SBS and the perils of Globalisation, or something!

I have a little Saturday night ritual dear reader(should you exist)that involves SBS television. I have had the great good fortune to have fallen head over heals in love with the delicious silliness of Iron Chef! A great show out of Japan, which involves all of the offbeat wackiness one expects of the Japanese, plus some great food and a touch of the old WWF from the Rowdy Roddy Piper days. So I settled back last night, selected SBS from the menu and away we went. Chairman Kaga bit the Capsicum, the challenger, grandson of Rosanjin's head chef was introduced and the Iron Chef chosen, except he wasn't! Because we had an ad break, then we chose him, and the theme ingredient wasn't introduced, because we needed another Ad Break.

Come on, let's be serious here, one of the greatest advantages of SBS was the lack of commercial breaks in programmes, yet suddenly, just like a cold sore on the lip of the mind, there they are. No apology, no debate, just another example of the privatise or die mentality of the Prime Miniature and his cronies (I wonder if they were watching the repeated airings of the T3 float commercial?)

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