X-ray wrote:
You haven't seen East Enders then?
I saw ten minutes of an episode ONCE and that was enough for me to seek a neurologist's opinion. It made my frontal lobes shut down.
At least with Trisha it is real people, but when the program is meant to be entertainment, you expect more.
Yeah, brings me back to my major gripes about television in general. I freely confess to being somewhat of a geek in that I can lose myself for hours in the Discovery / History channels, but the terrestrial channels all seem to follow the same themes:
1) Showing every minority sporting event for HOURS on end, before a panel of experts dissect the preceeding hours in great detail and replay every single moment of note from multiple camera angles. The BBC is especially guilty of this, showing such thrilling sports as Snooker (zzzz), Golf (zzzz), Bowls (WTF?) and Darts.
2) Soap overload - I can't stand soaps, yet all the channels seem to be trying to outdo each other with one moronic soap after the other. I don't give a {bleep} if Sharon in Eastenders is boinking her step brother. Enough already!
3) Reality TV - Please no more Big Brother. Thanks to BB we now have "celebrities" like Jade Goody, who thinks that "East Angular" is a foreign country. I'm sick of the culture that seems to value being as thick as a prize yoghurt above all other achievements.
4) Pop Idol - No, no, no, no! And all the bloody channels are getting in on the act! When I'm Prime Minister I'm putting Simon Cowell and Pete Waterman on a Stalin-esque show-trial public trial for crimes against humanity. I expect nothing less than twenty years had labour each.
5) Home makeover programmes - I don't care if terracotta will improve the karma of my lounge, or of some annoying bint thinks I should have purple cushions.
Where's the interest? Where's the comedy and satire?
