Introducing myself

Hello. I am DonkeyShadow.

And I have a lot to say. Whether you wish to read it or not is irrelevant.

Having worked in the broadcast industry for 14 years, I am increasingly frustrated with the assumption that we should - or should be encouraged to - enjoy on television, whether it's a soap, documentary, news programme - or indeed any of the other shite shovelled up our U-tube.

Here is I hope something you will come back to as often as I intend to keep it going.

It is the listings for an imaginary TV Channel called CBoobies which I started writing some months ago, frustrated with what my daughter is being offered as entertainment or information-based programming. It has since grown from that to a general rant at the state of British television and indeed the nation's attitude to not accepting this fodder for what it is.

Fodder.

Eat up, people, it's all you're getting. And you're paying for it.

I have shown some people this text prior to this posting and it has been described as 'undergraduate humour' (good compliment - exactly as I intended, though I graduated some years back) .

I've also been told that 'you've done better', (not quite so good a compliment, but this isn't an exercise in great writing and I never intended it to be.)

The finest compliment of this work I can offer you from my point of view, came from a very good friend of mine. He said that had I sent him this alone (I write other things too) he would have asked my partner to refer me for anger management. And he meant it.

This is exactly the point.

It's not a case of nostalgia - that everything was so much better in the old days - it's more of a refusal to respect the quality of programmes we are being offered today.

Some of it is puerile and silly but I make no apology for that given the reasons for it being so are based on the silly and puerile broadcasters beaming crap into my living room.

Please also accept that I in no way wish any badness to any of the individuals mentioned here. This is intended to be satire. Despite my vitriolic language and swearing I am a peaceful person and it is meant in good humour. If you can say these words on screen, I am going to write them down too. And also, my opinion is that if you wish to appear on my screen, I have a right to be rude about you if I wish to. I don't have to like you.

So this is me dealing with my anger and hoping it's funny. If it isn't, piss off.

Are We Being Served?

You Decide.

DonkeyShadow