O.T.: Fall TV Season Starts Tonight!

It's that time of year, folks. A time of year that my family always looks forward to, in order to escape the daily doldrums of our lives. It's TV time.

FOX is starting the network television Fall lineup unusually early this season, with the premiere of Prison Break at 8 Eastern, followed by the series premiere of Vanished.

My cohorts here laugh heartily at my annual issuance of the Ferrell TV Spreadsheet (click to view below), because they believe that 20-30 hours of television per week is unusual, and they fail to see the organizational brilliance that Microsoft Excel provides to these trying times. Times that, least year, required four VCRs running at the Ferrell household.
But as I said, escape from our daily lives is the goal. These are the shows that will make us laugh and scream when the daily monotony won't. And these shows will provide lunch and dinner viewing pleasure for months to come. In fact, last year was so bountiful that we just finished the 2005 Fall Season (from which we had 79 hours left after the season officially ended in May). But hey, just think of all that money saved not renting movies all summer.

THE FERRELL TV SPREADSHEET (CLICK TO ENLARGE)

This year, I've finally broken into the digital arena with a purchase of a Windows Media Center PC, which will dutifully record to disc two cable channels at the same time. We'll also attempt to watch more live TV this year, something we got out of the habit of doing when my wife worked overnight a few years ago.

This year marks a number of firsts for the spreadsheet: Most new shows, most hours per week, and first time there was not a single time slot between 8 and 11 that we aren't watching or recording something. For Fall 2005 we're entertaining the possibility, giving a chance if you will, to 14 new shows, details of which are trapped on my home computer, so look for that blog entry tomorrow. Invariably, we'll drop some of them (or the networks will) and we'll be back to some number of hours per week more manageable than our current 30.5.

Well, more on the new shows tomorrow, I just didn't want any of y'all to miss Prison Break tonight.

WEBSITES WHICH WERE HELPFUL IN THE PRODUCTION OF THE FERRELL TV SPREADSHEET:

(very nice matrix, only a couple small errors :))

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