TITS AND ASS

It's the rating season on TV and the commercial channels have released their best offerings ("best" being relative of course).

Channel Nine's "best" is a show called The Strip and it concerns a bunch of pretty people solving crimes on the Gold Coast (Australia's equivalent to Venice Beach) and announced by a menacingly deep-voiced voice-over man in an attempt to convey the importance of the show.

It's been being advertised with that most popular of ways, the slow motion walk. The pretty ones strolling with purpose along the Coast's golden sands. Handsome men, pretty women with a body of a honey in the foreground (more tits).

I was at a colleague's house and happened to see a few minutes of the programme, hence the "tits and ass" heading for the post. Because really, that's all it is and what the producers are counting on to attract viewers - who'll be predominately men.

Take away the half-naked people and it's a mediocre show (even with the half-naked people it's still mediocre, frankly).

Compare this drivel with a re-runned show on Channel Two by the name of Wildside. This is also a cop show (from the 90's) based in Sydney's underbelly - gritty, dark, with great writing and quality actors who, whilst they're not hideous, cannot be described as pretty.
No beaches or colourful attire; just a dark, brooding snapshot of the underworld of Australia's premier city.
With great storylines and engaging characters. Top stuff.