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New to me

6th January 2008, 10:01 pm

Via Whatever, I ran across this “Weekend Assignment” on the topic:

Now that the WGA strike has had lots of time to affect the prime time television schedules, how is it affecting you as a viewer? What show do you miss most, aside from reruns?

My first reaction: “The writer’s strike is still on?” I guess I don’t watch enough TV. I think this is a function of timeshifting. 95% of our TV viewing is now via DVR, so, instead of waiting all week for Thursday night at 7:00, we watch whatever turns up in our playlist — most of which is reruns anyway. Primetime TV? Aside from Ugly Betty and The Office, there’s not much I care about, so this just feels like a long summer of reruns.

I can also probably blame Netflix for enabling easy consumption of old series on DVD. Over the past week, we caught up with a couple disks of Star Trek: Voyager (Janeway was the best captain, no matter what anyone says…) and finished season 2 of Big Love. (Wasn’t one of the stations using “It’s new to you?” as a slogan for a while? Works for me!)

Then again, who really needs TV when there’s YouTube — in particular, George W. covering R.E.M. in his own incomparable vocal style?

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4 Comments

  1. Abigail:

    Knew it was still on…keep hearing about all the late night hosts on my news feeds but I’m much like you—not much TV at my house. I also tend to watch mostly HGTV, which is pretty unscripted.. At least, I hope they don’t write a script for some of those painting and decorating disasters.

    7 January 2008, 12:14 am

  2. rachel:

    Good point — and we watch some of those Discovery Health shows, I doubt Adoption Story and Jon & Kate + 8 have writers.

    Plus, I forgot that the Wii steals our entertainment attention! Chanukah brought us Big Brain Academy and Guitar Hero III, so we’re, um, busy :) .

    7 January 2008, 8:10 am

  3. Angel:

    I have to agree. I know the strike is on because it is on news feeds I follow, but otherwise, I would be happily oblivious. I don’t watch Primetime TV anyhow. Mostly Discovery Channel, Food Network, and a few other things. While I am sympathetic to what the writers are asking for, given that their “product” is not exactly stellar, sympathy only goes so far. So, no, I am not missing them.

    Best, and keep on blogging.

    7 January 2008, 8:55 am

  4. Bob Watson:

    The circ department here thinks there’s been a spike in our DVD circ due to the writer’s strike.

    8 January 2008, 11:43 am

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