not one of the best

but THE best new concept TV programme was Nerds FC on SBS. Former Socceroo Andrew Harper gathered a group of about 20 nerds whose idea of life was total immersion in a book or computer and who therefore had no idea that there was such a thing as soccer and he worked with them for three months to develop coordination and soccer skills among other things. He took them camping and they had to erect tents and blow up mattresses. "Do you mean I have to put my mouth over this germy hole and blow in to it? But the air keeps escaping" Well you have to put your tongue over the hole to keep the air in. And so on.
One of the other ones was a rubber puppet animal cartoon in which they took on the attitudes and values of people. These two mice were sitting back in their straw armchairs in a maze. "Well I have a responsible job really. I have to show the humans how well I can get from one end of the maze to the other without making a mistake. They use the information to help their psychologists design better education mathods for the little chlidren. It's quite tiring but if it will help the little kiddies then it's it's worthwhile really."