why does television have to suck so badly?

i'm sitting here, on a lazy sunday afternoon, and my husband is flicking through the channels on our cable box.  a little background information: we have at&t u-verse (which i hate with a passion...fuck you, at&t) with a dvr and approximately 200 channels.  i'll spell it, just to be sure that you're following me: two HUNDRED channels.  now, granted, some of those channels are in spanish, which don't do either of any good since we both speak french, some of them are "app" channels (not really sure what they do...), and some of them are home shopping channels.  so...let's give each category 10 channels apiece; which leave one hundred seventy-odd channels left.  and, for the life of me, i can never find anything to watch.

that seems like it would be an impossibility: with that many channels, there HAS to be something to watch, right? wrong.  i can't tell you how often i make my rounds and find nothing, nothing, and more nothing.  i watch a total of 2 shows with any sort of regularity: "the office", with which i am madly in love, and "family guy", a show i reference in my daily life with a regularity that makes people, including my family, want to beat me about the head and shoulders with a large, blunt object.  other than that, i really don't watch a whole lot of tv...mostly because there's nothing on.

now my husband...he's not so picky.  he watches baseball (but no other sport, so once baseball season is over, he mopes over the sports channels like newly-single serial monogamist might mope over romantic movies), loves the uber-manly spike channel, and the discovery channel.  namely, he watches "man vs. food" on the discovery channel.  that's a show that makes me wonder: who in the world decided that what the people wanted was a show about a chubby guy who makes his way around the u.s. eating as much as he can and hoping that he doesn't keel over from a heart attack every 20 minutes?  seriously.  every episode, i can't help but wait with bated breath for him to grab his chest or choke to death on the absurdly grotesque portions he consumes.

why?  why would someone put something like that on tv?  why would they put up "the o.c.", or "the hills", or "real housewives of new jersey"?  i want to meet the people who watch these shows, because their bad taste is the reason that most of the shows that are currently on tv SUCK.  i want to shake them for ruining a perfectly good sunday afternoon.  jerks.