SFist Watches: TV This Week
SFist contributor and virtual TV pundit Rain Jokinen offers her Bay-area-centric TV picks of the week
We'll make this simple: Vote. And then go watch some TV.
Your best bet for local coverage of election results and local ballot
measures is probably KRON Channel 4. Their official coverage starts at 4:30pm.
You can watch election coverage on the networks tonight, and hope for
another breakdown from Dan Rather, or you can hold out until 10:00pm for The Daily Show's Election Night 2004: Prelude to a Recount. Oh, how we wish Comedy Central would just turn their channel over to Jon Stewart and his gang for the entire day. (Are you listening Comedy Central? You can still do it four years from now!)
Come tomorrow you may wish you could just go back in time and pretend those election results were far, far in the future. Or, (and we hope for this scenario) you may just wish to recover from a night of celebratory drinking by immersing yourself in a more refined era. Welcome to Regency House Party, which begins on local PBS affiliate Channel 9 Wednesday night at 9:00pm. Like in previous PBS "reality" series such as Manor House and Frontier House modern people are forced to live as their ancestors did utilizing the appropriate dress, manners, and morals of the time. This version throws in a twist. Think of it as The Bachelor without the hot tubs and bikinis. The participants of this "house party" must woo each other using the strict moral codes found in your average Jane Austen novel and without any of our modern-day toiletries. (Bye bye deodorant! Hello hairy legs!) Some may find the whole idea unbelievably boring, but we have to admit to being sucked into those previous shows and we are looking forward to this one. The series, which will also re-run every Friday morning at 3:00am, airs for four weeks. Each episode is 90 minutes long.
On Saturday the 6th at midnight, KQED is set to re-run the documentary The Castro, which originally premiered in 1998. Learn all about the history of the colorful San Francisco neighborhood and find out how the end of the Haight's "Summer of Love" lead to the rise of the Castro as a "gay Mecca."
And then take a moment, after all this election hullabaloo, to appreciate the fact that you live in a city that actually has a neighborhood like the Castro.