Have you ever noticed that the shows on TV on Sunday are absolute bullshit? This is what plays on Sundays on my TV, on various channels;
1. Sports.
Freakin' sports. Not even a wide variety of sports, no... just football/rugby/whatever you want to call it. Just a bunch of testosterone-y men in short shorts flailing around. All goddamned day.
2. OLD shows.
Like, really old. Black and white old. Shows with Elizabeth Taylor in them. Shows that make cultural references that we don't even get.
The kind that think pairing a fat guy with a beautiful girl is, in itself, hilarious. The kind that make frequent use of fart jokes. The kind that make all intelligent people groan and hastily change the channel before their IQ is dragged down further.
Maybe this arrangement is a remnant from the days when women stayed at home all week and watched TV (which is why I suspect soap operas air on daytime TV during the week), and Sunday was the mens' day to relax.
Maybe the networks believe that old people play bowls during the week, and watch TV on Sundays to give their rheumatoid limbs a rest.
Maybe they believe that Sunday is the day that idiots all over Australia sit down and watch the appropriately named idiot-box.Whatever the reason, it's a pain in the arse.
Sunday is the day when party-goers of all ages are nursing their hangovers, hoping to be lulled into zombitude by something remotely interesting to watch. Sunday is the day that people want to veg out in front of the TV before starting a new week. Sunday is the day that people spend with their families, doing familial things like being couch potatoes together.
Sunday is the day when party-goers of all ages are nursing their hangovers, hoping to be lulled into zombitude by something remotely interesting to watch. Sunday is the day that people want to veg out in front of the TV before starting a new week. Sunday is the day that people spend with their families, doing familial things like being couch potatoes together.
TV programmers seem to assume everyone wants to watch sports on Sunday. If you despise watching sport, you're stuck with granny TV.
ReplyDeleteCrappy programming is one of the reasons I chucked out my TV. But you are forgetting the worst: loud, blaring commercials piercing your comfortable daze every fifteen minutes or so in order to sell you stuff you don't need.
These days I prefer to gorge myself on downloaded series as part of my anti-hangover treatment. Watching half a season of Battlestar Galactica or Dexter in a single sitting beats any regular TV program.
And this is why I don't watch TV.
ReplyDeleteIt's like this in the US, too. So I'm guessing this Sunday TV crisis is worldwide.
However, my mom LOVES old time TV shows (she's 56). She doesn't have cable, and she gets channels that you can't get on any other TV but ours it seems. Channel 5-2?? WTF.
Yeah, it's like that in the U.S. as well (from Florida). Luckily I have a DVR, so I can watch shows I recorded on the History Channel or Science Channel when my dad is done drooling over sweaty men patting each other on the ass (you should post about how gay pro sports are). Sadly, even the History and Science Channels are starting to pander, especially the History Channel. They've got these inane shows like "Pawnstar", "American Picker", and "American Restoration", which are about, respectively, a pawnshop with the "entertaining" retarded brother of the owner, 2 middle aged closeted gays going around the country buying junk and calling it American treasure, and an over-the-hill white guy who is desperately trying to reassert his virility buy restoring old crap from the 30s to 60s that really means nothing and calling it saving a piece of American history (we're talking things like gas station pumps, peep show machines, etc..).
ReplyDeleteIt's a pandemic.
I hate Sundays because I have to work the next day.
ReplyDeleteThis is so true.
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That's why you should invest in SKY+, that way you can record the TV shows during the week and watch them at the weekend. Handy!
ReplyDeleteSundays are fricken horrible, cause the next day is monday. and monday brings with it a torrent of hell.
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What I watched? A "My Cat from Hell" marathon. My point is, you're right.
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