Cutting the list of shows I watch in half…
February 4th, 2009 by screenwriterguy
I’m stressed out. The number of tutoring hours available seems to be slipping with the economy. Even if families were lining up to hire me, I’d have a hard time scheduling it. It seems like every to-do list item I cross off for BrevityTV creates three more. Meanwhile, a nasty virus crippled my main computer, and I’m having a hard time getting my old files back.
I have a vision for this blog, for my screenplay consulting, for BrevityTV… but they all need hours upon hours of investment, and let’s not forget that I’m supposed to be actually getting my own writing done. Writers write.
In order to get it all done, something has to go. It’s going to be television. Part of my strategy as aspiring TV writer has been to watch everything relevant, staying up to date on all important shows in case I get an opportunity to impress a gatekeeper with my encyclopedic knowledge. But gatekeeper meetings aren’t happening, partly because I’m not getting enough writing done, so the encyclopedpic knowledge is moot. Time to clear up the schedule and make things happen.
I just removed Life on Mars, My Name is Earl, Scrubs, The Daily Show (grudgingly), Saturday Night Live, Samantha Who?, House, How I Met Your Mother, and Two and a Half Men, Big Love, and the United States of Tara from the DVR. If I get a meeting, I’ll need to do some emergency catch-up, I guess, but in the meantime, that will give me an extra 9.5 hours a week. Netflix subscription reduced. Commence world domination.
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Feb 23rd 2009 at 11:34 pm
Dude, it is profoundly disturbing and wrong that you do not have Sunny in Philly as appt television. What the hell is wrong with you? Also, why are you watching Two and Half Men, even as homework. Next time I see you, I’m punching you in the groin.
Feb 24th 2009 at 2:55 am
Sunny WAS appointment television, until this season. I feel like they got away from the devious plotting of a group of misfits, and turned to trying to push the envelope as far as possible. The episode about pooping in bed did me in. Hopefully, they’ll rediscover the dysfunctional codependency of these characters, and then I’ll be right there. Believe me, I’ll be on season 5, ep 1 the day of, ready to give them another chance.
Two and a Half Men has been the number one rated sitcom in America for years. In fact, going into its sophomore year, the Sitcom almost entirely dead, T&aHM was nearly the only prime time sitcom. (Scrubs couldn’t get a regular time slot to save its life…) Quite possibly, T&aHM’s success saved its genre. As an aspiring TV comedy writer, I need to have it in my vocabulary. Meanwhile, it’s showrunner is also the showrunner on Big Bang Theory, which I find delightful. And I have a client who has offered to mention me the next time he sees that showrunner. Thus… homework TV.
Meanwhile, obviously, I’ll work on ANY SHOW. ANNNNNNN-NEEEE SHOW. Do I have to explain this to someone who has taken a meeting at National Lampoon?