In the grip of Idiot Box

I was just browsing through the various channels the other day....

While on it...I had to recheck if this was a new comedy/laughter channel or was it still the India ka no.1 newz channel AAJ TAK.... ha....
now dayz it shows more of the laughter challenge participants in a various avatar more than it shows actual news....may be it is vying for the tag of India ka no.1 comedy channel....mmmmmm,,

And then we had our all time fav channels to fall back on...the discovery/national geographic/animal planet n all.... but there u go... these channels are more of a telebrand showroom than anything else....

just spend some time watching the ads of these wonderful tele brand products.... the producers/directors of these ads feel that the TV viewing public has an IQ in minus!!!
it is outright stupid and idiotic.....

Amidst these we have the zee cinema/set max/ star gold...rerunning the same old bollywood flicks....in fact was surprised at the claims of set max ....they were publicing the amithabh starrer MAHAAN on the channel as world TV premiere .... But then I do faintly remember watching it on our good old doordarshan in the good old days of one channel world....

Not to mention the numerous regional channels plying around......but it was great moment to southern indian protype of globalization....
Me a mallu guy watching on telugu channel (gemini TV) a dubbed Tamil film (couldnt make out the film name as i am unpad in telugu) sitting in bangalore....hahahahahah.......

i abstain myself from the hindi channels...as you get a carbon copy of the same program on each n every channel..... when u have a saregama on zee TV, u have a voice of India and indian idol on star and sony rspectively...
then u have waar parivar, and simmilar pgm on zee with the devagan family judging it...its all crazy out ther....
panchvi pass and 10 ka dum.... uff.... thank fully hrithik is only branding ndtv imagine and not hosting junoon.....

but amidst all these i do scrap out the old episodes of sarabhai v/s sarabhai and jasubhen n jayanthilal........typical gujrati mix of comedy.... may b i prefer the modi land coz... itz my 2nd home twn having brought up till the age of 8 there....

then we have the videshi channels....
ah, the ftv has overcome the ban by introducing ftv india.... (damn ;-))......
and then we have the usual zee studio/hbo/hallmark... but there is this one channel that stands out...sony pix.... te way they introduce u to a film is fantastic..........

they pick one gripping moment out of the film and then show it as a trailor....by blanking out the scene to show the actors'/director's name....and finally the name of teh film and it's time of showing....

I would recommend you this channel.... and specially mention 2 films.... they are really good...
one was "heavan is a playground" and the other "do the right thing"...watch out for teh quotes they have at the end of the 2nd movie....
both movies deals with the black community in the US.......

i also happened to watch an episode of "two and a half men" and the "scrubs".... these 2 serials had been my staple deit during my US trip... was reallly gald to see these two again here..............

mmmm........i dont know what next is gonna come up on TV now... but i sort of miss my cricket....
after the damka of IPL...any thing lesser is boring....any how....lets also give some to to teh euro 2008 and what a match nadal had to beat that pig fedrer(dunno y, bt hate that guy)....then alas force india again crashed out ...and my fav hamilton smashed himself out too............

let me see what else i can find on tv...ba bye.....