Yao Man FTW!

I do tend to watch quite a bit of reality TV. Mainly because the majority of scripted fare doesn't cut it for me. That's not to say I'll watch reality exclusively, nor do I think that anything with a writing staff is a waste of time effort. So, just to put it all out there - and while not necessarily logging every minute in front of the television - here's a list, hopefully complete, of shows that I watch regularly, both reality and scripted. Not the ones that if I'm flipping channels and if I see it I'll stop. These are the ones I make sure are set to record on the DVR, and this is current stuff, so nothing from the past.

Reality (in no particular order) -

Survivor
American Idol
The Apprentice
The Amazing Race
Beauty and the Geek
Mythbusters (It's not scripted...and sadly it gets lumped into this category)
Top Gear (Same as above)

Scripted (in no particular order) -

Doctor Who (anybody shocked here?)
Torchwood
The Sarah Jane Adventures
(The above three entries are courtesy of my High Power Internet Antenna)
Battlestar Galactica
Boston Legal
Ugly Betty

I also live in fear that if I really do start watching 30 Rock and The Office I'd get sucked into some sort of vortex that I'd never get out of again. It's an irrational fear, but it's MY irrational fear.

There has got to be more that I'm forgetting, but I do watch a measurable amount of video podcasts on the AppleTV. Like iFanboy and The Totally Rad Show for example. That's probably the rest of my TV time.

But tonight starts a new cycle of Survivor, fans v. favorites. This time unless he again makes an ill-advised promise to someone who isn't prone to keep them, we may get Yao Man to finally get a very well deserved win.

American Idol's audition phase petered out last night with what amounted to a clip show before Hollywood week starts next Tuesday. Lots of repeat clips of people I really didn't care to see ever again, and people who couldn't make the final edit of the broadcast episode for the city the show visited. That's not quite compelling television. But the brutality of the cuts in Hollywood always raise the stakes and they separate the maybe could be professionals from the not a chance in acting or being professional, or the just plain unlucky.

The Celebrity Apprentice has also been apparently renewed. Why? This version is as dull as rope with the pseudo-celebs they've got now. Trump also has his hands tied as far as the rather unusual, or just plain irrational and at his whim decisions he makes in the boardroom when firing people. Meh. Bring back the wannabes and the fame seekers and let's see a return to the seemingly arbitrary actions of New York's favorite real estate developer