Not Spoilt for Choice by Susie Field

   Let’s see what’s on the television tonight.  Oh, this drama looks good.  Wait a minute, here comes a warning.   

This programme contains violence and scenes of a sexual nature.

  That’s put me off a bit.  I don’t think I want to watch anything like that.  I suppose I could start watching it and see how I feel.  No, I’ll look for something else.

   Now, what about this one.  I love hospital programmes.  It sounds quite interesting.  24 hours in A and E.  Here we go again, another warning.

This programme contains scenes of graphic medical procedures which some people may find upsetting.

  Oh dear, how graphic?  That’s the question.  I’ll give it a miss.

   There’s a cowboy film on some remote channel.  I’ve seen it before and I remember it was really good.  It’s quite old and pretty tame, so it should be clear from censorship. 

   I’m half an hour into it now and the picture is so bad it’s unwatchable.  No warning given about the quality – typical.  What a waste of TV licence money.

   Coronation Street used to be funny, but now it’s so depressing.  Controversial storylines are okay up to a point, but what happened to good old humour.  After every episode there seems to be a helpline number available in case we’ve been upset.  Surely, we are capable of choosing what we want to watch without being put off by all this censorship.

  I’m fed up of scrolling.  Think I’ll read my book.

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