to watch it.

If I paid only for a few channels that we may watch at least I'd feel it was a fair deal. Currently it's a rip and waste of money IMO.