Well we do have a television. We just don't have any way of receiving signals. We gave up on it because pound-for-pound it just wasn't worth it, and remains not worth it.

My fiancee and I have just bought a house together you see, and we had to spend every penny we had in order to do this. So we are cutting back where we can and we agreed that if we could just pay $12 for HBO, that would be OK. But you can't just have HBO. You have to pay for 'tiers' or 'packages', and unless you get four 'tiers' you can't have HBO. And I didn't want to pay $80 a month any more just so I could watch HBO.

I have lived in other countries, so I know that the USA has very poor quality programming, with very poor quality news,and unprofessional presentation on many of the channels. I'm not going to go into details here - I'll save it for another time. Needless to say, it's done much better in Canada, it's done better in France, Australia, Belgium...but it's done best by any British TV channel - BBC, ITV, Channel 4. You just don't get that choppy editing, and you have real people talking to you between programmes, and the news can be taken seriously and is generally trustworthy. It is simply better. It's one of those things that just...is.

Now after that statement of fact, I must point out that there are stunningly brilliant shows on US TV - needless to say that doesn't include many current sit-coms, or any 'reality' TV shows. It does include 24, Lost, Six Feet Under, The Wire, CSI, the X Files, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm and many more. Funnily enough, these are all the shows that are bought up by foreign television broadcasters. Consequently friends of mine in Europe will comment that US TV is much better than their country's TV. What I have to remind them of is that they only get the very best US shows. The cream of the crop.

So the upshot of all that back story is that..we don't watch anything other than HBO, and now we don't even watch that because we don't gat no steeennkeeennn TV man...