confessions of a new TV-aholic.

I am not proud of ANYTHING I'm about to tell you. 

Nope, I'm not. 

I used to talk about how Zach and I aren't really very big TV people. We don't watch a lot of the more "popular" shows and we were NEVER familiar with anyone who won at most of the TV inclusive awards shows. However.

A few shows have hooked us.

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The Big Bang Theory.

Yes, I realize we are LATE to the PARTY on this one, but for some reason we started watching a few episodes on TBS and got hooked. I found Doctor Who, and we found Top Gear the exact same way. Just happened upon an episode and for some reason stopped and were instantly hooked. 

Zach sings "Soft Kitty"-- we know the words. We also think to offer the other a hot beverage if we're in distress (because that happens so often) and might, or might not, have even taken up knocking in threes. We're not proud. Or maybe we are. Who cares? There's humor for everyone- humor for people who don't get smart humor and need the boob and sex jokes, and humor for people who get smart humor and find the science and science fiction jokes hysterical. The first episode we watch involved Sheldon's nemesis Will Wheaton and the moment they "made up." Killed me. Because I TOTALLY got the scifi nerdy aspect and the action figure MIP. 

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Saturday Night Live

No, this isn't a new one. 

We were pretty religious SNL rerun viewers when VH1 was showing the good cast-- you know, the one with Mike Myers, David Spade, Adam Sandler, Phil Hartman, Chris Farley, Molly Shannon, Norm MacDonald... all the way to the Jimmy Fallon era. But we'd stopped watching for a while because the show just WAS NOT FUNNY.

The reason we've started watching again all comes down to one person:

BILL HADER.

I don't like when people say Kristen Wiig is the funniest person on TV right now because personally? I find her repulsive. I am tired of her repeat characters, I don't find her over acting funny and I really don't think she should be in every sketch. Garth and Kath? MAKE ME WANT TO PUNCH A BABY. I don't like her, did you get that? Don't get me wrong, sometimes she's funny but as an ancillary character. I mean, was SHE what made the "bring it on down to liquorville" sketch with JT and Lady Gaga funny? No. But she served her purpose.

But- I love Bill Hader. I think he's hysterical, he is easily my favorite part of the show. When he does the old news reporter and has to turn away because he's laughing? I giggle like mad. And Stefon? Don't even go there. I will probably wake my child up. Yes, Bill Hader has restored my faith in SNL.

ALSO?

Did y'all see Emma Stone's second foray this past weekend? I kinda really loved that they brought Andrew Garfield out there since they're a rumored couple. I mean, come on? SO cute, right?

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Without going into too much detail on the others, we're also watching: 

Once Upon a Time, New Girl and Pan Am are also regulars on our DVR-- we watch New Girl together (I love that Zach can appreciate Zooey Deschanel) and I watch the other two by myself. Zach sat through a couple episodes of both, but neither really caught his fancy, so I watch those and he watches The Walking Dead. I'll admit, I watched the whole first season of that because 1-Andrew Lincoln is my favorite in Love Actually (go back and look, yeah... you love him too!) and 2- I like that stuff, but I can't really get into it because I hate Andrew Lincoln's character's wife and I also hate his former partner. And so.

There we have it. 

I'm not really proud of all the TV we're watching lately. I know it'll be a lot less once I stop DVRing BBT all the time, but I still get a little stressy when it's Monday and I've got to navigate Terra Nova (oh I forgot that one, Zach likes that one, it scares Liam), Top Gear and Castle all one on top of the other. 

SO. 

What shows have YOU hooked this season?

sources: {bbt, snl, snl emma&andrew, pan am, ouat, new girl}

and my TV goes *cricket cricket*

Today we are coming off of a pretty long dry spell in our house. 

Besides the fact that we haven't seen a drop of rain since God knows when, we've been going through another kind of drought. 

A TV drought. 

Now, we don't watch a lot of TV, honestly. While I know some who have two or three shows PER night, we usually average somewhere between three and five per WEEK.

A few weeks ago, both So You Think You Can Dance and Deadliest Catch ended. 

Castle hasn't been on for months. 

 Doctor Who ended back before the summer started. 

Boardwalk Empire is on reruns. 

Bored to Death hasn't been on since last year. 

Game of Thrones ended about a month and a half ago. 

Shoot, even my Formula 1 races are on break.

So? 

That leaves us with True Blood (and for me, Entourage, which, for some inexplicable reason I've started watching, knowing full well that it's in its final season. I don't even care, nor do I care enough to go back and watch the other seasons. Weird, I know.) on Sundays, Graham Norton on Saturdays and Deadliest Warrior on Wednesdays.

Not a lot.

See? Even Graham is horrified.

HOWEVER, in true BBC America fashion, they're going to please me beyond words this week when not one, but TWO of my favorite shows start running new episodes! Top Gear comes on tonight and I'm positively giddy with excitement. I told Zach on Saturday, I think if Michael the Fassbender and Richard Hammond (the one on the left in the picture of the men in the car below) were standing on opposite sides of a square and I could only visit with one, I'd chose the Hamster every time. AND Doctor Who comes back on this Saturday. Doctor Who kind of stopped mid season and took a break for the summer. Which drove me nuts. Just show me the season, already! But! America is FINALLY on the same schedule as the UK, so we're actually having to wait like they do.

And? Oh yeah, there's a race this weekend too-- we haven't had one in almost a month! 

Thank GOODNESS.

I'm tired of having nothing to watch for most of the week.

image sources: {tv, graham, true blood, hammond&may, doctor who, formula1}