A TV buff that I am, the other day I was trying to fill the void left by IPL for prime time vewing, by searching for some nice relaxing programs. I am difficult when it comes to selecting what to watch and I mostly end up channel surfing over and over again. Its fun watching close to 100 channels on the trot. Back to my searh for a good program on prime time, discovery was showing a series of carb catching in deep seas which I had seen way back in 2007 while touring far east. Its hindi commerntary of the series was a big put off. Followed by discovery were a couple of mallayi, tamil, telugu, nepali and some other regional language channels which are worth the next channel button on my remote. HBO, Star Movies, and siblings are best if you got a movie which is to your taste and you are in to it since the beginning, its no fun catching it up midway. So these channels too are a gone case. Then come the big four Star Plus, Sony, Set Max, Zee TV better known for their customized "dish dish" music and saas bahu flicks. I really wonder how much do these Big Four contribute to the lowering of moral values, bigamy, polygamy, marital disputes, social unrest, low values among children and adultery among the society. They have certainly give a licence, vision and thought process to the typical Indian house wife to bring out the worst out of her. Only other thing they telecast apart from the saas bahu sagas are the musical, comedy and dance shows which are fixed to the core with hired goons acting like judges ( i mean hired judges acting like goons).Sab Tv is good for its "office office" and "Mohan ji' waala serial (but both these are not prime time spots). The spiritual channels mostly have a baba on display whose instincts I can't trust, but I really applaud the skills and leadership skills of these spiritual gurus in getting so much of janta after them. Certainly need to take some management lessons from them. MTV / VTV have a good fan following for their roadies and some bitchy model hunt programs. These programs are doing nothing but liberating the Indian youth of all moral and cultural values and introducing them to the ABC of hinglish gaalis and making the youth consious of their sexuality while making girls comfortable about living in a near nude dresses. Hardly get to hear any good English tracks though. And now comes the best part - the News Channels who as their name goes are supposed to telecast news, current affair programs, discussions, documentaries and some masala. But what do we get in actual.. an arushi like case which goes on from morning till evening on practically all news channels (almost 20 of them) with the same kind of news content. Their follow up and contect is full uo of what the junta want to see and not what they want to report. Mostly full of sex, crimes, astronomy, and more recently astrology and comedy shows. So popular are their breaking news that one channel boasts of a seperate program names 'Breaking News". Gone are the days when we used to wait and watch the 9'0 clock hindi news and the 10 '0 clock english news (with parliamentary nwes in between) on Doordarshan presented by own favourite news readers. So simple and starighforward was the presentation of these news that even today I some time switch to the 9'0 clock news on DD to keep myself abreast of the news.
The prize for the best prime time viewing (post IPL) goes to innovators like AXN who are telecasting interesting programs like "Tim Gunn's guide to style" " Do u thing u can dance". Wake up Sharukh your "Paanchvi Paas" failed to win an award this time though is prototype "Kya App Panchvi Fail Champu Hain" was among the nominees. And Sallu's "10 ka dum" reminds me of the song "Pappu can't dance".
(Coming up is my views on the best and worse of each category of channels be it music channels, news channels, daily soap channels, sports channels, spiritual channels, movie channels, etc etc )
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