Television in your Country

[Dino Velvet]

I pay about $150 per month for DirecTV HD DVR with all the bells and whistles and 3 hookups. Lotta money but I like TV too.

[martin48]

Brit TV ? ..... Soccer all the time

Followed by bloody Olympics! 5,000 hours in total Synchronized swimming, sailing, ..........

Time to watch Fox News - as if us Brits would understand what such shit is. It is brain-washing for 50% of Americans

[FREEFALLL666]

How can we not understand it ?? Its the same as the s*n paper and the rest of newscrop shite, maybe its just we have done these jokes about 20 years ago, before he bought FOX;- )

What we dont probably understand is the technical aspects of the gag like who the blokes are, the actual delivery of the news is well practised and we've been LOL'ing at it for a long time, well apart from the 3million brain dead people who buy a copy of the s*n every day.

Not only that but err WE INVENTED TV CHANNELS TOO! explains
Living
Watch
Alibi
Blighty
YeSTERDAY
Dave Ja Vu

[Jericho]

well apart from the 3million brain dead people who buy a copy of the s*n every day.

Lol!

[buttslinger]

Blimey, mate $140 is £91 and a few pence! watched Sargent Bilko but American tv has gone downhill since then, n'est-ce pas?

Amen to that, brother.
Oh, I mispoke, my cable package is $89/month PLUS HDTV, Ultimate TV package, Peg fee, state tax, local tax, right of way tax, federal tax, surcharge, minus credit, minus package= $140.41

[buttslinger]

I'm curious....no really I am , but between your TV obsession, and time spent on here....is there enough free time left for any other things?

5 minutes of conservative talk radio on the car presets gives me the entire drone for the day, they're all the same. I admit to watching The Good Wife, NCIS, Hawaii 5-0, Mentalist, and channel surfing. I have my daily stops on the net, but as soon as I plunked down big cash on the package deal, it seems I use it less. I think I did all my Christmas shopping on-line last year.
You dish it out, OMK, but what is your itinerary for the day? Polish your M-16 and play with your Greta Van Susteren blow-up doll?

[LibertyHarkness]

i dont watch telly that often ... only thing i watch is what i record on sky + shows like walking dead, or the odd film from horror channel, fim 4 etc. i recorded spartacus as well ..

but other wise i dont actually watch televison i just have DVDs, Itunes store playing movies most of the time in background ... i prefer reading books to watching the mind numbing shit on telly .

[buttslinger]

ok rant really over now.

We got the House of Commons on our C-Span over here when Murdoch was "on trial" and it's funny the booing and cheering over there. But our "Masterpiece Classics" on PBS is always British Drama and Mystery. Right now it's a lot of Downton Abbey reruns. American TV is sex, sex, comedy, sex, violence, and sexy commercials.
And goddamn Reality shows.

[Dino Velvet]

i dont watch telly that often ... only thing i watch is what i record on sky + shows like walking dead, or the odd film from horror channel, fim 4 etc. i recorded spartacus as well ..

but other wise i dont actually watch televison i just have DVDs, Itunes store playing movies most of the time in background ... i prefer reading books to watching the mind numbing shit on telly .

You guys need a special Telly channel that's all Telly all the time.

[buttslinger]

... i prefer reading books to watching the mind numbing shit on telly .

I've only been to England once, had a day trip to Oxford and found myself frozen in front of the Alice in Wonderland store as the travel group was fading in the distance. Had to make the 221B Baker St stop. Spent 2 hours walking up and down streets looking for Dicken's House. Closed for Bank Holiday. WTF is a bank Holiday??!!!??
Briish Museum is AWESOME!!!
And of course I have my little Shakespeare bust from Stratford-on-Avon.