TV While You Work

“We find ourselves in the midst of the long-anticipated convergence of Internet and television, and a weird thing is happening: people are watching television during the workday, in offices, at their computers, sitting up straight in unupholstered desk chairs. They’re watching fake ads or clips from “Saturday Night Live” that show up in e-mail in-boxes. And they’re watching with their fingers on keyboards, toggling between “Lost” or lusty Colin Farrell and Excel spreadsheets. No wonder, then, that the latest programmers — people trying to create sustainable, popular, commercial Internet television — are incorporating workday attitudes of diligence, can-doism, detail-orientation and, above all, procrastination into new shows.”