But it's not just fans of old television Westerns who appreciate a good rogue.

The state police detective had issued a tepid reprimand about men who had seen too many TV westerns.

The actor Dennis Weaver became best known in the classic western television series Gunsmoke as a lanky, but limping deputy, an amiable sidekick.

The channel, set to launch late in 1998, will mark the first time a western television network has been customized for a Russian audience.

Madam, - Trust our Western television cameras to show appalling bad taste.

In the midst of the turmoil, both political and economic, in Moscow, some images from Western television remain fixed in the mind.

Rashad's brown, bearded face was seldom seen on Western television, and while he didn't rank among the Ten Most Wanted, he was close.

But western TV and cinema are very different from reality.

A BBC team have become one of the first western TV crews to return to Kobane.

So why have we seen so little of it on western TV channels or in the papers?

This bald statement would not ring true with those whose views have been formed from a diet of western TV war documentaries.

Al-Jazeera, based in Qatar, has four correspondents in Gaza and its bulletins are broadcasting graphic images that would never be seen on western TV screens.