{"id":3901,"date":"2006-10-11T12:37:13","date_gmt":"2006-10-11T19:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/10\/11\/fall-06-tv-plans\/"},"modified":"2019-12-20T11:21:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T19:21:03","slug":"fall-06-tv-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/10\/11\/fall-06-tv-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall &#8217;06 TV Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:6236,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.cbs.com\\\/primetime\\\/amazing_race10&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20080913010942\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.cbs.com:80\\\/primetime\\\/amazing_race10\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-08 23:14:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 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that Prairie and I (either together or individually) plan on doing our best to keep up with this season (though, admittedly, our schedules will be busy enough that it may occasionally be difficult):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sundays:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbs.com\/primetime\/amazing_race10\/\" title=\"The Amazing Race 10\">The Amazing Race 10<\/a> (CBS): Prairie&#8217;s been a fan of this one for a couple years now, and this is my first time actually watching it. Generally speaking, I&#8217;m no big fan of &#8220;reality&#8221; TV (most of what I&#8217;ve heard of and seen of &#8220;reality&#8221; programming has little or nothing to do with reality), but I&#8217;ve actually been enjoying this one so far. I&#8217;m <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/09\/amazing_race_10.html\" title=\"Eclecticism: Amazing Race 10 Premiere\">a bit bummed<\/a> that some of the more interesting teams were eliminated so soon (though, as <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/09\/amazing_race_10.html#comment-102460\" title=\"Ryan Waddell: India\u2019s more 'Asia' than 'Middle East', technically\">some<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/09\/amazing_race_10.html#comment-112883\" title=\"Sarah: Actually, Bilal and Sa\u2019eed aren\u2019t Middle Eastern either.\">commenters<\/a> have pointed out, my geopolitical placement skills leave something to be desired), and we&#8217;ve been surprised that so many teams have been eliminated so quickly &#8212; apparently there will be a few stretches later in the season where eliminations don&#8217;t come quite so fast and furious. At this point, our current favorites are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbs.com\/primetime\/amazing_race10\/bios\/lyn_karlyn.shtml\" title=\"The Amazing Race 10: Lyn and Karlyn\">Lyn and Karlyn<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbs.com\/primetime\/amazing_race10\/bios\/david_mary.shtml\" title=\"The Amazing Race 10: David and Mary\">David and Mary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abc.go.com\/primetime\/desperate\/index.html\" title=\"Desperate Housewives\">Desperate Housewives<\/a> (ABC): I missed the first year of broadcast (though Prairie often gleefully filled me in on some of the more outrageous moments over IM sessions before she and I moved in together) and had to catch up via DVD before season two started. Season two hooked me, and we thoroughly enjoy watching the weekly over-the-top shenanigans on Wisteria Lane (and I get to tease Prairie about being the perfect [i.e., non-psychotic] mix of Susan and Bree).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Mondays:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/Heroes\/\" title=\"Heroes\">Heroes<\/a> (NBC): This one&#8217;s just me, and I&#8217;m not entirely sure I&#8217;ll stick it, but I heard just enough to make me curious (a group of ordinary people suddenly discovering not-so-ordinary abilities) and snagged the first three episodes via BitTorrent. So far I&#8217;m not entirely hooked, but it&#8217;s caught enough of my interest to keep me checking it out for bit, at least. At this point, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/Heroes\/cast\/hiro.shtml\" title=\"Heroes: Hiro Nakamura\">Hiro<\/a> is by <em>far<\/em> my favorite character.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Thursdays:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/abc.go.com\/primetime\/greysanatomy\/index\" title=\"Grey's Anatomy\">Grey&#8217;s Anatomy<\/a> (ABC): Originally, I just tuned into a couple episodes to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/djwudi\/9179184\/\" title=\"Flickr: Grey's Geography\">laugh at the goofy Seattle geography<\/a> and then shrugged it off. However, it was in a broadcast slot just after Desperate Housewives, and Prairie and I just kept getting sucked in when we didn&#8217;t turn the TV off fast enough. A few weeks of that, and we were hooked (it&#8217;s Prairie&#8217;s &#8220;new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/ER\/\" title=\"ER\">ER<\/a>&#8220;). Unfortunately, with their move to Thursday nights, when I&#8217;m often working and Prairie teaches &#8217;til late, we&#8217;re not able to keep up with it at broadcast, so we&#8217;ve been using BitTorrent to watch it on Wednesday evenings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Fridays:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbs.com\/primetime\/ghost_whisperer\/\" title=\"The Ghost Whisperer\">The Ghost Whisperer<\/a> (CBS): This one&#8217;s all Prairie&#8217;s &#8212; her &#8220;silly ghost show&#8221;. I&#8217;ve not seen any of it yet, as I tend to be at work when it&#8217;s on.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifi.com\/battlestar\/\" title=\"Battlestar Galactica\">Battlestar Galactica<\/a> (Sci-Fi): I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelhanscom.com\/cgi-bin\/mt\/mt-tags.cgi?blog_id=1&amp;tags=battlestargalactica\" title=\"Eclecticism: tag search for 'battlestargalactica'\">babbled about it often enough<\/a> that this shouldn&#8217;t surprise anyone. Still hands-down the best show around (admittedly, I pull from a very small pool, but it&#8217;s <em>really<\/em> good). Prairie and I are just about done watching Season Two on DVD (I&#8217;d already seen it via BitTorrent while it was broadcast, she waited for the DVDs to come out), and now I&#8217;m BitTorrenting Season Three as it appears (I know, I <em>could<\/em> get them legally <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewTVShow%253Fid%253D102790326%2526partnerId%253D30\" title=\"iTunes: Battlestar Galactica\">via iTunes<\/a>, but&#8230;[sigh]&#8230;the quality still just <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/12\/time_to_put_my.html\" title=\"Eclecticism: Time to put my money where my mouth is?\">isn&#8217;t quite there<\/a>). The season premiere? Oh, <em>so<\/em> very good.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So that&#8217;s the TV plan for the next few months. A lot more than I used to do, and all subject to being preempted by school, work, or other major life events&#8230;but it&#8217;s nice to have some downtime every so often.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" title=\"Get iTunes\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"iTunes\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/ad.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/show?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;bids=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" alt=\"\" \/> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms %253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DSan Francisco Symphony Orchestra (Seiji Ozawa)%2526songTerm=An American in Paris%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for 'An American in Paris' on the iTMS\">An American in Paris<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DSan Francisco Symphony Orchestra (Seiji Ozawa)%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for 'San Francisco Symphony Orchestra (Seiji Ozawa)' on the iTMS\">San Francisco Symphony Orchestra (Seiji Ozawa)<\/a> from the album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/click. linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DSan Francisco Symphony Orchestra (Seiji Ozawa)%2526albumTerm=Panorama: George Gershwin%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for 'Panorama: George Gershwin' on the iTMS\">Panorama: George Gershwin<\/a> <\/em> (1977, 18:01).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So that&#8217;s the TV plan for the next few months. A lot more than I used to do, and all subject to being preempted by school, work, or other major life events&#8230;but it&#8217;s nice to have some downtime every so often.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2037],"tags":[671,3246,2749,3278,8,3276,3279],"class_list":["post-3901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-and-films","tag-battlestar-galactica","tag-desperate-housewives","tag-greys-anatomy","tag-heroes","tag-television","tag-the-amazing-race","tag-the-ghost-whisperer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}