End of year round up. Television.

Hello, its boxing day already and although Monday, I'm convinced that it's still Sunday. Thanks to Twitter I've found that there was a lo fi version of Last Christmas used in Sega UFO Catchers. Oh and that changing the lyrics to Gay penis is making me hard, totally fits. 

Today though is all about Television, the good and the bad. So with no further ceremony we'll get on with our year review.

Good

Green Planet.

David Attenborough documentary on plants. With a focus on specific areas, this includes the short lived Balsa wood tree, a look at Lithops in South Africa, and the usual this planet is fucked, heavy climate change guilt trip these programmes always have.

Martin Clunes Pacific

Doc Martin goes to the south seas. Looking at various island cultures, whether its Fiji, Tonga or Vanuatu, its a joy to watch him island hop and encounter different races. Oh and the Xmas special of Doc Martin reunites him with Caroline Quentin, which is basically half of Men Behaving Badly.

CSI Vegas.

I know its a multi culti cast, and that Gil and Sara don't come back for season 2 (Wed 28th 9pm Alibi). But Pauline Newlove is boss as the new CSI Lead. Season 1 was just to get Hodges off a rap of sabotaging the CSI cases he worked on. 

Arirang TV Korean TV trad music special.

This should have been on the music round up, but I got so bored one time I watched this whole traditional Korean music concert, a sort of shamanic music with guitar and traditional instruments. About as far away from KPop as you can get. They had three bands, which I didn't get the name of,

but were cool.

Bad

 

Craig Charles UFO Conspiracies.

Mr Lister from Red Dwarf, with a half baked Aliens show. Of course it has Nick Pope in it, it has to have Nick Pope in it. Its fuck awful.

Alexander Armstrong South Korea.

For some reason this rubbed me up the wrong way. Weird make over to make him look like a corpse, then an actual stay in a coffin where a Korean priest conducts his own funeral. A focus on KPop  and a focus on Mukbang, aka stuff your fat face with enough food to choke a horse. 

We also had the misfortune to see actual Korean TV on holiday and it seems to be dull drama and the kind of half witted prank / KSI shit from the Youtube home page, you get when you accept Google cookies. No one needs to see Mr Beast's leering grin 50 times over or SS Sniper wolf.