My TV guilty pleasure

I enjoy watching TV and watch a lot. When I was a kid the radio was always on in the background in our house and today it’s the same with the television. I may not be watching it as I type this but Gold Rush is on so you could say I am semi watching it, cherry picking what interests me as I write.

I like so many random shows, a real diverse bunch, covering many different subject’s with the only criteria being I must feel entertained. Nevertheless, there are shows that my friends would think I would never watch but secretly I would. Normally I am all blood and guts, zombie and vampire so these three examples sound way off my radar.

Sunday entertainment

Countryfile, yes there is nothing better than spending an hour on a Sunday evening in the company of the country loving folk. Danny Dyer, known for years as a "hardman" actor, has admitted he is also a fan of Countryfile and we are not alone with the BBC show attracting healthy viewing figures for years. I am that old I can remember when it was broadcast on a Sunday afternoon.

I don’t know why I like the show because I’m not a fan of farm animals and never wanted to be a farmer, it’s beyond me. Maybe the countryside itself attracts my interest and stories about rural living. I would like to live in a village but it would need a pub, shop/post office, a takeaway, a good transport link and most important … top notch broadband.

I watch this in a darkened room with the door locked

I am a sucker for reality shows and wait for it …. a closet fan of the Real Housewives franchise. Yes I am out but not proud but the pure voyeurism is ruddy addictive.

Looking into the wealthy lives of these housewives, as they shop, get boob jobs, other plastic surgery, gossip, fight and live lavishly with their joke families were the husbands are treated as banks. They are all worried about losing their life styles than their husbands and have laws on standby just in case.

Never happen again

The internet is awash with old stuff from my childhood that today would not be suffered lightly by the PC brigade. Like Love thy Neighbour deem politically incorrect and a guilty pleasure now. For those who never her of the sitcom it dates back to 1972 until the late 70s.

The two main characters is socialist Eddie Booth is outraged to discover that his new neighbour, Bill Reynolds, is black, and a Tory. The racially motivated antagonism between them was stretched out into eight series and a feature film, while their wives struggled to create harmony.

You won't see this repeated on TV in this day and age