TV or not TV: That is the question

  I feel so out of it.  I glanced at the ratings of this season's new television shows, and realized that not only have I not watched them, I also have never watched a single episode of most of the older shows.  I used to have a viewing  familiarity  with every show, but that was before there were so many offerings, and also before I developed what is  apparently a series-induced attention deficit disorder.  Even when I attempt to watch a show, either my mind wanders and blocks out the storyline, or else, when it comes to the crime/murder/gore/ genre, I change the channel because  I don't want to endure the suspense of watching a cheerful female character become a corpse. 
   During the years that Dorothy spent weekends at my house, the TV would be turned to all the CSI-type detective shows, but I would work on the Sunday NYT crossword while she was engrossed in the whodunit aspect.  Some of them were accompanied by eerie soundtracks which really didn't invite me as a viewer. 
  I figured  it was too late for me to get in on any of the existing series:  I'd watched a single episode of the top-rated "Breaking Bad," or most of the episode, but  when the main character was suffering so badly----racing across the desert trying to stop the bad guys from destroying the cash for which he'd sold his soul, avoiding sniper fire while simultaneously suffering the effects of terminal lung cancer------I abruptly changed the channel so I wouldn't have to feel his pain.  It was the next-to-last episode anyway.
   I resolved to stay more current this season, doing my viewing before the series got so far along that I couldn't catch up.  I resolutely watched a full episode of "The Crazy Ones,"  and found it boring and mundane.  I tried, I really did, to watch "The Michael Fox Show,"  but all I could think of was how hard it must be for him to articulate his lines, so courageous, but not so entertaining.  I have consistently watched the singing and dancing shows, mainly I suppose because they don't require full attention: there's no plot and it's  easy to drop in and out.  I lost my focus on "American Idol" after Adam Lambert's season because nobody measured up to him.  I will watch DWTS's as long as Derek Hough is on, though I must confess I was relieved after V.H left, because watching her left me sad, not entertained.  When the judges no longer feel required to overrate the dancing prowess  of  the remaining dancers who are physically challenged, socially handicapped, or just plain old, I may be able to watch angst-free. I'm waiting for that.
    One night last week, sleepless, I inadvertently viewed back-to-back episodes of the hitherto unseen "Burn Notice,"  and found it strangely compelling.  The show made me feel the same as when I read comic books when I was a child----interested but unworried as to the characters' outcomes.  The next day, I read that the show had run its course. 
    I'm pretty saturated with all the singing shows.  Many of the vocalists on "The Voice" are outstanding, but how badly do we need more good singers?  The so-called reality shows are obviously scripted but if they weren't who would want to view real life; we have enough of that.  If anyone can let me in on a fresh new show, please let me know.  Anything besides "Duck Dynasty," that is.