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By Pat Bataillon
I don’t have digital cable or satellite I just have regular cable television. I don’t have the On Demand feature, no Tivo, no program guide. I once did, in college, and I loved my remote and my digie (digital cable). Now I have channels 1 through 99 and most of those channels are cable access. Someday I will have digital cable and that fantastic remote. Which brings me to the point of these last hundred words: My remote.
Posted on September 22, 2006
By Pat Bataillon
I flipped through the channels last night all through Primetime looking for something to watch other than the Cubs game. It is supposed to be the new fall season with all types of great new television on, and all I found was crap. Possibly my standards are too high. Maybe I am not allowing myself to buy into a new show. Maybe all the stuff that is on television these days is the same stuff that has been on for the last 10
years.
Posted on September 21, 2006
By Pat Bataillon
I had something a little earlier on why Sean Hannity is a douchebag and it was good but I just deleted it because I am not here to manufacture any more hate. I saw a little bit of Dancing with the Stars last night; that show is terrible. That is honest so it is not manufacturing hate. So therefore, I have just realized, I can write about how Sean Hannity is a douche bag! Great!
Posted on September 20, 2006
Pat Bataillon did not watch TV last night. But he plans to tonight, and if he does, he will return tomorrow.
Posted on September 18, 2006
By Pat Bataillon
A little Animal Planet can go a long way, especially when there is nothing else on. Every time there is a whole bunch of nothing on the television set I flip through all the channels on an endless search for something to occupy my time. Typically, I find the usual nonsense on Fox News, some CSI-type show on Discovery, and the regular C-SPAN stuff that is truly a bore. Then there is a flickering light, this little light o’ mine, this thing called Animal Planet.
Posted on September 15, 2006
By Pat Bataillon
I am not going to lie; I did watch television last night. I want to write about what I watched last night. But I had a little mishap involving a knife last night, so I am operating with a bit of a handicap this morning, typing a little slower than usual. I would like to explain, because this was not a cooking accident, nor a hunting accident. It was a MacGyver accident.
Posted on September 14, 2006
By Pat Bataillon
Word Wars is a documentary about four Scrabble players on their way to the National Scrabble Championship in San Diego. Scrabble is a crossword game and a fun one at that. However, playing at the national level takes a considerable amount of skill and personal problems.
Posted on September 13, 2006
By Pat Bataillon
Monday Night Football premiered last night; my Monday nights have been saved. Football has once again proven to be a viable entertainment option.
Posted on September 12, 2006
By Pat Bataillon
Imagine a man wearing a king’s crown and a red satin robe pouring champagne on a purple shag rug in the foyer of his home.
Now imagine him doing so on TV. That’s right, the second season of VH1’s Flavor of Love, starring Flavor Flav, is underway.
Posted on September 11, 2006
By Natasha Julius
With the success of programs like Lost and Prison Break, the Big Five networks have approached the 2006-7 television season with a clutch of new shows based around similar, seemingly unsustainable premises. If a show doesn’t boast an evil conspiracy pervading every aspect of civilian life, it’s bound to have an odd supernatural twist.
Here we examine the eight (count ’em!) new network offerings fitting this pattern that are set to hit your screen this fall.
Posted on September 4, 2006
