I was going thourgh my sidereel trakcer and have come to the conculsion that I spend way to much time watching TV. Well actually I think I'm still below the average, amount of time people spend watching TV but still too much. Now this may have been fine while I was on holidays but with Uni starting, I really need to find a way of cutting down on my TV intake.
Firstly some stats, according to my sidereel tracker (sidenote: sidereel is quite possibly the best site ever invented) I am currently tracking 16 shows. Yes that is a lot, Now assuming each of those shows aired a new episode every week, I would spend 16 hours a week watching TV, which is 9.5% of my week, and 15% of my awake week. Now that is a heck of a lot of time, although not every shows airs every week, I like some cable shows which only air in summer, and some shows only have a half season, not to mention I watch a lot of stuff online, so if you average my TV viewing out through the year, it becomes the more managable figure of 4% of my life or 6% of my awake life, still a lot, but smaller. Thats assuming I spend an hour per show, which I'm taking, because I do like to look up trailers, and ocasionally spoilers and the like. Also that figure doesn't account for all the TV I'm catching up on, currently the X-Files and SVU, but that I can fairly easily cull, or restrict to watching on the bus and stuff.
Anyway none of that brings me back to the problem of what am I going to do when I no longer have literally all day just to watch TV, and also the nagging question in my mind, how many shows is a good number. I've picked up 6 new shows this year, which is a fairly significant increase, espeically considering how not all of this years new shows haven't premiered yet, and I took prime suspect off my tracker after it got cancelled, effectivly meaning I've doubled my TV intake. Now I know this is very early to be writting about, but I'm actually kinda scared that I'll do the same thing next year, pick up ridiclous amounts of TV, because some of the pilots (I'm asshamed to say CW ones) actually sound very good. So what to do
I'm feeling a bit like CBS, too many good choices, and I want to add more, so what to do; luckily for me pan-am is getting csncelled, infact I probably wouldn't have stuck around with it if it wasn't getting cancelled. in danger of getting cancelled are The Finder, Nikita, and although I hate to say it Fringe. Potentially SVU, although I think thats highly unlikely. Although I do enjoy it, I could probably cut back on Nikita and The Finder, bar a mirclous turn around, I think I am going to stop watching glee as well. But here comes my coundroum, of all the shows I'm thinking of dropping back on (Revenge, Once upon a time) are all new shows, and there are no non-new shows that I want to drop, even though really I did only start watching criminal minds this year, and fringe, and the mentalist WOW I really did start watching a lot more TV this year. Except for Nikita, which is only 2 years old, none of my veteran shows are getting bad, which is probably why they've surivied to be vetern shows, and which I love, but my time management doesn't.
Of course I could always start getting creative, downloading shows to watch on the bus, or as much as I don't like to admit this, mulit-tasking. Espeically as it looks like I'm going to be working on the weekends, and I've joined a club that meets on friday afternoons, which sounds really fun, but when am I going to have time to watch stuff! I may have to push friday night TV binge back to Saturday night, because if I'm being honest I rarely have the stamina to work past about 6 on Saturdays, the downside of that is that I'll have to delay Fringe watching time/cut back on Fringe spazzing time, which would actually be a good thing for my time management. I could also start watching shows on Australian TV. Why would this be advantageous, as I'd loose my 15minutes of add time. However most of the shows airing in Australia start after easter, meaning that I'd essentially cut down some of my watching time, and offset it, in the US summer, where less shows air. However the downside of that is that I really like being up to date, because it means I can read articles and interviews, and go on chats, and all the fun stuff associated with watching TV, because while I enjoy the actual process, I enjoy talking an anticipating and stuff more. Also there would be a rather high chance that I wouldn't even get to watch it on TV anyway, and just watch it online later, which really doesn't do anything.
So after that very long self indulgent discussion, what am I going to do? I have no idea, I think I'm going to bank on the fact that most shows don't air a new episode every week, and thus I wouldn't be up for 7.5 hours a week (10 shows currently airing-add time) which is a more manageable figure, and cut back on my catch TV time, except come may sweeps, which is like finale time, meaning all new episodes and much more time reading up and theorising, although I can totally do that on the bus right, I'll be fine, right?
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