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Your Favorite TV shows

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list them, any show no rules... old shows, new shows:

BSG(best show ever)
24(jack buer FTW)
30 Rock
Lie to me(Tim Roth!)
Jon Stewert
Colbert Report
The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer!
The Mercer Report(cnd)
CBC News(cnd)
Dexter
Afro Samurai
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so many to choose from:

Law & Order (any version)
Bones
Rosemary & Thyme
Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader
COPS
Cold Case Files
Forensic Files
Arrest & Trial
North Mission Road
Masterpiece Theater


The Carol Brunette Show
CHIPs
Emergency (or was it called Adam 12)
The Bugs Bunny and ? Hour
Buck Rodger in the 25th Century
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I prefer to think of TV now in terms of television before and after "The Wire" :)

Though BSG is pretty good :P
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Think Im going to start getting the Wire discs on Netflix. Im tired of hearing what Im missing.

One of my old standby shows is L&O. I can watch any episode, from any year at any time and love it. I used to love SVU, but that show has totally jumped the shark. That fucker jumped the shark two years ago and it aint ever coming back.

Certain episodes of TNG I love. Cherish a few, actually. There has never been and there probably will never be a better episode of TV then The Inner Light. Firefly I thought was great too.

On right now are BSG, Life, SCC. Lost.

Other than that, most shows get old for me after one or two viewings. Things I really liked once dont go down quite the same way the second time around. Personally I thought that the Sopranos never lived up to the hype. I could not get into that wild west show. The show about the funeral home was good until Dexter started screwing crack whores in alleyways. No thanks on that. eh. TV. Its usually noise.
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- Twin Peaks
- BSG
- Deadwood
- Titus
- Huff
- Family Guy
- The Simpsons
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
- Death Note
- Seinfeld
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Seraphan wrote:- Twin Peaks
- BSG
- Deadwood
- Titus
- Huff
- Family Guy
- The Simpsons
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
- Death Note
- Seinfeld
Out of that list, The Simpsons is the only one I watch and my husband can't understand what I see in it. (He says it doesn't fit my character)
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Omphalos wrote:Think Im going to start getting the Wire discs on Netflix. Im tired of hearing what Im missing.
That's exactly how I got started.

Right before Season 3, I took the plunge with the first disc from the first season. Loved it, of course ... and then it became a race to see if Netflix and I could team up to complete the first two seasons before Season 3 started.

We made it. Barely. :)
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Doctor Who (the new series and the classic series)
Torchwood
Forever Knight
Highlander
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Countdown
Rachel Maddow
Hardball
Jon Stewert
Colbert
Save Me
Breaking Bad
Lost
Invasion
War of the Worlds
How it's made
Monster Quest
Man vs. Wild
Survivor man
Sea Quest
TNG
STOS
Beauty and the Beast
Saturday Night Live
Thundar the Barbarian
Arrested Development
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Farscape
Futurama
Fragle Rock
Horizon
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My list of network shows is short:

The Simpsons - Although they have lost some of their edge, I've grown up with them and have gone from identifying with Bart and Lisa, to Snake, to Comic Book Guy, to Homer and Flanders and the rest of the Adults on the show. It is a living legend.

Family Guy - They have picked up where Homer left off and gone mondo beyondo. Pardon my French. Now I identify with the baby and the dog.

:roll:

Other than that I like The Science, History, History International, Military and Biography Channels. Sometimes I catch an old classic on TVland like Star Trek or Sanford and Son. Those are in no particular order.

I watch movies, too. OMG, Rhinestone is on Encore Movieplex! I just finish watching Henry V, in and out of consciousness. The Comcast silver digital package includes the Encore movie channels, which are like the 3rd run movies from the real movie channels like HBO. Sometimes they have some gems though. For example, last night when I came home the whole family was watching The Road Warrior, on two TVs. It also includes On Demand, which is very nice.

I love TV. I want more, bigger ones. :D
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House.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer. 8)
Angel.
The L Word.
Scooby Doo ...:)
Charmed.
Ghost Whisperer ...mmm Jennifer Love Hewitt.
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I forgot to add The Daily Show with John Stuart and Lewis Black's comedy special "Black on Broadway".
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SandRider wrote:I see a pattern there .....
Oh?
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The L Word
Secret Diary of a Call Girl
Dead Like Me
SG
Nip/Tuck
Big Love
Star Trek TOS
Bif Train
Black Books
Black Adder
The Office (UK version)
Spaced
Veronica Mars
Buffy
Angel
Firefly
Gossip Girl
Weeds
Rome
Cleopatra 2525
The Avengers
Cowboy Bebop
Robotech
StarBlazers
Big O
Top Gear
Monty Python
Graham Norton

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Battlestar Galactica
Lost
SCC
Secret Diaries of a Call Girl
United States of Tara
NCIS
Heroes (I know it sucks, I still like it)

I'm giving Dollhouse a chance, so far it isn't impressive. Hope it gets better.
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Crysknife wrote: ...
Sea Quest
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Beauty and the Beast
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A team
McGyver
Talk about a trip down memory lane. I haven't thought about those shows in a long time. I enjoyed them when they were on. especially the last two.

I also like How It's Made but don't get to see it that often.
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I thought FZ was going to have The Factor with Bill Orilly

Anyone notice them smoking up some BSG universe weed in the most recent BSG?
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I've said this before, but the new Battlestar Galactica is the only fiction TV
show I've watched in several years now.

I think a case could be made that That 70s Show is the best sitcom ever.
Some of the time-period touches are so subtle and underplayed - the conical
fireplace in Red's den is one. The cheese-grater light fixtures over the island
in the kitchen. Leo's "Photo Hut" - do any of you kids remember those ?

And as a role model for the American Male, you can't beat Red Foreman.

The only TV I watch with any regularity is John Stewart (and occasionally Colbert)
and Amy Goodman's Democracy Now! The War and Peace Report
on FreespeechTV, which I sincerely wish I could get Freak to watch for about
a week instead of FOX News ......
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Currently watching

BSG
Lost
Top Chef (just finished)
Mad Men

Favorites from the past:

Northern Exposure
Six Feet Under
Dead Like Me
Kids in the Hall
Deadwood
Sopranos
Rome
Firefly
thirtysomething
China Beach
X-Files
Alias
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Baraka Bryan wrote:
SandRider wrote:
The only TV I watch with any regularity is John Stewart (and occasionally Colbert) ......

because you don't like it as much as Stewart or because that's just getting too late for you :P

forgot Colbert on my list, but I watch it regularly
Im some what suprised you like Colbert, just because he makes the GOP looks so bad, and generally shits on conservative pundints like Glen Beck and Bill O.

The best was when he hosted the press dinner for the whitehouse. Then just made W. look so retarded. I bet they originally thought he was actually right winged. I guess they were suprised to find out he just pretends to be right winged to make the right look stupid.

Then again, right wing in Canada is like a centre wing in the USA.
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Baraka Bryan wrote:
SwordMaster wrote:
Baraka Bryan wrote:
SandRider wrote:
The only TV I watch with any regularity is John Stewart (and occasionally Colbert) ......

because you don't like it as much as Stewart or because that's just getting too late for you :P

forgot Colbert on my list, but I watch it regularly
Im some what suprised you like Colbert, just because he makes the GOP looks so bad, and generally shits on conservative pundints like Glen Beck and Bill O.

The best was when he hosted the press dinner for the whitehouse. Then just made W. look so retarded. I bet they originally thought he was actually right winged. I guess they were suprised to find out he just pretends to be right winged to make the right look stupid.

Then again, right wing in Canada is like a centre wing in the USA.
centre wing..... torso?

anyways i know he's not at all a conservative but he's hillarious. bought his book too :P

just because I believe something doesn't mean I can't laugh at it :D
Thats good to know, I often watch Lou Dobbs and Glen Beck for their comedy factor also.
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Baraka Bryan wrote:
SandRider wrote:
The only TV I watch with any regularity is John Stewart (and occasionally Colbert) ......

because you don't like it as much as Stewart or because that's just getting too late for you :P

forgot Colbert on my list, but I watch it regularly

sometimes it is too late, but mostly I'm tired of the schtick.

I ate it up when he first started, one of the funniest & truest things
I've seen, but night after night, it's too grinding ....
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arrested development
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simpsons
futurama
buffy
firefly
once and again
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