"I wish there was a knob on the TV so you could turn up the intelligence. They got one marked "brightness" but it don't work, does it?"
Leo Anthony Gallagher
Post Summary: Complaining about Television.
I find that when I sit down to watch television, that most of the time, its utter rubbish, I mean seriously, does no-one have any imagination today. I've talked about this in the past, looking at the horrible genre that is reality television, but now I find that television is just becoming more rubbish as I speak. You could say that is a matter of opinion, but in this case, please for the love of god, follow my advice, I did study this shit for three years.
Firstly in my firing line is Crime Dramas/Medical Dramas. Oh dear lord they're are so many of them, following the same idiotically basic storyline, a monkey from Peru could tell you that it is the man/woman that you least expect is the murderer or that man has some mysterious cancer, is actually really easy to cure. Also there's always a twist, what is the need? really, all I want to do is know who killed that guy? or know whether that posh Doc is pregnant?, and get it over and done with, end of.
It truly frustrates me that they have to drag it out for another 45 minutes, along with 20 minutes of adverts in quarter hourly chunks, trying to sell utter crap to the masses. The only Crime Drama that didn't annoy me to much, was The Bill, a show that really brought foot to arse when it came to fighting crime, almost beautiful you might say, seeing chavs getting the shit kicked out of them by the boys in blue (speaking of beaten chav...watch THIS) , however after 26 years on air, that is being stopped as well, so that sends any credibility I had for ITV down the shitter.
My next little rant comes from the little worlds of soap operas. I'm just saying that a programmes that have exhausted EVERY storyline possible, may need to give it up (does anybody remember that plane crashing on emmerdale? I rest my case). In Emmerdale also there has been a total of 30 "disasters" in the past 24 years of its running. People in REAL country villages, only experience the kind of drama or excitement equal to that of watching paint dry, which is basically a good metaphor for what I think about watching soap operas, pointless and boring. However the age of the soap opera is dying out I think with reality shows replace the equally pointless void in the television schedules. A new series of the 'X factor' has done this, fairly effectively. However there is one thing i'd do to Simon Cowell if I met him..drug him, then tattoo "rage against the machine 2009" on his face, just to make him remember that he failed once.
Right then, now that my rants are out of the way, I can actually get down to informing you about some good television (In my opinion) that is on at the moment.
Denoted by small reviews and Star ratings (5 being the best)
1. This is England 86 - Trailer - Website
The Gang are back! Join Shaun, Woody and others, in a four part series about a time that was 1986
"We're not growing up, we're growing sideways"
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I cannot wait for this.
Starts 7th September 2010
2. Pete Vs Life - Watch
A short series where failing sports journalist Pete's life is commentated on by two comic commentators. many many embarassing moments.
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Makes me laugh and cringe all at the same time. Genius.
Watch it Now.
I shall keep my television listings short for today. I wouldn't want you to become to engrossed.
MT
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