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Let's face it, the TV viewing experience isn't what it used to be. With hundreds of channels, competing media (computers, game systems & heaven for bid you go to the movie - more likely you'll rent it) & and the greatest invention (I'll cut my own loaf thank you) TIVO.

Advertisers, the ones footing the bill for the hours of television that you watch, are doing everything they can to keep you watching and try to get you to think about buying their stuff.

This is important to think about. They don't care if you watch the commercials they care about ROI (return on investment) and they are finally figuring out that the landscape has changed (it's still changing but it is currently a very different place from the three network system that reigned for so long).

My blog discusses TV shows because they are still on air (and many are very good) but there are dozens of sites that will give you a recap or synopses. I want to give you a fresh take with a wider scope than most.

Enjoy!

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

For All the Parents Out There

I'm watching Chuck (nice, they packed a lot of quotes into their acclaim spot - that can be difficult) and keeping up on 30 Rock, Reaper, Numb3rs, House and ICA (Iron Chef America) and I had a Scrubs marathon last night - but everything else is kind of falling to the waist side.

But before I talk about Soulpatch Symon, share concern that Matthew Bomer is being typecast as a college-aged Enemy of the State or expose the reason House is so popular I want to talk to the parents out there about our kid's TV.

So I'm not above letting our daughter watch a little TV (or "Mooie" as she calls everything on the TV) from time to time and we like most of the stuff out there, but here's a review of a couple of the standouts.

On the positive side is Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks we love every minute of Jakers. Maybe it's the little Spanish bull with an Irish accent named Ferny or maybe it's Mel Brooks as a wise cracking sheep but they even do death well. We watched an Irish Wake for a pet goldfish.

However, in the same Sprout Good Night Show is Angelina Ballerina. It has some nice moments but most of the time it's like a Three's Company rip off. Every episode has Angelina misunderstanding or overhearing something out of context. But here's the rub for the rest of the episode she lies or does something to keep the status quo and in the end when the misunderstanding is revealed everyone laughs it off. To follow through with the analogy that would be like Jack Tripper getting to sleep with the girl at the end of the episode - did he ever get the girl?

Lastly, I wanted to say Happy Turkey Day and to give kudos to Food Network for their Thanksgiving-based programming and Sprout (btw Sprout is PBS's commercial channel). Sprout has rotating Thanksgiving week bugs (those watermarks in the corner of the screen) that look like they were made by their viewers. While I normally detest the growing graphic heavy monstrosities that are the current bugs and snipes these really looked like UGC or more technically YVGC (Young Viewer Generated Content).

Thanks Sprout for reminding me of my childhood when I traced my hand and made a turkey out of the drawing.

Posted by Ted at 12:05 AM

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