How tired are we?

Twice now we've put on episode one of The Wire, Series 3, and twice now we've fallen asleep in front of it.

That's how tired we are.

Box set heaven

Last night I stayed up till midnight so I could get to the end of The Wire, series 1. Utterly addicted.

Who gives a stuff about Carol?

So there's a big brouhaha about Carol Vorderman announcing she's leaving Countdown because they tried to make her take a big pay cut yaaawn and it's off air supposedly to make way for Channel 4 Racing yaaaaawn but quite frankly I don't care just BRING IT BACK. It's the format we love, not the quietly smug and gratingly chirpy presenters. You could put a blow up doll in the place of Carol and it would still be a great show. Just put it back on pleeaase. I need my Countdown fix.

Crap telly

I've broken my book diet and found myself compulsively watching Runs House and reruns of My Super Sweet 16 on MTV - the TV equivalent of Pot Noodle.

Operation Crossword

I'm conscious that I've become a very tedious person recently - most of my "hobbies", if you can call them that, took me out of the house - to the cinema and swimming pool and restaurants and ski runs and so on. But indoors I've become nothing short of a zoned-out biscuit-eating TV-watching bub-feeding couch potato. So I am now making a concerted effort to become more interesting by reading books (I'm achieving about 4 paragraphs a day) listening to music and reminding myself how to do the Torygraph Crossword (my only concession to right wing newspapery.) Like all good diets I give myself, ooh, about 5 days, before I give up...

addicted to crap telly

since telly is famously getting worse all the time i think it's best to rejoice in it's grubbiness, rather than moan about the good ole days, so here's the list of dross i'm series linking on Sky+ at the moment:

• gray's anatomy (but it's gotta be series 3 on living tv - none of that 1-series-behind-shitey-stuff on five)
• ugly betty (but it's gotta be the first viewing on wednesdays on e4 - none of that two-days-after-the-main-event-shitey-stuff on four)
• the apprentice (that katie, eh? whottabitch)
  
• gordon ramsay's f word (worth it just to hear the foodie gobshite tell gordon to f*** off)
  
• countdown (i'll have an inverted T please carol)
• paul merton in china (disappointingly crap)
• shipwrecked 2007 (go tigers, go)
• big brother on the couch (my concession to BB so far. i will not get addicted to BB this year, i WILL NOT get addicted to BB this year ad infinitum)
  
• project runway (i really have sunk that low)
  
• abbey and janice - the beauty and the best (and yet lower still)

tragic isn't it?