Posted on 11/19/2006 8:53:37 PM PST by Snickering Hound
Another House fan - yeah!
I loved his comment earlier in the season that the hospital administrator should call Jack Bauer.
My two favorite TV guys.
Three? We were lucky to get one snowy channel.
That's what tv is and movies as well. Empty-headed pap. No substance and no redeeming qualities AT ALL!
There's no originality in hollywood anymore. If you watch real close, everything's a remake. Did the world REALLY yet ANOTHER remake of King Kong, Lone Ranger, Zorro, Three Musketeers, Count of Monte Cristo, Mission Impossible and on and on and on and on ad infinitum, ad nauseum????
No originality at all in TV Or movies.
Except reality shows. The studios LOVELOVELOVE reality shows. Cost them a small fraction of what genuine content programming costs them. That's why there's such a heavy focus in the news telling us over and over how we love reality tv. Survivor has to be THE stupidest thing that I've ever dreamed in my worst nightmares could be put on tv. Absolutely, horrendously stupid.
The only reason that I own a tv is that it powers my vcr where I have taped over a thousand movies that I can watch. Without that, I'd ditch the tv as not worth the investment. My wife and I earn over 100k per year and we don't watch tv therefore we don't put ourselves into a position of watching advertisers or buying their products. Let these tv "execs" think about that.
Empty-headed pap and lefty claptrap. that's all you find on tv or movies nowadays.
Godspeed
Prison Break
Heroes
Veronica Mars
Friday Night Lights
Lost
Smallville
Supernatural
Ghost Whisperer
I agree with several of your picks. I think Prison Break is the most consistently suspenseful show on the air at the moment. Lost remains frustratingly intriguing. Smallville and Heroes are entertaining.
I'd add:
House - imagine Groucho's Dr. Hackenbush, only not in a comedy
24 - gotta love a show where you can go cold turkey off of heroin within a couple of hours, and get from the Valley to LAX in less time than it takes to book a shuttle.
Doctor Who - the new series boasts impressive special effects and good writing, though it's often tough to keep on top of the dialogue, as the dialects are sometimes very heavy.
Jericho - sort of Lost in the midwest
Daybreak - can't imagine how they'll sustain the premise over the long haul, but off to a promising start
Medium - clever and innovative offering from Glenn Gordon Caron (Moonlighting), just returned. Unfortunately, for some reason, when I went to play the season opener from NBC's HD feed, my DVR had only received the surround audio and none of the main dialogue channel.
Eureka - on hiatus from the Sci-Fi Channel, due back in January, I think. Cleverly written and humorous, with some interesting story arcs.
Psych - also on hiatus (USA Network)until January. Imagine Ferris Bueller as a detective. Often laugh-out-loud funny, with the catchiest theme song in years.
Vanished - moderately interesting, but more than once the show has lived up to its title, and I've missed an episode because of some scheduling shenanigans by the network.
LOL! I just noticed that show on my tivo and asked hubby what the heck it is. We ended up watching the last two episodes. It is the oddest show...but I think I might be hooked.
I got sucked in from episode one.:)
One of my twin daughters is a Medium fan. I watched a couple of times to please her. I thought it was exceedingly boring.
What's it about?
Hey! There's my Car!
24 is the only show that I do watch, so when it's off season, my tv's are off.
The only shows I watch on network TV are "Desperate Housewives" and "Grey's Anatomy". Other than that, it's Turner Classic Movies, History Channel and it's international version and Military Channel.
yah. You're right. I should have added these to my above rant. I don't watch the sports channels, but History, discovery and FNC I watch regularly. AMC sometimes as well. And sci fi.
But the more FNC tunes in to the entertainment circuit or this sensational murder or that sensational abduction the more I tune them out. I can get that kind of trash on the networks, don't need to be glued to FNC to get it.
I wouldn't watch Desperate Housewives if someone paid me, but my youngest daughter is a Grey's Anatomy fan. I've never watched it, so I don't even know what it's about. My hubby watches sci fi and old black and white movies. He flips the remote for sports sometimes, but rarely watches a full game.
We have one little TV, only because my son's roommate at college couldn't take it on the plane. It is on Saturdays for ND football. Maybe Ohio State, but we always hated them when I was a kid. Still do. Sundays only for football. Love to cheer for the hapless Browns and against the Steelers, Baltimore, Denver, Seattle, and a few others. That's it. No NBA, no MLB. Used to love baseball but now, not so much. Don't even listen on the radio anymore. The TV sits unused in the football off-season.
Sponsors like the visciously racist Orbitz. I'm not listening, either.
Boomers remember a time when good family values and old fashioned patriotism was in vogue.
The current brand of crap on TV is a giant middle finger to all who enjoyed traditional programming. TV does its best to alienate a huge customer base and is scratching its head and saying "What happened?"
Genius.
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