Linsey DuncanLate night TV
December 15th 2008 14:24
I love late night television. Well when there is something on. I do love discovering things at 2am in the morning like an artistic french film on SBS or an Old movie on the ABC or a comedy or late movie on the other channels.
It's takes a bit of patience and research helps otherwise you could stay up all night for nothing. It is just something about being wrapped up in the darkness as the rest of the house sleeps.
The effect of refusing to allow your eyes to droop at the time when your circadian rhythm tugs at them like blinds makes staying awake a heightened experience. The tiredness shivers through your veins like giggles and coupled with some strong black coffee to stuff with your adenosine cells and snap your eyes open.
What I see in the day or early evening and smile carelessly at, at a shallow level, I engage with and am moved by at the later hour.
My favourite thing to watch is old british comedy's, "Carry on" Movies have brought me to tears and close to suffocation because I was laughing so hard while when I hire them from the video shop and try and watch them in the day I just raise an eyebrow or intellectually think oh that is funny without really experiencing amusement.
I guess the darkness and lack of distraction from other noise makes it like the cinema giving you this more involved experience. And your close to dreams so there it is easier to step into the other world.
I love it when they put really good shows on late at night. Although on one level if you really love the show you feel annoyed that it is not honoured with a better timeslot. Yet it sets it apart when it is put on late from the mainstream froth and bubble of cheap laughs, colourful violence and sex. These shows seem to have a hit and miss technique. Spectacle as entertainment which has no limit to the depths it will stoop.
You have to wait past all this, Going and doing something else is the least mind damaging policy. Then you can finally settle in for shows like Boston Legal or a late night documentary that gives you insight into interesting issues. Then there are the comedy reruns, Nine seems to have bought out the reruns ten had run to death. I never do get sick of seinfeld though. And once you make it past midnight you can really be in for a treat. The ABC and SBS are the first places I search as I love old films and the atmosphere they bring and the ABC is much easier to watch as I don't have to hide my head under the cushion when the Adult Ads come on. I'm not that pleased about ABC2 which we can't get as it seems to put the good old films on at prime time spots and I think this has stopped them putting so many good things on the ABC late at night. Instead you tune in and it is parliament question time. Although even that can be quite entertaining at the later hour for a few moments watching the politiciens argue their heads off. But their words soon sound fuzzy and muffled and unintelligable because no amount of caffeine can make politics sustainably interesting.
Tonight the Baron was on, I like watching that it feels like the "Get Smart" era of shows feel. But I'm not watching it as I wasn't in a television mood. I'm to disatisfied and unsettled. Late night TV needs deep tiredness and your complete attention. I think everyone should stay up all night watching old films at least once for the experience. By 4am everything is quite surreal. 5am presents you with the problem of whether to bother going to bed at all or remaining awake. Choosing the going to bed option inevitably causes you to suffer I haven't slept all night aftereffects much more keenly as sleep then is more tiring than restful. The longer you stay awake the more interesting the world can become. You can get a natural high, before the grumpiness sets in followed by the paranoia and inroads into insanity.
It's takes a bit of patience and research helps otherwise you could stay up all night for nothing. It is just something about being wrapped up in the darkness as the rest of the house sleeps.
The effect of refusing to allow your eyes to droop at the time when your circadian rhythm tugs at them like blinds makes staying awake a heightened experience. The tiredness shivers through your veins like giggles and coupled with some strong black coffee to stuff with your adenosine cells and snap your eyes open.
What I see in the day or early evening and smile carelessly at, at a shallow level, I engage with and am moved by at the later hour.
My favourite thing to watch is old british comedy's, "Carry on" Movies have brought me to tears and close to suffocation because I was laughing so hard while when I hire them from the video shop and try and watch them in the day I just raise an eyebrow or intellectually think oh that is funny without really experiencing amusement.
I guess the darkness and lack of distraction from other noise makes it like the cinema giving you this more involved experience. And your close to dreams so there it is easier to step into the other world.
I love it when they put really good shows on late at night. Although on one level if you really love the show you feel annoyed that it is not honoured with a better timeslot. Yet it sets it apart when it is put on late from the mainstream froth and bubble of cheap laughs, colourful violence and sex. These shows seem to have a hit and miss technique. Spectacle as entertainment which has no limit to the depths it will stoop.
You have to wait past all this, Going and doing something else is the least mind damaging policy. Then you can finally settle in for shows like Boston Legal or a late night documentary that gives you insight into interesting issues. Then there are the comedy reruns, Nine seems to have bought out the reruns ten had run to death. I never do get sick of seinfeld though. And once you make it past midnight you can really be in for a treat. The ABC and SBS are the first places I search as I love old films and the atmosphere they bring and the ABC is much easier to watch as I don't have to hide my head under the cushion when the Adult Ads come on. I'm not that pleased about ABC2 which we can't get as it seems to put the good old films on at prime time spots and I think this has stopped them putting so many good things on the ABC late at night. Instead you tune in and it is parliament question time. Although even that can be quite entertaining at the later hour for a few moments watching the politiciens argue their heads off. But their words soon sound fuzzy and muffled and unintelligable because no amount of caffeine can make politics sustainably interesting.
Tonight the Baron was on, I like watching that it feels like the "Get Smart" era of shows feel. But I'm not watching it as I wasn't in a television mood. I'm to disatisfied and unsettled. Late night TV needs deep tiredness and your complete attention. I think everyone should stay up all night watching old films at least once for the experience. By 4am everything is quite surreal. 5am presents you with the problem of whether to bother going to bed at all or remaining awake. Choosing the going to bed option inevitably causes you to suffer I haven't slept all night aftereffects much more keenly as sleep then is more tiring than restful. The longer you stay awake the more interesting the world can become. You can get a natural high, before the grumpiness sets in followed by the paranoia and inroads into insanity.
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