My View On TV

Let me start by saying I rarely watch TV when I am supposed to; meaning I hardly watch the television. I am one of those people, not saying there’s a group of people it just makes me sound less weird, that watch TV on the numerous ‘players’ or ‘on demand’ services that can be found on the internet. I try to watch TV when I am supposed to but because I have stopped this I find trying to return to being normal, in this sense, to be like trying to jump onto a moving platform that’s revolving faster than I lost interest in James Cameron’s Avatar. One reason is that, in general, I only watch freeview because getting hold of the Sky remote is an act similar to the scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark in which Indiana Jones attempts to switch a gold naked midget with a sand bag; basically it ends in me being chased by a boulder, or my dad as we like to call him.

Even though I don’t watch TV in a regular sense I still notice that there is a lot of shit on nowadays and I mean a lot. From the endless episodes of Gok Wan makes women cry by staring at their tits to the overused cook-off format that turns baking muffins into scenes resembling the Somme; it’s all bullshit. I imagine there are some excellent ideas floating around but TV channels would rather put out shows about fighting gypsies than anything that can be counted as real entertainment. I really miss Doctor Who, I know they are having a sabbatical but without it the country has let shows like The Only Way Is Essex, which might as well have been filmed in sepia because of the mainly orange cast, take over as a decent nights entertainment. I have had enough of this sort of TV and that is why I create my own TV channel by watching shows I enjoy such as Lee Mack’s entertaining and highly amusing series’ ‘Not Going Out’, and the superbly written and casted comedy ‘The IT Crowd’ amongst others, either on DVD or online, to keep me from doing as any British person would do, writing a strongly worded letter. Woops it looks like it didn’t stop me. Oh well.