For Britons only (and the rest of you don't realize how lucky you are)

[fpb]

Have I got news for you has been funny for decades, and its desirable prime-time Friday spot is deserved. Little Britain is unfunny, faddish and tasteless, and yet is placed immediately after it. This proves; one, that the best things at the BBC are those that go back to well beyond current management; and second, that current management is wholly incapable of anything like intelligent choices.

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[filialucis]

Mmmph... beware, though, of thinking that the rest of us don't have programming inflicted on us that's just as bad. Austrian TV seriously sucks.

It also runs Little Britain (or ran; I pay less and less attention these days).

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Now that surprises me. I would have thought Little Britain, apart from its unfunniness, too local - not to say provincial - to successfully travel outside, well, little Britain.

[filialucis]

At the moment it seems fairly safe to say that nothing is unfunny or provincial enough to find its way into the Austrian Broadcasting Corp.'s programming. This one even gets shown with an option to hear the original soundtrack, which is a fairly infrequent occurrence and generally reserved for really bottom-of-the-barrel stuff (like Desperate Housewives and Grey's Anatomy from the other side of the pond).

TV reception in my area has deteriorated since broadcasting went digital; some days we don't get a usable signal at all. I have less and less reason to care about this.