The "eye-candy" of the Hit TV series Desperate Housewives...

How to keep a viewer happy...

Amazing that Australian television viewers constantly whine about the amount of American imports on their screens, yet Desperate Housewives, Lost, Commander In Chief, CSI (all three; Miami, Las Vegas & New York) and Las Vegas starring James Caan and Lara Flynn Boyle.

People here scream there isn't enough Australian content on their tubes, but really, Aussie production houses pump out some of the worst crap possible. Take for instance The Alice, filmed entirely on location in the red centre, the heart of Australia. The droll storyline, the same bad actors from other failed series and a mediocre production crew, was a sure-fire recipe for television viewing disaster. The Alice was cancelled half-way through it's first season for lack of viewers in the capital cities.

Don't get me wrong, there is talent in Australia (most of it from New Zealand but we claim it anyway). The fault lies with producers not being demanding enough and content with blowing their money on bad productions, bad directors and has beens. (There must be a tax break in there someplace.)

Let's quickly look at our top line up to see where who is from: Nichole Kidmman, born Hawaii, USA; Mel Gibson, born New York, USA; Russell Crowe, born New Zealand, The Bee Gees, born United Kingdom; Clive James and Sophie Monk, born in Australia but prefers to work overseas.

For any young inspiring actor you need to be overseas to chase you dreams. All the good talent, and I don't mean just the actors and celebs, but camera operators, lighting technicians, wardrobe people, sound technicians, etc., make more money, get to work on the big budget films and get the recognition they deserve, overseas.

Even when it comes down to our Logies, an event loosely based on the the Emmy Awards, for those whose outstanding perfomance on screen and behind the scenes, we import a known celebrity from....you guessed it, America!

All three networks in Australia (7,10 & 9) need to get their shit together and either come up with something Australian worth watching or needs to import more good programs from overseas.