I'll admit it- I NEED television. There are shows on TV almost every night of the week that I love. However, I don't get to watch most of them each week because I spend more time on homework, work, church stuff, and reading than watching TV. I tape the shows my sisters and I like watching and later, usually the weekend, we watch them together, fast-forwarding through the commercials- of course. I like when I get up early enough to watch the morning news and, sometimes, the Today Show. I love daytime game shows (the Pre-Drew Price is right, Family Feud, Merv griffin's Crossword) afternoon reruns (King of Queens, Everybody Loves Raymond, Hope Improvement) prime time shows (Kid Nation, ER, Big Brother, the Amazing Race, Law & Order [SVU is totally may favorite too] CSI, Cold Case, Without a Trace) and late night shows (Jay Leno, parts of Conan O'Brien and Jimmy Kimmel). I'm also a sucker for the real-life crime investigation shows and informational science programs like NOVA.
I especially love the crime/medical/law/cop drama shows, home improvement/decorating shows and some reality TV (I'm a die-hard Big Brother Fan, although I could not bring myself to watch the Finale this year because the Donatos irritated me to no end). I am a TV addict. The WHY? usually never enters my thoughts.
As I reflect and search for the reasoning, the rationalization behind my addiction, I can come up with only a few reasons. 1) It is entertaining. There is a plethora of programming available out there, even on the regular airwaves. 2) I am the reigning "Fun-Fact Queen" of my house. I love knowledge and bits of trivia. I like knowing facts about all sorts of things, people, events, history, technology. Television lets me learn more about a wide variety of fascinating topics. 3) Cable hooked me for life.
Growing up, my parents never thought that cable was worth the steep price. So, I watched cable shows every afternoon after school at my grandparents' house, just around the corner from my childhood home. Since, then, my parents got cable when we moved into a new house the year I turned 18. We had it for two years and I was hooked. We never had all movie channels and huge premium packages, but we had Comcast with the boxes, on-Demand, and one movie channel. It was funny, though, when we had cable, I spent more time channel surfing and complaining that "nothing was on" because my favorite shows weren't always on. They usually reran shows a lot and often aired the ones I was least interested in. Now that I don't have it available anymore, I think about all the shows and entire channels that I miss now that we canceled our cable a while ago (TLC, Discovery, HGTV, Bravo, TBS, History Channel, E!, Food Network, and many others).
4 th Reason- Although I no longer have a TV in my bedroom, (the power switch broke, how sad.) I am addicted to unwinding and going to sleep watching TV. For some reason, it helps me to fall asleep faster if I watch 10 minutes of my shows, or the nightly news before turning the TV off and going to sleep. It was very hard for me to fall aslepp without it when my TV broke months ago, and I even watch less TV because of not having one in my room anymore.
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Hi Jennifer,
I watch Kid nation for the first time this week November 6, 2007.
I thought it was one of the better reality shows. I liked Savannah. My heart went out to her when she wanted to leave.
I felt the girl, I forget her name but she won the gold star worth 20,000. That was nice. She awarded for being weird. She reminded me of my Jennifer. It was ashame that they did not get the reward. They really needed it. The paint or the party but because noone could finish the gum art picture, they did not get the paint or the party. That was sad.
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