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I’ve spent the last few days catching up on the Christmas TV – I hardly had the telly on at all over Christmas and Boxing Day so had lots, given how tired out I have been the last few days I am glad that I saved it all up, it’s been nice lounging around in my new jimjams

There didn’t seem to be that much great stuff on this year though – the soaps were depressing as usual. Does Eastenders really need another “whodoneit” storyline? Gavin and Stacey wasn’t even a Christmas special. I didn’t enjoy The Royal Family. I was glad that Ali won the Strictly Come Dancing special but again didn’t really enjoy watching it. The Doctor Who special was OK but reminded me why I only really watch it cos it’s on and not because I am obsessed about it like a lot of people seem to be – it wasn’t a patch on that one with the scary water people!

Tonight I am going to watch so much TV my head may just explode a little.

There’s been a lot on UK TV recently and I have had a lot of work on, plus I have spent a lot of my spare time when I would usually be watching my downloaded shows playing a stupid game I got hooked on called Plants Vs Zombies. So I have got very behind.

As you can see, it is much needed:

I plan to watch at least a Desperate Housewives, Launch My Line, Dollhouse, Scrubs and the finale of Top Chef season 1 that I started watching back in August!

Watching the office makes me want to run out and look at general office clerk jobs. It seems like a lot of fun working in an office, a little like school maybe? And at 30 years old (almost!) it’s something I have never actually done.

I doubt I will, I am quite settled where I am, but it’s a nice little fantasy!

OK, I am going to do it — I am going to give the American version of The Office a chance. I may even have to go out and buy some office furniture to celebrate, or something. I have always given it a wide berth as I generally don’t enjoy American remakes of British comedies, but it’s in it’s like 50th season now so it must be alright, right?

You know one genre of television I have never had much of an interest in? Hospital related dramas – Holby, Casualty etc have never floated my boat for some reason. What do I care if there’s a panic on because they have run out of mediven compression stockings, like the ones available on DiscountSurgical.com?

As for the reality medical shows, don’t even get me started. My stomach cannot take watching real life surgery and blood and vomit. My other half likes to watch one called Bizarre ER and I have to leave the room whenever it’s on.

I did go through a stage of enjoying ER at some point in the late 1990s, but I admit that was mainly down to the overflow of extremely hot doctors, drool, but I have not watched it for many years now — didn’t it end recently infact?

The other exception would be Scrubs which I love, but that’s a comedy rather than a drama or reality.

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I have seen every episode several times over and obsessed over it, but I am talking about the original UK version — I have never even given the American version a chance and I don’t plan to start now.

I love offices in general, that makes me sound lame but I get excited by paper and printers and a good office chair can make me squeal with excitement.

So a show set in an office that is quirky and funny is great by me and is always going to be a hit.

The reason I object to the USA version is because they were on about season 23 within a few years of it starting over there, whereas we only had a few series full stop. How can it possibly be of the same quality when they bash it out so fast?

Maybe I would watch it and love it, why not, America loves it? But I don’t want to give it a chance, I am sticking to my guns about it.

I need to buy some new dresses for work. Think I will hit up one of my favourite online stores and see what they have, I haven’t been on a spending spree for a few months now and I am long over due some new stuff

OK this week I am going to make a start on watching The Office USA, my husband to be is a huge fan of the UK version and we keep saying we should give the USA version a try but have never gotten around to it — the only problem I have with watching The Office is that it always makes me want to buy new office furniture and accessories — I have always been a sucker for office stuff, does that make me a nerd?

I have a lot of TV to catch up on, somehow I have got very behind.

I think it comes with having gone from January and the start of February when there is literally bugger all on, to late February and early March when all the big shows start up again — usually with a two hour premiere!

Here’s the to watch list:

The Biggest Loser Australia
Make Me a Supermodel USA 2
Project Runway Canada
24 x 2
American Dad
American Idol x 2
America’s Next Top Model x 2
Burn Notice x 2
Chuck
Desperate Housewives
Dollhouse
Hell’s Kitchen
Heroes x 3
Lost x 2
My Name is Earl
Reaper
Survivor

Crazy huh? It’s sort of funny to see so many episodes of Heroes and Lost up there, a few years ago I would sit at my computer literally watching them download so that I could play them the second they were done, now, meh…I just don’t care very much, I am not even sure why I still watch them at all — Heroes especially is dire now.

On tonight’s Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway they pulled a woman out of the audience to take part in a game, as they do each week. She was a ‘prankster’ and they devised a game called ‘Prankety Prank’, based of course on ‘Blankety Blank’, where she had to admit to her pranks in order to win prizes.

Here are some of her pranks:

She put maggots in her boyfriends lunch box when she was mad at him.
She fed her friend cat food when he did not want to eat the Chinese meal she was planning.
She was sick in her friends sink and used his toothbrush to shove it down the plug hole, then put it back without telling him.
She stole her friends Christmas day turkey as she had forgotten to get one herself.
She was sick in her friends fish tank, killing her fish.

Oh har har har, hilarious pranks there huh?

Except, not. There’s nothing funny about a single one of those, nor would I describe them as pranks — those are just the actions of a truly unpleasant and selfish woman who can’t handle her booze.

Seriously. I am not just being a boring old grump, am I?

Those things are not funny.