The television in this country is dire. Daytime viewing consists largely of programmes on the following subjects: gardening, DIY, cookery, moving house, sport, auctions and bargain-hunting, talk shows and the occasional TV film. Around teatime the odd quiz show (full of the most uninspiring and pointless questions that the average three-year-old would not find too challenging) creeps in. Then we have evenings; soap operas, melodramas in installments, more cookery, news, slightly more serious (??) quizzes. There is the occasional film, usually of the most coma-inducing type. The TV is like some great cement mixer, churning round and round the same old drear ad infinitum.
Then there are the repeats, or as the broadcasters put it: 'another chance to see...'. I know some of the repeats word for word, where they have been shown so often. I often have to wait several days for something to be shown that I find even remotely engaging. Most evenings I find myself watching news channels, with the sound turned off, so I can occupy myself by improving my lip-reading skills. I wonder if the TV situation is the same in other countries. Or do we have a monopoly on it?
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