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15:00 / 30.09.02

Curious : what TV shows do ‘lithers make a point of watching/taping/Tivoing etc, and hate missing ?

Given that the average person’s supposed to watch something like 3-4 hours of TV a day, and I get the idea folks who frequent this forum are a bit more selective, I’d be interested to know… this applies to people other than Blightyites like me, as it’s always handy to get advance notice of stuff that’s probably going to hit the UK eventually.

For my UK terrestrial-only part, unmissables right now are The League of Gentlemen, CSI, Coupling, That Peter Kay Thing, Dark Angel, The Office (back tonight on BBC2, UK-sters), Charmed (I know, I know…) and… um, that’s about it. Recently realised I watch more on C5 than I do BBC1 or ITV (because I watch nowt on them), which was interesting. Still, leaves more time for reading.

DBC

ONLY NICE THINGS

15:08 / 30.09.02

Dark Angel is compulsively silly, isn't it? I suspect it's one of those things that will go downhill very quickly indeed. I think Charmed has now passed from being sort of compulsively bad to utterly, irremediably bad.

So....Dark Angel, The Office, LoG (but not for long if it doesn't improve...can't think of anything else offhand, but there is bound to be. I would say Farscape, but I keep missing it. Is it on tonight?

15:09 / 30.09.02

The shows that I'd make a point of watching -

(of course) Season 2 at the moment, and season 6 is starting on BBC2 when that finishes, although I'm not sure what time they'll have to put it on?
Angel - Season 2 on C4, I think its getting near the end of the season aswell and I have to say I'm really enjoying it.
The Office - yeah I'll be watching that tonight
Dark Angel - Yup quite enjoying this aswell, although they must have changed the time on Saturday so I missed the end and I hear its been cancelled in the states.
Alias - I've watched this but it hasn't really blown me away, I'll probably keep watching though.
Oz Last in the series last week, ka-boom.
West Wing When its on, must be getting near the end on E4 so it'll be starting on normal C4 soon hopefully.

Oh and Richard and Judy if I'm working earlies

Gotta say though I'm liking the effert that C5 or making to their line up, did anyone watch The Shield last night? Any good?

15:11 / 30.09.02

Oh yeah I watched Farscape for the first time last week and it seemed pretty cool, although I think I've probably joined to late.

Yeah LoG wasn't really that great even though they've obviously chucked a heap of money at it.

Bargain Hunt of course, but I don't think it really works in its new time slot.

And without fail, if its on Columbo best show ever!

uncle retrospective

15:56 / 30.09.02

Shit! Was that Farscape S4? Please say it wasn't. Was it? What time? channel?
Must see S4.

Murray Hamhandler

16:54 / 30.09.02

I have no cable and no antenna and, thusly, no TV as such. My roommate and I, however, have an obscenely huge DVD collection between us and a growing number of TV show collections, which we watch often:

The Simpsons
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
The Sopranos

Sadly defunct shows:
Mr. Show
Get A Life
League of Gentlemen (are there more of these on the way?)
Twin Peaks

Shows I hope to get my grubby paws on soon:
All In The Family
The Jeffersons
The Young Ones (Finally! This rocks so much, I can't even tell you how much it rocks...)

Murray Hamhandler

16:56 / 30.09.02

Totally missed the discussion of LoG above. So it's back on but not as good? We only have the first season on DVD in the States, so I suppose I'll be spared the declining quality for a little while.

17:05 / 30.09.02

When they're on, series I must see to completion:

The West Wing
The Sopranos
Six Feet Under
ER
LoG
The Office
Spaced (if it returns)

Yes, it's American import time. This is because they are good.

Am currently taping Jools Holland's Piano, simply because it's really rather good and, as a jazz pianist, required watching. But in general, it's them, and then billions of films. I get them taped when I'm at University, and then spend my holidays watching TV retrospectively.

17:52 / 30.09.02

What I watch..(or , The other way Kegboy kills his brain cells)
These are the shows that I usually have on the TV. USually in the background while im working at my computer.

Sunday:
Charmed,
The Practice,
Alias.

Monday:
Third Watch
CSI Miami
Jeopardy (everyday)

Tuesday:
NYPD Blue

Wesnesday:
Law and Order

Thursday:
Scrubs,
CSI
E.R.

Friday:
FireflyThe Shield
John Doe

Saturday:
The Agency
Buffy

And I try to catch the documentaries that CBC newsworld has each week.

18:30 / 30.09.02

i work at a UPN TV station... i sit thru 10hr of television 4 days a week... out of all that i only pay attention to & get excited to see one:
Buffy
and after a long weekend at nine on sundays i'll tune Comedy Central for the 2 1/2hr block of programing of:
the Man Show
Crank Yankers
South Park
Trigger Happy TV
Insomiac
and that's really about all i watch... Sundays i look foward too and if i'm not on a caffiene buzz then i'm drunk, it's fun goofy television i think that's what does it for me

18:39 / 30.09.02

Monday: Nothing.
Tuesday: Buffy and Smallville
Wednesday: Enterprise
Thursday: Nothing
Friday: Firefly
Saturday: Nothing
Sunday: Angel/Alias. Depends on which one is showing reruns I've already seen. Unfortuantely, it looks like I'll have to tape one of them this Sunday, what with it being the Angel season premiere.

19:48 / 30.09.02

I am completely unable to remember TV schedules, so I never watch anything regularly.

However, shows that I will watch when I manage to catch them include...

Gilmore Girls
Samurai Jack
JLA
Powerpuff Girls
Dexter's Lab
Smallville
Saturday Night at the Movies
Hamtaro

And pretty much any local current affairs shows, old cartoons (like Hanna-Barbara), and movies.

21:17 / 30.09.02

Buffy, Angel, Inuyasha, and Sunday Night adult swim on cartoon network. Most other things I can take or leave. However, I'm a noise junky, and a compulsive multitasker, so the TV's on most of the time.

22:44 / 30.09.02

The TV is often on in my house, but I'm rarely watching it: it's a monitor for the VCR, as far as I'm concerned.

I'll sit down to watch JUSTICE LEAGUE if I see it on, and I'll catch IRON CHEF if I think of it.

I have never seen an episode of BUFFY, ANGEL, FARSCAPE, BABYLON 5, NYPD BLUE, THE SHIELD, SMALLVILLE, OZ, SEX AND THE CITY, SIX FEET UNDER, or any other program you could care to mention.

I haven't watched series television with any kind of regularity since... I don't remember when. Probably since MILLENNIUM went off the air and X-FILES passed its sell-by date.

I have less and less patience, as I grow older.

XXII:X:II = XXX

23:05 / 30.09.02

These days, I only go out of my way to see a few shows, many of which are Saturday morning cartoons. In primetime, those include:

That 70's Show
Smallville
Andromeda
Late Night w/Conan O'Brien
Simpsons
Futurama
Six Feet Under

And then there are those shows you watch if you're home and looking for a reason to get distracted (which I suspect is the point of measuring these hours in the first place):

Law & Order
The Practice
Who's Line Is It Anyway?
COPS
Simpsons (in syndication)
Enterprise
Letterman
Alias

XXII:X:II = XXX

23:07 / 30.09.02

How could I have forgotten the ultimate in daytime crack, Crossing Over w/John Edward? I just can't look away...

05:08 / 01.10.02

My TV-suckling habits are erratic; New television that I only see erratically (assuming Im not at work or play):

Enterprise
Ripping Friends
and, uhh... Futurama? are there newones, or have I just missed 90 percent of them?
I saw an epsiode of 24 a while ago, and liked it.
Oh, and what I saw of Band of Brothers was well done; same with Smallville.

other than that, i am a creature of habit (read: reruns). DeepSpace9 is chirping away in the background. Old Simpsons eps . Star Trek TNG on TNN. Mad TV (i turn it on, gambling for claymation)

it's funny, i've come to realize that all of the above comprise a total 5 hours per week, if that. I don't watch TV, it seems, I download cartoons and watch Laptop instead.
so I can add to the list:
Justice League (oh, it's So Good)
Invader Zim
Samurai Jack

and occasionally, i catch the audio of CBC/CTV/CityTV news, but it's usually just comedy to me. I like the CP24 channel, which is like webpageTV (densley packed info, multiple windows, cameras mounted along highways)

07:13 / 01.10.02

Band of Brothers was probably the best thing I've ever seen on TV. Until the DVD set comes out, I treasure my three-VHS set of the entire series. Top stuff.

07:26 / 01.10.02

Ah Crossing Over with John Edward! I saw far too much of this when I went home, its on Living if anyone in the UK feels like watching it, my mums hooked on it even read his book "One last chance"...I think he's using some sort of mind control technique!

The Natural Way

09:06 / 01.10.02

Must: Oz, Sopranos, Buffy (but not Angel).

Like: LOG, The Office, Sex & the City, Alan Partridge (tho' hugely depressing), Chris Morris generally, documentaries.

And wasn't that 'The Abyss' business fun?!?

The Natural Way

09:12 / 01.10.02

Oh, and last night I remembered how much I love the Simpsons.

Fave series of all time, though: Twin Peaks and Buffy are duking it for that'n.

Band of Brothers?

What?

15:10 / 01.10.02

The only thing I make a point of watching anymore is CSI. I'll watch the occasional decent film on digital, occasionally Buffy or The Simpsons, or Bargain Hunt. Got back into watching the X-Files for a while, 'cause Doggett kicked arse, but it's finished now. I occasionally watch Casualty. I used to use the TV like a tranquilliser. Now I have actual tranquillisers to do that job. But I feel like I've seen all the good shows anyway, virtually everything is repeats, either actually or conceptually, and I often have trouble focussing enough to watch most shows. CSI is the only thing I seem to be able to follow consistently. Though I *am* looking forward to the new series of 'Faking It', which starts on Wednesday.

15:46 / 01.10.02

CSI is great isn't it, a modern day Quincy if there ever was one.

15:52 / 01.10.02

Yes indeedy, Bear.

I've already confessed this once on Barbelith, and I know I'm not alone... but I used to love 'Diagnosis Murder' too. Though I gave it up recently...

The other day, I caught about half an episode of this inestimably weird show called 'Halifax FP', about a forensic psychiatrist. Well, ok, the show itself isn't weird, it's pretty run of the mill crime stuff. However, the fact that each episode (and this thing is shown daily) lasts two hours and is shown on Channel Health or somesuch thing, is fucking weird.

16:33 / 01.10.02

Surely the League of Gentlemen chaps are irrevocably tarnished by their forthcoming appearance in top long-running West End hit 'Art'? Saw the posters at Leicester Square just now and nearly fell off the escalator...

18:17 / 01.10.02

I watch too much. That at least is certain.
Start with the toons:
The Simpsons
Futurama
Powerpuff Girls
Home Movies

Then there's
Malcom in the Middle
Buffy
Seinfeld
Frasier
Spin City (MJ Fox series)
Star Trek: Voyager (yes, I like it)

On top of these mainstays I will watch any good movie randomly shown as filler, daytime shows aimed at women, repeats of Poirot, and anything on Paramount Comedy except 'Married with children'. Ugh, satellite.

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

01:19 / 02.10.02

Andromeda
Buffy (more with the girl than on my own, been uninterested for a few seasons)
Smallville
justice league
the shield
junkyard wars
Alias
Push Nevada

those are mainly what i watch, although at strange times since TiVo entered my life

04:13 / 02.10.02

I work during prime time, so this is the stuff waiting on tape when I get home:

That 70s Show
60 Minutes and 60 Minutes II
Law and Order (the original one)
Drew Carey (sometimes)
NFL football
Any interesting documentary on PBS

That's the "first run" stuff. In the syndicated "hey, it's on late at night, I might as well watch it" department:

The Simpsons (of course)
King of the Hill
Drew Carey
Seinfeld
Everybody Loves Raymond (sometimes)

I did the math on cable once when I moved, and figured I'd be paying about $10 a show, so I never bothered to get it hooked up. Then again, if I did have it, I'd be a TLC, A&E, History Channel junkie like I used to be.

The Natural Way

12:10 / 02.10.02

Chol:

"The other day, I caught about half an episode of this inestimably weird show called 'Halifax FP', about a forensic psychiatrist. Well, ok, the show itself isn't weird, it's pretty run of the mill crime stuff. However, the fact that each episode (and this thing is shown daily) lasts two hours and is shown on Channel Health or somesuch thing, is fucking weird."

Some one watches the Channel, guys!

(Whole office whoops, cheers and generally celebrates its newly validated existence)

Guy Pearce was on Halifax today. Weird, eh?

12:26 / 02.10.02

So who watched the Office then, how much does that program make you cringe, very good though - I like the way the guy who got promoted (I forget there names) is turning into another version of the boss...

BBC2 actually got the highest ratings in the UK when it was on, I don't think that happens very often..