CRAP T.V.

After a long week, neither my wife nor I was interested in doing much this evening other than staring at a screen and being entertained. Unfortunately, the result was some of the worst T.V. I have ever seen.

The programme started with Versus, an inane game show where contestants have to guess the outcome of two competitors doing silly things (eg is it quicker to take a lift down from the roof of a hotel than to abseil down the outside?). Then there was a really bad film starring Sandra Bullock called Miss Congeniality, in which an undercover FBI officer infiltrates the Miss America beauty contest (just writing that sentence makes me realise how ridiculous the plot was). Then we watched the end of Bridget Jones' Diary 2,which was also pretty bad.

Why didn't we just turn the thing off and (say) read a good book? A good question.

Walter Blotscher