Considering the number of tv serials that air these days, the competition for staying on is really tough. Many serials get axed for lack of enough support/viewing. The ones which I can immediately recollect, that I used to follow are, Veronica Mars, Hustle. Obviously not great shows, but nevertheless moderately entertaining. There are some shows that I religiously follow and after the writer’s strike, was really scared for them. One being Big Bang theory, but TV.com ratings tell me they are doing just fine (a rating of 9 should keep the producers tucked cozy in bed). I was also worried about the show “How I Met Your Mother“, but it survived. After seeing the latest season’s episodes though, I’m wondering if this was a mistake.

The only problem with the show is those bloody hiatuses they take on account of baseball. Jeez! I mean really who watches Baseball?

Couple of new tv serials that I’ve added to my already very long list of shows include Fringe and The Mentalist. Anyone know what the hell happened to QI and when they plan to come back? I shudder to think, what would happen to my tv scheduling without next-episode.

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Following are a list of gems gathered as an ardent QI fan.

• The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
• When dining with Royalty, it is customary to stop eating when they have finished whether you have finished or not.
• Sigourney Weaver’s dad, Pat, is said to be one of only two people who know the exact recipe for Coca Cola.
• The acronym I.O.U. actually stands for ‘Is Owed Unto’.
• The only word in the English language that ends in ‘-MT’ is ‘Dreamt’.
• The elephant is the only mammal that can’t jump.
• If you dream about cucumber it is meant to foretell romance.
• Because of the rotation of the earth, an object can be thrown further if thrown west.
• Time magazine’s ‘Man of the Year’ for 1938 was Adolph Hitler.
• The average salary in the UK is £25,000. If you earn this, you are richer than 97% of the rest of the world.
• Walt Disney holds the record for most Oscars won (26) and most nominations received (64).
• Ringtones now account for 10 per cent of the world’s music market, generating a staggering $3bn.
• What do Sir Jimmy Savile, Garry Bushell, Jamie Theakstone and Carol Vorderman have in common? They’re all members of Mensa.
• Average number of Americans killed annually by vending machines falling on them: 13
• James Bond is half-Swiss. According to Ian Fleming’s You Only Live Twice, Bond was the son of a Scottish father, Andrew Bond, and a Swiss mother, Monique Delacroix, both of whom died in a climbing accident.
• The record distance for a human fired from a cannon is 57 metres.
• It takes approximately two million flowers for a bee to make 1 lb of honey.
• A peanut is not a nut. It is a legume.
• Your body contains 60,000 miles of blood vessels
• If you eat only rabbit you eventually die. On the other hand if you have some peas and carrot with your rabbit you should be ok.
• The inventor of Moonwalk contrary to popular belief is not Michael Jackson, but Bill Bailey and manakin bird.
• It is not shaggers disease but Chagas disease and it is not what you think.
• Ballet is illegal in Turkmenistan, the good news is circus and opera is allowed.
• Nelson never wore an eye patch
• Contrary to popular opinion vampire bats will not bite you on your neck, but your big toe so keep those socks on.
• If you need invisible ink use lemon juice, egg yolk and as a last resort semen.
• Way to uncover a female spy – get her pregnant, wait 9 months and if she starts to yell in another language during delivery – bingo!
• It is possible to get a splinter from toilet paper
• Pickles can light up
• Rhubarb can be used as laxative. If your supply of rhubarb runs low, the good news is you can force them to grow, the bad news is it will take 2 years.
• Fake gummi bears fingerprints can fool sensors. Then again you can put them to good use and simply eat them.
• You will not vomit if you swim 20 minutes after you had your meal
• Contrary to popular belief ulcer is not caused by diet and stress, but by bacteria Helicobacter pylori
• The following celebrities were cheerleaders at college;
  • Teri Hatcher (Freemount High, San Francisco),
  • Sandra Bullock (Arlington, Virginia),
  • Raquel Welch (San Diego),
  • Cameron Diaz (Long Beach High)
  • And George W Bush (Phillips Academy, Massachusetts)!

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Ok maybe not just sitcoms but TV Serials in general. I guess this addiction started back in college. The availability of too much free time and a whooping broadband connection lead us to downloading many a TV serial……..

Let me warn you beforehand, I am freakishly diligent about my tv-serial-viewing…… Up and until about two months back, I maintained an excel file with a complete roster of all the TV serials, neatly categorized based on the day of airing (back in the good days i used to follow close to around 40 serials… and i never missed even a single episode), obediently ticking off all watched episodes, listing dates for future episodes etc.

I realized this(The whole process of TV-Serial Viewing !) was consuming way too much time and decided to curtail my “do(u)sage”…
Nowadays, These are the only shows that i follow:-

• House


• Boston Legal


• Heroes


• How I Met Your Mother


• Lost


• Prison Break


• QI


• The Big Bang Theory

For the similarly inclined…. Check out Next-Episode.net . A great site for keeping track of all your tv-sitcom needs.
( I could conveniently do away with my excel file with the discovery of this savior-site.)

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I’m in the process of moving all old posts from my previous blog. I realized google penalizes for duplicate posts. So thought it would be a good idea to move everything here and delete it from there

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