I need to fall asleep with the TV on. One of the world's most perfect inventions, in my opinion, is the sleep timer for the TV. No more waking up in the middle of the night to some dreadful infomercial and groping around in the bedclothes to find the remote and turn off the box. Just hit the little button, set it for 30, 60, or 90 minutes, get in the sleepy position, and poof, voila.
The thing is, I've become fond of programs airing on sydicated late night TV that I never even considerd watching in first run. My viewing choices horrify my husband. I will now admit some of them to you. I know you will be horrified as well.
1. The Nanny. Oy vey. I never watched it in first run. Loved it late night. I'd stay up way too late to catch it. It was on at like 12:30 a.m., a time when any working girl should be sleeping.
2. Living Single. Gotta love you some Kim Fields. That girl had more hair on that show then anyone has a right to.
3/4. M*A*S*H and Cheers. OK, I did watch both of those first-run. I bet I've seen every single episode of M*A*S*H ever created, most of them four to five times, if not more. Same with Cheers.
5. Home Improvement. I wouldn't stay up past my bedtime for this one.
6. Dharma & Greg. This has been my latest indulgence.
Most of my late night viewing is either on FOX or whatever network Channel 13 is (we don't have that on the dish anymore, oh well).
But the late night programmers are fickle. Just when you get into a pattern and really come to love the syndicated trash they switch up the programming.
My latest late-night disappointment started last week. I got in bed at 12:00, all ready for some Dharma & Greg. Alas, no. It was Married With Children. I mean I'll go low, but only so low I tell you, and certainly not that low.
Then I did some channel surfing and found we had some new channels at the low end of the channel spectrum and they were all the local LA stations. No D&G on FOX, but it was on something else, probably 13. Kewl. I could continue to indulge.
This week those channels are gone.
I got in bed at 11:30 tonight, early for me. I had to endure the end of Miracle Mile, which Chuck was watching, and when it was finally over and I was all ready to dig into some late night trash, there was nothing to be had.
So now I'm out of bed again, despite my efforts to get to bed at a reasonable hour.
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Posted by beth at September 17, 2003 12:13 AM