Restoring my faith in TV

Britain's Cleverest Animals - despite the lameness of the title (which would suggest something trite & formulaic re: when X attacks, X from Hell ect ect), this BBC1 programme was fantastic. It avoided excessive hackneyed or repetitive footage and was quite scientific in its approach. This was ETHOLOGY (ie animal behaviour) in a v. watchable format, with investigations abt how various animal's used memory, sight, scent ect ect to find food and hoodwink farmers and other ppl.

The later, Mongrel Nation on Discovery, presented by Eddie Izzard, explaining how, thru the ages, all the inventions, cuisine, language and so forth which we regard as quintissentially English had been brought from elsewhere by our successive waves of invaders. This did suffer from too much repetition, admittedly, but Izzard kept my attention...it was the first time I'd seen him do anything other than stand-up.

Full coverage of an inquiry into the dealings of the US government for the last couple of decades will be the program that does it.

I realise that most of you will now believe that my opinion counts for nil.

The "Britain's Cleverest Animals" program sounds incredibly interesting as well. I love programs like that, the ones that inform the viewer in an entertaining fashion. The Biography Channel used to be filled with programs like that, before it got its current celebrity kick and started being the "all 'Entertainment Tonight' all the time" channel.

I love the Discovery Health Channel. Namely, I love what they do on weekend nights and late at night during the weekdays. "The Critical Hour", "Paramedics", "Hopkins 24/7", "Houston Medical", etc., all are fantastic programs IMHO. Tomorrow's "Health Cops: New Orleans" night, so I'm excited about that.

Then again, I like TV. I've never been at a point where I've been tired of TV and never want to watch another TV show ever, which is similar to what happened to me and radio a few years ago.