Couch Potato Tuesday

Hello, race fans. Welcome back to Couch Potato Tuesday. This past weekend brought the first oval-track action to the small (or quite huge, depending on your home entertainment situation) screen. I was amped up, to be honest, even though at least one of my colleagues was not a big fan of the pack racing being back (I’m sure you can figure out who that is). However, even though I was enthralled with the on-track action, there were still some race telecasts to be critiqued. Two of them, to be exact.

Hello, race fans. So, the offseason is officially over. Yee-haw. Welcome to year No. 4 (for me, at least) of race telecast critiquing. This year, there will be some slight changes, the first of which you’ve already seen. That’s right, a brand new series title. While I’ll admit that “Couch Potato Tuesday” is not something I came up with, I’m cool with it. I had inherited the Talking NASCAR TV title from my predecessor, Doug Turnbull, back in 2009 and wasn’t really in love with it. However, there will be no change in focus. I’ll still be here to criticize bad aspects of telecasts and praising good ones.

The Critic’s Annex in “the Newsletter”:/notice/9557/ will be back as well, but it will not run every week. We have a new feature that will run in its place once a month that we will be announcing quite soon.

Having said that, we’re going to take a brief look at what NASCAR’s TV partners have to offer for us this season. I’m going to hold off on covering TNT for now since they don’t start their series until June.