And ROME was delightful, the plot is thickening, I'm getting acquainted with all the players, and it's shaping up right nicely.
I mean I watch TV, I just don't spend my life in front of it and I'm very picky. Life is far too short and far too interesting to spend five or six hours a day eyeballing all this network crap...even when I occasionally succumb, I usually want the time back. Iwish I had read a book instead.
Most network telly I can easily live without...In fact, I can't think of one show that I watch on any of the big three (NBC, CBS, ABC) or on two of the small three (Warner, Paramount...I still watch THE SIMPSONS with some degree of regularity on FOX). When I do watch TV (not videos or DVDs), it's almost exclusively cable...new episodes of SOUTH PARK are still a must! I check out the DAILY SHOW a few times a week. ROME and DEADWOOD on HBO. LITTLE BRITAIN on BBCamerica. And that's about it for my "must-see" TV.
I'll watch HGTV, THE FOOD NETWORK, and BBCamerica during the dinner hour, but even those get tough because the frequency of the commercial breaks has really reached the point of utter intolerability. That's why I usually stick to TCM, Fox Movie Channel, and The Westerns Channel...commercial-free!