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Pajiba After Dark: Television Envy is an Ugly Emotion

By Genevieve Burgess | Posted Under Miscellaneous | Comments (17)

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Sunday night always makes me sad that I can’t afford the premium channels because I’d love to be watching either “The Borgias” or “Game of Thrones.” I’d probably be able to follow “The Borgias” a little bit better, but “Game of Thrones” looks extremely pretty and people keep talking about it and I just wish I could be one of the cool kids who actually gets to watch it. I mean, yeah, sure, DVDs will be coming out later but that’s FOREVER from now and then I won’t have anyone to talk to about it because everyone else will be all “Yeah, way ahead of you.” Maybe there should be “book clubs” or something similar for series that have come out on DVD so there’s a way people watching them for the first time can have somewhere to talk about the show without having to worry about spoilers, or annoying their friends. Anyway, here’s your Sunday night TV:

7:00pm: “60 Minutes” on CBS

“America’s Funniest Home Videos” on ABC

“Dateline NBC” on NBC

“Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom” on Animal Planet

“NHL Playoffs: Tampa Bay at Washington, Game 2” on Versus

8:00pm: “The Amazing Race” on CBS

“America’s Next Great Restaurant” on NBC. First season finale.

“Bert the Conqueror” on Travel. Bert will be doing his thing in Alberta this week.

“Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” on ABC

“The Family Crews” on BET

“Mob Wives” on VH1

“Nature: Salmon” on PBS

“Ruby” on Style

“Season 25: Oprah Behind the Scenes” on OWN

“The Simpsons” on Fox. Tragically, it appears that satire is actually lagging behind reality; this episode is called “The Real Housewives of Fat Tony” which was probably conceived long before “Mob Wives” started airing. I’ve known that it’s impossible to parody reality TV since the “Trading Spouses” bit on “Chappelle’s Show” became a real show with exactly the same name.

9:00pm: “The Apprentice” on NBC

“Army Wives” on Lifetime

“Audrina” on VH1

“Ax Men” on History

“Desperate Housewives” on ABC

“Game of Thrones” on HBO

“Last Cake Standing” on Food Network. So, I guess that “Cupcake Wars” show had it’s season finale because I keep looking for it but I haven’t seen it in a while BUT: I was at the gym the other day and my gym has one or two TVs always tuned to the Food Network (which I think is hilarious) and “Cupcake Wars” was on. I happened to glance up to see a girl talking about her strategy wearing a shirt advertising her shop that said “Two Girls One Cupcake” and I’m pretty certain that’s the WORST possible name for a cupcake shop. Anyway, that’s my little story.

“Law and Order: Criminal Intent” on USA. 10th season premiere.

“Who Killed Chandra Levy” on TLC. Wow. Cutting edge work there, TLC.

“Undercover Boss” on CBS. Second season finale.

9:30pm: “Saddle Ranch” on VH1

10:00pm: “Amazing Wedding Cakes” on WE

“The Borgias” on Showtime

“Breakout Kings” on A&E

“Coming Home” on Lifetime

“CSI: Miami” on CBS

“In Plain Sight” on USA. Fourth season premiere.

“Iron Chef America” on Food Network

“The Judds” on OWN

“Khloe and Lamar” on E

“The Killing” on AMC

“Irena Sendler: In the Name of Their Mothers” on PBS

“Police POV” on TruTV

“The Real Housewives of Orange County” on Bravo

“Treme” on HBO

“Brothers and Sisters” on ABC

Intern Rusty is a Masters student at the University of Miami. You can learn more about her at Rusty’s Ventures. You can also vote for her to be a part of the “American Gods” audiobook here by searching for “Gen” and clicking on the red-head with brown eyes.









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Comments

Sidereel.com or fastpass.com or about a gazillion other sites will almost always get you what you want, dude. Game of Thrones is the bomb-diggity.

Posted by: Gerb at May 1, 2011 6:13 PM

@Rusty
You can stream tv shows/movies on these websites: fastpasstv.com and letmewatchthis.com. Well those are my faves and they're free. They sometimes upload day of or next day.

Posted by: kilmo at May 1, 2011 6:14 PM

So it's Dateline, maybe, then a book for me.

Posted by: Snuggiepants at May 1, 2011 6:24 PM

I appreciate the tips, but because I'm getting my Masters in Music Business and Entertainment Industry (two weeks till graduation!) streaming things that have been uploaded less than legally makes me feel dirty. I don't blame the rest of you for indulging, but I'll wait.

Posted by: Intern Rusty at May 1, 2011 6:28 PM

Good attitude, Rusty. There's always a few incidents each semester where music business students get thrown out because of IPR violations. Better to avoid it entirely than to risk losing everything you've worked for.

Posted by: Robert at May 1, 2011 6:32 PM

What Kilmo said.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at May 1, 2011 8:28 PM

I feel for ya and I'm with ya. No TV at all here. Just a DVD player and a big box w a tube (fer serious). It keeps you honest.

Posted by: klingonfree at May 1, 2011 9:26 PM

I have channel envy too. We get a million channels plus Netflix, but what I really want to watch is Game of Thrones and be like the cool kids. We had HBO for a while, but when the special deal ran out we didn't mind because Boardwalk Empire had ended its season. Little did we know...

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at May 1, 2011 9:40 PM

Missed "Amazing Race," can someone fill in on which team, if any, got bumped? Lost the Cowboys last week so rooting interests have now fallen to the Globetrotters.

Posted by: , at May 1, 2011 9:47 PM

Bin Laden is DEAD BAYYYYYBEEEEE!!

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at May 1, 2011 10:52 PM

@ Rusty

'Game of Thrones' will teach you that the world is not black and white but an expansive shade of grey, in which navigating it will make life more interesting. Also, that "dirty" feeling is mostly because of your indoctrination through your classes that were probably sponsored by the Music Industry. You'll feel better after watching the show.

Posted by: Vhrico at May 2, 2011 12:10 AM

*cough* movie2k.to *cough*

No illegal downloading or anything, just streaming, like long youtube videos. It's passive, it's legal (for you watching it) and the quality is decent.

How do you think I watch all your great American Shows - being stuck in small Germany? I'm not gonna wait till they dub it badly and get it on German television in about 2 years.

I watched the first two episodes of Game of Thrones already, and I just loved it (girl speaking here). It's hot and steamy (many nice breasts and hunky dudes, and slavery, and boys, and revenge, and dwarfs). Made me feel good.

Posted by: Trustivia at May 2, 2011 12:12 AM

Another great GoT episode. Now I gotta go catch up on Treme and The Killing.

Posted by: Fredo at May 2, 2011 12:29 AM

Ah copyright. From my view it's really important. But only selfishly, situationally so. I'm an artist, so yeah, there's the obvious. At some point in the curve, people using your stuff without paying you goes from "Cool! They like me." to "Shit, they're ripping me off"
For musicians, they've all but given up making money through sales and therefore giving it away is sometimes the better choice. Problem is, artists can tour. We're like the poor keyboard nerds making bombass alchemical godspeak and no way to make money. Who wants to pay to see a nerd twiddle nobs?
Cable TV is the entitled step-brother crying over the $20 gam gam never gave him for Easter. They don't make money off advertisers and they don't sell dvd's until it's nearly too late, but as they're main business is getting new sign-ups, every eyeball that's not already a subscriber should see this stuff and never get a tinge of snark over it. You're maybe seeing an ep of two for free, but if it's really good (and so far GoT is), you're likely to not risk missing parts because of your guilt, inability to glom onto a subscriber friend, etc.. and go out and sign up. I did. I swore I would never give HBO another penny after so many nights of... wait, let me take a random looksee...

Raising Cain, 1992 John Lithgow, Steven Bauer.
Or; At First Sight, 1999 Val Kilmer, Mira Sorvino.
Today's marathon event appeared to be Bad Boys. Forget what I said about the first one in a franchise usually being meant as a one-off and generally a better film.

Yeah, I guess I can see why HBO would be anxious if I were downloading the only thing they're showing that's worth a crap.

Posted by: Protoguy at May 2, 2011 2:58 AM

Oh, and that Herbal Essence ad on rotation here looks like the Hello Kitty version of The Killing

Posted by: Protoguy at May 2, 2011 2:59 AM

Yes, I was going to say, "Where are your Internet workaround ingenuity skills?"

I can't believe people still play the TV game.

TV tells you that you must choose. Intarwebs says, "Fuck false dilemmas".

Posted by: Recondite at May 2, 2011 8:15 AM

Its important to choose a niche or target something which interests you so you can add personal experience and advice to your blogs content instead of writing about something that has no appeal to you whatsoever.

Posted by: Fay at May 13, 2011 3:40 AM