If it was Sweeps, the networks didn’t act like it!

4pm:  FX–King of the Hill (This show is more interesting than I had thought. I am increasingly finding it to be a comically accurate, if boring, look at mundane life.)

History Channel–Hitler’s Managers–Alfred Jodl. Featured footage of Jews hiding, a former Nazi speaking about witnessing the shooting of Jews, and several graphic, full-color video clips of actual killed soldiers.

4:30  Animal Planet–Planet’s Funniest Animals

Sci-Fi–Ripley’s Believe It or Not (I like Ripley’s. You get to see what creative/talented people are doing out there.)

5:00  Hist. Ch.–Hitler’s End. Featured concentration camp footage but mostly diagrams of the final days in the bunker. Also focusing on the famous double suicide, the gloom of the place, and a nation’s slow decay.

7:00: Arts&Entertainment: Modern Marvels

Cartoon Network: Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends

Comedy Central: Scrubs

Animal P.–The Most Extreme

8:25:Animal P.–same

American Movie Channel–Terminator 3:Rise of the Machines. Robots kicking our fat asses!

10:18 AMC–Commando

Animal P.–Animal Precinct, a show featuring abused/neglected animals and their subsequent rescue, adoption/euthanasia. You know the deal.

A&E: Dog the Bounty Hunter

Hist. Ch.–Man-Moment-Machine

Sci-Fi–ECW (pro wrestling?! Wtf!)

10:30: Comd. Cent–A stand-up comedy special featuring Gary Gulman

11pm: Comd. Cent–The Daily Show

11:30: Toon Net–Family Guy

Comd. Cent.– The Colbert Report

Midnight: Toon Net–Aqua Teen Hunger Force (dada comedy)

12:15:    Toon Net–Morel Orel (anti-Xtian comedy)

Hist. Ch.–Lost Worlds

TBS–I Am Sam (I don’t believe this was the John Leguizamo movie about the Son of Sam)

TNT–NYPD Blue

Sci-Fi–The X-Files

12:35:    NBC–Late-Night with Conan O’ Brien

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The above entry proved to be rather tame, with the usual exception of the Hitler Channel. As of this 17th February, I am wondering if Sweeps will skew my entries, but will plunk another one down in a few days. I expect the column to cover 5 days tops, and will spread them out so I don’t just pick on one week of sensationalism.

Unspeakable has questioned why I continue to watch television when it is so obviously BAD for me (for starters, it *shouldn’t* be). Well, unlike heroin, TV is pumped into the majority of Americans. I like to keep tabs on what the audience is willing to watch. I don’t fool myself that people necessarily WANT to watch it, but they are certainly willing to in enough numbers to make this material profitable. This column’s finale will examine just why that is, and theorize if the death-instinctual trend is likely to continue. I hope I don’t get pre-empted by something more interesting.