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Neeper · 02-07-2006, 01:08 AM

After hearing so much about "Lost" on this site, I finally rented season one. After finishing the whole first disc, I was thinking this was a pretty good show. I am pretty much hooked. And it made me realized, I've been watching really good shows lately. I'm on hooked on "The Wire," "24", "Apprentice", "Survivor", "The Office", "My Name is Earl", "Family Guy" on many more.

Are these shows as good as the old ones like "Cheers", "MASH", "Hillstreet Blues", "A-Team", "Full House" (don't lie, I know you watched it too on TGIF.)???

What are your thoughts? Is it better now than before?

Super-Rye · 02-07-2006, 01:10 AM

IMO TV Shows are on a cycle. For a couple years, good stuff, new stuff, but then everyone starts copying the same basic idea's and you get the same thing on 5 different channels every night, getting rather old. We're just at the top of the cycle now.

4X4 · 02-07-2006, 03:24 AM

All hail Jerry Seinfeld. King of TV. Well, not including Peter Griffin, Bender, Captain Picard and The Calgary Flames.

Jiggy_12 · 02-07-2006, 08:02 AM

TV is much better right now than it was just a couple years ago.

24
Lost
The Office
Apprentice

I went from watching just sports on TV, to 4 shows I now watch on a regular basis.

HalifaxDrunk · 02-07-2006, 08:52 AM

If you are able to/get a chance you shoudl check out "The Sheild" (FX Network) and "Weeds" (Showtime). Both are great shows!!

nfotiu · 02-07-2006, 09:30 AM

House, Prison break and Entourage are all great shows too.

24 has been just awesome this year. Way better than every year except maybe the first. They must have upgraded their writing crew.

Flash Walken · 02-07-2006, 06:32 PM

I watch How It's Made and Star Trek: The Next Generation a lot.

calf · 02-07-2006, 08:13 PM

need to spread the love for Scrubs

Scrubs and The Office are easily the funniest shows on TV...I'm a huge fan of the dry/sarcastic/sometimes silly humour. And no laugh track - that's key...let the audience decide what's funny.

disco_inferno · 02-07-2006, 09:53 PM

Man oh man, Tv has gotten way better in the past few years, that whole Reality TV junk was making me sick, Survivor (Blah!) and stuff like that, what a waste of an hour. I think TV had its time in the early ninties with shows like Seinfeld, Fraiser, and the old Friends before it got all mushy and boring, then there was a lull, and now these action drama shows are taking over, and they are usually exciting, some are getting a little soap-operaesqe now tho, but TV is definitally better noadays (to bad I have way to much homework to actually sit down and watch alot of it, save Flames games of course!!)

LGA · 02-08-2006, 02:39 AM

Scrubs is awesome, as are My Name Is Earl and The Office. I personally also like Smallville, but it's more out of habit than anything (once you watch something for four seasons you don't stop).

VANFLAMESFAN · 02-08-2006, 07:15 AM

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Originally Posted by HalifaxDrunk

If you are able to/get a chance you shoudl check out "The Sheild" (FX Network) and "Weeds" (Showtime). Both are great shows!!

Here in BC, on a local global channel, they are showing the first run Shield episodes one night after they are shown on FX, so that means tonight is shield night for me. Each week, I am absolutely pumped for the next episode, to me, it's the best show hands down that nobody in Canada watches. But once the Sopranos starts in less than a month, I might change my mind.

Cowperson · 02-08-2006, 08:00 AM

I guess I'll admit I've never seen a complete episode of "24," never watched a complete "Lost" and pretty much never seen any of the other shows mentioned here except, of course, Seinfeld and Star Trek Next Generation.

That would be in keeping with never having seen an episode of "Thirty Something" and other programs that defined certain generations . . . . so, this is nothing recent on my part.

I like the Apprentice and Survivor, watch travel shows, history shows, some medical stuff, old programs on the Lonestar channel, the old movies on the Turner Classic Channel which just turned up . . . . . mostly the obscure stuff. And a bit of Corner Gas.

And, of course, the one new show, Battlestar Galactica, an obligatory plug.

Chicago Tribune's recent top ten tv shows of 2005.

http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune....p_10_tv_s.html

Did anyone see the Battlestar Galactica reference in Dilbert on the weekend?

https://byyourcommand.net/photogalle...-Galactica/BSG

Cowperson

troutman · 02-08-2006, 08:32 AM

The big change is just in the number of TV shows being produced. In the 1970s and 1980s there were only three US networks producing most of the programming. Now there is a big universe of cable and speciality channels. With the increased quantity there is bound to be some quality.

Only two recent comedies (Seinfeld and Arrested Development) measure up IMO to classic shows like MASH, Barney Miller, WKRP, All in the Family, Mary Tyler Moore, Bob Newhart, Soap. Comedies before seemed less politically correct than the ones made today.

I think dramas made today are better than they used to be. We used to get cheesy crime shows like MacMillan and Wife, Cannon, Kojak, etc. Now we have grittier shows like NYPD Blue.

Frank the Tank · 02-08-2006, 09:00 AM

The only show I still cannot miss is ER. Everything else I watch is good, but if I miss an episode of 24, it doesn't bother me that much. And, for the life of me, I will never understand the love-in with LOST.

Flashpoint · 02-09-2006, 12:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Cowperson

I guess I'll admit I've never seen a complete episode of
Did anyone see the Battlestar Galactica reference in Dilbert on the weekend?

https://byyourcommand.net/photogalle...-Galactica/BSG

Cowperson

That is so awesome.

mykalberta · 02-09-2006, 03:12 PM

The only shows I watch/pvr now are:

EDIT - HOW the HE11 do I miss BSG - well I guess I dont watch it so much as I bit torrent it (dont ask what it means if you dont know) it - The people that run Space must be on drugs - oh wait - they live in Toronto - Its all beginning to make sense.

(1) 24
(2) House
(3) Prison Break (back in March I think)
(4) Bones
(5) Las Vegas (need some T&A every once and a while)
(6) E Ring (not sure why I like this)
Numbers (I just find it so funny that an actress can play say a pregnant teen whore one season on one show and then be a prize winning Mathematician sp? on another show in a different season.)
(7) There is also a good show about an FBI Profiler team, the lead actor is a guy I loved from a previous show (cant remember name)
(8) Sienfeld on TBS
(9) Shawshank Redemption on TBS (I know its a movie but it is played in such normal rotation that I classify it as a show (I own the DVD yet when it is on I will watch it.

For news I dont mind The Hour - you know what side of the fence he leans, but unlike others (the rest of the CBC) they dont slam your face in it.

MYK

Eastern Girl · 02-09-2006, 04:37 PM

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Originally Posted by mykalberta

(7) There is also a good show about an FBI Profiler team, the lead actor is a guy I loved from a previous show (cant remember name)

MYK

I think the show you are thinking of is called Criminal Minds. Mandy Patinkin stars in it and he used to be in Dead Like Me.... Thats my guess anyways. I liked that show...

CarlW · 02-09-2006, 05:02 PM

No one else likes Surface or Supernatural? And I don't know why they cancelled Threshold.

For some reason I like watching the Foodnetwork alot.

Crazy Flamer · 02-09-2006, 08:39 PM

Anyone watch Invasion? I LOVE that show!

FlamesAddiction · 02-09-2006, 08:44 PM

A lot of talented actors have stayed in television, or have returned to television because of the amount of money in it now. I think Seinfeld's and Fraser's success has a lot to do with that. The money making potential for a hit show is so huge now.

Patricia Arquette, Jennifer Love-Hewitt Keifer Sutherland, Charlie Sheen, Jason Lee, and Seth Green, are all actors that used to do movies and went to televison instead.