Oh Dear - Here He Goes Again.
Remember how I've been bitching about how sh8 TV is right now? Well, that all got worse today when we lowly Freeview customers lost Channel One, which used to be Virgin One. There are so many US TV shows that have been running for YEARS, and we just lost one outlet for them - why won't someone show 24 (now finished for good, I believe), Stargate Atlantis (cancelled), Lost (finished), Battlestar Galactica (also reached its conclusion) and so on and so forth, INSTEAD of the tedious, plastic "celebrity mag" filler that passes for "must-see TV" these days? We don't need to see MORE drunk/pregnant/drunk AND pregnant teenagers, failed TV "stars" and all their copycat "fans"!The Tale Of The Tape...
24 - First two (?) seasons shown on BBC, two more (?) shown on Sky 3 a couple of years ago. Movie-length special shown on the last "Sky 1 taster" weekend, but nothing since...
Stargate Atlantis - First season shown late nights on Five several years ago, nothing since.
Lost - First two seasons shown on Channel 4. Bought up by Sky. Not seen in any terrestrially-available format since.
Battlestar Galactica - First season shown on Sky 3 once. Nothing since.
"Whine whine we should have more British shows, not American imports!" moan the Ameri-phobes. What, like half a dozen episodes of a third-rate CSI knock-off, or some "gritty social commentary" - and when you say the latter, please tell me you don't mean a certain show about a "heroic" family of drunks and wasters now reincarnated for the US market...
Being Human is about the only thing of UK origin worth watching right now (also being remade for the US), and maybe Outcasts has some potential, unless it's another case of classic "stripped down" modern UK Sci-Fi, that absolutely REFUSES to admit it is Sci-Fi, as though admitting that is like shouting out that you're gay at a skinhead club, or telling the world you have a particularly nasty sexual disease.
Sometimes, I despair.
Gonna log off now, and try and write. Wish me luck.