Channel Hopping

It's now been a little over a week and a half since i got my TV, and a little over a week since i could watch it (they choose NOT to give you the cable you need to hook up the TV to, well, your cable - why? Your guess is as good as mine. Especially as they give you batteries for the remote). Anyway, once hooked up, you begin to understand why some Americans give you sympathy when they find out that we only have five terrestrial channels in the UK. Thankfully, i managed to get the TV working with a couple of days to spare for the second season premiere of "Lost" and a few days before that of "Desperate Housewives" (hilarious, i have to say). Aside from that, you could ask if i've watched anything else decent and the answer to that would have to be no.

You see, having 50+ channels is all very well but if they're all rubbish, what's the point? I'm fortunate in that, being a fan of a few American shows, you don't have to look far to find repeats of them (Friends, Sex and the City, The Simpsons) as well as those one or two shows that barely made it to the UK (such as the fantastic "Family Guy"). Of course, the major annoyance here are the commercials - 15 minutes at least for every hour - about double that of the UK. And they seem to come at the most illogical times. I swear they must just throw darts at a diary to determine when they're gonna put them on. Hell, seems that's how they pick the shoes they're gonna put on!