Why I hate TV

Every day, I get a "Daily TV Watch" e-mail from Entertainment Weekly, the only non-cooking magazine that's been able to maintain my subscriber-ship for more than one year.  It includes a spotlight on an interesting show worth checking out tonight, and recaps from the latest episodes of many shows.

Here's a screenshot of today's "Latest Recaps".  With my apologies to all of you who like any of these shows (because Lord knows my taste in, well, pretty much any media, is nothing to admire), but this is why I hate TV.  Does Entertainment Weekly honestly think there was nothing better on TV in the past few days to spotlight as a recap worth checking out?  Sure, the reality recaps are typically the dishiest and most fun to read, but really.

I stopped watching primetime dramas after an episode of "CSI" gave me nightmares for weeks (seriously).  When you stop watching primetime dramas, it's easy to stop watching primetime sitcoms, or primetime anything, really (except for primetime football).  I had a handful of reality competition shows I would watch, but I've successfully quit almost all of those in the past year.  

In the interest of full disclosure, I watch a few shows in a regular basis:

• "Jeopardy!" - I tape this every night and watch 2 or 3 episodes in batches.  Yelling out the answers and yelling at Alex Trebek is not optional.  It took me five years to be able to watch this show again.
• "Chopped" - A cooking competition show on the Food Network.  Half the reason I tune in is to see if Marc Murhpy is judging, I'll admit it.
• "Top Chef" - Another cooking competition show on Bravo.  If only they'd get rid of the awful Padmabot...

I watched "Project Runway" last season, but I haven't decided if I'm going to continue watching that, as I barely pay attention, so hardly know what's going on.  Other recent shows that I enjoyed ("Justice" and "Jake In Progress") were short-lived, and thus I have little interest in watching TV.  Which is probably not a bad thing, if the above graphic is any indication of what the public is craving for consumption lately.