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jono_hayward Wow. The finale of Dexter season 4 may be the finest hour of television I’ve seen in a very long time.

This is my kind of post and I couldn’t agree with jono_hayward more. I watched the final episode of Dexter Season 4 last night and it was great. Managed to tie up the season nicely, have a major yet slightly predictable twist and leave a couple of new questions to be answered. Dexter really is one of the best TV shows around at the moment. If you don’t want to know what happened in the season finale please skip to the next Tweet. One of the questions last night’s excellent episode of Dexter left me with is will he be taking all 3 children with him to his extracurricular activities now Rita is dead (apparently by the hands of Trinity)? I’m glad they killed Rita off as she was very annoying but where do they take Dexter for season 5 as he’ll have even more baggage now.

darayus94 I think that parents only get so offended by television because they rely on it as a babysitter and the sole educator of their kids.

Now I kind of agree with this one but I think most parents don’t even know what their children are watching on television! I think most are just happy their kids are not annoying them. Agreed most not very good parents are naive enough to believe the likes of CBeeBies is educational. People who are offended are only parents? Doubt that highly, those who usually complain about television shows are just strange or have far too much time on their hands.

ActualAssets Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Ha ha a very good point in a very short Tweet . I guess they’re talking about Friends but this is one of the reasons I hate Eastenders, none of them work, or if they do it’s in some weird job that would never allow them to afford to live in London. TV characters life’s are always full of drama too, which in real life doesn’t happen.

alison_hyper Such is the misery of television addiction, one of the most revolting, soul-destroying addictions. TV addiction is death. Love Fairy Ally

Ah Alison_Hyper one of the oddballs of Twitter and on a one lady man mission to try and convince us television is evil lol. I love the phrase TV Addiction Is Death lol, yes you TV really is much worse than small pox or malaria!

TheeSash With twitter u dont need television.

Errrrrm I think you do. A big 50 plasma one!

dapperladies Kate Garraway wore flattering red and black satin dress to the ITV daytime television party.

Now who the hell is Kate Garraway and secondly who the hell cares? A prime example of someone of benefits that has access to Twitter. Instead of looking at what people are wearing on the most retarded television shows of the day be productive and go find a job.

brittsmittt i have come to the conclusion that, Band of Brothers is the most amazing and inspiring series on television.

brittsmittt your right. Band Of Brothers was certainly one of the best television dramas made in recent times and probably one of the most ambitious. I know they are making a Band Of Brothers Pacific due for release in 2010 but I don’t think it’s being jointly made with the BBC television this time around. Hopefully we’ll get it in the UK although it’s very focused on the Americans.

didyouknowabout The world record for passing gas was set on Japanese television, 3,000 times in a row.

Now see I told you the television Tweets can be rather strange! Apparently its true, although I can’t find details of the person’s name etc I’m sure the studio had a smoking ban!

Fringe TV Show

I would love to say cheap televisions favourite TV shows were British made from the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 but to brutally honest they can’t even get close to the little gems coming to our TV screens from our cousins in the USA. Actually unless we’re talking about comedy I think British made TV shows are in a dire state at the moment. Yes some may claim things like Dr Who are great, and yes I would agree that its fun, but it’s all very tongue in cheek. There’s no real grit, passion, clever writing, intense acting and so on.

Going back to Dr Who it totally proves my point about the main British TV channels not having a clue. First Dr Who comes back to the BBC and its popular with family’s watching TV on a Saturday night. So do ITV try to challenge or give an alternative to viewers? Nope they bring out something that’s pretty much inspired by Dr Who but with funny wormholes and dinosaurs! I can’t even remember what it was called although it got binned after two sporadic season [After writing this I got an email telling me that the TV show is actually being commission for two more seasons with a joint deal between ITV and Watch, oh and it's called Primeval lol].

Dr Who TV Show

They then try something else with Philip Glenister that had something to do with Van Helsing and more bad 3D graphics. God only know what happened to that. Then you have the likes of Merlin (Harry Potter inspired) and Robin Bloody Hood on the BBC.

Ah I can’t even be bothered moaning about the ridiculous state of British made television anymore. Give me some power and it’ll change, and if any retarded grad idealist is reading this who works for any of the channels please jus break the spiral and make British television shows original and groundbreaking again.

So what of the TV shows coming over from the good old USA that are really making good television at the moment?

Well to start Fringe is back for a second season and its already grabbed me back into wanting to see every episode. The other thing I like about Fringe is unlike something like the Mentalist it keeps its focus on the main story as much as the small stories told each month. Developing the characters and storyline at a believable (ok it is science fiction but you know what I mean lol) and intelligent pace. It’s a much better viewing experience than watching this week’s mystery body and now let’s solve the crime in 45 minutes in a Murder She Wrote style. It must be better for the writers and producers too!

Secondly is a new TV show called Flash Forward which has just started on Channel 5 here in the UK but is being screened in pace with the US (so no downloading illegal copies via torrents as its not needed). Apparently this TV show is from the same guys that brought us Lost and it starts with everyone in the world passing out for 2 minutes and 17 seconds for no known reason, everyone that does pass out has a vision of that time 6 months in the future (don’t worry these details wont ruin the TV show for you). It’s only been one episode of Flash Forward so far but I’m pretty sure this is another American TV show that will be keeping my big plasma television warm and fuzzy this autumn and winter. Lets just hope it doesn’t lose its way like Lost did.

Flash Forward Destruction

Next could be described as slightly culty lol, but True Blood is an excellent TV show. I think Channel 4 may have finally just picked up on it and will start airing season one on UK TV screens soon (I’m sure it was on one of the more obscure channel last year). The guys in the USA are already on season 2, but I’m willing to bet its as good as the first with plenty of vampire blood sucking, crazy antics and more funny dark humour. If you recognise the girl that plays the lead that’s because she was in the X Men films.

True Blood

Sticking with the dark and humorous theme season 4 of Dexter is also coming back to our television screens very soon. I still can’t believe none of the major UK TV channels haven’t picked up on Dexter and his psychopathic hobby (ok ITV had it on one of their more obscure channels). Episode one was recently leaked on the internet, but I’m still hunting down the actual season start date for Dexter. Oh one thing I do know is the old guy from 3^rd Rock From The Sun is in it and looks to be season 4′s serial killer! Odd thing about the Dexter TV show is I personally think it’s much better than the books it’s based on, which doesn’t happen very often.

Dexter

Ok I’ve blabbered on for far too long and probably not made much sense at all. Was going to mention season 4 of Heroes has just started in America and here in the UK in November, but its hit and miss if it will be any good (just one of those TV shows with mountains of potential but always falls short). Right seriously I’ve now finish ranting. If you agree or disagree with what I’ve said (providing it makes sense) don’t forget you can comment on this post and give your own opinion.