Odd time of the year...
It's an odd time of year don't you think? For a start there seems to be little to get excited about. I don't just mean that the holidays are all over and Christmas is too far away. I'm refering at the moment to your Tellybox.
I mean look at it - Big Brother 7 has come and gone. Our Sky Plus planners have never looked more bleak. Poor Fred has resorted to putting Most Haunted on series link again and apart from a few documentaries about how to raise toddlers or how to claen your bog etc, there is very little to watch during the week. We even taped a programme about the life of a battery chicken shown on BBC4 - I am not joking.
The oddest thing is that the only programmes on all week that are worth watching are both on at the SAME TIME on a Saturday night. I refer of course to Pop Stars the Rivals Pop Idol - oops sorry I mean X Factor and my own personal favourite programme ever, "How do you solve a problem like Maria". Why the bloomin bum-hole do they have to be on at the same time???
Our international audience (well OK you have me there, there isn't one apart from our Lisa in NZ) will be saying to themselves, what the hell is "How do you solve a problem like Maria"?
It's a programme where they audition thousands of girls from the UK on live TV before giving one of them the part of Maria Von Trap in "The Sound of Music" at London's West End and paying them huge amounts of money.
Does that sound camp? Well it's even more camp than it sounds. At the end of each show the "evictee" girl who didn't quite have enough jam and bread to get through doh to soh gets a rather amusing send off. The other Maria wannabees all line up and sing "So Long, Farewell, I bid you all Adieu!!" I promise you it is a lot more dramatic than any episode of "The Bill"
But aside from the TV I get the impression that everyone is a bit restless.
So today's question is, what have we all got to look forward to? Please leave your comments - make them nice and positive - about what you are particularly excited about doing. I await your stories with interest....
Labels: Big Brother, X Factor
posted by Freddy @ Wednesday, August 30, 2006
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