Down the Tube: The Diary of My Week in TV Hell. 200 Channels. No Escape.

by Bill Brownstein

A couch potato's downward spiral. Imagine yourself at home on your couch, contractually obligated to remain in front of your satellite-rigged television for a period of seven days, at the end of which you will produce a funny but penetrating account of your journey -- a virtual one -- through the strange and culturally revealing landscape of the 200-channel universe. Bill Brownstein did just that and Down the Tube is his hilarious survival...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550224638
• ISBN13: 9781550224634
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: ECW Press
• Length: 165 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Made me LOL

This book is a book we all think we could write. Hey, it's only TV! However, Brownstein is very droll. He is everyman but more observant--and funny. I am reminded of the old chestnut, "Tragedy is easy, comedy is hard". Dave Barry is funny 80% of the time and Bill Brownstein is funny 85% of the time. Nobody is 100%. Scott Adams' cartoons are 90+% funny but his prose is about 55%. I consider Brownstein to be a Dave Barry for the guy who went to college and doesn't move his lips when he reads.I am a fan of his work. I'll buy anything he writes. If you like Montreal, read his columns in the Montreal Gazette.