Sitcoms and Soaps

I spend a lot of time watching television. And half the time all I do surf channels. Why? Most of the shows suck. Period.

We have these long drawn out, melodramatical soaps here in India. They apparently are "The biggest thing on Indian television". The most popular show on T.V has the leading lady, who in real life is barely 30, and looks not much older on the tube playing a grandmother! If this is not bad enough, we have her grandmother in it too. The show has had a time jump thereby "aging" all the characters by around 20 years. The grndmom though seems to have grown younger. If one counts her age logically, she must be around 120 years old. She has 20 year old great grandchildren! And a great-great one is on the way.

Anyways, I really wonder what is that constitutes a good programme on T.V. I am a fan of "The Apprentice". "Friends" and "Sienfeld" are the two sitcoms I really enjoyed. I guess the real reason that these shows became so popular was primarily because they are more of something you can articulate with. Thats why they sell. The show which I was talking about, albeit nonsensical, seems to strike a chord with all the housewives across the country. But I really believe in shows that shall have the whole family interested rahter than just the ladies of the house.

But that doesnt rid of my predicament. Here I am watching some dumb Malayalam sitcom, a language of which I have no clue, because there is no othere T.V in my house.