Because someone asked me, "Why haven't you posted lately?", and I realized that 'because, that's why' wasn't an acceptable answer

Sorry for being out of touch. If I could only pawn off my lack of productivity on the newfound addition of PVR to my life and convince myself it wasn’t an excuse, I would. Trust me, I'm a sucker for transparent scapegoats.

PVR. Three little letters. But more powerful than Brangelina, Bennifer, or Madonna's stolen black baby combined.

But seriously, how did I live without this marvel? It’s better than cigarettes, Party Mix, and White Russians in one - although I’m not sure it’s any healthier.

Where as before my ‘must-see’ TV really only included Lost, Arrested Development, and Family Guy, my stable of shows I’m ‘into’ has expanded. I consume weekly, in no particular order:

Lost
The Office (Hilarious every week, if not one-note)
Studio 60 (Seems I'm one of 10 people who like it)
Rent-A-Goalie (I'll give it another few weeks, but it's hanging from a life-line)
Weeds (missed an episode or two)
Heroes (getting better every week)
The Daily Show (You know you're successful when... you spawn a poorly received Robin Williams vehicle)
The Colbert Report (it surpassed Daily as the better show about two months ago)
30 Rock (Tracey Morgan won me over with the chicken-nuggets-AIDS rant)
It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia (good writing, great success story)

I’m getting fat on television. Stuffing my furry little face full of of conflict, comedy, and things that go BOOM. Basically, I’ve added about four hours a week of necessary viewing. If I was restricted by archaic institutions like the 'broadcast schedule' (harumph!), it's concievable that my weekday evenings would be totally hijacked by TV, at the mercy of time slots and if, god forbid, I found two shows on at the same time…well, lets just say I don’t think I would be capable of making such life-altering decisions. Thank God (to whom I give the credit) I have this hard drive to archive my addictions and release them to me in digestible, easy to manage doses. I swear if someone developed a way to inject Lost directly into my bloodstream, I’d be in rehab within weeks. I hear FOX is working on it.

So am I a lost cause, a fully-formed TV junkie? No, not yet. But if I could find out what time Dexter or Jericho was on, I might just penetrate that loosely defined point-of-no-return. And with another exciting NBA season around the corner (my #1 drug, not to mention my outlet for vicarious living), I can see it becoming necessary to learn to like coffee just so I can keep awake long enough to watch everything I’ve earmarked on my PVR.

Do I like watching more television - or God, as I’ve started to call it? Absolutely. I find myself writing more and more TV these days (the only way to make a decent buck working in Canada – I bet entry level copy boys/girls/droids/monkeys/whatever make more than the average Cdn film-only screenwriter) and it’s imperative to keep up with the shows that are crushing the Canadian industry. For a more intelligent description than I could muster, check out Dennis McGrath’s post on 10 ways to make Canadian TV better.

Moving now to the future of narrative motion-pictures, the online series: We're now fully cast on Team Leader, and I’m quite excited about the group of actors we've assembled, particularly our leads – I think they have great chemistry.

So, we’re now about three weeks away from production on what we're calling Canada’s first live-action serialized comedy. At least that’s the story we're sticking to. Wanna fight about it?

Coming soon is a more detailed description of this project a.k.a. a thinly veiled attempt to plug our series so that you’ll all watch it, either online, downloaded to your iPod, or your cheaply manufactured knock-off iPod.

We don’t judge. We just want you to enjoy the show.