Channel 5...

I spent a lot of yesterday evening watching live baseball on channel 5. Many people mock channel 5, however I feel it is one of the best terrestrial tv channels, as it shows baseball, Prison Break and Columbo. (It is certainly in my top 5 list).

It seems to have got the needs of my generation perfectly – when I was around 13 it showed softcore pornography – this was perfect, in the time before the interent, for the young teenager who was far too young looking to buy a scud mag in the shops.

And now I am older, I obviously have outgrown such titillation on the tv (not because I am somehow morally more mature and against pornography – but because, as pornography goes, it was pretty rubbish).

Remember “Red Shoe Diaries”…a “porn” show that basically amounted to Mulder from the X-files retelling the tale of how Johnny’s big sister got fingered behind a shed?

Porn on terrestrial tv is a lost industry and has gone the way of the magazine…And we have the internet to blame (or thank).