THAT WARM, FUZZY FEELING

When you set down on your favorite chair with your snack or dink to watch your favorite show and hit the remote to find that show on the network that it is on and then can't find it.. Search another channel, it was here wasn't it?? Then you check on the internet to see if it shows in the tv grid and it isn't there... Where is it? Where did it go?? Since I've been on the internet my television watching habits have changed.. Some for the good and some not so good.. For the good, I've been able to read about the different shows on entertainment sites, and have bookmarked them and now have them on the reader.. What is good about this is I can see when a show is going to be on, if it will be new and worst of all is the series going to be cancelled.. The worst part of knowing if a show will have a full season, and some get granted a full season only after they are on for the three to four show initial run they are granted.. Then it is crank the production up on those shows which means three weeks before a new one is on and in the meantime the show is rerun or taken off in favor of trying another show in it's time slot.. Something I don't get at all.. And some shows are constantly being moved to different nights and time slots not to see if they will get better ratings but more to ditch the viewers that were watching that show so they can cancel it.. That has happened a lot lately.. A show that comes to mind is CBS Rules of Engagement.. This show was on Monday nights as a mid season replacement for that hard to fill slot after the massive lead in of Two and a half men.. They moved it to Thursday night after the Big Bang Theory.. They can't find a way to kill it, try as they might..

I watched Celebrity Apprentice two years ago when Bret Michaels won it (I really was hoping he would win and was pulling for him to) then last year John Rich won it and I was hooked on it last year and had picked him as the winner after the camp gear episode.. This year I watched last nights and knowing what Donald Trump is more than likely going to do after this shows run I think he is just a pile.. (I figure he will run for president when his boy Mitt shits the bed here shortly and no one is nominated before the convention this summer, what a shit storm that will be)..

Another show I started watching recently is Discovery channels "First week in" about the first seven days when people get sent to jail/prison.. More prison than jail although some are holding centers to process those who are there.. Really tough to watch, although I watched without dozing the past couple nights.. Watching the one I watched last night this big black dude was fairly upbeat although he wasn't facing the reality that he is a 21 year old kid who got convicted of attempted murder and will spend 31 years in jail.. Drugs were being used and god only knows what they were doing.. So he will be in jail until he is 52 years old.. They showed him and he was seemingly a nice guy, and fairly naive.. He was talking about when he gets out about all these plans he is going to do including getting a hotel built and all these things and he doesn't realize that in 31 years he will be a completely changed person.. He may not even be able to get a job then...

Another show I got hooked on last year was Gold Rush Alaska on the Discovery channel (shortened to Gold Rush, since one of the crews are actually in Canada this year).. Last year was habit forming to watch this show.. I hadn't heard of the show at all until I saw something about it on some site on line.. I watched last season via internet and then started watching this year. That Dakota Fred was a snake at first taking that claim away from the Hoffman crew, but over the season I have gotten to kind of like him, he has a certain John Denver like sound to him.. And then there is Parker Schnavel, 17 (18) year old and being a senior in high school as the season starts to run down.. I like the the kid a little but it is his grand dad John that is the jewel in this series..

Viewing habits have changed with the internet in the way I watch some shows that aren't available in America, such as shows on BBC (proper).. I acquired some shows by torrent and enjoyed the full season last year of the apprentice U.K. sort of a take on the apprentice with blowhard Trump, but instead features Lord Sugar, and English tycoon that is of true rich. He built his empire from the ground up, and didn't get it from his daddy like Trump did..


A lot of television shows anymore have maybe two or even three shows to get some sort of foothold somewhere.. And f they don't then they are gone.. I hate trying to start watching shows anymore.. Shows like Fringe that they are talking about cancelling after this season.. It's hard to get into some of these shows.. Fringe is a sci-fi show and is really out there but I liked watching it until they started talking cancel then I stopped watching..

BH