When I was a kid I was forever sitting looking at the test card say to that silly girl "come on add a naught or Cross for Christ's sake".
Being a bit older than most of you I do remember the days off just three channels and it is true that although we had a lots of empty space and times when there wouldn't be programs on you want to see, that is true that when they did make a program worth watching it was bloody good. The claim holds out that we have hundreds of channels all of which have cheap nasty rubbish because they have to spread the money thinner. I heard recently that the BBC are being told to start making programs like everybody else where a cast of people are given a rough idea what to say and a guy with the camera just films what crap they shout out, such as Essex and Geordie Shore, and that programs like the Onedin Line upstairs downstairs and recent things such as Poldark and Downton Abbey will be a thing of the past as they're too expensive to make. Thank God I've got a record collection.