TV : British TV

OK, been here a while, seen lots of TV (esp. at Grandma's) so I thought I do a little summary.
Stuff I have really enjoyed (and that's all I'm going to tell you about because I refuse to remember the other stuff)

• Scrapheap Challenge

  Introduced to this in NZ, it's a bunch of boffins making stuff from what they can find on a scrapheap within 10 hours (plus a little time to get it actually working :). Great show - I just love people making stuff!



• Top Gear

  Also introduced to this in NZ. Not sure why someone who doesn't like to drive, doesn't like the gases or the traffic or the inefficencies produced by cars would like this show, but I do! Maybe I like the vicarious nature of it - I don't need to do the stupid stuff because they did it for me :) And it's kinda funny



• The Power of Nightmares

  Amazing lefty show about Orwell's society run on fear - that we happen to live in at the moment. Talking about the history of the various movers and shakers. Really interesting, and trying hard to be balanced (though it is written by people as tree hugging as myself:)



• Should I worry about....

  Fun little show with Richard from Top Gear going and finding out if we should worry about things like - suasages (no, but fat is bad), mobile phones (probably not, but maybe don't talk for longer than 10 mins at once), antibiotic resistant bugs (abso-f*ing-lutely, please people, if you are sick only take antibiotics _if_you're_going_to_die_ otherwise you are just making the bug stronger!! simple evolution)



• Channel 5 Property programs

  They've started another one, and it's just as fun. The last one they had two totally hopeless wannabes trying to make money on 250K in the property market. They eventually did, but more by luck than skill, and I think the rules were bent a little so they could (as in I think they were given however long it took to sell the property rather than staying fixed to 11 months)



• Rosemary and Thyme

  Great little 'murder, she wrote' with Felicity Kendall in it. A bit up and down, I'd say half so far were fun, the other a little boring. But it's nice and simple and easy - the easy listening of murder mystery. And they're gardeners to, so people can enjoy that aspect!



• QI

  Hilarious comedy show hosted by Stephen Fry. Basically Stephen relates some 'Quite Interesting' facts which we all laugh at, then the guests make some jokes and we laugh some more, and then I start to cry I am laughing so hard :)