What we watch
Vee and I usually finish the day sitting on the couch together watching television. Most of what we watch is recorded on Sky+. That way, we never miss a programme we really want to watch, we can stop the programme if we missed some dialogue, and we can skip the adverts.
At the core of our viewing is the American series. In fact, we follow three: “Desperate Housewives” (we’ve just started series 4), “Brothers And Sisters” (we’ve just commenced series 2) and “Heroes” (again series 2 has just begun). I also watch “Lost” (we’re on series four here) but Vee thinks this is silly.
We’re both keen on news and current affairs, so we always watch BBC’s “News At Ten” and we usually watch CNN’s “The Situation Room” (to get the latest on the US primaries).
We like some entertainment, so we generally watch “Friday Night With Jonathan Ross” and we loved “Gavin & Stacey”.
Vee watches more television than me. She likes programmes on property and gardening, so she’s never sort of something to view, and she’s also strong on nature programmes and historical documentaries. My extras tend to be programmes on science, especially cosmology and physics.
Neither of us is remotely interested in sports programmes.
What you you like to watch?
May 5th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
I would start at Monday but since you mention something strange, I’ll start on Thursday. Thursday is Desperate Housewives, we’re in season 4 already, episode 4-14. Maybe that has to do with apartheid era sanctions, we always had US programming, unfortunately no British programmes, unless they were illegally brought into the country. I will deny knowledge of all illegal dealings. So getting back to Thursday, we’re also watching CSI Vegas.
Monday nights they are airing BBC’s Earth: The Power of the Planet, in place of 50/50, a nature program the government pulled because coloured people don’t seem to reflect their desired racial quotas. We get to watch half of it until our scheduled “Load Shedding” (power cuts) take place, but being BBC and in English (not that my Afrikaans is bad) it is a much better show than 50/50 sonder the big cats and elephants.
Tuesdays we’re watching… or WERE watching Prison Break, season 3 just ended. Californication just started recently, preceded by Saving Grace, the series, not the movie. The Terminator series starts this Tuesday but I’ll probably give it a miss to catch up on some reading.
Weekends are reserved for sports, with the Super 14 under way and the Sharks having lost their last 3 games, I’m not sure why we’re still watching. But the British/Irish Lions tour and the Tri-Nations is coming up and then it’s on to the currie cup, least my side will win a game, I have little hope for the Lions tour or the tri-nations, but this isn’t a sports blog.
Weekends also have lots of Nature documentaries, maybe it’s an African thing but you can’t complain. SABC1 (ANC1) has lots of Historical programs on Apartheid and the evil white colonialists, but they aren’t all bad.
Sunday there are nature documentaries all day apart from Sunday evening there is Carte Blanche, who describe themselves as a “highly acclaimed magazine show that brings you some of the most intelligent,insightful and controversial reports on current issues of interest”. It is a very diverse program that “shows it all”, last Sunday they aired the Stephen Walker directed “A Boy Called Alex” about Alex Stobbs.
With access to DSTV, our pay for satellite TV, I normally get stuck on Discovery, N.G., N.G. Wild, History, BBC Food/prime.
I watch the news but it’s scary, whether it’s a world trend or just in some places I wouldn’t know, but it’s all kidnappings, rapes, murders and corruption. Sad.
May 7th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Grand Designs!
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Dispatches
Deadliest Catch (guilty pleasure)
(I’ve also heard The Wire is astonishingly good, but I have never seen it — must get the DVDs)