It’s snowing and the Fiendling’s asleep in the back seat of the car (just about the only place he’ll nap these days) and I’m inside watching October Road on abc.com. I really thought that show was getting canceled. Since we got rid of cable and I won’t pay $12 a month for TiVo we (well mostly I) have been watching everything online.
Fox rules for online watching. No commercials. Family Guy is small- it won’t go fullscreen, but at least it’s uninterrupted.
ABC is okay. Hour long shows (Brothers and Sisters and October Road are the two I watch) only have a few 30 second commercials, mostly for other shows on ABC. I don’t mind an Ugly Betty or Desperate Housewives preview. Sometimes I’ll even keep watching after the 30 seconds are up.
NBC blows. The Office has a commercial more often than the actual show on TV and the commercials are hideous. Ever see the commercial where the guy sprays the rug with Febreeze just to sniff it? Creepy and weird. I hate it. And there’s this unbearable fucking Whitestrips commercial where this woman with a weirdly long neck and a huge, white smile and chicklet teeth plays with a dancing little girl. I hate that commercial. Hideous. And they both play during every commercial break. Deadly.
The CW isn’t bad. The commercials are louder than the commercials on the other network sites, but Gossip Girl’s commercials are only 30 seconds. I can’t wait for One Tree Hill to start up again.
andrea | 06-Dec-07 at 6:14 pm | Permalink
Hey, I actually kinda like the Gossip Girl series- oh, the Drama!
We do have cable, but my life is not in synch with what’s on. Will have to check out watching stuff online. My husband recently discovered the Netflix online option as well. If you are already a member of Netflix, you can watch movies online and it won’t interfere with your queue.