Yay! You survived another school year!

It’s only natural that you, the hardworking collegiate, wants to  veg out in front of the TV and let your mind go numb. One small problem stops a girl from letting her brain decay—there’s nothing on TV in the summer! Just like college is on break, so are the major TV networks. Instead of playing our favorites, the networks throw out gems like “Wipe Out” or countless reality shows about pseudo celebrities (see: any VH1 show).

So what’s a college student to do? Here’s a few suggestions about surviving summer TV.

1. Catch up on old shows. Summer is the best time to catch up on past seasons of shows. With websites like Netflix and Hulu, it’s easy to order DVDs of shows. Netflix also allows you to stream a lot of series directly to your computer. But if you’re too broke to afford a Netflix membership every month, try a website like Hulu, which allows you to stream the last five episodes of their many featured shows.

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Last night, after going for a run in such intense wind that I was basically running in place for 45 minutes, I was exhausted. My legs hurt, my face hurt (windburn is a real thing, yo!), and I could barely get up to pour myself a bowl of cereal let alone do anything remotely productive (like go to the bathroom). So what did I do? I brought a box of cereal to the couch and settled in for a night of TV. (And I held my pee.)

Except there wasn’t anything on TV to watch. I gave up on Gossip Girl a long time ago (something the show’s creators also should have done) and Monday nights don’t really offer up anything else. Then I tried looking on my DVR and it was….empty. Like, literally. There wasn’t one thing on there. Not even an old episode of House Hunters International! I was forced to spend the next two hours playing Angry Birds.

And it looks like that’s how I’ll be spending my entire summer. Well, playing Angry Birds and counting down the days until Fall TV starts once again. I mean, have you seen the new Fall lineup? It looks amazing. There’s going to be female-centric comedies! And dramas! And Jack Bauer (OK, so Keefer Sutherland, but same diff)!

Click here to see all the goodness that’s a-comin’ and GET. EXCITED.

Yeah, OK, it’s four months away, but when all we’ve got is Glee reruns and True Life marathons coming our way, we all need something to hold onto.

You know that scene in Get Him To The Greek when Aaron’s girlfriend says something to the effect of, “Omg I can’t wait to watch like 100 hours of Gossip Girl”? I laughed hysterically (It’s funny cuz it’s true!). David did not (for the same reason).

I don’t know about you guys, but when I get home after a long day of interning, working, and gymming, all I want to do is eat dinner and zone out to one of the thousands of Real Housewives or Say Yes to the Dress episodes I have DVR’ed. Unfortunately, my live-in boyfriend isn’t on the same page. Especially now that it’s baseball season.

Without our usual primetime lineup to veg out to (If you’re an avid CC reader you’ll know about my unerring obsession with Comedy Night Done Right), the pickings have been slim for couple-friendly shows.

Until Now. Enter this summer’s surefire couple-pleasing shows. Read on, DVR and get some popcorn ready. Read More »

By now, everyone is looking forward to the summer. Thoughts of a pool, a raft and a cold beer are about the only things getting us through the hell that is finals week. But while I love me some summer sundresses and the prospect of a steamy summer fling, summer isn’t all rainbows and butterflies for me. Yes, this whiny girl with a Jew-fro has a bit of a bone to pick with summer.

Actually, I’ve got ten bones to pick. Not that I really understand what that little phrase means anyway. It’s sorta gross, right? Picking bones? All I can think about is that graveyard the hyenas hung out at in The Lion King.

Anyways, back to the list:

10. It’s really hot
Great for a day at the beach, not great for a day in New York City when you’re running late to your internship and have to stand in a 100 degree subway station (that always smells like pee) with zero breeze and you can feel the sweat start pooling on the back of your neck and between your boobs. By the time you get to work, your armpits are completely soaked through and you have to manually pull your thighs apart as they have molded into one thunder-thigh on the train. Read More »

While flipping through the channels last night during primetime, I discovered the real reason why our favorite shows go off the air during the summer: to make way for the sh*tshow that is summer television, which leaves us begging for The Office and House come September.

It’s the perfect advertising strategy: cut off the supply of good shows, and the viewers will demand that the season premiere of Grey’s Anatomy be moved up several weeks. But it’s absolute torture for the rest of us.

That is not to say all summer TV is bad. True Blood and Mad Men are perhaps two of the greatest shows on television, period, despite the fact that they premiere during the summer. But take a look the other night’s TV listings, and you’ll want to cringe along with me: America’s Got Talent, Big Brother, More To Love? Nothing even halfway decent to watch! Read More »

Reality shows: you either love ‘em or hate ‘em. Personally, I never liked “reality” television, and this summer’s lineup of shows gives me even more of a reason to stay away. The networks really seem to be scraping the bottom of the barrel with some of this stuff. Here’s just a handful of the trainwreck reality shows that will be gracing our TVs this season:

The Great American Road Trip
NBC, Mondays at 8/7c
What happens when you pit seven families representing different regional stereotypes against each other in a race for $100,000? The Great American Road Trip. Only there’s nothing great about it. In fact, it’s rather hard to watch. In the first episode, the families competed in an “end of the road” challenge in which they had to roll a Zorb containing one of their family members through an obstacle course. I felt so bad for the poor kids who were stuck rolling around in the giant Zorbs…although I couldn’t stop laughing through the whole thing! Does that make me a bad person? Read More »