Television Obsession

Here are some of the shows I do not think are total and utter crap, and that I am currently recording every episode of: Arrested Development, The OC, Wonderfalls, and Significant Others.

I own a DVR. It's a Digital Video Recorder (I think?) and it's basically a fake Tivo that I have through my digital cable. It is so kick ass. My DVR has transformed my TV watching habits completely. Now I can actually watch good TV shows I want to see at the odd hours I like to watch TV. I can watch anything I want at any time. Since I am usually out doing something in the world during primetime, I used to hardly ever see any decent network programming. Now time and space mean nothing to me... it is totally insane. And it's going to be interesting when almost everyone in America has a similar device. Because you very quickly realize that 90% of what's on the air is total and complete crap.

Just a tiny bit more biographical info: I work in TV production right now, but I am hoping to eventually get into development and/or programming. And that means I spend an insane amount of time thinking about all the TV out there. What's good, what's bad, and why. My friends and co-workers can only stand so much of my television opining, so you, the lovely reader of my blog, gets to listen. Or not.

I was reading a friend's blog at work one day when my office mate said she wondered why anyone would want to write a blog. I know what she meant -- basically who would want to post lots of personal info about themselves up on the internet? I totally agree that there is something totally exhibitionistic about writing a blog. Yet, here I am starting one. My blog is going to be all about my opinions, however, with minimal biographical information (because I am definitely not an exhibitionist). And there is nothing that I am more opininated about than TV. Mostly because I work in TV production at the moment, and therefore most of my time is spent thinking about TV related matters. Like most people who work in TV, I originally wanted to be a filmmaker. I mean, everyone loves movies, right? I loved movies, I decided it was a great line of work to go into. In NYC there isn't a whole lot of feature film work, so I drifted into TV almost immediately. And then I realized - TV is awesome. I love TV almost as much as I love movies, it's just one of those things you feel kind of lame admitting to. It makes you seem like one of those people who does nothing but sit on their couch eating and zoning out. Which is, of course, one of the purposes of TV. But I'm actually a fairly social and active young new yorker, and I admit it, I love TV.