La fille du jardinier

A weird thing happened yesterday, we were watching telly - Viriamu and I have become addicted to a really awful Mexican soap opera La Fille du Jardinier (of course it's dubbed in french), it's so bad that it really is quite entertaining. We have just a tonne of Brazilian or Mexican soaps on our telly, as well as a lot of American soaps from the 80s. It always feels weird watching things like Dynasty dubbed in french, there is even Scooby-Doo and Flipper. There's also lots of other cool 'Outre-Mer' channels, so we can watch New Caledonian and French Caribbean tv. Anyway, Viriamu (if you can believe it) has become totally hooked, which is strangely out of character, so we always tune in to it on Wallace and Futuna's channel, because they're three weeks ahead of the Polynesian channel. Yesterday we sat down, expecting a gripping conclusion to the previous episode, only to find that they had re-run monday's episode......well, Viriamu was disgusted! And clearly the Wallace & Futuna technicians were in a bit of a flap, as they abruptly switched over to tuesday's episode halfway-through......then bizarrely, instead of going into the national news, as usual, they put on yet another episode, that would probably have been scheduled as today's episode, with an apology for the re-runs scrolling at the bottom of the screen. Clearly wednesday's episode had got lost somewhere along the way, and there was panic in the control room. But what I find astounding is that they would cancel or delay the broadcasting of the national news, in favour of a re-run of an old Mexican soap! It's quite an eye-opener, but somehow perfectly sums up Polynesia! I can only imagine that the phone-lines must have been red-hot, buzzing with angry polynesian fans, like Viriamu, desperate to know what had happened to Luisa-Fernanda and Carlos-Eduardo (the star-crossed lovers).......we'll just have to wait and tune in for today's installment.