Centuries ago when I was home for months w/a newborn, the choices were:
Soaps. yech.
Talk TV. I was channel surfing among them one day and stopped long enough to hear “Next on (whatever show it was - Sally Jessie IIRC) 'former nuns who’ve undergone a sex change”.
Game shows. Can you say “big bucks, big bucks, no whammies”? I knew that you could.
I feel your pain.
So get a job, ya lazy bastid!
You really shouldn’t be surprised, though. Good programming (sports, especially) costs a lot of money. Conversely, no one is going to be home to watch TV on Memorial Day, as they’re all out barbequeing or playing baseball or whatever. So, you get cheap crap. Not even the normal quality of crap you get during the day, but, because viewership is going to be even lower than normal on Memorial Day, you get the crapiest of the crap. Because if there’s one thing daytime TV can teach us, it is that there is no lower limit to quality.
Oh comon’ now.
Networks cater to their intended audience.
Everyone knows if a person is home during a weekday they’re either:
#1. Unemployed and thus in the need of trade school education. Or if they can’t leave the house, they need to get a degree from home! There are many exciting opprotunities in the field of interior design or vcr repair. You can even get your GED!
#2. Injured and badly in the need of a tenacious personal injury lawyer! The crappier and more low budget the commercial the better!
#3. Can’t get a job because they’ve got no car and no auto insurance due to their crappy, crappy credit. Good thing there are all those “we finance anybody! Yeah, even you, ya big loser! If you’ve got a phone number, we’ll get you a car!” commercials. And once you get your new pimpin’ ride, there are endless ghetto insurance companies to take care of you!
#4. A housewife that needs to see her “stories”! And learn about the newest inventions in housecleaning!
Enough incentive to get my sick ass up off the couch and back into the office, I tell you what!
[sub]Yeah I know these are all references to commercials, but still. Being home during the day on a weekday and watching tv is enough to send anyone into a deep, deep depression. [/sub]