At Hollywood Goes Green: A lot more green TV

If you rarely watch TV, you may, like me, find yourself getting oddly entranced when placed in front of TV-type programming. Suddenly, every promo looks enticing and incredibly entertaining; every show sounds like the kind you should block out your evenings to watch.

So take my enthusiasm for the newish green TV programming I heard about at the TV and Cable programming session at Hollywood Goes Green with a grain of salt. After all, I only saw the promos, I'm too easily impressed by moving images -- and I'm probably never going to sit down in front of a TV to actually watch any of these shows.

Planet Green: Next year, environmentalists can start watching green TV 24-7, because Discovery's launching the Planet Green channel. A show to watch: Greensburg, a 13-part series showing how a tornado-hit rural town in Kansas rebuilt itself, greenly. The executive producer's Leonardo Dicaprio. Eileen O'Neill, president of Planet Green, kindly showed us all a preview -- and I'm totally planning on Netflixing it when it comes out on DVD.

EcoZone Project: Call this the un-extreme green home makeover -- with star power. Celebrities -- Scott Wolf being one -- get their homes greened, with the help of Daisy Fuentes and an eco-team. The next episode airs on CBS Dec. 15. I'd totally watch it -- if I owned my own home....

Sundance Channel's The Green: Sundance's green programming's expanded. In addition to "Big Ideas for a Small Planet," The Green now also has an 8-part series called "It's Not Easy Being Green" which follows a family striving to get self-sufficient.

If that's not enough, there's also Living With Ed on HGTV with actor and eco-activist Ed Begley, Jr., who also spoke earlier today.

And it seems every TV show includes at least one green-themed episode these days, though the success or benefits of that's debatable --

I'm not against TV, BTW -- I've just never gotten an antenna for my TV, and I don't have cable. I stream "Ugly Betty" online though --

Images courtesy of Planet Green, EcoZone, and The Green

Comments

[David]

Saw Sundance camera guy over @ Claremont colleges Pitzer Community garden filming it Oct 17th. (Claremont's Pitzer College Community Garden) http://www.flickr.com/photos/70748683@N00/1685827223/

He was filming for its green series but not sure if it ended up on cable as I'm w/o & to busy organically gardening anywho. Keep on Greening the Planet GreenGal & great to read ya on LA Times blog.

[David]

Oh! Almost forgot. I'm sure you must of reported or posted, but households must request coupons (up to 2 $40.00 coupons) from NTIA between January 1, 2008 and March 31, 2009 for analog to digital converter boxes. One way to recycle those old CRT tvs & keep off of Freecycle & Craigs for another decade or so.

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http://www.dtvanswers.com/

[Siel]

Thanks David. Cool lettuce pictures on your site, BTW :)