The TV Season is Almost Over (May 11, 2007)

The prime time lineup is void of innovation and entertainment value. Only the Fox cartoons are worth my time. Maybe Veronica Mars only because Kristen Bell is hot. I was bored to sleep trying to get through the NBC Thursday night so-called comedy lineup. "The Office" needs a Fonz, a Latka, or some kind of scene stealer like those old 70's classic sitcoms did. Watching "That's My Mama" on an old black and white tube TV from 1975 entertained me far more than watching "Lost" on an HDTV set in 2007.

Spending a week watching TV during "Turn Off Your Set" week invented by some jerkoff proved to me that there isn't much worth catching on TV nowadays anyway. Who needs this week anymore? Every week seems to be more like voluntary "Turn Off Your Set" week with the lack of good shows coming from the networks. Watching TV is more like a chore than listening to Internet and Satellite radio while composing this blog, which is what I do nowadays.

The networks have only themselves to blame for the exodus of viewers to other forms of media. They're going to cable, satellite, the Internet, and now the phone to watch television programs and shorts. They're listening to music on their mp3 players. They're playing video games. They're watching videos on their machines. With the audience getting more fragmented than ever, the time has come for the dinosaur networks to move to cable and drop the affilliate system altogether, while the local stations will have to reposition themselves as another kind of entertainment and information service. All this 1080i picture quality doesn't do justice if the programming sucks in the first place.