When I was young we had a black and white telly, now I do not mean one that was colour coded to fit in with the sitting room décor, I mean it was an old black and white, a telly that made watching snooker exciting, a telly that made all landscapes look like home, aye the good old days!
Now because I am not that old we only had this telly for a couple of years before we were up graded to colour, a revolution in telly watching and the pride of the house, because having a colour telly not only meant watching the snooker was now at a different level but the family had moved out of the poor working class bracket to the middle working class, A huge social step!!
The fact that there were only two channels did not matter as they were both in colour, people looked like people and landscapes were...well landscapes but ones we had never seen before.
The household watched new programmes, some scary others funny but all original!!!
Flash forward one or two years and have a look at where we are, several hundred channels all in colour some in 3D, tellies that are designed to match your décor and not only that the average screen size is three times what we used to watch!
Aye progress is wonderful, we have huge colour tellies, designed to fit any room and over two hundred channels full of new interesting programmes to choose from.
Sadly yes and no, yes we have the big tellies that can tell you what you like to watch, yes you can buy them in any shape or form and colour you like to suit your décor but that is where the good news and all the progress ends!!!
The programmes are the same bloody ones I was watching on the black and white telly all those years ago....aye and the snooker is still boring!!
Okay the programmes are not the same but am I the only one that has noticed that the two hundred channels are full of repeats, and not just repeats that are a few years old, repeats that are weeks old!!
The same films appear over ten different channels over the week just to make sure you have seen it at least twice.
If a programme is classed as original you can be sure it is another reality, spy camera documentary about either a very rich or a very dysfunctional family with more problems than Jeremy Kyle can solve!!!
If somebody does make a programme that is worth watching once, you can be sure it will be flogged to death by repeats over every channel that makes nothing new.
Every channel not only shows repeats but in-between those repeats are endless adverts for all we need and desire to make our lives complete. The result of the adverts is that what is supposed to be an hour long show full of original content is now only thirty five minutes long...aye yet another rip off!
The whole reality show circus makes you wonder if we have really become a nation of telly zombies that are afraid to watch a programme with either a plot or one that dare I say it provokes thoughts and debate.
So this weekend when the repeats are repeats of the repeats, why not turn the telly off turn to your partner and strike up a conversation, invite friends around, play games with the kids and there is one thing you will be guaranteed, it will be original and who knows you might even be entertained!
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