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What's everyone watching or waiting for TV wise?

At the moment we're watching Rome, Lost, Top Gear (shush) and we seem to catch that strictly come dancing thing...

Waiting for the new Dr who.

Jen and I have almost stopped watching TV apart from a few programmes, we tend to leave MTV2 on in the background whilst at home.

I am currently watching/dling second series of Lost, waiting for second series of Battlestar Galactica to restart.

On "proper" TV the only thing I always catch is Peep Show on Channel 4.

Looking forward to new Doctor Who, as is Jen - who always hated Doctor Who, but Billie Piper helped lure her in and she loved the last series.

I watch very little TV, and most of what I do watch, I download.

Doctor Who, Rome, Lost, House, Galactica, The West Wing - think that's about it.

House?

US medical drama starring Hugh Laurie doing a very convincing non-British accent.

Every week, House and his crack team of genius doctors (including Billy off of Neighbours, Robert Sean Leonard and the prostitute Sam slept with in the West Wing) have to diagnose the mystery ailment of the week, all the while whilst acting in ever more dysfunctional ways.

The House character is actually a lot fo fun, even if everyone else in it is not. And the medicine in it is truly, truly, truly appalling. I cannot emphasise too much how BAD the medicine is. Every time they do a paediatric based episode, Sarah has to sedate me. The week they took over the neonatal ICU, I nearly had a stroke.

I shout at the television a lot when it's on. I have a strange relationship with it - I hate it so much that I love watching it.



Much like certain of my editing tasks...

I think that's the one where Peyton asked how good his accent was..

The only thing i even watch in the TV these days it's football.

Like Mike, i end up yelling at the telly.

There's very little new TV we watch nowadays.

QI, The Daily Show and The Bill, that's about it. Repeats of Simpsons, Futurama, Buffy, Scubs, Malcolm in the Middle and A Bit Of Fry and Laurie.

Looking forward to new Doctor Who, Brainiac and Desperate Housewives. Lost interest in Lost, never had any interest in Battlestar Galactica.

Looking forward to the new Desperate Housewives though it can annoy Peyton ;)

Brainiac, will this have he who possibly had his teeth whitened on it?

Battlestar Galactica is great.   Sabrina'd never even watched the original and approached it with trepidation, but it's a really good sci-fi show with characters that are painfully human.

QI we tend to catch as well and been watching the BBC revamped Shakespeare.


I just loathe certain characters on Housewives.

What's QI ?

Starbuck was the reason to watch Battlestar.

Starbuck?
Sucks.

She's adorable!

The thing with Stephen Fry.

With the guy from jonathan creek in there too?

If by that you mean she's an annoying twat, then yes.

Yes the one with Alan Davies on it.

You're a mean man...

I promise to one day learn the names of people. It might take me till i'm 120 years old... but I'll do it.

No, i'm probably only one of the few who can perceive Starbuck for the annoying twat that she is.

And yet another female falls for Bruno's charm  :)

Who? Why?

Eva Longoria - vacuous, spiteful - yes I realise her husband's a bastard, but I find it difficult to have any sympathy for her.

Well, i'm famous for scaring them off, i'm only living up to my reputation!

The only new thing I'm currently watching is Rome.

Looking forward to Dr Who.
Caught up with Battlestar Galactica on DVd and am looking forward to the next season
As with others I seem to watch QI and also indulge in a bit of Never Mind The Buzzcocks .

Sheona (my lovely MRs) is a fan of House and the bits I caught were pretty good. I do like Hugh Laurie.

Buzzcocks has been clashing with Shakespeare so we've missed most of this series :(

I've pretty much given up on broadcast TV. I can make do without the endless barrage of adverts, repeats and godforsaken 'reality' TV shows. Anything I do like, I end up buying the DVDs.

We're pretty much the same.  Been watching Deadwood on rental dvd for a bit and loving it.

I've heard good things about Deadwood but I generally dislike westerns. Anything in it that might appeal to someone who doesn't generally like the subject matter?

The only current TV show I've gotten into of late is, somewhat guiltily, The OC....

Really liked OC series 1, but lost interest through series 2.   

Deadwood is not really a western, but a drama set in the Wild West focused on this one town.    It's really interesting.  I've really got into Westerns though over the last few years.

I'm horrible, as I've been to Tombstone AZ....

But Deadwood isn't guys in spurs playing cowboys & indians. The cussing though..... and it's really violent at times.

LOST is probably the only thing I catch every week, except for Battlestar when that comes back on. 

I'll occasionally catch Arrested Development, The Offce (American one), and I'm trying to catch up on Veronica Mars.  Shouldn't be too hard because it looks like this will be the last season for it.

Not much on TV at the moment i'm watching.  Getting episodes of Aquarion and Eureka SeveN as they're fansubbed, I usually watch the axis of Simpsons/Scrubs/Futurama repeats if they're on and I'm there.  Actually followed the current series of SG-1 as it aired in the UD, which was fun.  Eagerly awaiting the return of Galactica.

I have been out of the TV loop as of late. What i havwe watched has been great though.

House is the best medical show on Television for the strength of Hugh Laurie's acting. Some of the other actors are a hoot.

24: The new season started stateside and it has been wall to wall excitement and suspension of disbelief.

Arrested Development: Four more episodes to go and I miss it already. It may be the best sitcom ever.

Veronica Mars: It's the only thing I can waitch with my girlfriend. It's really well done, the characters all work and it's going to see where series 2 goes.

The Shield: The new series stateside (no 5) really has been addictive. What is happening is that the show is starting to close up all it's loose plots, yet opening new ones with dire payoffs.

Fantastic ain't it !

Waiting on the Galactica DVD as not seen the last few episodes yet.

yeh.
It'd be nice to watch it without the ads. But I can't wait and I refuse to download stuff off the internet these days.  ::)

My new TV addiction is The 4400. I can't get enough of it. Fantastic writing, excellent production values, great cast - the whole works. I saw season one on DVD recently and didn't even suspect they'd go in the direction they did when it was revealed who took the 4400. Very impressed.

My brother's just gotten the first series I think.  I'll give it a go.

My only quibble is that the DVDs are barebones. No commentaries, no deleted scenes, no DVD-ROM content - nothing. At least the UK got nicer packaging that the US release though....

I recently, umm, 'acquired' season two so I'm watching through that now too and it's just as good. It appears they're having shorter seasons than most genre shows, thirteen instead of twenty-two, and it seems to be working in the show's favour. Less padding than other shows I can think of. *Coughstargatecough* I hope the DVDs for season two have something in the way of extras though....

I'm going thru and catching up on 24 now.  Earlier in the year I rented season 3 and watched all of it, and even though a lot of people think it was a pretty lackluster season, I enjoyed it a lot.  When season 5 started up, I started watching it from the beginning, but only made it to the 4th episode before managing to miss a couple.

Now I've bought season 1, started to watch it, and I'll torrent the other episodes of season 5 to get caught up.  I've heard season 4 is an abomination though, but I'll watch it anyways.