For Hulu users, the honeymoon will soon be over.

The online video-viewing Web site may begin charging users for content as soon as 2010, News Corp Deputy Chairman Chase Carey announced at an industry summit in New York City on Oct. 21, according to an article by industry magazine Broadcasting and Cable. Hulu has provided many popular TV shows and movies on demand since its introduction in March 2008 for free through ads and commercials.

While the announcement has come before most of the formal details have been ironed out, this is likely to cause an uproar among its most dedicated viewers. And as unpopular as this may make me, I'm about to make my own announcement: it's their right to do this.

I have a confession to make.  I am a CW addict.  That's right, for some reason I cannot get enough of those silly, overly dramatic shows the CW pumps out season after season.  This isn't an addiction that I openly/willingly confess to very often. I tend to keep this one to myself, especially around my friends who enjoy more respectable television, but I can tell you that I'm not the only CW addict. I'm pretty confident in that fact because my love and avid watching of the teen soaps has definitely helped me out in awkward social situations where you're searching for some common ground to talk about. Group project chatter turns into an awkward silence? "So, did anyone catch the new episode of 'Gossip Girl' last night?" Boom, instant conversation started and I am saved.


 
  

It is the go to excuse for reality show contestants, whenever they get shown in a negative light on television they always blame it on the editing, insisting they don't act like that in real life.  As viewers we never really know who to trust.  Is Audrina really that dumb and naïve on "The Hills" or is it the editors' creation?  Can Hugh Hefner really tell the "Girls Next Door" apart or is it just clever behind the scenes work?

Well for once we have a definitive answer to one of reality TV's great villains.  "Project Runway's" Kenley Collins was arrested in New York for throwing a laptop, water, three apples and a cat at her boyfriend.  Yes I said a cat.  Kenley is PR's most notorious villain, being bitchy to other contestants, refusing to take advice from the judges and worst of all being rude to Tim Gunn.  Like most people she pled the "it was editing" defense but this latest incident has proven it was not editing, Kenley is in fact the nasty person she was portrayed to be.

As a PR fan and as far from a Kenley fan as they get I felt almost vindicated when hearing of her arrest.  I always doubted she had a career in fashion and I hope this puts the final nail in her professional career. 

I'm doing something I haven't done in years: I'm watching "The Real World."

The current season, which airs on Wednesdays at 10 p.m. on MTV, is set in Brooklyn, and features eight cast members instead of the normal seven, including an Iraq War vet, a virginal Mormon, a gay dolphin trainer, a dancer, a former lesbian who is now engaged to a man, a former beauty queen with aspirations in entertainment and a fitness-obsessed model wannabe. Which, of course, sounds like your typical "Real World" cast. Except for the last housemate, Katelynn.

So everyone knows the DTV Transition that was supposed to happen on Feb. 17 has now been delayed until June 12.  On the surface this seems like a good idea, people get four more months to make the switch but for the 90 percent of America already switched to digital it kind of stinks. 

Usually February (along with November and May) are filled with new episodes of TV shows as part of a glorious thing known as sweeps.  During sweep months ratings are of particular importance because those numbers determine how much the networks can charge advertisers for slots during the programs.  But sweeps are dying and the DTV Transition seems to have put the final nail in the coffin.

With DVRs and internet downloads how many viewers sit down and watch a show when it actually is airing on TV doesn't really represent how many people actually watch a show so the standard ratings don't mean as much as they used to.  Sweeps took an even bigger blow last year when programs were in repeats due to the writer's strike.  And now this year the networks had repeats scheduled for the last part of February and into March so viewership wouldn't take a hit when people lost reception due to the switch to digital.  I am positive sweeps are now dead for good.

So the DTV Transition isn't even happening until June but we are still stuck with a whole lot of repeats.  Gossip Girl?  Repeats until mid March.  Greek?  Not back until late March.  Fringe?  Lord help us, mid April.

So now the pickings are slim in what should be a month filled with exciting TV.  And I don't count the Grey's Anatomy / Private Practice crossover as a sweeps stunt, It is a lame attempt by ABC to get viewers to watch Private Practice when Grey's Anatomy is barley afloat itself.

Thank goodness for Lost, the singular saving grace of TV right now.  Every episode, regardless of when it airs, is a sweeps worthy episode.