"Must watch" TV shows

Mine are:

• Lost without a trace
• Lost
• Desperate Housewives

Tonight.

ITV1 23.00hrs (UK time) - Best of Spitting Image

Worth a look.

my list
CSI
CSI New York
Law and Order Special Victims Unit
Without a Trace
Navy CIS
Law and Order
Grey's Anatomy

all on repeats on A+E at the moment, I am loving it!

For those of us east of the Pond:

has to be Little Britain.

Stuff I absolutely must see as it premieres:
Prison Break
24
Family Guy

Stuff I Enjoyed buying on DVD and watching the whole series in short time:
Arrested Development
Sleeper Cell
The Wire
The Office (both british and American)

I read something interesting a few months ago. Basically the article said that thanks to reality tv, the quality of scripted drama has risen in the last 6 or 7 years. A network can make a quick certain profit for stuff like "Dancing with the Stars", "Survivor" or "Deal or No Deal". So for a network to take a risk and put a drama on its schedule, the drama has to be really really good.

The Sopranos, without a doubt.

I'm still waiting for season 6 to come out on DVD over here.

Why is it that I start this topic, then it gets dedicated to lifesabuffet..??

Strange!

The Unit
Survivor
Heroes
The L Word
Neighbours
The Wedge
Comedy Inc
The Office
Greys Anatomy
The OC
Family Guy
The Simpsons
South Park
Lost
Prison Break
Oz
Jericho
Eureka
Battlestar Galactica
Rome
Entourage

Seinfeld ...still funny after all these years

Did anyone else see the Australian program 'Love My Way' ? It was on Five Life and the series has just finished. I really hope a 2nd series happens as it was amazing.

for those in the UK: This Life reprise on Thursday at 9pm!

??? Seinfeld is funny? I thought it was a documentary

I think we started a similar thread around the same time and both threads were merged by the Mods. You can have it switched as dedicated to you if you like.

All seasons of Blackadder. Especially, by my opinion that is, the second and fourth seasons. An excellent and thought-provoking documentary comedy.

Captain Darling: In short, a German spy is giving away every one of our battle plans.
Melchett: You look surprised, Blackadder.
Blackadder: I certainly am, sir. I didn't realise we had any battle plans.

i got my beau 4400 for christmas and we've just started season 2. we are also now halfway through season 2 of prison break, but it just gets "öde". same went for "lost". we were hooked, but just stopped watching. not sure where we're at there. we're caught up except for the last 3 episodes or so.

will be looking for new food soon.

I'm addicted just to this topic.
Another TV show that I never tire of watching: UK science fiction show The Prisoner. I was blown away when I first saw a rerun of it back in the 1980s. A classic ahead of its time.

Lucky Louie
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Louie: Look, i would love to tap that ass.
Kim: So tap it
Louie: I want to, but my dick is too aware that your pussy is a chamber of financial ruin.

My favourite TV series of 2006 was "The Wire". I can recommend this to anyone and everyone - I got through all four series' in 4 months. The first series takes a few episodes to get going, but after that the storylines, characters and everything else are excellent.

In 2006 I also enjoyed Lucky Louie, Entourage, Rome, The Lost Room, Studio 60 and 30 Rock. A pretty good year for TV, all things considered.

Just saw 30 Rock for the first time this past Thursday and it was entertaining.

I wonder if anybody remembers a show from the 1990s entitled My So-Called Life? It was produced by the same people that made thirtysomething. I was a big fan of My So-Called Life, and it was a shame ABC canceled it because it didn't reach a wider audience other than its cult following due to ABC's poor marketing of the show, and Claire Danes - the main star - leaving to act in movies. It was a great show about teenage life, and is now available on DVD. Check it out if you get the chance.

i liked that show!

another show that didn't last long (one season) is Freaks and Geeks

What about those Gerry Anderson supermarionation shows?

Stingray
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterions
Supercar
Joe 90

and of course:
Thunderbirds


Parker: "You called, m'lady?"

24
Prison Break
CSI (All of em)
Heroes
My Name is Earl
Family Guy
American Dad
Top Gear
Medium (for the missus)

For classic laughs I can't stop watching Red Dwarf, Blackadder and Men Behaving Badly

That was a brilliant show. As a social outcast myself of the same age as the actors, it was the only show on TV that 'spoke' to me. I was devastated and full of righteous indignation (in typical teenage style) when it was cancelled.

As for current shows, I love 24, all the Law and Orders, except Criminal Intent, because the Vincent D'Onofrio character is so one-dimensional, although I usually like him in other stuff.

Also can't hardly tolerate watching CSI: Miami because David Caruso is so full of himself as to be unwatchable. They get some interesting plotlines down in Miami with the ocean and sharks and stuff, but I just can't stand Caruso. I also hated him in NYPD Blue, but after he left, that became one of my favorite shows ever, especially the Jimmy Smits years

Also a die-hard fan of:
Alias (loved it, sorry it ended)
CSI (LV) and CSI:New York
Without a Trace
Lost
Desperate Housewives
Nip/Tuck (although they got really out there in Season 3)

Also like this newer series called 'Medium' with Patricia Arquette as a psychic who helps the police. As long as I don't get stuck on it being totally believable, it is very well-acted with interesting plots.

As for German TV, I like Wetten Das, as I can still be vaguely entertained without understanding much German. Ditto for Upps and Superstar.

I'm glad to hear that after so many years you and mere are the first people I know who've even heard of My So-Called Life, let alone actually like it
I recorded all the episodes on videotape when I lived in Canada back in the 90s. I remember many fans were upset when the show was getting canceled. It was pen-to-paper time for a lot of people, all writing letters to ABC. Fat lot of good it was in the end.

God bless Wahoo for introducing me to Grey's Anatomy!!! I love this show!

This is my favorite new show. It's quirky humor but if you're into that you'll love it.

Judge John Deed as mentioned before
Waking The Dead - brilliant
Wire in The Blood - Very dark and disturbing
Touching Evil - Forerunner of WITB
Morse - John Thaw, one of Britains greatest ever actors and great cinematography around Oxford
Soccer A.M. - Best footie show on TV with info, comedy and the Soccerette combined

Beetle Crisis on Discovery Realtime
Tuesdays at 9pm from 9 January
Repeated on Wednesdays at 6pm and Saturdays at 8pm
*cough*

My current watched programs, in order of preference:

Weeds
Dexter
Scrubs
Heroes
Lost
Prison Break
Masters of Horror
Family Guy
American Dad
CSI
CSI NY

all wonderful in their own ways...

Shameless
Peep Show (new series coming soon I think)
This Life (returning soon for a one off special - awesome!)
The OC

Totally agree, and it doesn't hurt that the assistant in the show (real name Katie Bowden) is pretty much the hottest thing I've seen in quite some time. Somehow I'm quite sure that DW agrees with me.

http://www.imdb.com/gallery/hh/2197298/HH/...html?hint=group

It must be just me but I find CSI to far up is own backside for serious viewing.

Blackadder (still get a lump in the throat watching the very final episode)
Hotel Babylon (UK series about a big london hotel)
All Ab Fab
Will and Grace (Karen & Jack being the stars of the show)
Black Books

great list, I'd add The Green Wing to that - my favourite comedy of the last decade by far. "Did you touch my squirrel?"

Since the new version of Doctor Who has been on I've been addicted. Even the bad episodes are good. And I've really enjoyed the Torchwood and Sarah Jane spin-offs too.

Lovin' Celebrity Big Bruv too.

@ Lassie - The This Life special was last week already.

Boba

No one has mentioned 'House' yet. Loving that at the moment. But the Tritter storyline is a bit crap.

Turn On's

- House
- 24
- Studio 60
- Lost
- Heroes
- The Office
- Extras
- The Lost Room
- Family Guy

Turn Off's

- Scrubs
- Little Britain

it's very good, but I think surpassed by peep show



aww, crap. wanted to get someone to record it for me. anyone got a copy I could borrow?

wish I could get sky

Hmm - No one suggested Battlestar Galactica yet?

New Canadian Miniseries called Dragon Boys that looks quite interesting.

Also good to see Rome and L Word have both new seasons started.

Just have to put my hand up as another die-hard fan of My So-Called Life. It's hands-down my favourite TV show of all time. Absolutely brilliant. I was the same age as Angela Chase when the show premiered, and I nearly had to be put on suicide watch when it was cancelled.

I still quote Angela sometimes. One of my favourites: 'It's such a lie that you should do what's in your heart. If we all did what was in our hearts, the world would grind to a halt.'

Ooh, if anyone has copies of this show, I'd beg to borrow them.

House is the best show on TV, imo. Tritter story line appears to finally be over, but have to wonder whether Dr. House's still addicted to Vicodin. Hope not.

For those who haven't seen it, it's the most original medical drama since the early days of E.R. Dr. House is loosely based on a Sherlock Holmes-type character with 3 Mr. Watson's assisting him diagnose cases no one else can begin to figure out. It's all about his character played by the British actor Hugh Laurie, who is phenomenal.

Mmmmmh, these blue eyes

HBO's The Wire. I'm looking forward to season five coming soon. I wonder if anybody else is into this great show?

Scene from The Wire

definately check out arrested development. so so funny!

and

six feet under

Arrested development is awesome.
Flight of the Conchords was the best show of this year IMO.
Sopranos is always a winner too.

Desperate Housewives
Scrubs
Deadliest Catch (so addictive...)
Last Comic Standing

I totally agree. I was sick in bed in a hotel once, and there was a Deadliest Catch marathon on Discovery, and I thought, "God, how boring will this be - crabs, crabs, crabs," but then I was completely hooked, I couldn't believe it. Didja see the one where they rescued the guy who fell of the other boat? That was incredible.

Also have to agree with House being one of the best shows in a long, long time. Hugh is a-m-a-z-i-n-g.

Right now I am currently on a Criminal Minds marathon. I dig it.

I just finished an Oz marathon last week, and I know it is, like, so 5 year ago, but somehow I missed it the first time around. Pretty brutal, for sure, but also pretty amazingly well-acted. (And for the ladies, the (very often naked) men are just so... damn!)

I liked seeing the links between actors who went onto other shows together, like:

L&O:SVU
Christopher Meloni (Chris Keller/Elliot Stabler)
B.D. Wong (Father Mukada/Dr. Huang)

Lost
Harold Perrineau (Augustus Hill/Michael Dawson)
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agdaje (Simon Adebisi/Mr. Eko)

Oh dear, am I the only one who is hooked on "Strictly Come Dancing"? Watching celebrities bruise their toes (and egos) learning fairly complicated choreographies at the rate of one or two a week and treading the slippery boards of a ballroom environment completely outside their professional sphere is highly addictive. Of course, it helps if you are an avid ballroom dancer yourself but even a comparatively clueless spectator like Scogs has got the hang of what to look for and at.

Not that we always agree with the judges, I think they are too lenient with some contestants and unneccessarily harsh with others.

Sadly, Willie Thorne was voted off this week. Ok, he's a stiff old man but he looked fabulous in his tux. I would put money on Dominic Littlewood, he can move!

Family guy
Seinfeld
Curb your enthusiasm
and...
Previously on "Prison break"... ta!!da!!!...

ofcourse i watch it either online or dvd!

Keen Eddie