I’m obsessed with a cable network.
TLC : I think it used to be known as The Learning Channel, but they really mostly broadcast non-trashy reality tv shows. Cameras follow around actually-interesting people, and we get to watch the non-celebrities tackle life, just as we all do. It’s really quite captivating.
My Monday nights used to be forsaken due to Fox’s Prison Break and 24 (my blog’s namesake). Those fictionalized shows tragically killed off the best characters, and I’m not a huge fan of death, so I switched to the happier Monday-night-guilty-pleasure, “Jon & Kate Plus 8″. My husband is still learning that I am physically and emotionally unavailable during the Monday night Jon-and-Kate marathons. I don’t think he is huge fan of that, but he semi-reluctantly watches with me and laughs along as the kids say hilarious things and we marvel at the crazy life this family has and cement our desire “to never have kids.” (We will, of course, one day, but for now it’s great birth control.)
Some of the network’s shows are too estrogen-filled for my loving husband (he abhors the set-in-a wedding-dress-boutique “Say Yes to the Dress” and the single-parent dating show “Must Love Kids”), but he’ll actually submit to “What Not to Wear” (and complain that they should makeover guys too), “Rock the Reception” (we both love Tabitha and Napolean, the choreographers from “So You Think You Can Dance”), and of course, “Jon & Kate”. Andrew is a fan of “Take-Home Handyman”, I think because it makes him want to be a handyman. He gets all small-home-project happy, which will pretty much benefit me a lot once we get our own home.
I like TLC so much, that on the off-chance that I turn it on and see “Mystery Diagnosis” (which has far too many corpses for my taste) or “Miami Ink” (far, far too many needles) is on instead of one of my beloved favorites, I actually get sort of bugged. How unhealthy is that? That I get mad at my favorite network if my favorite shows aren’t on…
I need TiVo…badly…
Oh man, I feel you. I love TLC too but you know what I am super addicted too? truTV. I can’t stop watching that crap. There’s been a few times where I came home from work and from like 5pm to 2am watched nothing but truTV. There’s just something about cops beating on people that I can’t get enough of, its so fulfilling!
Just say ‘Whoa’. Reality TV sucks unless the hosts are named Adam, Jamie, Cari, Grant, and Tory.
The ONLY real reason to watch TV will be starting this October 1: Pushing Daisies. Please mark your calendars; this is truly the best TV ever written.
Other than that, get a TiVo to record Psych, Chuck, Burn Notice, and Monk. Watch them all on Sunday afternoon.
If you are looking for something so funny you will cry, try Coupling on the BBC. The sexual content may be too much for some, but the comedy is hard to ignore.