The BBC- Britain's MSNBC?

At The Cinema                            MI-5, A Soap Opera-ation How I should have kept my trap shut On March 13th I bragged that my Sennheiser head phones were still working with the original batteries.  On March 14, they were dead. I'm not making that up. Just a prior to that I called MI-5 "the best television action series ever made."  The next episode looked like it was written by West Wing's staff.  And another after that.  I left both episodes, snap! Yesterday, Episode 46, "Aftermath," made my head explode. An environmental terror group capture London's flood control system,  and threaten to let an anomalous high tide flood London—unless the government publishes the contents of a secret plan called "Aftermath."  None of the MI-5 lot have ever heard of it, so are left with  in full quandary,  What to give them?  In the meanwhile, we learn the terrorists are a nice kind-hearted Brit lass  who flew on her own nickel to help Katrina victims in New Orleans. There she met the guy terrorist who lost his girlfriend, or dog, or someone in the raging currents.  "Damn them!  None of this would have happened if only the world  heeded the wonderfulness and sagacity of Al Gore's plea to buy carbon credits!" We're all bastids! But Wait! Suddenly, the MI-5 gang discover that there exists an actual AFTERMATH contingency. plan!  The very thing the PM disavowed knowledge of.  I  reproduced ensuing dialog here, as the Chief reads from it. Sighs, gasps and astonished mumblings excluded. At this very point I turned it off.  I don't know if I'll try another episode.  Adam, the principle field spook,  has been coming apart at the seams because his wife was killed several episodes before, and I'm frankly tired of him and his whining.  I suspect he'll be the next character killed off.  Good. I may have to watch for that episode. A thought.  Jeremy Clarkson should read and clear all  BBC programming.  There would be no more of this pap.  And I'm never going to praise anything I like.