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Low-to-No TV project update
Sep. 3rd, 2012 10:47 amAfter almost 2 years, I've managed to completely change my TV-watching trends. I now loathe the idea of September and all the pilots all the broadcast networks try to promote and am very wary of stuff with more than 12 episodes a year. Also, if there isn't anybody hot involved, I'm probably not watching it. The characters have to give me feelings, and the sexual ones generally get transmuted into deeper ones instead of the other way around. This is my brain and its flawed method, but am I not entertained? ;)
Current, ongoing shows approved for consumption:
1) Doctor Who
2) Game of Thrones
3) Sherlock
4) True Blood
5) Supernatural
6) Downton Abbey
7) Wallander
8) Big Bang Theory
9) Copper
10) Walking Dead
11) Mad Men
12) Whatever Brian Cox/Neil deGrasse Tyson/Iain Stewart makes
13) BBC Nature docs
14) Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert/Conan
15) Threesome (at least I HOPE it's ongoing... we'll see!)
All but Supernatural and Big Bang Theory are equal to or less than 10 eps a year, or have a significant hiatus between Part One and Part Two of any given 12-month period. Luckily, most of these are spread out, and come in and out of season, like fresh produce. So I don't have much on the docket at any given time. Tastes better this way.
Daily TV (non-Netflix movie) consumption on average is 2.5 hrs. Usually Jon/Stephen/Conan and one other thing on weekdays, but maybe just one movie/show a day on weekends. Which is lower than the national average that Nielsen gives as over 5 hrs a day: http://www.statisticbrain.com/television-watching-statistics/
My initial goal to spend as much or more time reading/writing as I do watching TV has been achieved and maintained.
Secret confession: The only "reality show" I watch is What Not To Wear. It's not on most of the year, but it's about clothes and shoes and girly/gay things I can't resist.
The next time suck is probably computing, but a lot goes on on the computer, including writing/communicating, so that's a whole other statistical survey.
Current, ongoing shows approved for consumption:
1) Doctor Who
2) Game of Thrones
3) Sherlock
4) True Blood
5) Supernatural
6) Downton Abbey
7) Wallander
8) Big Bang Theory
9) Copper
10) Walking Dead
11) Mad Men
12) Whatever Brian Cox/Neil deGrasse Tyson/Iain Stewart makes
13) BBC Nature docs
14) Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert/Conan
15) Threesome (at least I HOPE it's ongoing... we'll see!)
All but Supernatural and Big Bang Theory are equal to or less than 10 eps a year, or have a significant hiatus between Part One and Part Two of any given 12-month period. Luckily, most of these are spread out, and come in and out of season, like fresh produce. So I don't have much on the docket at any given time. Tastes better this way.
Daily TV (non-Netflix movie) consumption on average is 2.5 hrs. Usually Jon/Stephen/Conan and one other thing on weekdays, but maybe just one movie/show a day on weekends. Which is lower than the national average that Nielsen gives as over 5 hrs a day: http://www.statisticbrain.com/television-watching-statistics/
My initial goal to spend as much or more time reading/writing as I do watching TV has been achieved and maintained.
Secret confession: The only "reality show" I watch is What Not To Wear. It's not on most of the year, but it's about clothes and shoes and girly/gay things I can't resist.
The next time suck is probably computing, but a lot goes on on the computer, including writing/communicating, so that's a whole other statistical survey.
