New Adventures for Christine and the Networks

Before running out to see Tsotsi my wife set up a tape (we've not yet moved to Tivo but we only get five English-speaking channels) for the CBS sitcom The New Adventures of Old Christine.  It's the latest solo effort by Julia Louis-Dreyfus and actually isn't all that bad.  It is still weird seeing her outside of Seinfeld.  Kind of like when you were a kid and would see a teacher at a grocery store.  You had no idea they could function outside of the classroom environment and actually lived lives beyond the eight hours they spent with you. 

Wanda Sykes steps away from Larry David's 'Curb' and she too is fun to watch in The New Adventures.

The show is on Monday nights at 8:30 Mountain time.  That's right, those of you out east or in California probably have never seen television programming in Mountain time.  I have no idea why this huge region of the country is completely chronologically ignored.  Just watch any March Madness and whenever the announcer promotes a new network show he'll say "make sure to catch BFI, Body Fluid Investigators, every Wednesday at 9 Eastern/8 Central, Pacific."  Never once do they even throw in a little Mountain charity and clue us in to when we might be able to watch the show.  You might be thinking that it's obvious, just subtract a hour from the Central time.  But how does that work when the show runs the same time Pacific as it does Central?  Is the Mountain time zone in some kind of  wormhole that devours two hours?  Is it so difficult for the former jock announcer to quickly enough tabulate our region's time interval?  Do they think we've yet to hear of television and clocks?  We're people too, dammit, and it's high Mountain time that we get fair consideration!!

I'm not so infuriated or inspired to start an MST political action group, but please know that Ewy's Playhouse is one place where the Mountain Time Zone exists.  And I'll include our time without snubbing the others.   

Quick note:  Ewy's Playhouse Pueblo reporter Brian Taylor sent me this about TV streaming more of its programming online.