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Mags Meanderings:
From Som Tam
To Mushy Peas
lost in translation?
I have lost count of the number of TV channels now
available to me on Freeview in the UK, but it must be a
few dozen. Many of them I can ignore - the shopping and
‘God’ channels for example, along with the gambling
and ‘Babe Stations.’
Which leaves the 4 main BBC channels, plus the 4
main ITV (independent) channels and a handful of
others specialising in history, drama, films or repeats.
Still enough to choose from you would think, but the
truth is that our major TV networks struggle to fill the
vast amount of viewing time available to them with
anything much worth watching. Cookery programmes,
makeovers, and finding homes in the sun have been
done to death, while minor celebrities have struggled
to dance, skate, dive and get out of jungles.
ITV in particular has become known for its’ ‘fly on the
wall’ documentaries which are intended to show Britain
at it’s worst under the guise of social comment. The most
recent offering being the controversial ‘Benefits Street’,
which looked at the lives of families living on one street
in Birmingham where dependency on state benefits is
said to be particularly high. You have to wonder if the
programmes’ participants were paid - and if so whether
they declared their income?
But the BBC has come up with something equally cringe
worthy, and no doubt vastly more expensive to produce.
If you haven’t seen it yet in Hua Hin it’s worth a quick
look online for the Thailand edition of ‘Sun, Sand and
Suspicious Parents’. The series takes small groups of
young people on their first holiday abroad without their
parents, but also sneakily takes a couple of sets of the
parents as well to spy on the antics of their offspring.
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