In a post-TiVo age time slots don't really mean very much - unless you have three programs on at the same time that you want to watch (which happens during times like MLB playoff season, or MNF). Still, I was interested in how many Leno shows a week I would be likely to watch if I did not have a DVR (or VCR of course, though in those days it was the rare show that I would videotape regularly enough for consistent time-shifting).
Here is the current line-up as I understand it: MON: Castle and CSI: Miami TUE: Forgotten and The Good Wife WED: Eastwick and CSI:NY THU: Private Practice and The Mentalist FRI: 20/20 and Numb3rs There are only 2 of the 5 nights here that have shows I regularly watched last year (Castle and Numb3rs), and only one that I am strongly attached to (Numb3rs). I will probably check out both Forgotten and The Good Wife, but from the little I know of both it is probably unlikely that I will become a fan of either. That means that in a non-DVR world I would probably watch Leno at least 3 times a week (I am really looking forward to the National Parks show on PBS, if that is on at 10:00 then it will cut any Leno watching way down for that week - when is that?). I am pretty sure 3 10:00 pm NBC shows a week is as much or more than I have watched in recent years (looking at last year's Fall schedule, I only watched "My Own Worst Enemy" and "Life" on NBC at 10:00), so, at least on my TV, Leno's NBC experiment has a good chance of working - at least at first. In actuality, I will probably tape every episode of the show for the first couple of weeks, but if Leno comes across much as he did on the Tonight Show I will drop his ass PDQ. I am particularly wondering how I will tolerate those abhorrent "Jaywalking" bits (and I think he has some kind of "Super Password/Matchgame" bit with the stupidest of the Jaywalkers in the studio). I find myself almost literally allergic to those bits; what would help me if is he announces that he will be doing that bit on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and I will just skip those nights. When I was a kid my family watched "That's Incredible!". I think we all hated it, but for some reason we felt it was the only show we could watch at that hour (back in the 1 TV per family, 5 channel universe). Fortunatley Leno does not have that kind of hold over me - if the show proves unwatchable I can use the 10:00 hour to watch the Conan I taped from the night before. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
