LizzieMaine
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I do love ME-TV so I can watch The Brady Bunch, That Girl, Family Affair, Bob Newhart and other sitcoms. I need to stop rubbernecking when I flip through the channels; sometimes I stop on a "reality" show with my mouth agape and eyes crossed trying to take it all in because they're so incredulously inane. Next thing I know 30 minutes have gone by and my eyes and mouth are sore.
They only just added MeTV to our system up here, and it's actually had me watching TV regularly for the first time in years. It's only a matter of time, though, before they weed out all the black and white shows in favor of lame 90s stuff, so tape them while you can.
If the cable companies allowed a la carte subscriptions it'd be the best thing that could happen. TCM -- even in its current diluted form -- along with MeTV and the Red Sox, and that's all I'd need. I get the cheapest package I can -- we don't have any over-the-air reception here since the end of analog transmission -- and of the seventy channels they have, those are the only three worth my time.
Another television show that used to be genuinely calming for me was, believe it or not, "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood." As long as it was on the air, I'd tune it in when I was feeling over-stressed, and it calmed me right down. They took it off MPBN about five years ago, and that's when I knew there was no longer any hope for the modern world.