Televisual Nightmares

I can become slightly unhinged when it comes to tv sheduling out here in Australia and in particular Channel 10. So the issue, the issue is simple, you are a tv channel, you have a few things to achieve in your role as tv channel, to have decent programming (ok maybe not, maybe just programming) to provide news (ok perhaps news of sorts) and to follow a schedule.

Now you would think scheduling would be where Channel 10 might shine as they clearly cannot achieve anything else, this is where they can make a difference by being at least a channel that prides itself on being accurate, professional and timely.

Of course not, and I'm not talking about a few minutes here and there, it is beyond belief that it sometimes is up to 20 minutes out and regularly 5 and 10 minutes. This disregard for thier viewers is staggering, no where is there an apology, no mention of this slack indifference.

You are just left helpless speculating as to when the program might finish. This plays havoc with anyone foolishly wanting to record a program and watch it later as you have half of 'Strictly Dance Your Fat off' or 'The Farmer Wants it' or something similar. So what is the point of having a printed schedule at all? Lets wipe all schedules clean and leave it for guess work shall we?

You are stuck in some kind of televisual nightmare limbo, stuck with the awful prospect of having to watch Rove, willing with all your inner power for him to wrap it, but of course for someone who cant stop this proves impossible. 10,15 or 20 minutes after the program should have finished he is still assuming that everyone wants to hear his monologue.

I'd also like to put on the record that pretty much the only thing I watched (past tense) on Channel 10 was the Formula 1 and that coverage sent me quite mad and scouring the internet for alternatives, which I found. I now call for Channel 10 to be wiped off the face of the Earth.

Yours Mahmoud Ahmadinejad