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Haloface
09-29-2010, 02:25 AM
Hey folks, I know some of us have 'our programmes', and while I don't watch a lot of TV per se, I do have regular shows which I follow through all season. Sooo, list yours!

1) 30 Rock - Alec Baldwin and Tina Fey have amazing chemistry, and the lesser cast are hillarious. Season 5 kicked in last week, lost none of its comedy value...yet!

2) Bones - Dry humour, witty, very edgy, and again great chemistry between the leads, with a very character driven cast and genuinely good crime plots to lead each episode. Season 5 was a bit dull, but Season 6 so far looks to be a bit more action-packed.

3) Modern Family - only found out about this and watched Season 1 a month or so ago, now I'm hooked and see why it won big time at the awards this year. Season 2 looks to be more of the same brilliant comedy and episode plots. Phil and Cam rock!

4) Downton Abbey - British drama from the makers of Gosford Park, set in an Edwardian, pre-war aristocratic house, focusing on both the servants and the family dealing with the inheritance of the estate to a strange line of the family. This is as sharp and as faithful to historical truth as Gosford Park was, with Maggie Smith again making it worth watching, all peppered with a wicked streak of dark and dry British humour.

5) The Inbetweeners - I know a lot of you like a bit of British comedy, so this might be worth checking out. It's about 4 boys in school and is a big step away from any dry or intelligent comedy; it's just laugh out loud crude and bloody hillarious. 'Up to your nuts in guts!' See it if you liked The Young Ones, Red Dwarf, etc.

Akom of Cazic Thule
09-29-2010, 10:15 PM
Haha, weeners.

fildien
09-30-2010, 09:48 AM
BBT
Fringe
How I met your mother


Older stuff I'm still catching up on... Dollhouse, Warehouse13, McLeod's Daughters

Taleren Bloodsong
09-30-2010, 10:10 AM
House, Bones, The Mentalist, Lie to Me, Mythbusters (back next week), Man Vs. Food, Human Target (guilty pleasure), 30 for 30 (though I have 9 of them on my DVR I haven't had time to watch yet), the Office, Tosh.0, Louie.

I think that's all my auto records right now, dismissing the summer shows that aren't on currently or won't be on until next summer.

Thormir
09-30-2010, 07:58 PM
Mostly Netflixing foreign flicks and some anime. I guess House is starting back up, though, and I'll try to catch that. Doctor Who, when it's showing. I'll need to Netflix Fringe to catch up. My hours don't give me a lot of time to watch TV, and I really don't know what's on when that's worth seeing.

Bylimet Spiritwalker
10-02-2010, 10:36 AM
I'll need to Netflix Fringe to catch up.

Would have sworn I saw Fringe on the Hulu site the other day.

Anyway:

Big Bang Theory (which now precludes my watching Bones with day switch)
Fringe
Sons Of Anarchy
Warehouse 13 (still fun, although comic-bookish)
Hawaii Five-0 (pilot looked good, or at least better than Chase in time slot)

Watched the pilot of Nikita, and looked like a maybe...will try to catch rebroadcasts since it competes with Fringe.

There are several sitcoms I watch if not doing anything else, but nothing I set my time aside for.

Ibudin
10-03-2010, 08:55 PM
Utlimate Fighter
Survivor
The Event
Hawaii Five-0
Sons of Anarchy

Maniacles
10-08-2010, 09:15 PM
Survivor.
Giants baseball.

Kanyli
10-13-2010, 10:24 PM
Sons of Anarchy
Stargate Universe
24, Season 6...if I can finish it
Lots of Hulu/iTunes stuff
Robin Hood (BBC)

I've been enjoying shows from alternate services so I can watch episodes whenever I feel like it. Kinda bummed that I've caught up on episodes for SOA so now I have to wait for the weeklies (my life is so hard!). Fringe is next on my list, I watched a few episodes back in S1, and liked it, but couldn't do the weekly schedule.

I used to love Bones, but they mellowed our her quirky character and it's just another blah crime show to me now.

fildien
10-14-2010, 09:57 AM
Is Robin Hood any good? I keep seeing it pop up on some lists but I haven't checked it out yet.

Kanyli
10-14-2010, 11:56 AM
It's a little campy, but it's all in good fun. Sort of like Eureka. It takes a couple of episodes to get moving, and the pilot is a little atrocious. The style changes nicely to a weekly TV series with a gentle story arc past the pilot, and they gave up the ridiculous and overused stylized fighting. I definitely recommend the show.