9:00 - 10:00PM
Antiques Roadshow - “Honolulu (Hour Three)”. Please see above joke.
10:00 - 11:00PM
Soundstage - “Rob Thomas”. Rob Thomas plays from the Red Rocks Amphitheater in Colorado. You know Rob Thomas, he’s that guy from Matchbox Twenty and that Santana song. You know the one I mean.
Friday, January 19:
8:00 - 8:30PM
Washington Week with Gwen Ifill and National Journal #4629. I imagine by now they have the format down. I’d take a look at the show if I were you.
8:30 - 9:00PM
NOW #303. It’s the Emmy award-winning weekly news magazine. It looks at issues facing our democracy. The show is hosted by David Brancaccio. And, even better, they send me e-mails (I think that makes me cool and them nice).
9:00 - 10:00PM
Cézanne in Provence. For those of you who don’t know, Cézanne was a post-impressionist master, many think of him as the father of modern art. This show looks at how he was influenced by his native Provence.
10:00PM - Lengths Vary
Monty Python’s Flying Circus - “#142”. There’s a sketch in this one about TV programmers making decisions based on the idiocy of the viewing public. And here lies another joke I won’t touch.
Saturday, January 20:
9:00 - 10:00PM
Austin City Limits - “The Dixie Chicks”. They’re chicks. They’re from Dixie. And, as the political pendulum of public opinion has swung away from President Bush they’re on the rise again. Shame on all of you who abandoned them in their hour of need only to be pretending to never have done so.
So, that’s this week’s deal. Next week’s deal will be new, different, and yet oddly familiar. There is a certain ebb and flow here that I find comforting. I imagine This Old House will still be on, and that Antiques Roadshow will find themselves somewhere new and wonderful next week. I look forward to finding out. And I’m sure you do too.
Article comments
1 - Bliffle
Once again I'm disappointed in this review. It doesn't help me plan my viewing.
2 - TV and Film Guy
I'd be disappointed in this as a review as well, thank goodness it isn't a review.
3 - Bliffle
What is the purpose of this article? To showcase sophomoric humor?
4 - Lisa McKay
Bliffle, perhaps if you thought of it as a TV guide, but funnier, you'd get the point. It's an informational listing of TV programs with some humorous commentary thrown in. If you don't find them funny, certainly there's plenty of other stuff on the site to read.
5 - Bliffle
It would be useful if this column contained some factual info to help viewers make good viewing decisions.
It looks like you need some help, so here's an attention-grabbing headline:
COMMERCIAL TV NETWORKS INCREASE HOURLY AD TIME BY 5 MINUTES
Since I favor PBS programs, the few commercial programs that I watch I record on my HDTV PVR and view later at my convenience. Sometimes I strip out the commercials and when I do I find out how much content is actually in the program.
Before Jan 1, 2007, commercial programs contained 40 to 42 minutes of program content. Since Jan. 1 they contain only 34 to 35 minutes of content. They've increased ad time by at least 5 minutes. You may have noticed that the plots are thinner and the ads more annoying, and that's why.
I don't remember getting a chance to vote for this, do you? Or even to be informed.
Vote with your feet. Switch from commercial TV to PBS. If you don't like what you see, at first, then change what you like! After all, the McTV stuff we watch is what we've been taught to like by constant advertising and promoting. Part of the entertainment delusion is to convince us that we have chosen what we watch, but of course that's no more true than Alice In Wonderland.