Poll: So what TV Shows are You Watching ?

[shadowkat]

I like to do this every once and a while - find out what tv series that people reading or lurking on my livejournal are reading. Assuming of course anyone is outside of the handful of folks that occasionally comment. It's really impossible to tell who reads your journal and who doesn't, even if you lock all the entries - isn't it? Sort of true about most things that we write or say - actually. You don't know if people read it or heard it - unless they respond. Whether they grokked it - is a whole other issue. (Grokked is now a word - which Robert Heinlein created - and it means understood, but really totally understood it, as opposed to just got it.)

A couple of caveats regarding this poll - it is unfortunately slanted toward American Standard and Basic Cable Television, because that is what I have access to. Also, only tv shows that are on this season, nothing that is cancelled or in hiatus. (ie. only available on DVD or netflix streaming). Also if your favorite series is not referenced, because seriously there are over 125 tv series on at the moment and I can only remember or possibly watch 28 of them, please just list it in the comments. And it's more than possible I'll forget one of the one's I'm watching. (Lack of sleep may be killing short term memory cells.) Apologies for mistakes in advance. I'm doing a poll because they are easier to get responses to than memes.




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Oh I only listed the new shows that have premiered to date. If it hasn't premiered yet, I didn't list it. And with the exception of Walking Dead (which is rerunned on numerous channels, and Arrow, I left tv shows that haven't aired yet this week off the list. Or tried to. Trying to keep it current.

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[spikesjojo.livejournal.com]

I love streaming - mostly a matter of taste. I tend to not follow many new shows, and I love some of the old ones, as well as no commercials.

I hadn't really thought about the theater and music - I tend to forget them for some reason. But you are right - he does love both from what I know. Also, he doesn't seem like the kind of person who cares all that much about the whole big fish eating smaller culture of Hollywood. That's part of why I would love to just sit down and have some coffee with him (plantations of coffee!) My other three from the B-verse - ASH, Alexis and Allyson. Sigh. Have you done any work in the field - you seem to know it well.

I do know the writing field - I have 34 books out in the children's field. Almost all were assigned in one way or another - either legends for Troll, or the educational market. I am good - had one book with editorial panels in Britain, Canada, Australia and the US, and I am told I was the only writer they didn't need to request any edits from. That's because their specs looked like they had been written by 4 editorial panels - beyond mentioning the topic they were garbled beyond belief. So I ignored them and went Montessori - whole to parts and then back to whole. I enjoy writing - I learn a lot. Children's books are well paid but assignments are sketchy. You are right that getting a slush pile manuscript to take off is like getting hit by lightning. I think 90% of books are flat rate now anyway.

Yeah, it's amazing what image we have of anyone in the artistic fields. I remember meeting my first author - going to her house - when I was in college. I expected a mansion with a pool. *snerk*

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

That's part of why I would love to just sit down and have some coffee with him (plantations of coffee!) My other three from the B-verse - ASH, Alexis and Allyson.

While I'd love to talk to them, the whole knowing more about them thing then they know about me - would get in the way. I'm just not crazy about meeting celebrities for that reason.

I have a fantasy of meeting him and his wife, having a lengthy conversation about various things - and not realizing who he is until the very end of the conversation. Which could actually happen, because I have horrible facial and vocal recognition skills. I'll meet someone famous and unless they tell me who they are - I'll have no clue. Actually it also happens with co-workers, and people from church - unless I spend a lot of time with you - I'll forget.

Have you done any work in the field - you seem to know it well.

Not really. My experience is all second-hand. I have a lot of friends who have worked in it in various guises. Also my brother and sisinlaw, plus their friends have worked in it. Add to that - the fact that I find what others do for a living fascinating. And - the entertainment profession fascinates me. So..over time I've cobbled together a lot of information. And - I live in NYC, so I pass through various film and television shoots on a daily basis. Seen everything from Elementary to Winter's Tale being filmed on the way to work.

My brother and sis-inlaw worked on the film Love Crimes, and her uncle directed and wrote various cult indie hits such as Texas Chainsaw Masscacre II, and Paris, Texas. Her best friend is a professional make-up artist. Then there's my own friends, one's ex-husband taught Chris O'Donnell and Matt Damon how to act, and she was a professional actress in various films that never got off the shelf for years before she gave up and became a project manager in IT. Another friend is a travel agent for various Hollywood types - so through her, I interned for a Marketing firm that represented The Who and the Beatles and planned celebrity launch parties. Then there's the guy I met who is a screen-writer/play write and his wife who does costume design for plays. Another friend is a mystery writer (Mr. Churchill's Secretary - I betaed her first book and am listed in the acknowledgements). Her husband is a professional puppeteer - who works on Sesame Street and doubles as Big Bird. He's also somewhat famous as Bear in the Big Blue House - a kids show. Through them, I met the team that created the puppets for Smile Time (I actually know the back stage bits directly from them), and Avenue Q. That's really how I know so much - I'm interested in it.

On the writing side? My father and uncle have self-published about 20 books between them. I worked in publishing for 6 years, and investigated the field. Also lots of job interviews in and out of publishing firms and literary agencies, and friends who worked in them.
Sisinlaw has also published three books. I, have written the equivalent of four books, two I've attempted to get published. And various short stories - one I won an award for in college. I may eventually self-publish one of them. And this year I co-wrote a children's/family play that we may or may not turn into a puppet show.
Didn't get paid for any of this.

My day job? I basically buy stuff. In the past it was content for an online library reference service, then it was various products for a health insurance company, now it is construction and consulting services for a Railroad. Lots of price negotiations, writing contracts and technical statements of work, as well as writing up financial analysis, and legal documents. The thing I like about it? The services clean up the environment, ensure safe work environment for others and for customers, and further public transportation - particularly trains.

Congrats on the children's books - and getting so many published. Yes, people tend to glamorize the entertainment industry. But most are lowly paid or "glamour jobs" - where you have someone else sponsoring you (a rich hubby or rich parents or rich wife).

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's amazing what image we have of anyone in the artistic fields. I remember meeting my first author - going to her house - when I was in college. I expected a mansion with a pool. *snerk*

One of my college professors had written a slew of mystery novels, and was a television scribe. I'd never heard of him before I went to college - and he was an amazing teacher. Anyhow - he told us the first day of class that if we were writing to become the next Stephen King or the next Great American Writer? To give up now. Because seriously, the odds of it happening...are slim to none. And after you get your first book published and few have read it, the wonder passes. But if you are writing not so much to get published or fame or fortune, but because you have something to say - then be a writer.

[spikesjojo.livejournal.com]

I understand it is far less likely than being hit by lightning. :D

[spikesjojo.livejournal.com]

I became a teacher - I really dislike the whole book signing mentality. I couldn't break through it. But I did like talking at a few local conferences and teaching adults (which is how most authors really get bread and butter).

But Montessori - training and teaching - I loved that more than anything. It was revolutionary - teaching children to think is the most revolutionary action on the planet. Dealing with administration was a nightmare, and I loved the parents but had no way to remember their names. I am like you there.

Sounds to me like you are doing everything right in the writing era. Hell, Cathy had a b-day party for one of the kids and gave out paper dolls and somehow I ended up with a writing career. We self published a Victorian paper doll book, and a bookstore owner told us to go to a small local publisher. So, you write and jobs and opportunities arrive. I am very big on self-publishing.

Ah, fantasy me has coffee, deep and witty talk and become best friends in some vague way. Real me laughs it's ass off in between scathing insults.