Confirmed Favorites:
Lost
How I Met Your Mother
My Name is Earl
The Office
New But Promising:
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Heroes
Has a Maximum of two more Episodes to Live up to its Promise:
Jericho
Jericho is partially just not the show I want it to be. It’s trying to be Lost in Kansas with all the mysteries. I want a straightforward drama about people trying to survive in an extreme situation. Partially, it’s not as smart as a show with its premise needs to be to survive.
I only have the TV on when my wife turns the set on. I only watch it if it’s a movie or a documentary I’m really interested in. I reckon I watch about 1 hour max per week.
I’ve spent several extended periods (6 months to 2 years) with no TV at all while I’ve been travelling, and I really don’t miss it.
None of this explains why I have a 37" widescreen HDTV LCD thingy sitting in a corner of the room…
Three hours a week? Not including sports, right? Studio 60, Boston Legal, and BSG, in no particular order. And that was a surprisingly easy set of choices. (The three hours in which the Patriots are playing each week would trump all of that… and then whatever other NFL stuff is on… then whatever other sports are on…)
The next three hours adds 24 (put me in the “season 5 was awesome BECAUSE it was so ludicrous” camp), South Park, American Dad, Family Guy, and… um… Earl, I guess, to make the times all line up right. All four of the comedies are fun to watch, but not really QUITE good enough to break up that first group.
I end up watching a lot more than that, but past those six hours, there’s really nothing I couldn’t live without pretty easily. I don’t have HBO, and actual quality (not “fun to watch” but “well written, well acted, GOOD television”) is pretty hard to find on the networks… and “fun to watch” can be easily replaced by anything else that’s fun.