Programs – The Indecisive Eejit

1950s-television-set-006 — Image by Hulton Getty

I don’t watch a lot of TV, a mixture of not having a lot of spare time so choosing to do others things with it, and also there being not too many appealing programs. Every week I scan the TV book in the hope of something exciting, but I am usually left disappointed.

My guilty pleasure would be ‘Hollyoaks’, the only soap opera I watch. It’s dinner time viewing, as in something to do when I eat, well that’s what I tell myself anyway. The truth is I hate missing it and will flee to the catch up channel on the few occasions that it happens.

Then you have the hard hitters that keep me hooked week after week, like Grey’s Anatomy. I was a late starter to the joy that is this program, but many late nights spent on Lovefilm ensured I got caught up, so much so that I am currenly watching the latest season as it airs on Sky.

Lately though I have found a secret pleasure in programs containing ‘The Great British’ in the title. Like ‘The Great British Bakeoff’ and more recently ‘The Great British Sewing Bee’. I have no interest or knowledge of sewing, bar running away from people who wish to sew my lips shut, but strangely I am finding this program both entertaining and enlightening. I love how over the course of the program we see ordinary people grow and flourish in their chosen craft, while learning about them as a person at the same time.

Also top of the list has been a 6 week run of a programme called ‘Hair’, same kind of idea, amateur hairdressers are pitted against each other in order to find an overall champion. Believe me there were some weird and wacky styles on display, but also some rather amazing ones.

On hindsight, perhaps I do like the old google box after all!

What shows make you oooh and ahhhh? and what would be your guilty pleasure?

I seem to have this unbelievable knack of starting to watch a series, and falling in love with it (on Lovefilm that is), just as they are about to pull it from the catalogue.

I rarely get time to watch films, but I like series’s as with the removal of adverts each episode is a tidy little 40 minutes.

I have managed to pack in a great many episodes in a short space of time recently. There was all nine series of Greys Anatomy, it was so good and the cause of many middle of the nighters!

Then there was Haven, another great show. It sometimes got a little predictable in the middle, but had this great knack of hooking you in at the end of each episode, meaning I had to watch just one more, for, umm all three series.

Currently it’s Greek. Of course I picked it out of the ‘Last Chance’ folder. I’m stupid like that. Of course I also started to watch it without checking to see how long was left. Sod’s law I am enjoying it immensely and now have only 10 days left in which to watch the last 3 series. Thank goodness for Christmas, it’s going to be a bit of a life saver and hopefully allow me to finish before the finish, if you catch my drift!

Wish me luck, I am diving in head first! I suppose instead of my usual getting my ‘geek’ on, this Christmas I’ll be getting my ‘Greek’ on.