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They say data is powerful (a major lesson taught at business school, I'm told), but sometimes you gotta wonder about the people who spend their time collecting it.
That said, I receive a daily media research newsletter to my inbox, and this was today's:
On Tuesdays, I watch television.
The singing portion of American Idol airs on Tuesdays, and I usually head to my sister's for a homecooked meal and a screening of America's "best" amateur talent. (Yesterday we had chicken parm, my fave.) Because the two things I think about most in my unemployment are this television program and the race for Democratic presidential nominee, I am writing an article about how why the voting process for American Idol increasingly resembles a Democratic caucus. Seriously. Look out for it soon.
But yesterday, as we were flipping between networks during idle Idol commercial breaks, we caught a little bit of Gene Simmons Family Jewels, the reality television show following the life of the ex-Kiss guitarist's family. It is actually pretty funny in bits, and in particular I wanted to share with you a quotation from last night's episode, where Simmons is on vacation in some Caribbean archipelago, riding on banana boats and parasailing. His daughter, Sophie, says this about her father:
"He's not adventurous. He doesn't venture, per se...he, um, 'accidentally experiences action moments.'"
Less hysterical, but emotional indeed, is the show The Biggest Loser. I probably needn't tell you that it is a weight-loss show which recruits morbidly obese Americans in teams and helps them lose phenomenal amounts of weight in short periods of time. I always find this show weirdly moving. You'd have to have a heart of stone not to feel happy for a person who has exercised their way out of mortal danger.
Anyway, kudos to the networks. Tuesday television is definitely worth making plans around.
