What Would Constitute Your Personal TV Hell?

I've mentioned before how much I hate certain tv shows. It usually comes up because, due to work
situations, I get stuck in a situation where I have to watch what someone else wants to watch and it's all too often a show I'd consider cruel and unusual punishment if it was forced on others. But then I work with people who are, for the most part, illiterate and so I can't just suggest they go read books.

Thus I thought I'd share my own personal tv hell and I'm asking you to do the same. As the moderator I reserve the right to ask you to explain your choices.

I'll get the ball rolling below.

It's my personal belief that about 95 percent of tv is crap. The other five percent includes shows I do like, from Lost and Heroes to the Daily Show and Colbert Report to Dexter to The Office to the Reaper to House. Incidentally, House returns this week and I'll resume attempting to recap it. It's this five person I was referring to when I wrote this Defense of TV

I also watch some of the crappy shows - be it American Idol or the Moment of Truth - before concluding that, yes, it is crap but as something so popular maybe I can learn something about our nation and society by watching it. I call that my sociological rationalization/cop-out.

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