A reader recently sent me an email nothing that I don't often write about television. She is correct; my addiction to "my shows" (as my Nona and Gammy call "The Young and the Restless" and "The Price is Right", respectively) is as sporadic as my devotion to various other things, and especially things that come with hype. Lately, I've been enjoying season one of "Prison Break" non-stop...last weekend it was a marathon of "America's Next Top DesignStar." I guess I'm just more of a late adopter with television, which means I end up renting the dvds and ravenously watching them until 3:30 a.m.
While out to dinner last week, someone mentioned that her roommate had spent all of a Sunday recovering from a hangover…and making an Excel spreadsheet of their fall television schedule for each night of the week. I have to admit that I was impressed — I could never get all the channel/time info into that shitbox of an application and produce something understandable. I'd probably end up watching "Everyone Loves Raymond" re-runs for the next three months.
FRIDAY MEDAL ROUND: What's on your fall television spreadsheet?
BLOGORELLI:
Gold – Grey's Anatomy (c'mon, like this one wasn't going to make even my list)
Silver – Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (it's got Hype)
Bronze – Hammered with John & Jimmy DiResta (this isn't a "new" fall show per say, but I should be getting royalties from these guys — they pick up curbside salvage, make the object[s] into something new + great, and return the "junk" to its owner. Hello? I do the same thing, except after I pick up said objects, I immediately put them into my storage space and never do anything with them ever again.)
LATE BREAKING UPDATE:
30 Rock is V. Hi-larious
Studio 60 is good and very over-eagerly, self-consciously about "the industry"
"60 Rock" does not exist.
Posted by: a classic girl | Thursday, 12 October 2006 at 08:01 PM
How can i not? It's all friends/coworkers talk about. Read a book people.
Posted by: General Disarray | Friday, 22 September 2006 at 05:07 PM
you're so angry General. lighten up. it's TV afterall...
ps. for someone who hates these shows so much, I'm impressed with your knowledge of them. ;)
Posted by: the polish princess | Friday, 22 September 2006 at 05:05 PM
Lost is stupid. 24 is ok. Grey's Anatomy is ER with a different name/cast. the office is a low-end copy of the british wonder. prison break (although it glorifies the wiffle) is 24...but in a prison where the plot revolves around a tatoo. Gilmore Girls is a soap opera with irritating characters. Veronica Mars is WB shlock. CSI is so appealing to the half-witted public there are 14 of them. Don't get me started on that Desperate Housewives garbage. ALL Reality television can shampoo my crotch (unless it's P.R.).
Posted by: General Disarray | Friday, 22 September 2006 at 04:22 PM
wutever General—"there's very little good television out there"—you're just not watching the right shows.
:p
Posted by: the polish princess | Friday, 22 September 2006 at 01:28 PM