So you find using the mouse a bit too "aerobic"? Then I recommend you go and watch TV instead. And here are the shows I think you should be watching:
It's science geek seventh heaven as William Petersen and Marg Helgenberger solve crimes with their polymerase chain reactions and gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer.
The spin-off series CSI: Miami follows the same formula but lacks the engaging characterisation of the original. A second spin-off, CSI New York, also fails to measure up to the original despite the star power of Gary Sinise.
CSI is shown in the UK by Channel 5 and Living TV. Here are the next few episodes, courtesy of MyDigiGuide:
A rollercoaster of hard-boiled LA cop corruption.
The Shield can usually be seen in the UK on Channel 5 or FX.
It's a DIY show, but not as we know it. It's not one of those poncy, fancy-pants, arty-farty DIY shows like Changing Rooms or whatever. Oh No. This how to make a DIY show. You just put a guy (Norm Abram) in a workshop, with some power tools and some wood, and film him making a nice sideboard or something. It's Zen DIY. The New Yankee Workshop web site is at http://www.newyankee.com.
The New Yankee Workshop airs in the UK on Discovery Real Time (Sky Digital 250).
OK, so none of the programmes I recommend on this page can be seen on the BBC. Nevertheless, I do believe in the BBC. Next time you're grumbling about paying your TV Licence fee, consider this. TV stations funded by advertising are answerable only to the corporations that pay for the advertising. TV stations that are funded out of government coffers are answerable only to the politicians currently holding power. The BBC is funded directly by you and is answerable only to you, the British public. Which station's news programme do you think is most likely to be telling you the truth?
