Wasn't telly great in the old days?
No. It was shit. If you're in your mid forties and want your childhood ruined, just go back and watch something you used to thing was the dog's when you were in primary school - "The Six Million Dollar Man", say. It's depressing. And to think I used to be distraught if I missed an episode, certain in the knowledge then that if I didn't see it on first run, I'd NEVER be able to see it, what with there being no way of recording it and certainly no way of ever hoping to see it again.

Whereas now, yes, there are eleventy million channels of crap but you know what? In amongst that there is the odd nugget of good stuff, and if I'm sitting in the pub and you tell me "hey, there's a Sky at Night special on Monday night at ten all about Pluto"*, I don't have to bother remembering that or anything - I can just get my phone out and set the box under my telly to record it. Living in the future is ace. (Also, if I really want to, I can just download every episode ever of every Bodawful TV show I used to think was brilliant. Except I haven't got time...)

*There is. You should record it.
(SonofRojBlake, Fri 17 Jul 2015, 13:54, 4 replies)

Nobody records broadcast telly any more, grandad.

(Go Man River everybody loves anal, Fri 17 Jul 2015, 15:17, closed)

Whats your thoughts on Blake 7 though?

(andythepieman Is surfing the waves of indifference on, Mon 20 Jul 2015, 13:31, closed)

I did
And I'm going to watch it tonight.
( P-MONKE We're all fucked, Tue 21 Jul 2015, 14:00, closed)