Free to air tedium | The Spectator Australia

It is said that you get what you pay for, and as regards free to air television, truer words have never been spoken. Free to air television is full of great shows and evening entertainment but increasingly the evenings are filled with channel surfing. We look for a beach less surfed but tend to catch waves surfed many times previously. 

The Channel Nine group, for example, has the Antique Road Show with Fiona Bruce. Even the white detective in Death on Paradise proclaimed his great joy at being able to see Fiona while employed in the Caribbean. 

Personally, I have no need to visit any of the British stately homes and public monuments as I have been there, hand in hand, with Fiona and the ARS five times in as many years, and…