Bad movie blackmail.

[Neville]

I really though Antena 3, one of the free spanish TV stations, couldn't get any lower. I mean, they are famous here for their quite, let's say, "creative" ways of depicting the everyday events on their news, or for dumpìng good series after a few episodes, or for lots of TV crap. But now they've gone too far.

Apparently, what they do is innocent enough: The channel offers two different movies for the saturday night and the audience picks the one they prefer via SMS. That is, sending a message through your cellphone, which uses to cost about $1 here. Not very ethical, but transparent enough.

But after a couple of weeks, their strategy is starting to show up. Every week they offer a crappy film and a quite good one. This week, for instance, the pick is between "Casino" and a sugary drama starring Susan Sarandon and Natalie Portman. In other words, we are being bad movie blackmailed! LOL! It is almost if they were saying: "If you not pay us enough money by the weekend, we will show you the bad movie instead of this one we were going to pass anyway". I know, I know, I am assuming the voting process is not transparent (believe, it has been openly criticised before), and also stretching quite a lot of things, but I truly hate that channel, and the idea of all this seemed cooked by Dr. Evil himself.

About me, I am not watching "Casino" with an hour of advertising (looks like the good guys are winning for now), I think I'd better go to the cinema. Seen "The Eye" was showing somewhere near my neighbourhood...