TV Tonight: Chung-Chung!

I think it’s more of a “Bum Bum” or “Bung Bung” personally…

Don’t forget that “Life” is now on Wednesday nights too….after the mother of all lead-ins, uh, Knight Rider.

I agree with alekshy, “bum bum.”
I’m going to go with America’s Next Top Model. It’s the show I was most embarrassed to turn on during the first week I moved in with my boyfriend (he knew I watched it, but knowing and experiencing are two different things). But, like L&O, it follows a formula, is ripped from the headlines (this time the tabloid headlines rather than the newspaper headlines), and provides a satisfactory got-the-guy, kicked-off-the-girl conclusion. Or the X-Files. I have all the seasons on DVD, and often pop them in as happy background noise around the house.
On a slightly different note, James, but vaguely related to the “comfort tv” topic, some friends and I were talking about what a cushy gig being a tv critic must be, and I noted that being forced to watch a lot, and some stuff that’s not your favorite, (because it’s your job) and then having to pay strict attention to it and analyze it, might ruin watching tv as an exercise in relaxation. Do you watch tv to relax at all, or when you flip on the tube at your hotel on vacation, do you automatically go into “analyze” mode? Also, does being a tv critic affect how you watch movies?

I watched regularly while Jerry Orbach was on, and would catch an occasional episode of the last few seasons out of loyalty to Jesse Martin. But now that they’re both gone, I’m done, at least with the new ones.

But I’d agree with “Bum Bum”.

@amasea: I definitely watch TV for pleasure. And I definitely watch TV for not-pleasure. It’s not dodging mortar fire in Baghdad, but it’s a lot of hours and work. Anytime I’m watching TV and don’t have to take notes on it is by definition more pleasurable. Although at this point if I lost my job tomorrow I would probably still feel compelled to write on my laptop while watching Lost.

Main way being a TV critic affects how I watch movies is I see far fewer than I’d like to, because I don’t have the time. That, and I can probably spot lame plot twists approaching more easily.