Watching Studio60

Thank you to Aaron for hooking me up with the TVSquad web site and their thoughts on the scheduling. It raises some interesting questions about the art of tv scheduling - or is it a science.

I heard it described this morning on the radio and competetive and confrontational. And it is.

The trick is to get more people to watch your show then all the others. And it seems to me this season there are so many good shows that you cannot possibly watch them all. Thanks to Dish Network not giving out free DVR’s to exsiting customers, I do not have the ability to record a TV show while I am watching another - and Yes I know it is SOO last century but I watch enough TV real time, that I am sure if I had the ability to record other shows I would treble my viewing time and that woudl leave me no time for other pursuits - but I digress -

I have to choose between Without a Trace and Desperate Housewives (this week Trace won), Justice and Heroes, Grey’s Anatomy and CSI, and so the list goes on. It seems that all the good new shows are competing with the shows I watched last season. What is a girl to do? And yet we have Saturday evening when there are no new shows or good shows - in fact nothing but repeats. We have the hour from 7 to 8 with very little to watch, so it seems to me that by using that hour on a nightly basis and by making better use of Saturday I might not have to make so many decisions on a nightly basis!! And of course - it is all about making my life easier, despite what I said before!! And I could watch 4 hours of TV a night for 7 nights a week, instead of 3 hours for 6 nights. A gain of 10 hours of TV - and Yes you’re right - I do need to get a life!