Positivity in modern television

It feels like ages since I last wrote one of these, oh it has been ages. Oh well. I know it's not the most sophisticated of tastes, but I'm not particularly sophisticated, but one thing that I have to say is that I love watching t.v. but who doesn't right? I have tons of favorite shows, some old, some new the point is that television is an amazing format. It's been around for decades and has rolled with almost every technological advancement. Unlike certain media formats it has evolved with society, it isn't stuck in a time warp that's for certain even though it's time is coming to an end (we need every show available when we want, not on someone elses schedule.). One show I have been watching with my fiancée lately is a show that manages to make me feel warm inside, no I'm not talking about "Rastamouse" (which seems to me to be the outcome if you put a group of stoners in a room with a set of Sylvainian family toys), the show I'm talking about isn't even on t.v. anymore (which is a big shame, maybe someone at Dave can put aside an hour a week in which they don't put that smug cunt Jeremy Clarkson on) anyways the show is called "The Amazing Adventures Of A Nobody".

"The Amazing Adventures Of A Nobody", centres on the travels of Leon Logothetis. There are three series, in one series he has to travel around the U.K. on £5 a day, he also travels the U.S. ( on $5 a day) and Europe (€5 a day). This may spoil it a little bit but he successfully completes each tour, mostly because of the helpfulness of the strangers he meets on his travels. Sometimes it's good to put on a t.v. show and actually feel happy. We live in a society where most t.v. shows perpetuate old fashioned stereotypes and pump you full of fear that when you come across a gem like this it's hard not to smile. Leon, is such a delightfully charming person that you do think that if anyone else did the show they may not have got so far. Honestly, Leon manages to charm and entertain almost everyone he encounters, on numerous occasions getting free lifts, a bed for the night, free meals and train tickets. If you ever get the chance to watch this show don't pass it up because you will regret not watching it. The people he meets on his travels are so interesting in particular the ones that help him, he encounters everyone from off duty soldiers to refugees. Each have their own story in which Leon takes the time to listen to ( sometimes putting his own troubles into perspective). He didn't do those journey's for the fame (clearly) or for any monetary gain, but to meet new people and for the sense of adventure.

I was lucky in the fact that I managed to get hold of the DVDs from the production company (Shankley Productions) because we (my fiancée and I) had seen a couple of episodes a couple of years back we knew we had to look for it, and after a bit of research managed to email someone at the production company who sent them. The point of this rather short blog post is that television doesn't need to be all doom and gloom (Eastenders, Hollyoaks, Sky news) in fact t.v. can be a place for wonderment and excitement (My Name Is Earl, How I Met Your Mother, Rastamouse), wouldn't that be nice to see, television shows that cheer you up rather than shows that make you want to smash your t.v. over your head. Apologies for the shortness of this blog but hopefully I will be back very soon with something that resembles a coherent blog.