Kitty apparently decided to sit on my cable remote just as my TiVo was trying to turn the channel to get Prison Break recording.
Because of this, TiVo recorded an hour of some weird OnDemand program about gardening and building large sculptures out of PVC pipe instead.
I believe I’ll be hiding the cable remote somewhere kitty can’t get to it from now on.
TiVo recorded Twister for me, which was amusing, because it’s a great example of one of my favorite genres: the Hilariously Bad Disaster Movie.
The leads, for the most part, fall to the level of the material. But look at the supporting cast, and it’s really striking how many really decent actors are in it, acting like total boobs.
Nothing, however, surprised me more than the most “Duuuuuuuuuuude!”-ish of Helen Hunt’s team o’dudes being played by none other than Oscar Winning Serious Goddamn Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Not even the fact that Twister is now ten years old.
I had to create a spreadsheet, with the aid of the Futon Critic’s schedule, to figure out which TiVo to use to record which show for the upcoming fall season.
While doing that, I determined that, if I permanently add every show I’m trying out, I will be recording 25.5 hours of television a WEEK.
That figure is only in primetime and does not count the 4 hours a week of Daily Show and Colbert Report I always watch. Oddly, there is not one show I will be recording on either Friday or Saturday.
Thankfully, I will probably not watch entire seasons of at least some of the shows that I’m trying out, either because they get cancelled or I determine they suck.
For the curious, here’s the list of new shows I’m giving at least one shot to, in the rough order of day/time they’re airing:
- Heroes
- Vanished
- Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
- Friday Night Lights
- Knights of Prosperity
- Standoff
- Smith
- 20 Good Years
- 30 Rock
- Justice
- The Nine
- Ugly Betty
- Six Degrees
- Brothers and Sisters
I’m also probably going to track down Shark, but I’ve already assigned both TiVos when it airs, so I might have to use slightly more nefarious methods.
Having mapped all this out, I now understand why, precisely, I have no life.