MTV! If not for them showing Fox News (yes, I'm not a liberal pinhead, deal with it!), I'd just erase them off my TV channels forever! I mean, any little kid would know that the 6PM - 9PM belt is a very lucrative time period for any TV channel... and what do these guys show? Some Hindi
baila! I mean, nothing against Hindi music, but a bloody English channel (one of only 3 that we have!) showing Hindi stuff during
primetime?! I mean, can't they show repeats of the late night tucked away stuff
atleast? Maybe I'll get to catch a few episodes of Jake in Progress or House... Is that too much to ask? :/
ETV is beyond redemption, I mean when there's no American Idol these guys just show the same bullshit every freaking week! and ARTtv seems to think that it's bloody CNN, showing all business programs and stuff...
Meh, this all started with these buggers and their stupid levy on foreign TV shows... has that stopped Mahagedara? Ah? Has it??!
If you told me 4 years ago that this was going to happen to English language channels, I would've laughed my ____ off!
I guess I'd start watching that stupid Swarnavahini-mahagedara-ripoff from tomorrow...
Whoa! Chavie calm down! O_O hehe..
ReplyDeleteya.. I too agree. Which is one good reason why I left the TV and got hooked on anime instead. lol
And ya.. how can students nowadays improve their English without good programmes. Those days we had 'Follow me', 'Sesame Street' and so on. And then around 98 or 99 they hosted Discover channel for a while.
Wish they'd bring back all the good stuff after zapping all these junk shows.. ne? =D
*Discovery channel (see my dyslexia is up again.. hehe)
ReplyDeleteHarumi: Lol! :D Yea... I remember Sesame Street... and another favorite of mine used to be "GhostWriter" which got me all interested about computers and hackers! :D and Discovery Channel and NatGeo, those were awesome... I learned such a lot from them, from Napoleon to Plane Crashes to awesome buildings and space travel... Dunno why they don't show them anymore... but our kids are missing out on a lot of good programming... :)
ReplyDeleteYep, I'm waiting to see what ITN's new 'Prime TV' is going to be like... hopefully it has NatGeo on it!!! :D
Thanks for the comment Harumi! :)
Awwwww poor kid! A few years back we had more evening shows on TV that we couldn't decided what to watch! =P
ReplyDeleteOh well, your generation has broad band, download tv series... I'd suggest The Big Bang Theory! and How I Met Your Mother! Hilarious stuff I tell ya!
Are they still showing Fox news test transmission (May be the longest test transmission in the world)?
ReplyDeletecouldn watch television for sometime..
true true... i agree! not just from 6-9, but there's hardly anything to watch ! x
ReplyDeleteThe Puppeteer: Yea I remember!! Then I stopped watching for like O/Ls and when I came back it was as if a tornado had ripped through... :( I remember the days when ETV used to show 4 programmes each day, from 7 to 9... man! those were the days! :)
ReplyDeletewill download from today, I'm getting a new broadband connection!!! :D
Kirigalpoththa: Yea... it's been going on for ages, I dunno why they haven't made it permanent! :D But I hated them for taking Ellen DeGeneres off and showing Fox instead... but Bill O'Reilly somehow converted me! :S hehe
Macca: Yep... maybe Dialog and Peo TV are paying them to show crappy stuff so that we'd move to Sat/IPTV... hehe :D
Thanks for the comments guys! :)
ya..! This brings back so much memories that.. I feel like doing a post about my all time favorite TV shows (of good old days). But time's the only issue.. =D
ReplyDeleteBTW did Ghostwriter had hacking too? can't recall ne.. I only remember about hacking from Crash Zone..
Ya, Discovery had my top favorites too.. now I can't recall everything but.. I was a big fan of Steve and Ian and of that kids' show PMK.. I was too old to watch the latter perhaps but.. couldn't resist the programs they had about ghosts and supernatural phenomena. =D
Ya.. hope they'd add more good stuff on TV.. in the nearest future. BTW did ITN say they're gonna change their primetime shows?
@Harumi: Yes it did... (if I remember correctly...) coz it was basically about some guy sending messages through a computer wasn't it? :D Crash Zone was also one of my faves! I'd give anything to become a professional game tester!!! hehe ;)
ReplyDeleteIan Wright!! I loved him!! :D and Steve Irvin too! They used to have the most interesting programming on Discovery... and PMK had of little (back then anyway) Elisha Cuthbert in it!!! so naturally I'd watch it! ;) also: junkyard wars!!! made me wish I had a junkyard! hehe :D
No, ITN is going to start up a new English language channel... see here
Thanks for the comments Harumi! :)
You're welcome. ^__^
ReplyDeleteReally? my memory of Ghost writer is too vague I guess. -__-
oh for sure.. count me in.. though I'm no expert in games but I don't mind playing them all day long if someone pays me! lol
Really? That's nice to hear. Ya Elisha was such a cutie.. lol oh thanks for reminding, Junkyard wars was my super fav too! That game was so interesting that I hardly missed an episode of it. =D Ya we should have those great games in Lanka too..
oh so Prime TV is a new channel, thought you mentioned about primetime shows. hehe.. Thanks for the link. ^__^
Hehe... :D If there was a job involving tweeting all day, I'd definitely take that! ;)
ReplyDeleteyep... :D we definitely have a couple of 'world class' junk yards, so we could make the best of it! ;)
Thanks for the comment Harumi! :)
Tweeting? is it that cool? well I did visit the website but didn't join since I've nothing interesting to share from time to time.. =D
ReplyDeleteoh gosh.. talk about the junk hills. I'm wondering why any of them haven't won the Guinness world record yet.. for the tallest junkyard! lol
You're welcome.. ^__^
@Harumi: it's good if you have nothing better to do all day... ;)
ReplyDeleteYep, that thing in Bloemendal definitely takes the cake... :D