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Apparently there are a number of hypnotists with regular TV slots these days. I haven’t seen any of them. That is because I’ve given up watching TV. The programs are interspersed at least with 17 minutes of commercials per hour, and that doesn’t count the announcements and other station baggage that along with titles and credits reduces the actual viewing time to about 35 minutes per hour. And that’s if there’s anything worth watching which there usually isn’t. Even the best TV isn’t worth the advertising torture that goes with it in my opinion.
If you watch commercial TV you’d think the world was at peril from an epidemic of unsanitary toilets, yellow teeth and insufficiently moisturized skin if the adverts are anything to go by.
I used to watch the TV news.
TV news in New Zealand consists of infotainment and human interest stories. Their idea of reporting is to rehash the same press releases everyone else gets, and to interview the same paid communications professionals or politicos. For variety the journalists interview each other too. So we know about the latest scandal, but not much about how our world is changing around us, or anything genuinely important.
A recent trend on NZTV is to “report” on a video that has achieved popularity on youtube.
When I do find out about a TV show featuring hypnosis do I watch it (record it) or download it from the internet? No. I have only seen two shows in my life so far (other than my own). I have seen excerpts of other performers’ shows. But mostly I don’t like watching them. Actually, I don’t like watching my own shows either. Watching other hypnotists makes it harder to be original. And when watching my own shows all I see is my thinning hair and my mistakes. I do watch my shows from time to time to make improvements and to learn. But TV is just not worth it. I do watch DVDs. Lots of them. We have a specially built book case to house them all. I confess to having watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series about 8 times on DVD. Not watching TV doesnt mean I am not a geek. I am a geek. There's no denying it.
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