It is finally here. If you have ever met me, or heard about me, or been in a room with me for more than five minutes, or read this blog, you know that I love TV. And one of the activities I look forward to each year is the arrival of the Entertainment Weekly Fall TV preview. And it has arrived. Hallelujah! I have been getting antsy, because of few shows have been starting (90210 - anyone watch? Pretty good!) and I just didn't feel like I was prepared. I didn't have a plan. And that I do not like.So each year when the EWFTVP arrives, I sit down with two highlighter (blue for the downstairs Tivo and red for the upstairs) peruse the pages and highlight which shows will be on which TV. Sometimes there are small panics as we realize that there are overlaps that require some planning and scheduling and family discussions of which show goes on which TV. Like when we discovered that The Biggest Loser was on at the same time as House and the aforementioned 90210. What to do!? We felt the best decision was to move the biggest loser upstairs, so that we wouldn't be watching it in the room next to the kitchen, because for some reason that champion of weight loss makes me want to eat Joe-Joes and ice cream. See - it is all about planning.
Once the shows are highlighted, I print out a list of season premiere dates and highlight the shows in the matching color. That way I never miss a premiere, and I set it up on the correct Tivo.
I know some of you think I am crazy, now. And some of you may respect me for my foresight and planning. At least I won't forget to catch the first episode of Fringe.
3 comments:
Wow, that's pretty nerderrific, Josh. And a little brilliant. I, too, caught the 90210 premiere, and my favorite part about it was that they were doing Spring Awakening as their high school musical. Now, I don't know if you know much about that play, but it would receive a hearty "R" rating if it were a film. High schools doing nudity...I can hardly wait til we all catch up to sophistication of that infamous zip code.
-L
Let me just say that when we moved into our rental house, dish network scheduled the technician to come hook up our TV in a MONTH! Yes...a month! And I am still waiting. September 16th is the big day and it couldn't come any sooner. I don't know what is going on in the world, how to manage high prices at the gas pump or what new shows are even going to be on. My TiVo will be on overload getting me caught up. It takes something like this to make us thankful for all the blessings we really have.
I salute you.
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