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It’s 1pm on a Wednesday so far the only television I’ve watched this week was Monday’s How I Met Your Mother. This is problematic for reasons two. 1) Watching television is kinda sorta necessary for me post on this site (something I enjoy doing). 2) With each day that goes by the list gets longer and the likelihood for watching these programs gets slimmer and slimmer.

The problem is (in addition to having been sick for what seems like weeks and just wanting to go to sleep) we’re at that part of the TV season when things are starting to drag. Let’s think about this. Since September we’ve all ready seen eighteen episodes of The Office. Heroes has aired seventeen episodes. That, my friends, is a lot of television, but the season isn’t even close to ending. Isn’t that right — month of May?

I think we can all agree that 13 is the right number of episodes for any television season. It’s long. It allows time for significant character development and the development of complex plot lines. When you start getting longer than thirteen, you run the risk is losing your audience — not because the audience can’t take it (history has shown us they can), but because people can grow restless. People like me.

The fact of the matter is while I enjoy watching television during this time of the year (it is cold as hell outside), its starting to get a little harder to press that PLAY button. It doesn’t help that February sweeps (which ends today) is absolutely unrelenting (American Idol thrice weekly!).

Look, I’ll watch the programming (natch), but network television really needs to cut down the orders on some of these shows.

Tags: habbits, Heroes, NBC, The Industry, The Office

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