Australian TV Commercials

I've spent much of the last few days just taking things kinda slow and actually catching up on my TV watching. Jen and I are now officially hooked on the new "Bionic Woman" series, which plays here on Thursday nights. I'm also taking a stab at watching "Heroes", although I never did see the first season, so right now not a lot of the storyline makes sense. My housemates Yo and James are both big Heroes fans and have promised to bring me up to speed on the show. Hooray!

Having the time to actually watch TV is a bit of a novelty for me. There are only five channels here (unless you want to pay for more, which our landlord doesn't, so five it is), so the choice of shows to watch is a whole lot more limited than what I'm used to at home. Lots of British shows play here, and the Australians seem to have made a whole series of spinoff shows from the big American reality shows - so there's Australian Idol, So You Think You Can Dance, Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader, and Australian Bingo Night, just to name a few. I've watched more 'reality' TV in the last week than I have in the last five years. And no, Vicky, there's no Survivor here - at least not yet. :-)

I'm actually finding myself highly amused by the TV commercials here - they're hilarious! I've pasted in a few links to share with you, so you can see what I mean. I seem to be spending a lot of time giggling like a schoolgirl.

Pure Blond beer commercial

National Australia Bank commercial

Honda CRV commercial

Farmer's Union Iced Coffee commercial

Well, that's a start, anyway. There are many more but I currently can't find them on You Tube. If I do, I'll post 'em here!

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! I know I'm a week late but tonight Jen and I will be joining up with the other Canadian teachers working down here in Melbourne for a traditional Thanksgiving dinner. Which means I need to get off the computer and go and buy a pie. Bye for now!