Guess who's back?

[Back again. Piggy's back. Tell a friend.]

Rap aside, I just found out that Aussie TV > Malaysian TV.

Majorly.

Even though I was in Melbourne for close to a year, I didn't have the chance to check out the shows on TV, mainly because:

1. The TV is downstairs (I've an upstairs room);
2. I don't know how to work the remote to work the TV;
3. Some time around the middle of the year, it only had ONE channel;
4. It snows in the TV;
5. My housemates who LIVE DOWNSTAIRS hog said TV; and
   
6. The TV is downstairs (as you can see, an important factor)
   

I was in Melbourne for the past week, and this time around, I finally got around to checking out their TV show line-ups.

As we all know, Malaysia has very strict standards for censorship, whereas other countries (like Australia, f'rinstance) have little to none.

[These countries go up in the 'cool' scale a bit more.]

I'm not sure how regular TV in Australia's like, but I think we got a few of the 'paid subscription' ones in the hotel (hence, TV awesomeness), and below are my observations (between paid TV and paid TV):

[Note: Observations are based on American and UK TV, and not local content.]

1. On weekdays, there are two-three episodes of Everbody Loves Raymond, two of which are back-to-back (on channel 7, I think), and one at 9pm on Fox 8. Seinfeld also has two timeslots during the week, if I remember correctly.
   
2. There is Frasier at 9.30pm, also on Fox 8, every single weekday of the week (except Friday)
3. They have Family Guy
4. Their Lost is so much more updated than ours. I feel even more LOST than ever (geddit?geddit?)
5. Their Cartoon Network have loads more awesome cartoons than ours. I love Tom and Jerry as much as the next person, but too many old cartoons (like Road Runner, Pink Panther etc.) had made me go boom. AusCN has animé at night (KamehameHAAAA!!) plus they aired Jurassic Park (as in, non-animation!1!) during their CN Movie line-up.
   
6. They have Letterman
   
7. TV actually made me NOT want to gamble (we stayed near the casino)
8. They air tournaments from the World Poker Tour.
   
   And I understood how the game was played!!1!one
   
9. Family Guy

Besides having an ass-ton of Law and Order variations (Criminal Intent, Special Victims Unit, the original one that Jerry Orbach was in, etc. probably), I enjoyed Aussie TV. Theirs is way more up-to-date than ours, although some shows like Merlin, and Heroes (Season 3) have yet or recently, started broadcast. Plus, they don't air amazing TV shows at odd hours.

[I'm looking at you TV2. Thanks for airing 3rd Rock From The Sun at 12.30am, and shifting Dexter up to 11.30am. And you wonder why nobody watches your channel.]

Which reminds me, why is Guinevere so, well, hideous? I only realised this when I saw the promos for Merlin while abroad. I know she's supposed to be a maid in this one, but she ACTUALLY looks like one. She doesn't look queenly AT FRIGGIN' ALL! I get that they're shaking up and revamping Merlin's story, but Guinevere is supposed to be BEAUTIFUL, that's why Arthur and Lancelot wanted her. I mean, I get the casting if Arthur and Lancelot aren't attractive, but they are. Don't tell me that there aren't any other PRETTIER English black actresses. Whatever happened to Marsha Thomason?

Also, despite loving Math, Numb3rs bored the shit out of me.