roshan Posted January 13, 2007 Posted January 13, 2007 What are your favourite ongoing television shows? The following are mine: 1. Battlestar Galactica 2. Jericho 3. Lost 4. The Shield 5. Prison Break 6. 24 7. Desperate Housewives 8. Veronica Mars
Pop Posted January 13, 2007 Posted January 13, 2007 Are these in any particular order? Mine are: 1. The Shield 2. The Venture Brothers 3. The Colbert Report 4. The Daily Show 5. Late Night with Conan 6. The News Hour with Jim Lehrer 7. The Mcloughlin Group 8. Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann Join me, and we shall make Production Beards a reality!
tarna Posted January 13, 2007 Posted January 13, 2007 Don't watch too much TV but I'm gonna put 'House' as a definite regular and '24' when I get a chance to watch it. Ruminations... When a man has no Future, the Present passes too quickly to be assimilated and only the static Past has value.
SteveThaiBinh Posted January 13, 2007 Posted January 13, 2007 I've been watching All My Children, an American daytime soap. It just happens to be on every day as I'm getting ready to go to work. It's absolutely fascinating. You hear about US daytime soaps in the UK, and you see parodies of them from time to time, but you don't often get to see them for real, or at least I didn't when I lived there. It's bad. It's really really bad, but it's wonderful and completely hypnotic at the same time. You could waste away your whole life watching this stuff. Everything looks so fake; that must be deliberate, surely. And the expressions, and the close-ups... And the plots! These two women have had their babies switched at birth, another one faked a marriage and a pregnancy until her fake pregancy costume was ripped from her in court - who writes this stuff? OK, getting on to stuff I actually like rather than find morbidly fascinating: 1. Doctor Who 2. Stargate SG-1/Atlantis 3. Veronica Mars Mostly I watch movies these days. "An electric puddle is not what I need right now." (Nina Kalenkov)
roshan Posted January 13, 2007 Author Posted January 13, 2007 Are these in any particular order? You could, but it isnt necessary. My list was somewhat in order.
Weiser_Cain Posted January 13, 2007 Posted January 13, 2007 Heroes Nova Anything about blacksmiths Modern Marvels How it's made Yaw devs, Yaw!!! (
Calax Posted January 13, 2007 Posted January 13, 2007 well... Daily show with John Stewart, and Law And Order (if I can catch it) have my interest right now. otherwise it's Netflixed or reruns of Startrek. Victor of the 5 year fan fic competition! Kevin Butler will awesome your face off.
Spider Posted January 13, 2007 Posted January 13, 2007 In a league of their own: Battlestar Galactica 24 Veronica Mars The Shield The Wire (so good it's almost painful) Friday Night Lights Really good: Heroes Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip The Office (US) Boston Legal The OC Weeds Gilmore Girls at it's best (up to season 5) would have placed in the "league of their own" part, but as is it's not even really good.
roshan Posted January 13, 2007 Author Posted January 13, 2007 I don't have a TV. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Thats what bittorrent is for.
Tale Posted January 13, 2007 Posted January 13, 2007 (edited) Bleach Death Note Heroes Closer Mythbusters Battlestar Galactica Smallville Dead Zone Monk Psyc Lost In that order. Lost hasn't been too exciting for a while. Second half of season 2 of BSG was not too good. And this third season is intermittent, but hopeful! I rarely catch Smallville, Dead Zone, Monk, or Psyc, but I try to when I get the chance. Closer is one of those shows that I try to watch with my mom every now and then when I'm down near where she lives. Lost was like that for the first season. Edited January 13, 2007 by Tale "Show me a man who "plays fair" and I'll show you a very talented cheater."
roshan Posted January 13, 2007 Author Posted January 13, 2007 Ii enjoyed the first season of the Wire, and then got hafway through the second before I quit watching. It took me forever to get that far - I normally would become sleepy or get headaches after getting halfway through an episode. It just progresses too slowly. It is decent show, but probably better watched once a week on TV than all in one sitting. Ive started the new season of Veronica Mars and Ive seen 3 episodes, but it doesnt seem to be very interesting so far. Lost is getting boring. Theyve created so many mysteries and have left them unanswered for so long that Ive already forgotten most of them and have thus stopped looking forward to the show. I recently read an article about the top 50 Lost mysteries and most of it was stuff I had already forgotten and/or stopped caring about. Season 6 of 24 looks like its going to be good - theres no way it could be anywhere near as crappy as the previous one. The first two seasons of the series are still by far the best the show has produced. The Shield is probably the only show out there that just keeps getting better with each season. Prison Break is OK this season, but the new season is nowhere near as interesting as the first. Second half of season 2 of BSG was not too good. And this third season is intermittent Blasphemy! *smites infidel*
Sturm Posted January 13, 2007 Posted January 13, 2007 I lol in the general direction of the same boring American TV shows, can you guys like get out of us foreigners TV sets with your spamm'd stuff. We need time for our own TV channels!!
roshan Posted January 13, 2007 Author Posted January 13, 2007 I lol in the general direction of the same boring American TV shows, can you guys like get out of us foreigners TV sets with your spamm'd stuff. We need time for our own TV channels!! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> If your TV shows are so great, then why dont you post them here?
Purgatorio Posted January 13, 2007 Posted January 13, 2007 What for Neighbors? S.A.S.I.S.P.G.M.D.G.S.M.B.
Dark_Raven Posted January 13, 2007 Posted January 13, 2007 WWE wrestling If my cable had the Sci-Fi Channel BSG would be right on my short list. Hades was the life of the party. RIP You'll be missed.
kirottu Posted January 13, 2007 Posted January 13, 2007 House Heroes Lost Daily Show with Jon Stewart SNL Dexter How I Met Your Mother The Class Battlestar Galactica This post is not to be enjoyed, discussed, or referenced on company time.
Tale Posted January 13, 2007 Posted January 13, 2007 I guess I should throw Doctor Who on there, but I have a hard time calling that "ongoing" with the crappy way it is aired in the US. "Show me a man who "plays fair" and I'll show you a very talented cheater."
Purgatorio Posted January 13, 2007 Posted January 13, 2007 I lol in the general direction of the same boring American TV shows, can you guys like get out of us foreigners TV sets with your spamm'd stuff. We need time for our own TV channels!! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> If your TV shows are so great, then why dont you post them here? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Because they aren't, that is the reason for the lacking local content. Which is good because it is mostly crappy hospital dramas and soapies. Not that I'm having an anti-nationalistic moment as I hear some add for mobile phone porn. If they were on, my favourites would be StarTrek, Farscape, and Stargate(not Atlantis). What the hell is NYPD still doing on? David Letterman, the American Iron Chef, and Lost! What crap! S.A.S.I.S.P.G.M.D.G.S.M.B.
Surreptishus Posted January 13, 2007 Posted January 13, 2007 (edited) 30 Rock. Same source material as Studio 60 except that its more of a sitcom and half an hour.. and it has few SNL alumni such as Tina Fey, Tracey Morgan and Rachel Dratch. This isn't necessarily my favourite show but I believe its worth a mention and a view. EDIT: Is Australian TV just soap opera? Edited January 13, 2007 by Surreptishus
kirottu Posted January 13, 2007 Posted January 13, 2007 (edited) Oh, I forgot about 30 Rock. *sigh* I always wait for those Rachel Dratch appearances. Why can Edited January 13, 2007 by kirottu This post is not to be enjoyed, discussed, or referenced on company time.
Plano Skywalker Posted January 13, 2007 Posted January 13, 2007 I watched 2 recent episodes of Veronica Mars. I have to say that it was an interesting concept (in other words, a show that doesn't seem to be about escapism at all) but I found the subplots to be extremely forced with no real development. So, all in all, I'm not really into the show.
metadigital Posted January 13, 2007 Posted January 13, 2007 I've been watching All My Children, an American daytime soap. It just happens to be on every day as I'm getting ready to go to work. It's absolutely fascinating. You hear about US daytime soaps in the UK, and you see parodies of them from time to time, but you don't often get to see them for real, or at least I didn't when I lived there. It's bad. It's really really bad, but it's wonderful and completely hypnotic at the same time. You could waste away your whole life watching this stuff. Everything looks so fake; that must be deliberate, surely. And the expressions, and the close-ups... And the plots! These two women have had their babies switched at birth, another one faked a marriage and a pregnancy until her fake pregancy costume was ripped from her in court - who writes this stuff? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Believe it or not, those are the basic ingredients for a "Comedy" (one of the seven basic plots): disguises, impersonations, endless misunderstandings, etc ... until the finally denouement. It's just an extreme take on the formula. OBSCVRVM PER OBSCVRIVS ET IGNOTVM PER IGNOTIVS OPVS ARTIFICEM PROBAT
astr0creep Posted January 13, 2007 Posted January 13, 2007 1- Battlestar Galactica 2- Rome 3- Heroes 4- Lost 5- Deadwood 6- Smallville 7- The Simpsons 8- South Park 9- Familly Guy 10- The News http://entertainmentandbeyond.blogspot.com/
Archmonarch Posted January 13, 2007 Posted January 13, 2007 Dexter <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Definitely the best new show of the year in my opinion. Simply awesome. And I find it kind of funny I find it kind of sad The dreams in which I'm dying Are the best I've ever had
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