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Originally Posted by MMM
I agree. There is little real about reality TV anymore. Therefore I don't watch it.
The sheer volume of programming on American TV means I don't have to watch any type of show I don't want to.
Do you only have 4 channels?
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Shocking isn't it. Actually, we have 10 BBC channels, one of which is in welsh and gaelic, two of which are news channels, two of which are kids channels and one we can't watch as it's HD and we haven't signed up for it. We also get 18 other channels through free-view, several of which don't work because we live in a valley and the signal is bad, several others which are temperamental, 5 of which are dedicated solely to repeats of old shows, and one of which is nothing but game shows.
So yes, we pretty much end up rotating between BBC1, BBC2, ITV and Channel 4, with occasional dabbles into the rest. It is like having 4 channels that have a lot of hats.
I guess I forgot about the Documentaries. We get a lot of them. Tonight I could watch about orphaned children living horrible lives in Zimbabwe or Sex trafficking. Or The Bill, or CSI Miami. I'm not even going to mention The Deep, because it is awful.
Something that's occurred to me though, is that probably people enjoy asian dramas because they can cherry pick out the ones that are actually good. If you can do that even with western TV, suddenly the whole lot seems much better. Nyororin, conversely, just gets whatever is actually on TV right then, which I imagine involves a lot of pap.