LextheGeek

Each year I vow not to watch any more TV shows than I’m already watching.  Each year, I watch something new.  Mostly because shows I actually enjoy are always cancelled.  I seem to gravitate toward “critically acclaimed – rarely watched” shows.  TV shows just don’t last like they used to and I’m still blaming reality TV for it.  Aside from shows where people actually have to display their talent and earnestly work and improve for whatever “prize”  is at the end, the rest can just as easily be tossed into the trash as be displayed on my TV.  I glance at So You Think Can Dance and American Idol when it occurs to me, and Biggest Loser when nothing else is on.  But I’m going to digress because I can go on forever about how reality TV is ruining America, or American TV anyway.

So yeah, I finally found and fell in love with Pushing Daisies – cancelled.  Same with Eli Stone.  I mean, come on!  Who can’t love a show about lawyers doing good in the world, brain aneurysms and musical numbers?  There are countless other shows I watched and loved, but their tenure so brief I barely remember their names now.  And so, even though I promise not to pick up any more shows (just to have my heart broken later), I’ve done it again.

But the problem I’ve run into for the first time, is that a lot of the shows I watch have been moved and shuffled so that they all seem to be in the same time slot.

Monday:  House 8-9, Lie to me at 9-10, Big Bang Theory 9:30-10  – and let me mention here how CBS sucks for not offering full episodes of BBT online.

Tuesday: Nada.

Wednesday: Glee 9-10 (I can’t resist.  I have a thing for musical numbers and Jane Lynch, what can I say.)

Thursday: Bones 8-9, The Office 9-9:30 and it WAS Community 9:30-10, but starting this week they’ve moved Community to 8.

Friday: Nada

Dunno what I’ll do when 30 Rock and Chuck start up again.  I have a feeling Chuck will be done after this “season,” if you can call March to May a season…