There's very little on TV that I'm interested in at the moment, and what little there is, I think I can watch online.<\/p>\n
There are really only three current shows I'm interested in: Dr. Who<\/cite> (which won't have new episodes for months), Caprica<\/cite> (new episodes starting next week), and Leverage<\/cite> (the last three eps of season 3 won't air 'til December).<\/p>\n Oh, and I saw a recent episode of The Big Bang Theory<\/cite> that I liked much more than any previous episode I've seen, but I'm not sure I liked it enough to watch it regularly.<\/p>\n I've given up on everything else I was watching that's currently running. White Collar<\/cite>, Glee<\/cite>, Covert Affairs<\/cite>—one season of each was enough for me. I watched the pilot of Community<\/cite>, but didn't like it much (though I might give it another chance, 'cause I hear it gets better as it goes on). I liked the pilot of Friday Night Lights<\/cite> more, but probably not enough to keep going with it. I've watched an individual episode each of a bunch of the police procedurals—Criminal Minds<\/cite>, Without a Trace<\/cite>, CSI<\/cite>, NCIS<\/cite>, etc—but none of them has appealed to me; so far, the only thing I've liked about any of them is Mandy Patinkin on Criminal Minds<\/cite>. I saw the pilot of Rizzoli & Isles<\/cite>, but I'll talk about that in a separate post. Have also seen one or two episodes each of Fringe<\/cite>, Eureka<\/cite>, Smallville<\/cite>, Bones<\/cite>, and Warehouse 13<\/cite>, none of which have really appealed to me. The little I've seen of The Ghost Whisperer<\/cite> has looked kind of intriguing, but probably not enough so to get me to watch it.<\/p>\n As for the abovementioned three shows I do like:<\/p>\n I haven't been able to get TNT on my TV since the last time Comcast messed with my channels, and I haven't bothered to fix it because I can watch Leverage<\/cite> on the Comcast website.<\/p>\n Almost everything else I've wanted to watch lately is available on that website, on Hulu, and\/or on the iTunes Store.<\/p>\n So the only things I've been watching on my TV lately have been Caprica<\/cite> (which hasn't had new episodes in a while) on Syfy and Dr. Who<\/cite> on BBC America.<\/p>\n So those are the only two TV channels that I particularly want to receive.<\/p>\n I used to receive them. But Comcast recently sent me a confusing notice to the effect that I was getting more channels than I was paying for, so they were downgrading me.<\/p>\n So I called them just now. And according to Comcast, the lowest-cost package that I can get that includes both of those channels will cost me $80\/month.<\/p>\n $80\/month for two TV shows?<\/p>\n No, thanks.<\/p>\n So I think I'll be canceling my Comcast TV subscription. (That'll cause my Internet cost to go up a little, but I think not a lot.)<\/p>\n (I should note that Comcast has been, on the whole, very good to me. My experience with their Internet service continues to be a hundred times better than my experience with AT&T's DSL. And my experiences with Comcast's customer service have also been a huge improvement over my experiences with AT&T's.)<\/p>\n I might reconsider at some future time when there are more shows I want to watch. But then again, by that time the Internet-delivered TV situation may've improved to the point where I don't need Comcast TV.<\/p>\n In the meantime, I'll continue occasionally rewatching Gilmore Girls<\/cite>, and may pick up various shows on DVD that I haven't seen yet: The Wire<\/cite>, Lost<\/cite>, Burn Notice<\/cite>, The Middleman<\/cite>, Day Break<\/cite>, Due South<\/cite>, etc. Oh, and I'm considering rewatching Alias<\/cite>; Covert Affairs<\/cite> has made me nostalgic for it.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There’s very little on TV that I’m interested in at the moment, and what little there is, I think I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}