I have a confession.

I don't watch 24. Or Heroes. Or Lost.

Sue me. Never got in to them. Well, that's not quite true, I was kind of in to 24 the first season and part of the second.

I sort of get the appeal of Heroes and Lost, but I'm just not really interested in investing THAT much time in to a show. If I miss a show, I want to be able to figure out what I missed with little difficulty. This is the same reason my interest in The X-Files waned with each passing year.

It's great that shows are getting back to story telling (knowing my predilection towards hating reality TV), but these are more like really long mini-series broken in to multiple seasons. I know that makes little sense, but try and think about it before you just poo-poo the crappy (hehe) analogy. Can't we have more "old-fashioned" hour dramas? Like ER before all the good actors left and it became a shell of itself (which was what, 15 years ago?). Heck, even CSI doesn't indulge too much in the ongoing story lines. They'll have a recurring thing during a season, but you can miss an episode and the next episode that deals with it pretty much covers you with ease (for instance, this seasons Miniature Killer. I missed the episode where they found a suspect and he shot himself. I was lost for about two seconds when they came back to it).

Not that I want anybody to stop watching these shows. Please, for the love of Pete and Pete, don't. I'm simply throwing it out there why I can't get in to them. Because I've been asked.

I have another confession: I'd like to find every Nielsen family who watches American Idol, The Apprentice, etc and take a crow bar to the television set. You're part of the problem. If you people would stop thinking this is quality entertainment instead of pandering to the least common denominator (I'm waiting for when a reality TV star grabs the camera and screams "ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED??) maybe quality shows would stop getting the ax.