With the exception of Prison Break, the second season of which is stacking up on the Tivo in anticipation of a cliffhanger-foiling marathon binge, I'm all caught up on my TV for the moment. Here's what I'm watching this season:
Prison Break
Heroes
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
CSI: Miami
Veronica Mars
Boston Legal
Jericho
Lost
CSI:NY
The Nine
Smallville
Survivor
Supernatural
CSI
ER
Doctor Who
Battlestar Galactica
Deal or No Deal
NUMB3RS
The Amazing Race
Las Vegas
That's 21 hours a week. Then add:
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (daily)
The Daily Show (daily)
The Colbert Report (daily)
Good Eats
America's Test Kitchen
Ebert & Roeper
Robot Chicken
The Venture Brothers
Harvey Birdman: Attorney At Law
I Want That! Kitchens, Baths, and Tech Toys
and that's another 10-11 hours per week, bringing the total to about 32 hours of television a week. Holy bejeezus, how is that even possible? Ok, thanks to the magic of Tivo, each hour is really only about 45 minutes, and some shows like Millionaire and Deal or No Deal compress even more than that with judicious use of double-speed. So that gets the real viewing time down to about 24 hours. Not all those shows will run all season long, and new series like Jericho might get the boot either by me or the network. And I'm usually doing something else while I'm watching most of the half-hour stuff and some of the dramas. So really it's not as bad as it looks. Ahem.
Anyhoo, for now I'm all caught up. But my Tivo is still bursting at the gills with unwatched movies, some recorded as many as three years ago. Curious, I just counted them. 41. Forty-one unwatched movies. Again I say, holy bejeezus! I know you're curious, so here they are:
| Chicken Run Life is Beautiful Sleepless in Seattle Hedwig and the Angry Inch The Sum of All Fears The Rundown Chicago Finding Nemo The Triplets of Belleville Scream Scream 2 Collateral L.A. Confidential The People vs. Larry Flynt |
The Bourne Supremacy Nine Queens The Station Agent Sin City House of Flying Daggers Million Dollar Baby Saw Hotel Rwanda Crash Shaolin Soccer Ocean's Twelve Mindhunters The Interpreter Hide and Seek |
Kung Fu Hustle Batman Begins The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Bend it Like Beckham Cellular Silverado Liar Liar Cube Zero Zathura Steamboy Pleasantville Layer Cake The Forgotten |
I expect that before long, the wave of incoming television will crash over me and I'll be fighting to recover enough Tivo space to keep up. When that happens, after nuking any unseen I Want That!s and other fluff, movies are the next to go. Besides Cube Zero, which I'm sure is crap but I want to watch anyway, what should I delete first? Anything on that list really not worth watching?
Posted by Peter at October 2, 2006 12:12 AM