What happened to July?

Good grief. I didn't post in July. I disgust myself sometimes. What a nasty lazy layabout I am. I could vomit with shame.

Excuses? I wasn't on holiday. I haven't stopped watching television. My computer still works. I have no excuse other than my own pitiful crapness.

Anyway, enough about me. What about my new telly?

Yes. I've got a new telly. My old one broke. Three years into its life it decided to go all snowy, and I couldn't watch anything. So I've bought a new one. It's bigger and has that high definition thing and has a five year guarantee in case it decides to break in three years time.

And what have I been watching on my lovely new television?

Nothing really. Television has never been so bad.

When Dragons' Den is the highlight of the week, you know you're in trouble. First couple of series were great. All business and I'm not going to invest and it's a Den first and just so you know I'm out and remember if the hopefuls must receive an offer for all of the investment they ask for or they won't get anything and just so you know I'm out. Great stuff.

But it bores me now. It's all the same. Four main pitches, the first or second will receive an offer which may or may not be accepted. The third doesn't. The fourth does, often in a dramatic turn of events. You know it's a dramatic turn of events because Evan tells us. "In a dramatic turn of events..." he says. He'll follow it up by "It's a Den first."

One thing that has changed this series is that Peter Jones is no longer described as "One of Britain's best known entrepreneurs". What's that all about? Has he become less well known over the past twelve months? Or maybe he realised that it made him sound like a bit of a precious tool.

Dragons Den of course is not the best programme on television at the moment. That falls to Dexter on FX. I never got to see the first series until it was repeated on ITV a couple of months ago. Excellent stuff. It appears that FX is the only channel to actually show good drama at this time of year. It's also got the Wire. I'm not watching that though as I'm watching it on DVD and I'm only onto series 3.

I did try watching a couple of episodes of The Unit. It looks great on paper. David Mamet (Glengarry Glen Ross), Shawn Ryan (The Shield) as Executive Producers and sometimes writers, Dennis Haysbert (off of 24) as the main blokey, good supporting cast including that blokey from Terminator 2 and the later series of the X Files.

It was rubbish! How can the bloke who created the Shield have anything to do with this tripe? It's all husbands and wives arguing, and wives arguing with each other and husbands going off somewhere to shoot people and it ends with what can only be described as an unashamedly anti-French musical number which made me cringe more than the Apprentice.

Maybe I watched a bad episode, but come on! You wouldn't find Starbuck and Boomer singing anti-French songs on Battlestar Galactica.