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Dude, what the hell?

I'm mouthing off right now, but dude, there's nothing on. What the heck happened? I haven't actually sat down to watch television in a long time (about six months), but...where are the great stand-up shows on Comedy Central? What happened to the Discovery Channel's documentaries? Where are the Cartoons on Cartoon Network?!

In the time I've been gone, TV's gone to hell! The scary thing is...it's the Internet's fault.

No lie; think about it. With the advent of Youtube, you can just surf around and look for and at whatever it is you want to see. No commercials, no schedules, no items, Final Destination. Just you and that hilarious Foamy cartoon.

This subverts everything network television has been doing for the past thirty years. They guess at what people want to see, give it, and depending on how popular an hour is, they sell time for their commercials. Of course, as awesome as that 'PSP--it's a portable nut' commercial is, it's a pain to sit through that Shamwow commercial over and over again.

The good news is that eventually, Network TV will adopt the Internet's method and begin 'TV On Demand'. The bad news is that we'll have that annoying line of ads at the bottom of the screen.

...In retrospect, paying $45 for a twenty-five-episode boxed set with no commercials sounds perfectly reasonable: I get to see what I want, when I want... that, and I can't remember the last time that a video game dropped everything to promote ANOTHER game I can't play because it's only available at another time. Best of all, books don't have bad actors. Only bad writers....

...Meanwhile, there's still nothing on....damn Dish Network...