The Olympics are underway. The annual couch potato fest can begin. Well it might if only there weren’t so many darn adverts. I’m afraid we’re suffering from NZTV’s coverage which unlike the Beeb has adverts about every 15 minutes.
After only a short spell watching this afternoon it’s driving me crazy and there’s two more weeks of this to go. Fortuantly we have a magic box under our TV that means you can record oodles of stuff and then play back skipping through the advert breaks. Yay!
Bring out Gary that’s what I reckon. Gary Lineker that is. Or even Steve Cram or dare I say it bring back Des Lynam. Anything will be better than the two clowns from TV NZ who couldn’t do “natural” broadcasting even if they tried. There is nothing the BBC does better than the Olympics. I miss it heaps.
It was cringe territory watching the credits for the New Zealand Olympic coverage last night. No fancy anthems or cartoons. The video I’ve posted is the BBC theme for these olympics. I can tell you I was so excited to see it. I am such a fan of the original Monkey series.
Oh the delights of Monkey, Piggie, Tripitaka and Sandy. They just don’t make TV like this any more!
That crazy monkey… Probably the best part of the olympics. I’m not really a tv person so I guess it’s a lot of money and hope totally lost on me.
I like that the TiVo works, I always get a sick pleasure out of foiling the advertisers plans by skipping that part.