Friday night T.V.

Any regulars readers of this blog - if there is such a thing - will remember that I had a news black out last year. I basically decided to stop watching news programmes as they made me depressed. Having a 10 week old child actually reduces the amount of television you watch by 90% and therefore results in you becoming less and less familiar with whats going on in the world - therefore I'm much happier these days!

Last Friday night the good lady and myself managed to get our darling little child to sleep by eight o'clock so we sat down together, had a drink, and watched some t.v. (we really know how to have a good time!). After flicking through what seemed like 100 plus channels we settled on a programme that listed the top 20 most annoying people - 15 of whom I had never heard of.

What I found most irritating was the fact that the presenters of the show were themselves extremely annoying. Their pseudo-intellectualism regarding all things celeb was particularly galling. How can you make a career out of reading OK magazine and trawling the gossip columns? The amount of profanity spewed out by these brain dead announcers made me wounder whether the producers of the programme had dragged them off the nearest street corner.

Who watches this drivel apart from two worn out parents trying to stay awake on a Friday night?