With
me it's a late night thing.
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A
long time ago I gave up watching TV in the evenings...
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...at
least on a regular basis.
At
prime time there are so few programmes that interest me.
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The
two main consequences of this are that the most productive part of
my creative working day has shifted: I do most of my writing and
drawing in the evenings...
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...and
I seem to have relinquished all my rights to the remote control
during peak viewing time.
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Though
why I do it remains a mystery. A strange compulsion. I mean, I've
already consulted the TV guide and established that there is not much
for me in the way of education or entertainment. Even though my
standards at this time of the night, after working all evening, are
quite low.
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Do
I somehow think that the TV companies will have changed or rearranged
their schedules at the very last minute just to suit me?
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Even
I'm not that
optimistic!
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Oh...and...by
the way...we have cable TV with the minimum package, just 25
channels, so you'd think that I'd be zapped-out in no time...
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...not
a bit... when I get to the end I zap right back again!
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Okay...eternally
hopeful and lowering my standards yet another degree...let's try
again...there must be something...
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What's
this? Naked 'Celebrities' eating worms in the jungle? They must be
really desperate...
for
a career!
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Oh
no ...yet another programme about sick people. I don't get this
fascination with disease and injury on television. I mean, you
wouldn't say to your family after Sunday lunch “ Come on, let's all
go down to the local hospital and watch some people being seriously
ill” would you? Or maybe YOU would?
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Ah...this
looks better...an old detective series. Em? Let's see..the body was
found in a 10th floor apartment and the lift was out of order.
They've arrested a lift engineer with a criminal record and a grudge
against the victim...oh yes... and he had the murder weapon in his
hand. So it's obvious...he didn't commit the murder. My bet is that
it is either the young girl in a wheel chair with two broken arms and
a cast iron alibi or an apparently irrelevant barman who appears too
often and has too many lines for a bit part actor. Possibly they are
in it together. ..damn...commercial break....
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...more
commercials...
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...talk
show repeat..
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...hey...wait
a minute... a film... and it's just started. It looks okay... I'll
just get myself a beer and...
...OH
NO!... IS THAT THE TIME!!!!!!!!
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