Election TV

Actually sat through about 7 hours of the TV election coverage, and have no idea why I bothered.

The choice was the BBC who seem to have spent a fortune of the licence payers money on a huge set, silly high tech graphics and a boat load of minor celebrities.
I do like David Dimbleby who does seem to remain impartial unlike some of his co-presenters, I have no idea why the employ Andrew Neil who must still be getting paid by Murdoch going on the amount of bias for the Tories over the campaign.
The celebrity boat was cringeworthy with the Shredded wheat haired Neil interviewing drunken Z-list celebs who didn't have a clue what was going on.
It doesn't take a political "heavyweight" to guess which way people like Bruce Forsyth are going to vote does it?
Paxman is way past his "sell by" date, as he hasn't got the better of any politician in years, and last night I was just embarrassed for him as he asked the same question over and over of every Labour MP about "how can you form a government when the people have rejected you" and could only pull faces when they obviously refused to answer when at the time only a fraction of the votes had been counted.
Also his opening question to rejected Lib/Dem Lembit Opik was schoolyard stuff asking him if it was down to the Cheeky Girls.
I don't mind Jeremy Vine but why did they give him the job of explaining the election with a collection of CGI dominoes and paving slabs and other gimmicks to would have looked better on Newsround or C-Beebies as they seemed designed so the under fives could follow it, and I'm guessing not many of those had stayed up to watch. Also Emily No-mates operating that giant I-pod thing seemed like they were trying just a bit too hard to impress the younger generation and failing miserably.

The ITV coverage was basic but effective as they seemed to be getting the results about 15 minutes before the BBC for some reason, only spoiled by having "Bride of Frankenstein" Anne Widdecombe as a studio guest which surely must have pleased the BBC as I can only take about a minute of her before changing channels.

Channel 4 decided to have an alternative election special hosted by David Mitchell, Jimmy Carr and Charlie Brooker which sounded like an excellent idea but was pretty disappointing, it could have been done so much better.

So overall another 7 hours of my life wasted, it would have been longer but I fell asleep long before the end and have to thank my Cat for scratching my leg to remind me to let her out otherwise a night in the chair usually leads to a stiff neck next morning.