Next week is TV Turnoff Week so give that TV a well-deserved rest, and instead say: So many books worth reading, so little time! People in the US watch TV for more than four hours a day. That's equivalent to sitting in front of a TV for two full months nonstop every year. It's not for nothing that TV has been called the plug-in drug, the boob tube, and the idiot box.
I turned the TV off in 1988 and haven't regretted it since. There is life after television. Imagine having four more hours of the day to do stuff. Imagine not having to compete with unrealistic portrayals of life. Imagine some peace and quite in the house, if you can stand it.
It won't kill ya for the week. Give it a try.
And whatever you do, don't get yourself an 8-foot TV!