TV Osmosis

Having been off work sick the past couple of days, I decided to give daytime tv another chance. There wasn't much else I could do after being up half the night in the bathroom. It's unlikely I'm ever going to be able to eat haggis again, it's not quite the same when it's coming back up through your nose........
Anyway, I've always maintained that daytime tv is a load of pap but I haven't really watched it recently. To my surprise it wasn't as bad as I remembered, it was actually worse. Didn't actually think that was possible although that may be due to the fact I have freeview now so I have even more channels of pap to choose from. If it's not teleshopping, it's dumbed down quizzes (What is your name? Derrrrrrrr) or it's programmes about gardening or houses or antiques. Do broadcasters think that no-one really watches tv during the day? I swear I could feel my brains leaking out of my ears while I was watching. If anyone watches this day in, day out then they must lose any intelligence they previously had. Actually that could explain a lot of problems with society today, unemployed neds spend all day in front of the box until they are no use to anyone except baseball cap and Buckfast makers.
The worst offender is probably the Jeremy Kyle show. Imagine a low rent Trisha (and I didn't even think that you could get anymore low rent than Trisha) and you are only half way there. It seems to be the complete dregs of society, sitting there in their tracksuits arguing with each other. Titles of the programme seem to be from the "The father of my 10 kids slept with my sister, my mum and the neighbours dog before spending all my benefit money on drugs. But I still want him back" school. Classy, I'm sure you'd agree. You could go and hang out at the local shopping centre to see neds arguing, God knows why ITV thought it would be a good idea for a TV show.

Strangely though, it seems I've developed a fondness for the abc1 channel on freeview. This seems to exist to show all the by the number American sitcoms again and again with the occasional gem thrown in such as Scrubs. Most of these programmes are terrible but I've actually been enjoying them, maybe it's the lack of food. Home Improvement, The Geena Davis Show and even Rodney have all amused me for some reason. This despite that fact that all American sitcoms seem to be exactly the same just with different people. There is one main character with a "thing" (Is into tools, is a comedian, is a successful planner etc) who has the "perfect" spouse with 2 or 3 all American kids who just get up to the darnest things. Maybe this is the appeal, you know exactly what you are going to get therefore it's comforting. Who knows. Hopefully I'll be back to normal soon so I can stop watching TV. It's probably safer that way, can't see my getting accepted into Uni after losing all my knowledge via TV osmosis.