Originally posted by ZadadkaMonty Python's Flying Circus...
Whether you have cable, terrestrial, Joost or whatever, what do you like to watch on the 'box?
As a sad and lonely creature with nothing better to do than frequent these forums (😉), I'm interested in what people like to watch, and, as in other subjects... why.
For example, I personally find Lost / 24 tedious (I gave up halfway through Series' 3), but y at lists, so I'll shutup (hurrah!!) and let you guys & gals dig in.
Zad
Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquistion!!
In my house the TV is mostly for DVDs. When I have actual TV on it's mostly for noise, and for noise, I mostly watch Comedy Central; Scrubs reruns, Stewart and Colbert, etc. But I never sit down to seriously watch TV because I can't stand commercials.
I watch TV shows on DVD all the time, though. I like Heroes, Lost, and Battlestar Galactica. Right now I'm also watching some non-current shows like Rome and Firefly and Buffy.
Originally posted by ZadadkaThe greatest TV series ever made, even better than The Waltons, is Little House on The Prarie.
Whether you have cable, terrestrial, Joost or whatever, what do you like to watch on the 'box?
As a sad and lonely creature with nothing better to do than frequent these forums (😉), I'm interested in what people like to watch, and, as in other subjects... why.
For example, I personally find Lost / 24 tedious (I gave up halfway through Series' 3), but ...[text shortened]... y at lists, so I'll shutup (hurrah!!) and let you guys & gals dig in.
Zad
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Originally posted by darthmixWe went 4 years without broadcasting and amassed a reasonable DVD collection during that time. I found myself browsing a lot of 'Best of' Movie lists -- Westerns, Comedy. I sought out stuff I had maybe heard about, but might never have seen otherwise. It was a good exercise.
In my house the TV is mostly for DVDs. When I have actual TV on it's mostly for noise, and for noise, I mostly watch Comedy Central; Scrubs reruns, Stewart and Colbert, etc. But I never sit down to seriously watch TV because I can't stand commercials.
I watch TV shows on DVD all the time, though. I like Heroes, Lost, and Battlestar Galactica. Right now I'm also watching some non-current shows like Rome and Firefly and Buffy.
We got broadcast again a few months ago. The first week, the kids were really confused: "Why can't we 'pause'?" "What do you mean 'commercial' -- what happened to the show?"
It's got more variety -- but NOT more substance.
Love Boston Legal. William Shatner and James Spader, their characters are so irredeemably lost but they do it with so much panache. Used to be a Trekkie, all incarnations including DSN except for the last one, the prequel. I just didn't get it. Red Dwarf. The Office.(Ricky Gervais) To be honest I have lost a serious watching habit. When the first reality shows like Survivor first screened and spawned a host of imitators I just stopped watching. Then the Cop shows came back with CSI variants and SVU variants all really dark and ominous and TV stopped being Cheers and Hill St Blues and Fraser and Murphy Brown and Roseanne and Mad About You, Wings, ER while George Clooney still practised.And absolute classics like Married with Children.
I know when you end up reminiscing about the good old days it can mean only one thing, you're getting old and I haven't even tabled the best of the British from that era.
"Cane" is my new favorite show. My girl likes watching "The Biggest Loser," so she's sucked me into it. Occasionally, when I get home in the afternoons, I watch some Jerry-Springer like show emanating from the world of Spanish-language TV that always involves some gal working as a stripper but concealing it from the family or the boyfriend. By the end of the show, she rejects her family or boyfriend or husband and starts doing a pole dance and flashing her chi chis. I also like "Cheaters," with Joey Greco.
Some British shows that were brilliant.
Goeorge and Mildred
Robins Nest
Benny Hill Show
Kenney Everret Show (its brother lee love on the radio show..check out the hands)
To the Manor Born
The Good Life
Keeping up Appearances
One Foot in the Grave
French and Saunders
The Young Ones
The Singing Policeman
A Touch of Frost
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Recently a couple of the funniest has been Time Gentlemen Please and more wry and less outright raolflyao was the 1st season of Teachers.
TO be honest this list could just go on and on. There aren't many Brit shows that make it overseas that aren't very good.
One US show I absolutely had to watch was Ted Danson's Becker. The show was just about perfect.
Originally posted by SMSBear716Good picks.
Hmmm don't watch much TV actually, even watching the NFL doesn't interest me as It use to. Favorite shows though:
24
House (I can relate to the Hugh Laurie character, Dr. Gregory House. He's smart, sarcastic as heck and is kinda sad when he looks at the world around him)
NCIS
Are you Smarter than a 5th Grader (Jeff Foxworthy is great, and the kids are cute)
and most the stuff on the SCIFi channel or the Military Channel
Originally posted by der schwarze RitterThey have shows like that? Amazing. We've come a long way from Dinah Shore.
...some Jerry-Springer like show emanating from the world of Spanish-language TV that always involves some gal working as a stripper but concealing it from the family or the boyfriend. By the end of the show, she rejects her family or boyfriend or husband and starts doing a pole dance and flashing her chi chis.