P3 - Television

Getting the third question out of the way, I have 3 televisions in my home but only one of them is in use. I have one in my room, but I am rarely watching it due to the busy state of my life right now and lack of DVR. My mother also has one in her room that she never uses. The TV that is used the most is in the living room. Now, we use that TV almost every night, depending on the night.

On Mondays we watch Smash in the spring and The Sing-Off in the winter. Right now, we aren’t really using the TV on Monday nights, we watch Smash when we have free time on another week night.

Tuesdays are big…GLEE. It’s Glee night on Tuesday. We generally turn on the TV around 9 o’clock after dinner, dessert, and a little discussion. We DVR all of our shows so that we can fast forward through the commercials. After Glee New Girl is on so we watch that to end the night.

Wednesday nights are my personal favorite. American Idol night, I love everything about American Idol, even though America just voted off my favorite (Colton Dixon), we still have Asian Persuasion (Jessica Sanchez), Ham Hocks (Skylar Lane), and Mantasia (Joshua Ladet). We nickname the contestants because a family friend that watches it with us is bad with names so he just nicknames them and they stick.

Thursdays and Fridays aren’t really all that eventful anymore because I watch the IDOL results show on the weekends or I look it up on Twitter. We catch up on any extra shows we watch on these nights.

The TV is in use a lot at my house because we watch a lot of program. Here and there we will watch Modern Family, 30 Rock, House, Touch, and Bones. However, our favorites are So You Think You Can Dance, Glee, American Idol, The Sing-Off, America’s Best Dance Crew, New Girl, and Smash. I think that our TV time promotes discussion and gives us family time because we all love the shows for specific reasons. The negatives may be that some nights we are up until 12 at night catching up on shows we missed. I don’t think the amount of television we watch is a problem, I think it’s the time of day, the shows, and the emphasis we put on it. We watch it at night before bed so we can relax after work and school. I don’t think that watching TV is a bad thing unless it’s ALL you do. IDK…it’s my life, you can’t have it.