Friday Five

1. How many TVs do you have in your home?

3. Four if you count the portable little one with the antenna and the dial to pick up broadcast stations...

2. On average, how much TV do you watch in a week?

An easier question would be, how much time do you spend not near a tv? There's always one on in the house. I'm not always watching it, but I'm probably listening. Does that count?

3. Do you feel that television is bad for young children?

Yes and no. My son picks up things from television, both good and bad. For instance, thanks to sesame street and other shows of its ilk, he's doing much better with letters, numbers, and general speech than he would be without - he doesn't have many children to interact with - but you have to be careful about what they see. I let him watch South Park until he started saying choice words, then I took it away.

4. What TV shows do you absolutely HAVE to watch, and if you miss them, you're heartbroken?

Buffy the Vampire Slayer. No other show matters to me like that one does...except maybe Iron Chef. And Sealab 2021.

5. If you had the power to create your own television network, what would your line-up look like?

Good Eats, Iron Chef, Buffy, Scrubs, all of Adult Swim, Days of our lives and Passions (but only the pertinent episodes, nothing pisses me off more than the way they drag crap out for months), Ground Force and Changing Rooms, all of the BlackAdder series, Monty Python, Father Ted....that's just for starters.