Almost a third of TV viewers reckon that the quality of programmes got worse last year, according to a new report.
The annual Ofcom report, titled UK audience attitudes towards broadcast media, found that 30% of the adults surveyed believed that programming quality worsened in 2015.
The main reasons given for the drop in quality were more repeats, a lack of variety and an overall lack of quality in programming.
Just 17% felt that programme quality improved last year. The figures are broadly the same that Ofcom has found each year since 2008.
A fifth of those surveyed were offended by something they saw on TV last year with the top three types of content cited as sexual (38%), violence (37%) and bad language (37%).
The report also found that newspapers were considered to be the most intrusive media into the lives of people in the public eye (39%) and into the lives of members of the public (35%).
Newspapers were also considered the most intrusive media in Ofcom’s 2014 report, with TV coming second. However, the 2015 report found that the proportion of people who think that about newspapers has dropped.
