When did Family Guy become so dismal? It certainly wasn’t recently, but it was only watching tonight’s that I realised just how crap it really has become.

I remember when the humour was clever, genuinely controversial and interesting. Now it’s just repetitive, trying too hard to be controversial and very base. Shame.

You know what the bigger shame is though? I’ll probably continue to watch it, it’s one of my televisual flaws…once I start watching a show I tend to stick with it. Even when I don’t like it any more.

What’s wrong with me?

Well, I had planned to post after each episode of Survivor Gabon, the fact I have not is a good indication of how I feel about the season.

It’s not bad, don’t get me wrong, I don’t think any season of Survivor could ever be bad — it’s just not going to be one of the classics.

Firstly it’s boring when one tribe dominates so much. It’s only now I feel like I know anything about most of the Kota members…but at the same time I do want Fang to fail, they’ve been pretty much the dumbest tribe in Survivor history, making dumb move after dumb move — they don’t deserve rewards and immunity so I am glad they aren’t getting them — but it makes for boring viewing.

Secondly, too much tribe switching up. Twice now they have done it, and that’s before the merge. Survivor isn’t meant to be a game of luck, it’s a game of skill and as boring and predictable and frustrating as it might be seeing someone dominate, if they do it they do it. Switching tribes so much just screws peoples games, sends people home before their time, makes weaker people able to stay.

Oh well, hopefully it will pick up post merge, it’s certainly done that before (last season any one?)

…I am having celebrity dancing overkill at the moment.

I watch both the original UK version, Strictly Come Dancing, as well as the USA version, Dancing with the Stars and for the first time both are airing at the same time — firstly I don’t even understand how Len and Bruno are doing it, flying back and forth between the UK and America every week until Christmas is surely going to take it’s toll sooner or later?

It’s too much for me though, really. I don’t even like dancing all that much, I just watch the show because I like reality tv, I like the hosts and judges and I like to see celebrities do things that are outside of their comfort zones.

The dancing I can take or leave. I know, strange right?

Here’s the dealio at the moment:

Saturday: UK version dancing
Sunday: UK version results
Monday: American version dancing
Tuesday: American version results

I think I am going to have to drop one this year, and hope that next year they are back to being on at differing times!

…more like The Amazingly Hard Race Asia. Seriously this season has been hardcore so far, if the tasks on the USA version look arduous you should see this show. The legs seem to last for days without breaks, the things they have them do seem genuinely difficult and frustrating, the direction and travel seems difficult and heck some of the tasks are darned dangerous.

I would not have been able to do the 25 hour coach journey they did in the second episode. I would go crazy doing 25 hours in the comfort of my own car, but on a small, cramped, bumpy, dirty, smelly and ancient old coach….no thanks.

I definitely would not have been OK with the race to the final pit stop in the 3rd episode, where not one, not two but three of the poor blighters crashed their rickshaws into bikes or even cars! Dangerous dangerous dangerous.

There’s no way I would have eaten the ‘mens bathroom smelling’ tofu soup they had to get through in the latest episode. Especially not with other people all around me gagging and throwing up.

It’s no wonder that we’ve had two teams essentially quit already, by not bothering to complete the final task and taking a four hour penalty. That’s not fun to see…it doesn’t often happen in the American version of the show, that’s for sure.

I have been thinking about this blog over the last few days and realised that I don’t love it, why? Well I already have not one, but two personal blogs, I don’t need a third — when I created the site the idea was to make it more niche, but the niche was going to just come to me in a flash and it never did.

Until today. The new month must have inspired me.

So, Jeoberpta.com is now to become….drum roll please….my TV related blog! I am going to talk about what I watch on TV each day. Now, I am not promising in depth, thought provoking reviews — though they may indeed happen some times, it’ll most likely mainly me having a rant about how stupid todays Neighbours was (and fyi, it was!) and moaning that certain hotties I happen to have a crush on cannot be mine.

But it’ll be interesting. I watch TV from around the world…mainly home grown UK stuff, but also lots of American and Australian shows among others. My main genres are reality, soaps, comedies and documentaries, but I like a bit of everything.

So come along for the ride

Sorry for not blogging for a few days, I was suffering with a cold all last week so didn’t feel much like being online at all…never mind blogging.

I spent the week in bed with some TV, it was a great week to be sick TV wise at least — what with so many American shows coming back on air — Survivor, The Amazing Race, Prison Break, Smallville, Heroes…the list goes on. I also managed to get through some films I have been meaning to watch for ages — Juno, Sweeny Todd, Hellboy and Superbad!

Indeed, there are worse times to get ill…I am almost sorry I am better

My day. Got up and spent 4 and a half hours online trying to restore my reality tv site that I had to switch to a new host. I still have some things to do there, and although I can access it I don’t think any one else can yet — it’s caused me lots of stress so far, and it aint over yet. I don’t even know if it’s going to be staying where it is now so I might have to move it again, nnnooooooooooooooo.

I made myself a ‘I don’t know how to cook’ style Sunday roast for one because the other half was out. This comprised of instant gravy, a microwaved chicken pie, tinned green beans and tinned potatoes.

Then I went to the gym and did some running on my elliptical, I didn’t enjoy it because I am full of cold and must be all congested because I could really feel my chest burning/hurting. I still stuck with it for 50 minutes though, yay me.

I just watched a few hours of TV. The Amazing Race Asia and Strictly Come Dancing.

And now I am going straight back to working on my sites. Curse you, Dreamhost.com.