This whole blog post is obsolete, in that it applies to the world before streaming and on-demand. However, it just occurred to me now, so I'm blogging it now.
People complain that there's hardly ever anything good on TV, that there are so many channels but only a few show anything you want to watch, and even then there's only one or two things a day you're interested in out of the whole day's programming.
It just occurred to me that this is good. We don't want every single TV channel to show us stuff we enthusiastically want to watch every minute of every day, because we could never get to it all. We want a maximum of one thing worth watching on at any given moment. And, for the vast majority of the day, we don't even want that. We need to sleep, we need to go to work, we need to shower, we need to do errands and chores - all kinds of things that are incompatible with watching TV. Really all we want is a maximum of maybe 2 hours of programming that we're enthusiastic about in any given day - maybe more on a rainy Saturday, maybe less on a day when there's soccer practice. I myself find that about four shows a week meets my needs quite nicely.
But quality programming 24/7 on every single channel would just be a recipe for frustration.
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