‘Cliffhangers should be illegal!’: the most annoying things about TV

From shoddy subtitles to improbable accents and the fact that no one ever uses a toilet, our writers address the biggest bugbears on the small screen

I understand: making television is hard. Relatable characters, realistic dialogue, actual jokes - these things take huge amounts of effort. What doesn't take huge amounts of effort is working out which accents to give which characters.