I really enjoy the "How Stuff Works" kind of program. Those can be fascinating, and I've learned a lot.

Some of the reality programs could be interesting. Gold mining, trucking, fishing would be just fine, but trying to stretch those out into a series with not so attractive characters was a mistake. It's not there, I don't give a rip about immature kids wanting to captain boats or their overbearing fathers yelling at them.

The Kardashian and Osbourne kind of shows I've never watched, don't know anyone who has, and can't imagine there being an interest. And I'm one who enjoys watching people like Charlie Sheen collapse and burn, not averse to following the more elaborate salacious meltdowns.

I think the Gosselin-type shows define the bottom line of US culture, sort of like looking at the magazines in the grocery store check-out lines. It is impossible to believe that anyone buys those rags, and impossible to believe they don't.