Alabama in the Forefront of Quality Television Programming!

Television Show for Cats Set to Debut

DECATUR, Ala. - A Decatur manufacturer is hoping a new television show will be a cat-alyst for a new wave of programming.

"Meow TV," developed by the Meow Mix Co., debuts Friday at 6:30 p.m. on the Oxygen Network. It's the first show targeted at cats. Not cat lovers. Cats.

Decatur is home to the Secaucus, N.J.-based company's only manufacturing facility.

Lucky Decatur folks!! And lucky CATS!!

The half-hour program was developed after research showed that one-third of cats enjoy watching television, said Ira Cohen, marketing director for Meow Mix.

"It's real fun," Cohen said. "The mission of the Meow Mix Co. is to keep cats happy, so we developed this program for cats and the people they tolerate."

You know, this is a great country. All this for only a third of the cat population. But, still, I sure wish there was a company whose mission it was to keep ME happy. Then we could have Possumblog, the TV Show.

The feline-friendly show will air on the Oxygen Network several times in June.

Local workers at the manufacturing plant offered input on the show, which features cat yoga, cat haiku and sporadic video of squirrels and fish.

After-hours fare will feature films for mature cats such as Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! and Spring Break--Cats Gone Wild.

Actress Sandra Bernhard narrates mock infomercials geared toward humans, such as "The House Cat Shopping Network."

Seems a missed opportunity here not to have signed Honor Blackman.

Viewers also can send in birthday greetings to their cats and videos of their cats doing "something cool."

...You know, stuff like skydiving, snowboarding, parasailing, killing a bird, running a brewpub, sleeping, killing a bird...

The first episode features a cat that eats with chopsticks and a cat surfing in the ocean.

See? Told you it would be cool stuff! It's hard to master chopsticks, you know, and Fluffy probably looks down on all those cats that eat their sushi with a fork.

Anyway, thanks to all the good folks at Meow Mix and in Decatur for filling us in on the newest sign of the Apocalypse.
posted by Terry at 12:14:00 PM