Britania rules the waves!

I mean the TV waves. British tv really rules, specially when compared with the local one.

"The husband" found a way to have British TV and he managed to install the satelite dish in our balcony and to have everything working by the time P.'s got back home from school; so "Blue Peter" was actually on tv for him. All for around £100 and we've got all the free channels that ar available back home (meaning Bristol). He's my hero.

Local TV is bad, not worse than everywhere in the wide world, just worse than in the UK where people still have a great BBC and a good channel 4. And they're complaining about the dumbing down of the media? They don't really know how low can it go if left to their own devices.

We hardly watched tv all this months and P. didn't at all. There was one one good sitcom that we were following "Dr. House" and that's from the US and Hugh Laurie, who plays the main character is actually a Brit. There was a local sitcome about a familly living in Madrid during the 70s and that was all. Not even the news were worthy of attention because they have at least 50% of their time to crime and gory stuff.

One of the program with more audience is the spin off of an Argentinean soap opera re-made in Mexico and set in a posh high school with allegedly realistic teenage drama, but the actors looks like... well see picture here and judge yourself. Remember Britany Spears' video for the "oops I did it again" song? Well... now imagine a whole school dressed and made up like that and you'll get the visual idea.
The soap was so successful that the actors now have a music band and they're touring in Spain with enourmous success. They've just kicked up their tour in Barcelona and they've filled a huge stadium; the same that Bruce Springsteen filled a few month ago with his show "The Seeger Sesion Band Tour".
This is a sad world, my friend.

Then there's lots of programs dedicated to celebrity gossip, game shows such as the local version of "who wants to be a millionaire" and local versions of UK shows such as "you are what you eat", "super nanny" and so forth.

Boring!!!

So today P was over the moon watching "Blue Peter" earlier today and I have to confess that I'm in a high myself. Even just a few minutes ago I watched "soapstar superstar" and while I couldn't name any of the soaps stars, Zoe Ball never looked more lovely. By the way, is Zoe pregnant or the dress really didn't do her any favour?

All this costed "the husband" around £100 and it's totally worth every penny!! I wonder if it could be consider tax deductible as a work related investment for me, due to the fact that'll keep my English up to date.