TV

Grady McGee

11/6/2008

Tonight was pretty typical of the television i watch. I get home from work at about 11 and turn on the tv. On Wednesdays its usually South Park and as of late Chocolate News, which is pretty funny but mostly mediocre. After that is the Daily Show and the Colbert Report which I usually watch at their first reruns. I tend to watch these two shows every night at this time. After those shows I usually flip around or look up the Time-Warner schedule online to see whats on. I watched a Bill Maher special for a while, but changed to E! when Chelsea Lately came on. That show is great. Then, when E! was taken over by paid programming, I flipped around a little bit and ended up at Sex with Mom and Dad on MTV... ridiculous, but entertaining. I got tired of that and went back to Comedy Central to catch the end of Dennis Miller's standup. Basically, this night is pretty typical, as I usually stay on Comedy Central and change between a few other stations. By the way, I think I have that commercial for Extenze memorized. Anybody who watches Comedy Central after 10 knows what I'm talking about...

I work at a restaurant and mostly in the bar. I usually have one of the televisions on CNN. I was watching it almost all night because business was pretty slow. The whole time it was on, the headline was "Breaking News: Obama Wins", which is funny because it had happened about 24 hours before. I have never seen more footage of Oprah Winfrey than I have today. Because I work during prime-time tv hours, I catch a lot of shows online. I usually visit hulu.com or download episodes via torrent sites. I didn't use the internet to watch any shows today though.

I found it pretty easy to log my tv viewing. I tend to watch full episodes more than flip through channels. I would watch the show, then log it. I wasn't surprised by the amount of tv I watch. I know I watch a lot of tv, but seeing 4 hours straight logged on paper made me think of the more "constructive" things I could do with my time. But whatever, I enjoyed it. I feel that this method of keeping track of tv viewing it pretty reliable, but reading other people's entries made me think that it might not be. I guess a lot of people flip through channels a lot more than I do and don't really pay much attention to what they watch. I think it really changes from viewer to viewer.