Ton said all tv is rubbish. I’m currently watching The Joy Of Statistics on BBC4. There’s some good programmes on Friday and Saturday on BBC4 about folk music and dance. Not to everyone’s taste, but certainly not rubbish. ITV has Poirot and Lewis, two programmes that are beautifully filmed and acted with excellent production values. I have a fairly well developed dreck filter and am perfectly capable of finding plenty to watch on tv that quite clearly isn’t dumbed-down, lowest common denominator programming, but equally clearly doesn’t appeal to the average tv viewer. My folks, who are in their 80’s, watch a fair number of quiz shows, police and airport reality shows, sport, and a few other odds and ends, but no soaps or ‘reality’ shows like I’m A Celebrity…. Does that mean they watch rubbish? According to ton, yes, but they just want to be entertained, so it’s not rubbish to them. It’s all relative.