My Forty-Hour TV Week 1
This week (October 22 – 28th 2007) I’m going to attempt to watch 40 hours of television. I’ve heard about people watching that much tv or more a week, but I imagine they don’t have full time jobs with a 45 minute commute. I will use live TV, a DVR and a computer to watch the shows before and after work every day.
I hope to find out what effect 40 hours of tv will have on my health and attention span over the course of a week. I also hope to find a new TV show or two to add to my weekly line up.
I went to tvguide.com and used their most excellent tv schedule to pick out 40-hours of tv and figured out how I was going to watch each one (Live, DVR, or Computer). Then I subtracted commercial time (8 minutes for a half hour show/16 minutes for full hour shows) to find out how many hours I would really be watching, and it came to just under 30 hours (29 hrs 40 min) of actual tv time. Divided by 7 days and it comes to about 4 hours of tv a day.
At first I thought I would have trouble finding 40 hours of tv to watch, but surprisingly some shows didn’t make the cut. (maybe next week, Queer Eye). What do you think, ready to place your bets to see if I can make it through the entire week? My main post next week will be a review of my 40 hour tv-week.
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