Too Much Free Time

Too Much Free Time

by Mike Masnick




TV Show For Cats Debuts

from the scary dept

In a gimmick that wouldn't have been out of place during the dot com boom, Oxygen TV is getting set to debut a TV show for cats. Not for their owners and not about cats, but actually for the cats to watch themselves. If my experience with cats and watching TV is any indication, they might glance at it, but won't pay too much attention to it. It sounds much more like a gimmick to get cat owners to watch some commercials for cat food.

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    May 30th, 2003 @ 3:03am
  • My =^:^= loves TV

    by Anonymous Coward

    She'll sit through entire movies with me. She really likes nature shows. When there was a Disney movie about a family of Coyotes, she was ready to leap at the screen.

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  • May 31st, 2003 @ 6:39pm
  • cat programming

    by cow head tree cow head tree cow head tree

    My cats won't watch the screen unless theres a very simple shape moving around sporadically. If there's an actual image of something, forget it.

    The last tv show I saw that amused a cat was a home improvement show that was talking about how toilets are made. The camera settles on a full screen picture of water spiralling down the hole... an entire screen of white with a dark rippling tunnel in the middle. The cat I was carrying came away with some of my skin...

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