Monday 21/09/09

I don't watch much television as it's shown; I'm a bigger fan of downloading shows and choosing when to see them, but I've broken this habit now that Peep Show is back on. I spent my teens watching little but Men Behaving Badly and Red Dwarf, with my worn out videos of those proving how into them I was, and there is every chance I could spend my twenties wearing out my hard drives with the amount of Peep Show I watch on my computer. I do love Peep Show, like most normal people.

There's a new series on now, as everybody knows, and since I don't have the patience to wait to download the new episodes and watch them I went all 20th century and saw the first episode as it went out on Channel 4 (albeit in HD). As odd as it was to see the show on a normal sized screen, while sat on a sofa, I really enjoyed it. As farcical as the show gets, it's still relatable, although my experience of being made redundant differs slightly from Mark's.

There are some shows I really enjoy, but make no attempt to download or record because I know for a fact that it will definitely be on some channel or another when I turn the television on. I love Road Wars. I'm a pretty big fan of Street Crime UK as well. I like to see the bad guys of society getting caught (unless it's fictional, when I am more than willing to kick the crap out of a policeman in Grand Theft Auto). It has added excitement when you see the police flooring it behind a Nova through Slough in a car chase that relies on recognition of areas that are local to you to make it all the more realistic and thrilling. What's better than watching a robber get decked? Watching a robber get decked outside a pub you drink in, while you stay comfortably rooted to the couch at home, safe.

In the show the police don't seem to be half as restricted as the press, or my father, would have me believe. Happily, they'll beat a suspect to floor or tell them to shut the fuck up on national television. It's purely aspirational television, as a skinny (according to Al Murray) guy who's closest achievement to inflicting deserved physical punishment was when I kicked the cat out of the house for shitting on the floor.