When the concept behind Seven Year Switch was first announced, it sent me into a spiral of despair.
Overseas networks are brimming with well-written dramas and bitingly sharp comedy offerings that have redefined television.
Meanwhile, here? In Australia? Well, our scripted dramas find it hard to get off the ground and even though we have scores of talented writers and actors who could make the kind of comedy shows that make people sit up and pay attention, the funding and interest just isn’t there.
Everywhere else in the world is having the Golden Age of Television, I fumed, except us.
All we get are sleazy reality TV shows that exploit emotionally vulnerable people for easy views. Shows that promote backstabbing, bullying and exclusion.
And renovation shows. All those damn renovation shows...........but that's a rant for another day.
I could have kept all this on the inside, of course, but my Middle Child Syndrome refused to allow me to keep my feelings and thoughts on the inside and so I took to The Binge podcast to vent my inner turmoil.
On air I asked the listens, begged the listeners, not to watch them. To watch anything else instead.
“Australia I want to say to you: you are all bad people," I raged into the microphone while my co-host Rosie Waterland began to regret her decision to be locked in a small dark studio with me.