The Wire

I'm sitting in front of the TV, post-work for once, watching The Wire. This is meant to be the greatest show ever made, and this is the first time I've seen any of it :'( Mainly because BBC didn't buy the rights until a year after it had completely finished in America, and then did the craziest piece of scheduling I have ever seen - they showed an episode a night at 11pm five days a week until they finished series 1, then took a week off, then did the same with series 2. And so on. I, like the rest of the nation, had totally intended to watch online on the iPlayer, but they didn't bother telling anyone that they didn't have the rights to show it online until after the first 3 episodes had already aired, making it pretty difficult to catch up, even for those who did have regular access to the TV (which i don't at uni). This is probably the biggest #BBCfail ever in my books. What were they thinking?
One day I'll have enough money to buy the boxsets, and enough time to watch it all. Until then, it is strangely reassuring that there is still some amazing TV out there that I havn't seen yet.