This weekend I tried several times to sit down and watch the two-hour premiere of “Crusoe” – a show that I’m genuinely interested in watching. The problem is that the premiere is 2-hours long. I don’t have that kind of time. Honestly, I think most people don’t have that kind of time anymore.

It’s not that I’m an insane work-a-holic (although, I am), but what I mean is – I don’t have that kind of time because I’m interested in doing other things. I have a daughter I like to spend time with – and a wife that I also like to spend time with — so on the weekends we try to spend time together. There is a great big outside world that we like to venture out into. Plus, “Crusoe” is not exactly the type of thing that’s engaging to a 5-year-old – so we’re not likely to sit down and watch the thing together.

A great many shows on these days are so completely in appropriate for kids that we wouldn’t watch them together anyway…but you get my point.

2-hours is a massive investment of time. Between work, dinner, homework, bed-time routines, and getting a little exercise in every now and again – there simply isn’t time to fit a 2-hour show into my free time most weeks.

After you miss that first episode, then you don’t quite know what to do about watching the next week’s show…then you get two or three episodes behind…next thing you know – you’ve skipped out on the show entirely.

I’ll be eager to see if having a 2-hour premiere has negatively affected any shows this season. I know it’s the reason I didn’t bother with “Heroes” this year…we’l have to see.

What do you think?