Finally no more Theismann on Sunday OR Monday Night Football. Yippeee! I'll be able to watch football without his inane ramblings to muck up the experience. Jaws is so much easier to listen to, and he usually has something mildly intelligent to say. Maybe they'll even let him have some sort of feature where he breaks down game film. There's nothing better than watching Jaws break down film. (See, I have many geeky tendancies ... they aren't just limited to school and serialized tv!)
The Discovery Channel's new miniseries Planet Earth is good and worth watching ... if you have a 34 inch or larger HD tv. We watched the first episode last night in HD (which incidentally also means without commercials on Discovery's HD Theater channel) and then another episode tonight on our decidedly low-def TiVo. Even the three-and-a-half year old was more distracted during tonight's low-def episode. In general though, it's absolutely a nature show worth plopping down on the couch and watching with your preschooler. Well produced, well narrated (by Sigourney Weaver), well filmed.
We'll be watching 24 in real-time again tonight for the HD viewing experience (and because it's the only thing my husband will agree to watch with me out of the whole week -- although he's starting to get hooked on TheAmazing Race, of all things!) . . . but watching 24 this season feels a little bit like a chore to me. Not sure why.
New episodes of One Tree Hill were advertised initially as returning this week. But the CW, in its infinite wisdom, has decided that re-running episodes of The Next Pussycat Doll (seriously?) sells more ads on Wednesday nights than fresh episodes of OTH, so Lucas, Peyton and friends won't return until the first week in MAY! Methinks this is not a good sign for the prospects of renewal. Gilmore's return was also pushed back, but only one week--meaning that fresh episodes will air throughout sweeps.
I have seen only 2 and a half seasons of 24. Do I skip ahead and start watching in January? It's really a frequent dilemma: What does one do when one discovers a good show after it has already been on for a while? Netflix and, more recently, the networks' streaming feeds and iTunes, make it easier: my solution is usually to watch all the back episodes and then catch up to the current run of episodes. I've done this with quite a few shows (including Friday Night Lights, One Tree Hill, Grey's Anatomy, and even Dawson's Creek, which had been over for several years before I found it). But even with easy ways to find the old eps, this type of catch up requires real commitment. It's ok if you discover the show during the summer -- there's nothing else to watch anyway. But, right now, it's football season and there are good shows on all the other nights...
N says, "It's in HD and Sean's going to watch it here with us." So I guess it's decided. I'll never know what happens to Jack in seasons 3-5 and how President Palmer dies (I figure he must die since now the actor has his own show!). While I ponder this oh-so-important moral dilemma, check out this amusing holiday trailer for the next seaon of 24.
A few random TV thoughts:
