TV is linked to so many unhealthy things (for making you feel less satisfied with life and increasing your risk of heart disease), so I found this research from Ohio State University interesting: while TV’s often seen as evil, our favourite TV shows can play an important role in our lives.
Say if Mad Men were to go off the air? For some of us who have developed a strong connection to characters, this would be particularly distressing. And the study found it’s not as though we’d be likely to start being more socially and physically active. In fact, we’re more likely to start watching reruns of the show or surf the net.
April 21, 2011
I love me some good television. Some of my all-time favourite shows? Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Felicity, Six Feet Under, Damages, Dexter, Oz and Beverly Hills, 90210 (yes, one can love both Oz and the adventures of Brandon, Brenda and Kelly equally). Anyhow, reading this post 17 Things I Learned about Life from Watching Movies and TV from Paxton Holley’s blog Cavalcade of Awesome over breakfast today was a fun way to start off the weekend.
Speaking of Buffy, about two years ago I was having dinner with a girlfriend in NYC at Gemma in the Bowery Hotel (fried zucchini blossoms — yum!) and Sarah Michelle Gellar was having drinks at a table nearby. “I HAVE to go talk to her,” I blurted out to the friend I was dining with. I mean, it’s not every day I am in the presence of the star of, like, only the best TV show ever. But the look of fear on my friend’s face of potentially being with the uncool, starcrazed fan, and the girlfriends flanking Gellar at their banquette (making it difficult to discreetly profess my love for Buffy) kept me from getting up to talk to SMG.
– sigh –
March 6, 2010
