Weekend television

Tonight I have been extremely lazy. I am now playing poker, after having spent the previous few hours in front of the television watching 24 and Waking the Dead - almost the perfect evening of television.

However, although these two shows are excellent, TV, in general, is starting to get me down - and it's not just that "Racists in a House" show that channel 4 were showing. A lot of the other offerings are absolute crap as well...

When I was younger, I remember shows such as Noel’s House Party and Bruce Forsyth’s Generation Game being the pinnacle of weekend entertainment. The question that has to be asked is this: why has weekend TV become so awful? One possible answer is that we are not 12 any more, but in reality I think there is a lot more to it than that...

Take channel 4’s prime time Saturday night offering – The New Ten Commandments, a show in which the British public vote for a new set of commandments as the original ones are seen to be slightly dated. Somebody, somewhere, with a lot of control over television broadcasting, must have thought ‘What a great idea for a programme’ – and this worries me immensely. Firstly, the British public don’t bother voting for elections, so voting for a TV show won’t give us a realistic spread of opinion and secondly – votes were charged at premium rate, nobody in their right mind is going to pay to vote on such a trivial matter…apart from idiots, of course. So therefore, what this show boils down to is a rubbish television programme influenced by idiots…sheer genius and compelling viewing.

Out of the original 10, only 3 commandments remained and the rest were replaced with suggestions such as – “Be true to yourself”, “appreciate what you have” and “Nothing in excess”. If only they’d taken the latter to heart with the subject of poor television...

The DMBD sketch I’m posting today is called “New Fashion”, although I had absolutely nothing to do with this, I feel it needs to be seen by everyone possible as it was one of the most hilarious moments ever when it was first shown at The Stand Comedy Club…Hope you like it…