What’s Your Favorite Show?

I’m not one for continuous TV watching, (I’m too busy on Facebook, remember?) but I do have a few shows I’ll either watch on TV or on the internet.

Some of my favorite shows, believe it or not, are the cooking shows; Hells’ Kitchen, Top Chef and the new one, America’s Master Chef. Other shows I like are home improvement shows: House Hunters (which I’ve never picked the correct winner), Devine Design, and Holmes on Homes. And let’s just throw in Criminal Minds and NCIS for the drama!

But my absolute favorite, which I cannot miss, “everyone stop talking I’m watching my show!” TV show is: The Deadliest Catch.

We Deadliest Catch fans went through a very traumatic season this year with the sudden loss of one of our favorite captains, Phil Harris, of the Cornelia Marie.

Whether you watch the show, like the show, or even like crab, you must respect this man, whom for years has been filming Deadliest Catch and when the time came for his ultimate personal moment, he insisted the Discovery Channel film crew keep filming. Not for ratings. Phil scrawled a note (because he couldn’t speak) from his hospital bed stating, “Keep filming, it’s all part of the story”

And my respect also goes out to the film crew of the Discovery Channel. These people have worked with the crew of the Cornelia Marie for years and have made friends with these crabbing men. This film crew had to watch and film their good friend go to that big crab pot in the sky. They did this with such dignity and grace as anyone could.

We seldom think of the people who entertain us, the people on TV and in the movies who allow us to watch their craft that keeps us entertained. That is their job.

Then there is the group of ‘reality’ TV people who have allowed us into their personal lives – to watch, to learn, to fear, to get Dirty and for some, to die.

My thoughts to the men of the Bering Sea.