This summer has seen a dramatic leap in the amount of television I watch — previously it was NFL (regular season onward) and a very rare ‘plop on the couch’; now I’ve begun regularly watching as much as twenty-two programs each week. I’d say the primary factor is my computer trouble, as I’ve mostly swapped time in front of a laptop for time in front of a TV.
My present schedule is composed of four primary categories: cooking; construction; crime; travel. More generally, it could all be clumped under the title of ‘fantasy’, as I presently follow up on none of the things I watch, and so it’s mostly vicarious thrill. (Quite happily, in the case of crime shows.)
- Ask This Old House
- Antiques Roadshow
- Castle
- CSI: Miami
- Diary of a Foodie
- FBI Files
- History Detectives
- Martin Yan’s China
- Masterpiece Mystery
- New Yankee Workshop
- Numb3rs
- Primal Grill
- Rick Steves’ Europe
- Smart Travels with Rudy Maxa
- The Best of the Joy of Painting
- The Mentalist
- This Old House
