Pop Vultures collaboration intro

Posted by Dan August 1st, 2008 at 11:27am In All Things TV

I’m not really as big of a couch potato as you might think. Despite the TV blog.

First, a little backstory…

When TiFaux started I wasn’t exactly a television obsessive. I mean, I still probably watched more than was really healthy — but I didn’t know what the upfronts were, I wouldn’t have given a show like Battlestar Galactica the time of day and I didn’t exactly care about the various casting changes of flash-in-the-pan one-season network series. When Cristin and Maggie invited me to write for the site, I figured TV seemed like a good topic to write about without actually having to have any real education or expertise.

But now, it’s safe to say that I pay more attention to TV than most people do (or, perhaps, should). Because of my heightened involvement in TV news and the amount of time I spend dissecting why Izzie Stevens is such a horrible cow, I’ve grown a little bit defensive about the medium and it’s reputation as the dim-witted, fat cousin of the svelte, turtle-necked feature film.

I particularly dislike it when people deny that they watch TV at all. To this, I say one of the following:

• Shut up, you’re a damned liar.
• Well, this is going to be a short conversation because I have no idea what we’re going to talk about.

In any case, I’ve developed a bizarre defensive fondness for television — perhaps as a justification for writing a TV blog. And now I have an opportunity to defend it. Marcia from Pop Vultures has invited me to collaborate in a week-long celebration of the small screen. All next week, we will elaborate on some of the reasons the small screen has a leg up on the big one.

Stay tuned.

PS — I’m gone all next week.  In Alaska.  On a boat.  With my mom.  I’m actually gone right now.