Where all my shows at?
It’s been a tough week or so for TV. I haven’t been able to watch anything other than the Food Network these past few days (not that’s a bad thing, mind you) and my formerly full and diverse schedule has become rather empty.
Two points of frustration:
Gripe #1 - The U.S. Open on USA Network
If you like tennis, you’re probably really excited that you can TiVo hours of the U.S. Open all day long and watch it straight through primetime.
Me? Not so much.
I’m sure tennis is fun to play, a really skilled game, etc. But I don’t care. Don’t they realize that I’m missing two weeks of Burn Notice and Psych? Those are staples of my TV-viewing diet. I need those shows to lead into my weekend. Without these shows, I feel like my entire week has been thrown off and empty.
Come back to me regularly scheduled programming!
And to run those commercials telling me “oh, don’t worry, you can see these shows again in two weeks” is just a huge tease. Just stop it.
Gripe #2 - No Daily Show or Colbert Report
Talk about the worst time for Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert to take not just one, but two, weeks off.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales resigned. Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, resigned. Fred Thompson announced his candidacy. President Bush went on a super-secret (double probation) trip to Iraq while Gen. Petraeus gave his report. And that’s just the stuff I remember (and we’re not even done with this week yet).
I know they’re not professional newscasters, who also get time off, but can’t they get fill in anchors? I just miss my late-night political satire.
Here’s looking at next week folks.
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