Sunday Afternoon Television

Growing up, Sunday afternoons were rarely spent in front of the television, but on those rainy or cold or stomach flu days when nothing else was going on, Sheena remembers colouring or playing board games with pillows and blankets on the floor with the TV on in the background. Old movies, musicals, biblical epics (depending on the time of year).

This afternoon, in between trips to the laundry, CTV played "The Waiting Game", a made-for-TV-movie based on a Harlequin Romance novel.

OK, fine.

But simulated blow job scenes? Handcuffing half naked men to the bed? Steamy grinding and clearly topless women in the shadow of candlelight? At 5pm on a Sunday afternoon on basic package cable Channel 8?

Sheena is no prude, but come on. Schlock sex between C-list Canadian actors and soap stars belongs after 10pm. Thank God stunt-casted Paula Abdul stayed vertical.