When everything you watch is pre-empted, what you do you do?
 

This sort of thing happens on holidays all the time, but I can't recall the last time everything I watched on a specific night was pre-empted for something else on a 'regular' day.

All the Thursday night shows I watch aren't on:

-Bones (delayed until next week because of American Idol)
-Ugly Betty (on mid-season hiatus until further notice)
-CSI and Eleventh Hour (pre-empted two Thursdays in a row because of the CBS March Madness games)

It's actually a bit strange, because it almost feels like a holiday.

Has this happened on a night you watch several shows? What do you end up watching as an alternative?

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Something I'm behind on on Tivo, or one of the movie channels.

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Something Else.

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What he said.
We have always have stuff piled up.
Or maybe the tv stays off! Imagine that! A night with no television!

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I don't have the luxury of Tivo or another PVR, and truth be told I simply fell asleep trying to sit through a DVD.

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I always have stuff on my DVR, I never watch anything "live".

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I call the stations and complain.

Re: When everything you watch is pre-empted, what you do you do?
 

Vote Republican next time.

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I hope you're kidding

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Ditto, I more than enough stuff on my 2 DVR's to last me probably 1 month or less depending on how much I can go through on my days off from work.

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Usually I either watch a series on Demand that I'm behind on (The Beast, US of Tara) or whatever TV series on DVD I'm currently watching again.

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Why would he be kidding? A lot of people do this, including me. Sometimes it works. A few months ago Scrubs was pre-empted because of Obama's speech (I knew he'd be changing things but not in this way.) Anyway, I called ABC and complained. Apparently I was the millionth person to do so and they put Scrubs on as soon as I got off the phone. I know Obama is important or whatever but I'd rather watch Scrubs and if you needed to watch the president, then you could have watched it on any other channel.

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The only thing I watch live is sports, and they are the ones doing the pre-empting.

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+1

Or watch something on DVD... I have plenty of episodes of The Wire to still watch!

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Watch something on my dvr

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Um, if something I plan on watching is pre-empted, I either read, ride my bike, play guitar, watch from a stack of unwatched dvds, write, etc...

But it's never a problem, as I have my dvr programed so I don't even know what is on and when - when I do have time to watch TV, I just bring up the TIVO's menu and pick something - and there's always something on there, regardless of what's been pre-empted.

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I barely noticed the writer's strike, I had such a backlog to watch during that time.

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My DVR is usually always half full, so it's never a problem to find something to watch.

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Same here, the only shows I watch live are Chuck and The Mentalist.

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Geez, doesn't anyone around here get laid? :D2:

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As much as I love TV, there are other things to do like read, have sex, surf the net....

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Don't you ever want to do something that involves someone else?

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I do two of those things a lot. Guess which two!