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Thursday, August 24, 2006
Serf’s Up! New TV Blog
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
And now for a brief commercial interruption …
Remember commercials? No? Well, way, way back in the days before TiVo, DVR and season-long DVD compilations, people actually had to put up with ads disrupting the artistic flow of their “Matlockâ€? or “WKRP In Cincinnatiâ€?-viewing experiences. It was all so distasteful, so crass, so unlike anything your humble servant would ever be involved in.
Rest assured, the Channel Serf’s not peddling anything. Nothing, that is, except the notion of this blog as a bottomless font of TV talk, critiques, info and the occasional insightful observation like “ ‘Law & Order’ is on a lot, y’know?�
Despite what you might have heard, the Channel Serf was not born with a remote control where her brain should be (don’task about her bellybutton).
She only worked her way up to the highly demanding job of Professional Television Watcher after years spent covering courts, politics and one particularly obscure Olympic sport for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. While this obviously makes her the country’s foremost “Sopranos�/synchronized swimming scholar, she’s not cocky about it. She welcomes your feedback, although be warned, you’ll likely get one of two responses:
“Oh yeah?� Or, “Which one of us is smart enough to get PAID to watch TV, pal?� (The Serf may be a serf, but the Serf is no fool.)
End of commercial. Let’s talk Emmys. They’re this Sunday night, you know, which seems fiendishly early. It has to do with NBC’s pro football broadcast schedule, not that that’s the ONLY scheduling controversy swirling this year, heh, heh. ABC, which has its knickers in a knot about getting almost no “Lost� or “Desperate Housewives� nominations love, has slated “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl� to run directly opposite poor little Emmy. ABC and NBC have been trading jabs for weeks, so let me cut through the corporate speak and legal-ese and summarize the high-stakes discussion for you:
“Did not!� “Did too!�
Enough. We’d rather hear from you. Should the Emmys be held before or after Labor Day, or maybe during “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve?â€? Which category are you most anticipating and dreading? Who’ll get more viewers — Emmy host Conan O’Brien in a tux, or pirate Johnny Depp in a puffy shirt? Or what if they switched outfits or roles?!
That’s all for now. The Serf has to get back to watching TV. That “Law & Orderâ€? is on a lot, y’know …
