Friday Five: tv

October 19, 2002 11:23 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

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1. How many TVs do you have in your home?
Two televisions, and a TV tuner card in my computer. Three VCR's (one for each TV, including the computer) and a DVD player in case anyone cares...

2. On average, how much TV do you watch in a week?
Too much. Usually from 7:00 pm 'till the news is on, then maybe a little Letterman or something. Occasionally I'll watch more during the weekends, but there's too much to do.

3. Do you feel that television is bad for young children?
Not really. My youngest (8 months) now watchs Baby Mozart stuff (it's supposed to help her growing mind) and the other two watch it pretty regularly. But not a lot - it's all in moderation.

4. What TV shows do you absolutely HAVE to watch, and if you miss them, you're heartbroken?
er, Scrubs, CSI, West Wing are among the favorites. I need TiVo - bad!

5. If you had the power to create your own television network, what would your line-up look like?
The channel would be on cable, satellite and available as streaming video on the web. There would be all kinds of "geeky" shows - like Mcgyver, Misfits of Science, Weird Science, X-Files, all that. I'd also have any of the cool shows that the networks gave up on after a season or two - Seven Days, Space: Above and Beyond, Earth 2, and tons more that are out there. It would probably end up being a lot like SciFi is, but it'd be branded as GeekTV. And I would be the reason that Farscape gets rescued - SciFi management is a bunch of morons for letting that one go.