And when it's done for the day, it's done. You can't turn on your TV every 7 minutes to check for new General Hospital, and even if you binged 57 years of episodes, you would in time exhaust the content.
>>floren+(OP)
That's true if you think about being addicted to a specific TV show. If you think about being addicted to TV in general it's not true. More than 1 hour of television content is produced every hour (I assume).