I've been a little lazy the last day or so, and when the History of Western Philosophy becomes a bit tiresome, as it did in the tenth century, I've turned on the telly a few times. Now this is based solely on my limited viewing so it may not always be true but blimey, the adverts! The paper says a film will start at 10:15pm so I turn the telly on at 10:14 and at 10:22 I'm still watching adverts: most of which seem to be for creams or sprays to either remove wrinkles or magic away cellulite. The film finally gets going and then after 40 minutes or so we get a 15 minute chunk of more adverts. Well, at least it's better than the US, but 15 minutes is akin to being bludgeoned by Madrid's equivalent of Madison Avenue. Then as the film is just about at its conclusion, I mean the last 10 minutes is about to kick off, or has kicked off when bang! Another 15 minutes... by the time we're back to the film I've forgotten the critical plot points and the last six minutes are something of an anticlimax.

Mind you, I find the ITV stuff in the UK annoying too, only this is more so. I wonder if the cable channels are any better (but not enough to actually get cable to find out).

The film by the way was the Missing, or the Forgotten, something like that with Julieanne Moore... it was a silly plot, and dubbed which meant that not only was it daft, it was daft and hard to follow.
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