no Ned’s Atomic Dustbin, I won’t kill my Television

I <3 Television

I will admit it.  I do.  I <3 Television.  I always have.  Growing up we had an 11” black and white TV until I was about 10.  Then we got a 13” color TV and cable. 

I absorbed all I could get.  My father was the artistic director at a television studio.  I loved the production room.  Televisions of every size.  Everything was on.  I was in commercials, but the production was what I loved.  Television consumed me. 

In my first apartment, where I lived alone for the first time, I did not have cable.  I felt inspired to go to the gym to watch the latest shows.  I had bunny ears in precarious positions for the best viewing, even if it was only “Blind Date” that I could get. 

In my life I have been part of social groups based solely on a common following of a television show, from “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” to “My So Called Life” to “Days of Our Lives”. 

I would hide away with my secret obsession for trash reality television.  Shows you avoid telling even your closest friends that you watch like “Big Brother” and “Elimidate”.

Anything that was there was for my consumption.  I would turn off.  Not watch TV for days, weeks even.  But, it would wait for me and welcome me back to its electric arms.

Now I can sit in my office at work and catch up on many of my favorite shows.  I do not have to plan around my show, or figure out how to program my VCR.

It is all at my fingertips – no Ned’s Atomic Dustbin, I won’t kill my Television.

Where do you watch TV?

What are your favorite shows?

Where are your favorite shows?