If you want a metaphor - the Pommie costume drama Witness for the Prosecution is a recent rerun, broadcast by Auntie desperately regurgitating anything in any timeslot instead of bringing home a couple of overseas correspondents to save a buck. If it was the highest rating program on Friday night it says more about the hopelessly inane viewing public in this country than anything about footy.
Robert Hughes once called Australia the land of the great forget. Well, if you can't recall the storyline of a year old Pommie melodrama you'll probably also forget the repeated Caltoon disaster telecasts that have filled the Friday night timeslot this season.