Summer Seasons

I feel this entry is going to be mundane…even boring. The writing muse eludes me today. I’m posting something only for those of you who come to this blog and would be disappointed if nothing new was up.

So, for the two of you:

First of all, I have to admit that it’s been hot here for two days and I’m already tired of it.

It’s going to be a LONG summer.

Speaking of summer, John and I were discussing summer television the other day. The conversation was probably not very intelligent or coherent seeing as we rarely watch television and do not have cable. The only shows we watch on a consistent basis are The Office and Dancing with the Stars. Occasionally we watch the news and Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.

Anyhoo – the first week The Office was not on because it was the end of the “season”, John asked me why there is a “season” at all.

What is on during the summer? Who invented the television “season”? Why does a TV show get a four-month hiatus? If they show reruns in the summer wouldn’t they have to just pick and choose which reruns to show since you can’t fit a regular season into four months? And didn’t they show all the “filler” shows during the writer’s strike? What’s left to air?

It’s all very confusing to us since we’ve never paid much attention to the year-long television schedule. It seems the summer “season” with no new television shows would correspond with school being out for the summer, but it doesn’t really. I suggest they move the television rerun season up a few months. I mean, aren’t we all crazy busy the last few months of the school year anyway? What with the dance recitals, choir programs, awards banquets, fund-raisers, end-of-the-year shin-digs, and/or exams, no one has time to keep up with television. Might as well show the reruns and awful “filler” shows then, right?

All I really know is, without our three regularly-scheduled shows on the tube there is no way we will be diligent enough to figure out what’s showing on TV from week to week or muster the interest necessary to consistently watch anything this summer. And I can guarantee that when we DO turn on the TV for some rerun of a show we don’t even normally watch, it will be the one episode we happened to have seen already!

With lack of television viewing on the horizon, perhaps these blogs will become more interesting.