I've not much to say about this subject, except that TV will neither make nor break your life. I don't understand how people can think of television as something that controls them, and I've never bought into the idea of "I had no say in the matter - television made me what I am." Extend that argument a bit (okay, maybe more than a bit) and you get to people who say that playing Doom makes kids go on gun rampages. Honestly, now. I agree with Sam, in that television does provide something to do to the exclusion of other things one could do - that's more or less a tautology. But I don't believe that telvision turns kids into reclusive, antisocial underachievers - people are responsible for their own behaviour. No blaming the television for how you did or didn't turn out.