Spanish TV

I've started to watch some more TV, the first few months that I was here the only thing I watched was football, now I watch anything to help me along with my Spanish. It's the usual collection of pish, the occasional highlight and a heap of imported crap. It can also be quite brutal, like showing some unforgiving footage from last fortnights San Fermin of foreign drunks getting a bulls horn up their arse.
X-Factor, Big Brother, Survivor and Fame Academy seem to continually be on and when one finishes another similar brand of pish will begin. These are then accompanied by late night shows talking about this brand of pish. In there lies irony?
Nothing new really, Britain has the same.
Then there are the daytime shows. Spain might not have tabloid newspapers but they sure as hell have tabloid TV. Afternoons on most of the public TV channels are awash with celebrity gossip, celebrity being used with inverted commas. Exclusive! begins every show, some startled footballers missus/bird/bit on the side, being followed by a reporter and cameraman whilst she is out shopping or I've noticed quite frequently getting into or out of a car. This is spliced with grainy out of focus footage of some bloke snogging some bird, and back in the studio an army of experts will discuss this quite extraordinary behaviour. Sensationalist? Pointless?
The dullest, most infantile, banal TV for easily amused, brain dead slaves.
Now for the hypocrite in me to come to the surface of the TV viewer swamp.
There is a quiz show called "Money Money" (Mon-Fri 8pm channel Cuatro). I'm not going to go into the details of how the show works, that isn't important, what is however are the twelve or so stunning, scantily clad dancing girls (there are three blokes for any women watching) that perform a little boogie each time they are asked to reveal a question.
Quality! They also dance before the ad breaks and go hell for leather at the end of the show. Most satisfying.
Dull, infantile and banal?
No, the questions make it educational.
I rest my case.