As far as my personal nostalgia zone goes, I find I watch more of AntennaTV than anything else.

We all have to draw some lines. To preserve my sanity, I steer clear of cooking, professional sports and most imports, unless imported to us via PBS, Sundance, etc.

My first few years as TV critic, I would go to parties and people (usually older Posties or ex-Posties who seemed to pride themselves on not watching very much television) would take me by the arm and insist that I watch this show they'd recently starting watching on DVD, about drug dealers in Baltimore.

One of the dirty little secrets of my job is that I don't do ANY food or cooking shows.

I love commercials. I love to hate commercials, too. I talk back to them.

In the end, all critics should be guided by this one principle: Is this piece of work [TV show, movie, play, concert, album, restaurant] succeeding at what it set out to do?

In fact, when it comes to TV, I'm not even sure what my real, true preferences are.