As previously noted, I had been watching Castle reruns on TV. This was going well until ABC simply decided to stop after six of ten episodes. I had previously seen episode seven, but this still left me with episodes eight through ten. ‘Aha!’, I thought — ‘thanks to the magic of the internet I can simply watch this online!’. Turns out that both Hulu and ABC’s own player only offer episodes 1–6 and episode nine.
Is it any wonder people pirate TV?
Michael Pollan takes on food porn.
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.)
Media companies won’t move forward. They’re being left behind.
