Okay we've had a recent what are you reading thread, and now I am going to ask what you are watching. See I have a lot of free time on my hands of late, so I've downloaded a lot of "must see tv", well at least according to friends.
Currently I am watching:
The Unit (http://www.cbs.com/primetime/the_unit/), Heroes (http://www.nbc.com/Heroes/), Sleeper Cell (http://www.sho.com/site/sleepercell/home.do), I just started the The first season of the Wire (http://www.hbo.com/thewire/?ntrack_para1=leftnav_category0_show4), Battlestar (http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/) and Lost (http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/index).
I am also catching parts of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
What are you watching?
Heroes is very cool.
I'm also watching Dr.Who (and watched the pilot of the Sarah Jane Adventures, but have given up totally on Torchwood), and I'm drooling over the second season of HBO's Rome.
RPGPundit
Between a few TiVo subscriptions and quite a lot more sets of series DVDs that fill out my Netflix and GreenCine lists, I am watching: Naruto, Dr. Who, Dead Zone, Veronica Mars, Battlestar Galactica, Full Metal Panic and Fullmetal Alchemist, Great Teacher Onizuka and Kino's Journey.
I should really get into Heroes, everyone tells me so ... but it'll still be cool when I can gulp it down in four-episode DVD swallows, so it's hard to motivate for weekly installments. I'm so lazy :D
Quote from: RPGPundit...and I'm drooling over the second season of HBO's Rome.
Which reminds me, time to catch up on that. Season 1 was great.
I also follow Deadwood.
Me and my wife have a lot of shows we watch regularly, but there's rarely more than one or two on the air at a time: Rome, Dr. Who, Torchwood, The Shield, The 4400, Heroes.
I'm also watching William Hartnell as Dr. Who on video. For the uninitiated, he's the first Doctor from 1963. At the point I'm at in the show he still hasn't been revealed as a Time Lord. Funnily enough, in one of the episodes the Daleks even had a time machine of their own incredibly similar to the Tardis but in cmoplete working order. I'll move on to Patrick Troughton next, and am working on my Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker collection.
Been watching Justice League too. Definitely cool for a TV cartoon. At one point Darkseid has just stomped on Superman's face and is standing on it. to get him off Superman burns a hole through his foot. And all through the episode Supes is trying to kill Darkseid.
I watched Deadwood for the first two seasons but haven't gotten to watch season 3 yet. It's on my todo list.
I caught the first two seasons of Justice League Unlimited.
Loved it. Best. Cartoon. Ever.
Prison Break, Dilbert, Full Metal Alchemist.
Waiting for the new seasons of Rome, and Nip Tuck.
Like many, I watch Rome.
Nothing else for now.
Waiting for the new battlestar galactica episodes to start.
Wishing that the SFC would get more Dr. Who eps and hoping that cartoon network gets the third gig of GitS: SAC.
My wife and I have extremely different tastes in tv, which means that I'm forced to sit through everything she watches as "together time."
Her shows:
the full brace of CSI's, ER, Without a Trace, Desperate Housewives, Cold Case, Ghost Whisperer, Numbers, and probably a few more that I'm forgetting.
My shows:
The Daily Show, Battlestar Galactica, 22nd Century (on PBS), Studio 60, Supernatural, Smallville, Afrosamurai. I watch the 4400 and most of the other shows listed, too, but they're in hiatus so I didn't mention them specifically.
Nothing.
I'm watching most of the shows already mentioned - one season behind,though - but I'm really waiting for the final Prime Suspect, which should air, around these parts any day now.
Regards,
David R
Yeah I don't own a television, so I download my TV. So in the cases of shows like Buffy, I've downloaded like three or four seasons at a time. BSG I like enough to stay week to with it, but not many others.
Just finished "GBH", currently watching "Allo, Allo" series three, "I, Claudius" and probably shortly "CSI" series five.
Mostly I watch stuff on DVD, as the above probably implies.
Quote from: Serious PaulWhat are you watching?
Im watching
Battlestar GalactiCa/ Torchwood/ Space1999/ Night Stalker and Dark skies.
BSG, Heroes,The Unit, Just started watching Stargate. Otherwise, i watch what the wife watches which is Top Chef, Top Model, Real World, and Roseanne.
Yes, I live in TV hell. I think she thinks the same when I watch my shows.:D
I somehow totally forgot BSG.
I also plan on watching The Dresden Files on the off chance it's a cool show. The Lost Room miniseries was goos, and if they make it a series I'll watch it too. Basically the Sci-Fi Channel is do much better than it used to. Odd that it started shortly after they changed their primary focus from horror to sci-fi. :)
Besides the cartoons I watch with my daughter the only show I follow is TNA iMPACT!, a weekly pro wrestling soap opera.
Did I mention The Shield? Of all the shows I watch it's my favorite. Shortly after I bought the first season I loaned it out to four people in turn. Each one sat down to watch the first episode with no expectations other than me telling them how badass the show was. They all finished the entire first season in marathons only broken up by work or gaming.
It's just that good.
I can't say that I'm going out of my way to watch anything on telly at the moment though I am watching the first season of The Muppets on DVD and I'm waiting for the second half of the first season of Supernatural to come through.
I bought season 3 and 4 of Knight Rider, the 7 season set of Star Trek: TNG, the ST: TAS box set, and completed my DVD set of Gundam Seed. So, I'm bouncing around through episodes of all of those.
I haven't watched actual broadcast TV in 5 years.
Quote from: James McMurrayDid I mention The Shield? Of all the shows I watch it's my favorite.
You are a man of discerning taste. Well done!
Here's my top 10 (currently in production) TV shows list
1. Prison Break (Interesting characters, how are they going to keep this up?)
2. My Name is Earl (Surprisingly funny red-neckian comedy)
3. The Wire (Best. Police. Show. Evar.)
4. Doctor Who (Loved Eccleston, Warming to Tennant)
5. Battlestar Galactica (Good to Great, but Cylon "culture" is beginning to bore me)
6. The Office (Not better than the original, but finding a place of its own)
7. The Shield (Second. Best. Police. Show. Evar)
8. Day Break (Ok, I'm cheating...I did think it had promise)
9. Lost (At the end of season 1, this would have been 1, At the end of season 2, it was probably at 3-4....This show is sliding down the top 10 moutain...enough with the fucking flashbacks get on with it)
10.Heroes (Good, this show would rocket up this list if they ditched the Ali Larter/Two-Face chick and her wunderkind.)
Other shows (that are barely hanging on)
11. Torchwood (The Hi-C drink box version of Doctor Who. Uh, remind me again what does this show have to do with Doctor Who? Oh yeah, big war coming...or something....It's ok but my wife loves it)
12. Sarah Jane Adventures (Uh...probably cool for kids....I can't see myself continuing to tune in)
13. CSI: Whereverthefuck (I'm down to 1 (from 3) Las Vegas, and when the ditch Gil, I'll probably jettison that one too...Yippie!)
14. 30 Rock (Trying to be funny.....but.....not)
15. 24 (Why the fuck am I still watching this show...Oh yeah, Jack shoots innocents in the leg/arm/other appendage to get bad guys to talk)
Shows that have been thrown off the cliff
16. House (Patient presents bizarre symptoms is referred to House. Try something, patient gets worse. People doubt House. Try something else, patient gets better. The End. Lather. Rinse. Repeat)
17. Medium (Started off fun...now I'm bored).
The Shield is pure brilliance, I'm just not currently watching it. The Wire I haven't seen yet, though shall in due course.
BSG I've seen seasons one and two and three ain't out yet, it's great but again I'm not currently watching it.
Quote from: jrientsBesides the cartoons I watch with my daughter
Oh right! The kids shows! I completely forgot! And I go to such lengths to find shows that I can tolerate watching, and exclude the (many) shows that the boys would love at the expense of my sanity.
Kim Possible these days ...
My Life as a Teenage Robot before that, and
Powerpuff Girls before that. My wife's comment was "If the boys grow up believing that only girls can be super-heroes you'll have nobody but yourself to blame."
Oops, forgot kid shows too. That adds Avatar to the list (although my kids don't actually watch it religiously, I'm still calling it a kids show so I'll have an excuse).
Hey rcsample: the season finale of Torchwood has SPOILER
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Captain Jack disappearing and TARDIS sounds in the background, so it looks like they're doing more Doctor Who tie-ins in the next season. Either that or Jack jumped ship and goes back to the Doctor, leaving Torchwood to plummet in the ratings and eventually spiral into nothingness.
Quote from: James McMurrayCaptain Jack disappearing and TARDIS sounds in the background, so it looks like they're doing more Doctor Who tie-ins in the next season. Either that or Jack jumped ship and goes back to the Doctor, leaving Torchwood to plummet in the ratings and eventually spiral into nothingness.
Spoiler...
Captain Jack will turn up about halfway through the third series of Doctot Who but will be back in time for series 2 of Torchwood.
Cool. How much do those British actors get paid? In other words, is he making big bucks or just barely keeping his head about water in terms of hookers and booze?
Quote from: Garry GSpoiler...
Captain Jack will turn up about halfway through the third series of Doctot Who but will be back in time for series 2 of Torchwood.
Yeah, figured he'd show up soon (I'm a little over 1/2way through Series 2 of the new Doctor Who).
I like his character portrayal on Doctor Who better than on Torchwood...
Me too. Captain Jack on Torchwood falls into that (IMO moronic) idea of a "woe is me, I'm immortal" character. Captain Jack on Doctor Who would be all over it, and finding ways to use it to get laid.
Quote from: James McMurrayMe too. Captain Jack on Torchwood falls into that (IMO moronic) idea of a "woe is me, I'm immortal" character. Captain Jack on Doctor Who would be all over it, and finding ways to use it to get laid.
Torchwood Captain Jack = Emo
Doctor Who Captain Jack = Pulpy Goodness
While I enjoy Torchwood, I like my "Doctor Who Universe" lighter...a la...go figure...Doctor Who.
Bears winning the NFC Championship...
The Wire - I'm surprised for all the good taste here, nobody has it.
CSI - Vegas; the others only if nothing is on and the TiVo is out of good stuff. Even then, NOT MIAMI.
Criminal Minds
The Doctor (you know who)
Heroes
BSG
Tivo's been picking up Xfiles - always fun to revist.
I still have the last 4 episodes of The Sopranos to get to...
TiVo's been picking up lot's of great old movies - Rear Window, Charade, etc.
NCIS
I should really do this while in front of my TiVo so I could just look at the Season Pass Manager...
As for kids shows...Kim Possible, Jimmy Neutron, Spongebob, sometimes Fairly Odd Parents and lately the kids have been watching My Gym Partner's a Monkey (or something like that), though I'm not sold on it yet.
I refuse to let them watch Mr Meaty or whatever that creepy puppet show is.
What's Criminal Minds?
As for the Wire, it's pure word of mouth, over in the UK it hasn't aired and hardly anyone has heard of it.
I've heard of it, but have no idea what it's about.
Quote from: James J SkachThe Wire - I'm surprised for all the good taste here, nobody has it.
Dude, number 3 on my list...your apology is accepted...:)
Number 4 on mine. I am seven episodes into the first season, and it is shaping up very nice indeed.
I also have the first two seasons of The Shield on DVD, and I have seen all of the third, but not season 4.
My apologies, gentlemen...I must have crossed eyes reading through the lists...I've seen The Wire called the best show on TV, and I have to agree. It's been great since the beginning.
Criminal Minds is a CBS show with Many Patinkin as the lead of an FBI behavioral analysis unit (BAU) - essentially profilers. They go around solving cases based on information they put together about the crime and based on the profiles they build from that.
One of my top 5 for this year, I'd say.
Quote from: James J SkachMy apologies, gentlemen...I must have crossed eyes reading through the lists...I've seen The Wire called the best show on TV, and I have to agree. It's been great since the beginning.
Criminal Minds is a CBS show with Many Patinkin as the lead of an FBI behavioral analysis unit (BAU) - essentially profilers. They go around solving cases based on information they put together about the crime and based on the profiles they build from that.
One of my top 5 for this year, I'd say.
Hm, I'll keep an eye out for Criminal Minds, that does sound cool.
Has anyone heard of Eyes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyes_(TV_series))? A friend of mine loaned me a season of it on DVD, and I burned it to my machine. I'd never heard of it.
Never heard of it, although apparently it was stillborn.
Speaking of The Wire, can someone give a brief rundown of what it's about?
I have only seen six episodes, so bear with me: My brief synopsis is it is a grittier version of Law and Order that focuses only on the cops. Very realistic, and feels a little like what the Shield would feel on HBO.
That definitely sounds cool. I'll have to check it out. Anything that compares favorably with The Shield has to at least be investigated.
Thanks!
No worries. I am six episodes into the first season, and I have to say it's damn good. Good pacing, realistic characterization and back drops. Funny and action packed.
Oh yeah, I've recently begun following Extras. Some of my friends, who liked the Office are a bit let down by this series, but I like it.
Regards,
David R
Quote from: Serious PaulI have only seen six episodes, so bear with me: My brief synopsis is it is a grittier version of Law and Order that focuses only on the cops. Very realistic, and feels a little like what the Shield would feel on HBO.
True about the grit, however a large appeal of the show to me is that is also focuses on the criminals. So an episode might bounce back and forth between the cops tracking down leads on a John Doe killed in the drug zone, and then bounce to the drug dealers/gangs trying to expand their territory, etc. etc.
So it really shows the same story from at least 2 different angles (a third angle would be how the city politics affect crimefighting decisions).
A really good show, with some really interesting, believable characters.
Quote from: David ROh yeah, I've recently begun following Extras. Some of my friends, who liked the Office are a bit let down by this series, but I like it.
Regards,
David R
I actually thought the 1st series of Extras was good...I've heard however series 2 is not so much....
Quote from: rcsample...I've heard however series 2 is not so much....
Yup, me too.
Other shows which I'm catching up on
Hustle,
Blood in the Wire (for
UA inspiration :D ),
The Closer and some old shows on DVD
The Equalizer,
The Minder,
Chancer.
Regards,
David R
Quote from: rcsampleTrue about the grit, however a large appeal of the show to me is that is also focuses on the criminals. So an episode might bounce back and forth between the cops tracking down leads on a John Doe killed in the drug zone, and then bounce to the drug dealers/gangs trying to expand their territory, etc. etc.
So it really shows the same story from at least 2 different angles (a third angle would be how the city politics affect crimefighting decisions).
A really good show, with some really interesting, believable characters.
Yeah, and they just keep expanding on the relationships and complexities of the problems they uncover in the first season. I don't want to spoil it for Paul, but it does add even more points of view - kids coming up through the system; politicians running for office locally, statewide, and even national.
And Paul - it only gets better, IMHO.
BTW - Add Earl to my list as well. And how could I forget Monk, and Psych, Without a Trace, Eureka (a great SFC addition, hope it continues!), The 4400.
It's actually a good time for TV in my opinion.
And Tivo is, as I type, recording To Catch a Thief. I think this machine is really starting to get me...
Doh! I also forgot Psych. I don't watch it religiously, but it gets DVRed and watched when there's time.
The same with to Catch a Thief, although I'm definitely lagging on that one because so many of the breakins are the same thing. I've got my box set to keep two at a time and delete the ones I've seen or that don't sound interesting.
Quote from: James McMurrayCool. How much do those British actors get paid? In other words, is he making big bucks or just barely keeping his head about water in terms of hookers and booze?
They get pretty good pay but not enough for guitar shaped swmming pools or anything. The real money lies in panto.
Panto? Does that involve pants, pantomimes, or what?
Quote from: James McMurrayPanto? Does that involve pants, pantomimes, or what?
The great British tradition of Pantomime (http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/Xmas/pantomines.html).
Mind rebelling... Can't maintain sanity... Aieeeeeeee!!!!!
We're about 3 shows into the 2nd season of LOST and going... "Oh, no... this is going to suck, isn't it?"
The first season was soo good, and from the first ep of the 2nd season, we were disappointed with the "frame in a frame" flashbacks (flashing back to things we'd seen happen in the "now" rather than "past history/character building".) It seems sometimes like the whole show has merged with the flash-frame "Previously on Lost" segue introduction.
I'm still intrigued, but... less than I was during Season One. I'm hoping it doesn't peter out completely.
Does anyone know, was there a change of writers or something between Season One and Two?
I am currently on Season 2 of Oz, which is sort of interesting for me to watch-given my line of work. I am also on the third season of Buffyt he Vampire Slayer, and the first season of Angel.
I finished both season of Rome, and have to say over all I walked away pleased. I also finished the second season of Sleeper Cell, which was good-but not as good as the first season was. Still it ended in a way that was pretty unexpected which was nice.
On the recommendation of a friend I caught all of the first season of Dexter, which was very good.
So what's currently on your plate folks?
I've been watching Life on Mars. It's excellent.
Since Life on Mars finished, Dr Who is about the only thing I regularly watch these days. DVD wise I'm rewatching Firefly and gradually working my way through the first season of Crime Story. Second season hasnt been unwrapped yet.
Quote from: O'BorgSince Life on Mars finished
Looks like you and I are the only ones watching this one. Well, just me currently.
Quote from: droogLooks like you and I are the only ones watching this one. Well, just me currently.
Nah, count me and my wife in....just finished the show up a week or two ago.
Great show...
Looking forward to the sequel....sort of...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6542633.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6542633.stm)
Quote from: droogNothing.
Ditto.
Mainly been watching DVDs of Sci-Fi movies now that the regular , normal Tv season is over. A week or two ago I was doing marathon viewing of ythe seasons of "LOST" that I have . Deciding to either do "BABLYON 5" or "Battlestar Galactica"next.
- Ed C.
Uh... recent, but sadly no longer online shows I been watching:
Welcome to the NHK
Black Lagoon
Code Geass
Right now there's not much good on in the way of free downloads. Or if there is I haven't seen it yet. Claymore gets good a couple episodes in, but it's got a slowish (two or three episodes) start and a soundtrack that's hard to get used to.
On television, I'm mostly just waiting for Heroes to come back on.
I just watched all seasons of "The Norm Show". ;)