Daily Decrees

Beginning January 1, 2011, your all powerful yet benevolent despot will make one decree daily that will become instant and unquestionable law. Though it is said that absolute power corrupts absolutely, it is yet unkown whether absolute imagined power corrupts. Perhaps it merely corrupts the imagination. We'll find out as Marisa, the newly ordained Queen of the World, attempts to change the world for the better by making 365 unilateral decisions. Ultimately though, it doesn't really matter whether you agree with her decisions or not. So feel free to comment as long as you understand your comments are in vain. In all honesty though your queen is hopeful that you will consider the vast majority of her decrees to be the kind of decisions you wish your previous leaders had made years ago. The best part of being the supreme ruler of the world is that changes can be made easily. There are no agreements to be reached, no protocols to follow, and no bureaucratic red tape...and that is the whole point.

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

January 5, 2011 – Scheduling Syndication

Here’s one that just doesn’t make any sense to me.  You’re watching TV during a not so prime-time hour and you flip through your usual suspects of stations that tend to show what you like.  What are you looking for?  Maybe you’re looking for a harmless syndicated TV sitcom to put on for background noise while cooking dinner, doing laundry, or carrying out some other mundane task.  There are a huge number of syndicated TV shows that can be seen on many different channels at various times during the day.  What’s the problem?  Multiple stations seem bent on showing the same show at the same time.  Sure they are each showing different episodes, but seriously, if you didn’t want to watch the Soup Nazi episode of Seinfeld what makes the other station think you will want to watch the Man Hands episode?  Someone is going to have to explain to me why television stations haven’t tried to fix this problem on their own.  Is it just one big game of chicken?  At the very least just have the stations switch back and forth.  Have TBS show Seinfeld at 5:00 and Friends at 5:30 and vice versa for the CW.  It REALLY bothers me to switch a station off a show I do not want to watch only to find that same show on my regular alternate channel.  Yes that’s right, TBS is my regular alternate channel.  I don’t think that was a slogan Conan thought of but he is welcome to it.
So from now on…

Multiple television stations may not show an episode of a television series while another station is showing an episode from that same series.

I’m also going to extend this to different series that are essentially the same show with a different cast like Law and Order or CSI.  Only one episode from any version of these shows can now be shown in any given time slot.  This may mean that there is some kind of Law and Order on 24 hours a day but I’m pretty sure we just about have that anyway.

So how will the stations decide who gets to show what at each different time slot?  How about this?  All stations that air syndicated programming will post their seasonal schedules by a certain date.  Any redundancies will be solved by rock, paper, scissor (and no making up crazy all-powerful ones like bulldozer or nuke).  That should solve the problem.

As always I remain your all-powerful and benevolent Queen of the World,
Marisa

P.S.  Good call reader.  This law will apply to movies too.
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  1. David GrovemanJanuary 5, 2011 at 2:52 PM

    How about when three channels show Princess Bride at the same time?

    I think it was once on AMC, TBS and ABC Family at the same time.

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