Oh yea...he was on last night...I thought he did great without the writers!! ("a daily show" - not so much)
Happy Dancing with Clod!!

Yeah, it was mostly filled with awkward pauses and desperate jokes.

It will get old fast.

TV Week: May Sweeps Sees Record Low Ratings - Strike Seems to Have Altered Viewing Habits

Some might recognize the demographic that understands the Internet and can readily mine it for entertainment.

I can tell you that I spend virtually no time watching tv anymore -

It watches me.

I switched to Netflix when the strike happened. I don't have cable, but I'm all caught up on the Wire and Entourage on DVD and am making my way through Battlestar Galactica.

Not counting Saturday morning PBS DIY shows, I think I watch 2 hours of network tv a week, down from 5 last year.

I've been concerned about the switch to digital tv and the money involved in that, but maybe it will be the thing that kills my tv habit for good.

Don't forget that a lot of the strong shows that would normally have been on during sweeps had to be pushed back half a season. When the Heroes season finale is eventually on, people will be watching, bet on it. It takes more than a couple months of show changes to permanently wean people.

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I can't think of much that I watch that requires writers. I watch mostly pbs, discovery, National Geographic, travel, and the news. But that is when I am at work. At home I don't watch it much. I am more of an NPR junkie.

Ok. Now, I wouldn't have guessed that. It just shows to go you.

Think of the saying about eating a frog first thing in the morning...

What I don't understand is that, why despite the strike being over, and Hannah Montana on hiatus, why doesn't Nickelodeon show new episodes of Avatar in the United States?? And the networks and cable wonder why TV viewing is down.

...You say that like Avatar is an import. It isn't.

What's with all the killing people off at the end of the season? And was anyone watching Bones? Whoa!

I happened to see the list of the top 20 TV shows according to viewership, I guess it was for the week, or month, or something like that.
Anyway, I hadn't seen any of them in several months, and only three of them, ever.

This week:

(i've bolded the ones I watch when nothing else is on, and underlined the ones I actually go outta my way to watch)

1. American Idol" (Wednesday) FOX
2. American Idol" (Tuesday) FOX
3. Dancing with the Stars" (Monday) ABC
4. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation CBS
5. Dancing with the Stars" (Tuesday) ABC
6. Desperate Housewives ABC
7. Grey's Anatomy ABC
8. House FOX
9. NCIS CBS
10. Without a Trace CBS
11. CSI: Miami CBS
12. Two and a Half Men CBS
13. Criminal Minds CBS
14. CSI: NY CBS
15. Academy of Country Music Awards CBS
16. Law & Order: SVU NBC
17. Hell's Kitchen FOX
18. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition ABC
19. Lost ABC
20. 60 Minutes CBS

I rarely watch anything other than the Military channel, Wings and the Weather.

I used to be addicted but ever since the decline of good Saturday morning cartoons and the demise of Looney Tunes, there just isn't a lot I like on anymore. OK, BSG is the best show running (subject to discussion) but it's ending, as all good things must. Too soon, IMO, but still.

Now I'm into DVDs and reading.

Last night I watched Grey's Anatomy, and regretted it the whole time. I didn't have the energy to get up off the damn couch to go to bed. It was the first time I'd watched it since the Fall. Stupid show.

Sometimes, I'll notice that Two and a Half Men is on, and I'll stop on that.

That's it from this list of 20 shows, and I could easily do without both of them.

But I did watch another episode of Battlestar Galactica on DVD last night, and enjoyed it.