iTunes Music Store now offers more television shows than ever before. Of course, since it previously offered only four or five shows, this might not seem like such a big deal. In fact, though, they’ve expanded in a way that I would consider significant--and made my lust for the big hard-drive iPod grow deeper.

“What new shows?” you ask.

Monk, Lost, vintage Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Battlestar Galactica: The Miniseries, The Tonight Show, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Knight Rider, Law & Order, and more. The addition of the older content (still limited in scope) is intriguing. How long before I can download all the crappy TV shows I used to love from my youth?

The danger here isn’t that they’ll find an audience; the danger is that they are making it even easier for people to be passive slaves to their entertainment devices. I fear for our creative future.