It occurs to me that my TV viewing habits are changing -- just as, I gather, other folks' comic-book-reading habits are changing.

As I look forward to this year's TV season, I realize that my "real-time" viewing will almost certainly consist of Heroes, The Daily Show, and The Colbert Report. I'll check some of the BBC America programming, because it tends to come in mini-series with lots of reruns. But this "view it or miss the episode" stuff (or figuring out how to program the sorta TiVoish properties of Dish) has worn thin.

I'm in the midst now of watching the DVD set of Season (um, I think) Three of House and enjoying it terrifically. Each episode's mystery works nicely, and the ongoing soap opera elements are not overwhelming. Once I'm done with that, it's probably on to last season's Desperate Housewives. And when the last season of Veronica Mars is released, I'll be there. But the weekly nuisance of checking the schedule, missing a broadcast (I discovered that Masters of Science Fiction Episode Three was apparently never aired in this neck of the woods) -- well, heck with it.

It does seem to mirror the attitude of those who have cooled to the idea of reading serialized comics that are doled out over many months and several delays, doesn't it? But I will be watching Heroes, and I am enjoying Age of Bronze and Fables and and and ... So old habits aren't necessarily completely abandoned, are they?

How about you?