What with the European Cup and the Olympics it has been almost impossible to find an evenings TV viewing this summer. Summertime TV is notorious for repeats and naff programmes imported from America; but this year the TV companies have surpassed themselves. If you're not interested in sport, reality knockout shows, soap operas with plotlines that would stretch the ability of the brain dead to suspend disbelief, or programmes about people with too much money either building or buying expensive houses; then forget it.
We were promised that the advent of digital TV would end all of this; and when the service was enhanced by a DVR our viewing habits would be transformed as we became dazzled by choice. But what has happened? Our channel choice has expanded to include ones that repeat what was on an hour ago, what was on yesterday, what was last year and what was on decades ago.
As if all this wasn't bad enough, when you sit down with you listing magazine to cherry pick the few programmes that might be worth viewing and plan your viewing in conjunction with your DVR; You find that some imbecile at the broadcasting agency has decided that what you really want to watch is a football match between teams competing for a place in a competition that is until next year. Thank you Radio Times what is the point; wrong two nights running.
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