Ten on Tuesday
I'm a bit of a TV addict. I turn it on first thing in the morning, and very often I fall asleep with it on (we have a timer). So this week's Ten on Tuesday is a fairly easy one for me. Ten Great/Awful Things about Television Today.
1. Awful -- Reality shows. I hate them. Survivor, the Biggest Loser, Big Brother, any of a number of shows on E!. Of course I do have some exceptions. But for the most part, I really don't care for them.
2. Great -- I really like Project Runway. Yep, that's about it for the reality and I don't even consider that "Reality" television.
3. Awful -- Wife Swap. I hate Wife Swap so much, that it Gets It's Own Awful. I hate the concept, I hate the families, I hate the format, I hate that every week they still manage to find two wackadoo families even more wackadoo than the week before. And I hate that J took to watching it during the writers' strike and then this summer when there was nothing else on.
4. Great -- Mad Men. Part of the reason why I like this show so much is the look of it. It's set in 1960 so the costumes and sets have this retro look that I can't get enough of. But I also think that I'm sucked into that show because every episode just makes me just ever so slightly uncomfortable. The characters are flawed and the writers do such a good job of showing what a different world it was back then. No showing us the "good old days."
5. Awful -- That MTV and VH1 don't show music videos anymore like they used to 24 hours a day. (Do they even show music videos?)
6. Great -- That if I miss some shows I can still watch them on the Internets. Although that's probably something great about the internets and less about television.
7. Awful -- That all of these great old movies that I always want to watch are always on the Turner Classic Movies Channel and we don't get that channel.
8. Great -- Late Night Television -- the Daily Show, the Colbert Report, Dave Letterman, SNL especially with Tina Fey.
9. Awful -- That I can never seem to stay up long enough to watch Late Night Television.
10. Great -- TVLand -- because sometimes I want to be taken back to the "good old days."
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day 172 -- thinking about what to make for dinner and if there's anything good on tonight.
















