Making Up for Monday: Watch TV?

Hosted by An Avid Reader; A Wannabe Writer

Each week, there will be a book-related theme or game, or something fun to do that week. And you can play along! All you have to do is find the question for that week and write a post that day based on that question.

This Week's Topic/Question:

We are all readers but, who owns a TV? Why, or why not?

My Answer:

I own a television. Do I use it often? No. I haven't turned it on in the past year. That doesn't mean I don't watch television shows, though. These days, I pretty much live and breathe off of my computer, and that's where I watch TV.

There are somethings that I will always be on the look out for (listed below). There are somethings that ended too soon (Fox's Firefly & Wonderfalls, BBC One's Luther, E4's Skins, and Channel One's Sugar Rush).

My current can't miss shows are:

• HBO's Game of Thrones
• FOX's So You Think You Can Dance
• BBC ONE's Sherlock
• Cinemax's Banshee
• Showtime's Shameless
• Logo's RuPaul's Drag Race (Bianca Del Rio & Jinx Monsoon are my girls!)
• CBS's Big Bang Theory
• BBC America's Orphan Black
• Showcase's Bitten & Lost Girl
• Netflix's Orange Is The New Black
• STARZ's Black Sails
• MTV's Awkward.
• and pretty much any and every BBC period piece

My current guilty pleasures are:

• MTV's "The Challenge" franchise (I love CT & TJ Lavin!!!) 
• Fox's "Next Top Model" franchise (in Asia, Africa, Australia, Britain & New Zealand more so than the US)
• Canada & Britain's Big Brother (hopefully in the US this year; couldn't deal with the racism last time)
• Oxygen's Bad Girls Club & Bad Girls Club All Star Battle
• Oxygen's The Face 
• CBS's Survivor
• SyFy's Defiance
• all shows about crazy ladies on Oxygen & Investigation Discovery (think Snapped & Who The Bleep Did I Marry)

To be honest, I think it's silly to be a fan of stories and to not watch television. That's who we are as readers, and if the writing is good and it's on television  -- I'm watching. Do I think spending countless hours watching all the crap on Cable TV is healthily? No, that's why I gave it up.

I also watch movies, as well. Again when they're good or when they include my favorite actors & actresses (my can't miss list includes: Ryan Gosling, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ben Foster, Gary Oldman, Jason Momoa, Benedict Cumberbach, Jennifer Lawrence, Christina Ricci, and Thora Birch).