It could be my age, or it could be this combined with the quality of comedy I was brought up with but the latest crop on the Disney channel have made me consider whether or not to apply for the job of Hermit on Saint Helena. I assume that programmes such as Jessie, Good Luck Charlie, Wizards of Waverley Place, Two Kings, Austin and Ally etc. etc. are intended as comedies, otherwise why the dubbed laughter to remind us which bits are supposed to be funny. The characters are interchangeable, formulaic and dull. Making shit TV must be so cheap today, bloody digital revolution. Also, what is the teen obsession with vampires? My boyfriend/girlfriend/babysitter/courgette/ring-piece is a vampire, most have been used.
What makes this worse is that my own flesh and blood, i.e. Eddy and Beth, use the TiVo to record this nonsense, sometimes the same episode several times. My Saturday mornings will now be spent rising early and deleting most of the recorded bollocks on my TiVo hard-drive, then topping it up with British comedy shows from the 70s, 80s and 90s, changing the password then returning to bed. I have to, a series link would enable thousands of episodes.
And then there are the paranormal investigation programmes. There are now so many ghost hunters roaming both the UK and the US that there's barely any room to shoot any reality TV shows. There's one where they visit places where serial killers may have visited or lived and a psychic manages to connect with the spirit of the murderer. Sometimes the said killer is not even dead. Now ghosts, of the living, can frequent places visited from some brief period of time. If this is the case then you have to feel for the mediums, they must be able to witness this phenomena everywhere. It's a wonder they manage to get any shopping done, or anything else for that matter. Thankfully most of these shows have to screen the disclaimer, 'for entertainment purposes only'. There is something in that. it is entertaining, but for the wrong reasons.
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