And lo On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:11:31 -0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> did  
spake thusly:

>>>> Then again are we just getting a large amount of rubbish these days?
>>>
>>> Otherwise known as "you're getting old". Apparently I share this
>>> affliction. :-(
>>
>> It's a glib answer, but is it true? I honestly don't think so.
>
> I don't have enough data to say with any certainty.
>
> (Also, the only "glib" I know of is the GNOME Foundation utilities  
> library...)

See this is why you need the Sony eReader with built-in dictionary (been  
slowly reading the "Kindling" thread)

>> and now the BBC is spread over
>> two more channels and two kids ones (discounting the news and  
>> parliament);
>> ITV's gained three plus a children's; Four's got at least two more as  
>> has
>> Five; plus all the other non-affiliated stuff. There's no extra content  
>> so
>> it's just being spread paper-thin over all these new channels.
>
> In other words, instead of having four or five quality channels, we have  
> 400 or 500 channels of filler. How sad.

Yup - well 20 channels anyway not counting the ones trying to overtly sell  
you something. Discounting Sky (which I hear so many say "I just bought it  
for the football/movies and there's nothing else on") and consider the  
jump to Freeview from five channels to over twenty. With no increase in  
budget how can there not be a hit in quality?

>> I have never, NEVER enjoyed soaps; they make my brain itch; fake
>> purporting to be reality while obviously being fake. It's a level of
>> self-deception I can't follow.
>
> I hate soaps too. And yet, we seem to be drowning in them today.

I can't even argue them as cheap television. I guess it's the continuation  
factor; once you've got a subject hooked they'll specifically tune in to  
watch and you can charge higher advertising rates.

>>> Then again, maybe I'm just bitter because you can't turn on your TV
>>> any more and watch science or nature programs. They just don't seem to
>>> make 'em any more.
>>
>> Couple of Horizon's on the BBC, the odd Attenborough, but no other than
>> that it's fairly bleak.
>
> Hell, Horizon used to be good stuff. Now it seems to be "hey, look at  
> this freak boy born without eyebrows, and watch the incredible reality  
> story of how doctors perform ground-breaking surgery to make him normal  
> again". To suffice, even Horizon is a reality TV show now.

Couple of decent ones recently. Though sadly they have gone down the route  
of re-explaining things every five minutes. Either they expect people to  
tune in late or they consider their audience memory-deprived.

>> There's always Dave.
>
> Dave. What are you doing Dave? This is highly irregular...

Dave Ja Vu :-P

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