Steve's "One more thing" had better be TV shows

When Steve first announced iTunes 6 and the availability of a few television shows (five to be exact) , I thought, "Well, this is going to grow by leaps and bounds." The initial numbers seemed to indicate that many people agreed with me: 1,000,000 video downloads in 19 days. Then the tv season dropped into repeats, Night Stalker got canned and no additional shows have been added. Rumors are flying all over the place about which network is interested, which ones are in talks, and which are doing their own thing. In the meantime, I can't bring myself to watch That's So Raven and The Suite Life. Every Tuesday I check for new listings. Every Tuesday, I'm disappointed.

While I'm certainly looking forward to seeing if the hardware rumors are true, I do hope Steve announces a major deal with the television suits in January that will bring a slew of great, new programming to the iTMS. It's not that I don't think there are other ways to get tv on my Mac, I just like the experience of shopping in the iTMS, and I know that Apple can be very influential in bringing the distribution of television and other video content to the next step. Keep your fingers crossed.