>>>In terms of TV programming, ...
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>>...I can't find a way to program my TV at all. It keeps showing me commercials, reruns, selling channels, and full month of begging on PBSes. I'm supposed to know these things, being a programmer, but I must admit I have no clue.
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>>Did anyone succeed in TV programming? Which language does it use? Does it have a debugger (other than a hurled brick)?
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>Using either the TV control itself, or via remote control, click the 'off' button, pick up a book, and read. That's how I do it.

In the UK we have a distinction between "program" and "programme": the former being re: computers and the latter re: a series of incidents, such as what to expect to see at the theatre, or a TV or radio emission