marika wrote
> Rod Speed > wrote

>> I normally watch recorded current affairs TV which doesnt have any> ads and dont need looking at the screen much,
>> usual interview of talking heads etc.

> Generally I do too, watch these newspodcasts.
> But, on Sunday, in spite of the surfeit of news that should have been
> covered, every major news person was on vacation ignoring it all

Thats the big advantage with recorded TV, you're never short of stuff to watch.

I watch almost nothing live, just 20 mins of national news daily that has no ads at all.

> So I started catching up on Madmen which I enjoyed half watching when reading usenet last time I watched it, but now I
> caught even more
> stuff I had missed before. It's a lot more complicated than I thought

I have watched some segments of mythbusters when I have run
out of current affairs stuff when bottling the beer. It takes about
an hour per batch and is to boring to do without something to listen to.