Okay, this is where we separate the fans from the fanboys, the aficionados from the anoraks and the sane from the entirely wacky.
My current favorite telly site on the web is the BBC's Cult site - a veritable smorgasbord of sci-fi / fantasy / crime / comedy weirdness. Sure, there's plenty to do or see for just about any telly fan - the shows covered include perennial worldwide favorites Doctor Who, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Simpsons, Hitchhiker's Guide, X-Files and many more. The real joys, though, are to be found in the lovely nooks and crannies of the site like the I Love...sub-site that covers the good, the bad and the tacky of more than three decades of pop culture.
The highlight of I Love... for telly fans is, rather obviously, the I LoveTV area. Among the priceless artifacts on display:
This may be the first, and sadly only, chance most non-Brits have to sample some of the great, and not so great, programming that has shaped British television and pop culture over the years. Loads of opening sequences from some of the best, and most obscure to international audiences, telly around. From Adam Adamant - one of the coolest adventure programs to come from either side of the Atlantic - to Z Cars - one of the coolest cop shows blah blah blah. It's great fun.
Unfortunately it can also make one lustful, greedy and covetous - I've discovered so many more shows to add to my wish list of programs I'd like to see, and yet the odds of getting The Baker Street Boys (a kids show about Sherlock Holmes' Baker Street Irregulars), Crimewatch (Crime reconstruction.show now in it's second decade) , Crackerjack (kid's stuff), Softly,Softly (cop stuff), or Juliet Bravo (female cop stuff) in the US are pretty much nil.
Now most any rabid British TV fan will love the above, and the whole of the Cult site in general. But only those of us incurably stricken with telly addiction can fully appreciate the gift that is BBC Cult : Testcards!. That's right, here you will find prime examples of BBC Test Cards - you know those things a tv station puts on when it's off the air . Not only are there nifty picturesx to use as desktop wall paper, a Testcard screensaver, Testacard trivia and such but there's actual Testcard video and my favorite, animated recreations of classic BBC idents!
I simply can't explain why these things make me so happy, I don't even bother to try. If you're wondering just how deeply in telly trouble you are check out the Cult site and find out
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