What's On? (The rubbish on our TVs)

I'm not much of a TV person. Give me a book, put on some good music and I'm sold. I'm not the kind of person who has a TV schedule and I have to leave work before a certain time to catch a soapie. 

If I don't watch TV for a month it doesn't make a difference to my life. But I have to admit, there is an addictive quality to TV. You know days when you don't want to think and you turn on E! Entertainment and you watch their reality TV shows for hours and you will your brain not to think. 

I think E! fans are sick of hearing about Lindsey Lohans's out of control life. If they aren't then they should be. 

I am not a fan of reality TV. I miss TV days when comedy was comedy, and you'd have drama's, and crime series', documentaries. Everything was neatly labelled and you knew you were getting escapism. 

Now it seems if I want to get lost for a minute the only place to do it is on a reality TV show. And yeah, I'm one of those viewers who is like, "are these people for real?"

Am I the only person who misses the days when a singer or a band would be on radio and you would know nothing about their personal lives. You'd have a secret crush on some guy with five kids and you wouldn't care because you wouldn't know. 

And don't you miss the days when you'd be crazy about a lead in a series and you'd call him by his stage name and he'd be real to you. And you'd know so little of the actors real life.

Are our lives so starved of any kind of excitement that we need to live vicariously through celebrities? Why should I feel dragged into Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt's divorce? Why should I dislike Angelina Jolie when I don't even know her?

Why is Lindsey Lohan going to jail mean something to me? Can't she be a messed up kid who got caught up with the wrong crowd and made some bad decisions? Why oh why, someone please tell me, is she all over my TV?

I guess what I'm ranting about is that I want to watch fictitious people living fictitious lives. I want to discuss the characters with my friends as if they are real people the next day and forget about them until the next episode. 

I want to think of Beyonce as a singer and not as Jay-Z's wife and Rihanna as the girl who can't sing and not the girl who got slapped around by her boyfriend, Chris Brown.

I don't want to know the nitty gritties of people's break-ups and I sure as hell don't need to see them on my TV!