THE TV CULTURE VOID,

so it seems all of the television shows that i hold dear to my heart are ending. this season of lost is over, dirty sexy money has finished it's brief stint, the apprentice is wrapping up on wednesday and gossip girl is done until september. even jools holland has left us for a few months.

but instead of succumbing to the reality TV machine and filling the void with big brother, this year i've found a couple of beauties to tide me over. the colbert report is one of them, a sharp satire of the ignorant republican television hosts that brainwash christian america, the guy is a complete genius. here's the pinnacle of his irony so far, bush takes about 4 minutes to catch on, whoever hired him as a speaker has been fired:

i've also realised how little i've seen of the massive south park back catalogue. the show has moved on from the cheap jokes and shock factor of the first few seasons and evolved into an informed and sardonic look at american and western culture coupled with intelligent parodies of television and film. and it seems i've been the last person to discover it. i've watched a lot of the most recent seasons episodes, but there's a massive chunk of the show that remains unseen.



it's all very yankee. luckily, the BBC's culture show is a diamond in the rough of the current UK TV climate. the subject matter of the show is as varied as madonna's pop career, the term "culture" encompasses a lot after all. music, film, art, television itself, everythings game and it's all brilliantly presented by the sharp tongued vixen lauren laverne. the broad canvas of the show's make-up is spoofed in the adverts for the new series that started last week. next week they have electronica group neon neon on the show. cannot wait.



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