Looking over the last few picks I am glad that there is such a large choice because most of them are on my list.
Mainly Mythbusters, (love that show, especially Keri as shown on my hottie draft team ) and Frasier
Team Vandelay Industries is happy to select in the World Category....
SPACED
Spaced chronicles the agony and ecstasy of two disillusioned Gen X-ers adrift in a world where reality is as subjective as their taste in shoes. Defeated by the horrors of apartment hunting, Tim (Simon Pegg, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz), a love-sick skateboarder, and Daisy (Jessica Hynes [nee Stevenson], Shaun of the Dead, Son of Rambow), a wannabe journalist, pose as a professional couple to score themselves a cheap place to live. However, with their landlady's large capacity for cigarettes and alcohol and the increase in sexual tension, Tim and Daisy's new place is far from ordinary.
I'm just on my way home from work, but I will have my pick up as soon as I get home.
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I have Spaced here at home from Netflix. Will be watching it very soon!
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With the next pick in the TV Draft, Team Legen...wait for it...dary selects in the Canada category, a Canadian institution, Degrassi High!
Now IMDB classifies the entire series under the Degrassi Junior High title, for some reason they've combined both series into one but I went with the high school years. I'm sure most people who grew up in Canada saw at least one episode of this show at some point. It always discussed important issues that faced teens, but wasn't preachy and wasn't as cheesey as the American 90210. It won seveal Gemini awards over its run and even won an International Emmy in Children's Programming. I was too young to relate to it when it was first on, but I used to watch the reruns on CBC. During my first year of University, my entire floor would watch the reruns in our common room at least once a week before heading to the DC for dinner.
The Quest stands upon the edge of a knife. Stray but a little, and it will fail, to the ruin of all. Yet hope remains while the Company is true. Go Flames Go!
Team Emerald City, proud to select in Reality (elim)... CBS' masterpiece of manipulation theatre, the most awesome social experiment on television... Big Brother!
Not much to more to say about this one. You all know it, you (should) all love it... Strategy! Tactics! Manipulation! Backstabbing! Drama! Ego-maniacal behaviour! These are a few of my favourite things... Cravings for all of which Big Brother satisfies. In spades.
I generally abhor Reality television, but this is one that I did appreciate for a few seasons.
You are spot on in describing it as a social experiment. Good pick!
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With the next pick in the TV Draft, Team Legen...wait for it...dary selects in the Canada category, a Canadian institution, Degrassi High!
Now IMDB classifies the entire series under the Degrassi Junior High title, for some reason they've combined both series into one but I went with the high school years. I'm sure most people who grew up in Canada saw at least one episode of this show at some point. It always discussed important issues that faced teens, but wasn't preachy and wasn't as cheesey as the American 90210. It won seveal Gemini awards over its run and even won an International Emmy in Children's Programming. I was too young to relate to it when it was first on, but I used to watch the reruns on CBC. During my first year of University, my entire floor would watch the reruns in our common room at least once a week before heading to the DC for dinner.
Does that leave Degrassi Junior High and Degrassi: The Next Generation still available, Commish? Either way, good pick Miss Teeks...I was never a fan growing up, but was made to watch more than one episode in health class!
And liamenator...awesome pick as well, I love BB, even though it drives me nuts half the time, definitely a guilty pleasure!
Does that leave Degrassi Junior High and Degrassi: The Next Generation still available, Commish? Either way, good pick Miss Teeks...I was never a fan growing up, but was made to watch more than one episode in health class!
I would say no. Degrassi Junior High is the same show.
And Degrassi: The Nest Generation is pretty much the same show.
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With our fourth selection in the 2008 Calgary Puck Television Draft, we here at the Patterson Corporation are please to select for our lineup on our new channel MQS-TV, a comedy that showed the world that there is more to humour that simply through speech. It started in 1990 and ran merely 14 episodes, and having only one main character in Rowan Atkinson. It was the winner of the prestigious Golden Rose of Montreux Award, presented for the most entertaining television show produced world wide. Filling our World (outside of Canada and the US)* slot, we here at MQS-TV humbly select from the United Kingdom’s Independent Television (ITV), Mr. Bean.
*line-up slot subject to change.
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With our fourth selection, The Upper Trash are proud to select... in the category of Comedy (Situational)...
One of the greatest shows most people never watched...
Sports Night!
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Overview
The fictional Sports Night is a sports news program in the style of ESPN's SportsCenter. It broadcasts from the fictional Continental Sports Channel (CSC), a subsidiary of Continental Corp, owned and run by Luther Sachs. (Some believe Continental Corp is loosely based on Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, which owns Fox Sports Net.)
Sports Night struggled to find an audience and ABC cancelled it after two seasons. Although it had the opportunity to move to several different networks, including HBO, Showtime and USA, Sorkin decided to let the show pass so that he could focus on his popular drama The West Wing.
Although the first season of Sports Night is a sitcom, it often is portrayed as more of a comedy-drama representative of some of Sorkin's later work on The West Wing. Sorkin intended for the series' humor to be drier and more realistic than typical sitcoms. He initially wanted the show to be recorded without a laugh track, but ABC network executives insisted on including one. The volume of the laugh track faded as Season One continued and was abandoned at the beginning of Season Two.
The dialogue is often delivered at a rapid-fire pace and intentionally exposes many aspects of communication that go beyond the words that are spoken. The show also frequently employed a technique known as "Walk and Talk," where the characters are walking from one location to the next while in conversation. This is another characteristic of Aaron Sorkin shows as "walk and talks" are used quite frequently in The West Wing and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. A number of similar themes, elements and actors carried over from Sports Night to The West Wing (and later Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip).
The show's main focus is the relationships between the characters. These include an off-again on-again flirtation and romance between Dana and Casey, the oil-and-water passion between neurotic Natalie and nerdy Jeremy, and Dan's ongoing problems with relationships in general. The character of Isaac Jaffe hovers over his staff as a benevolent but uncompromising father figure.
The show is mostly set in the studio and station offices. However, in the second season Anthony's, a local sports bar and restaurant, was introduced as another location for scenes in order to get the characters out of the work environment a little bit.
Guillaume suffered a stroke midway through the first season, and this event was worked into his character and the season's story arc.
Sorkin wrote life experiences into his scripts.
* Both season finales ended with metaphors for the fate of the show, and the way ABC failed to promote it properly. In the 1st season, Jeremy is obsessed with a baseball game where one team is going down to defeat. He thinks they'll have a 9th inning rally, very similar to the unknown fate of the show. A major plot point of the second season involved the sale of CSC. The eventual purchaser of the network tells Dana "Anybody who can't make money off of Sports Night should get out of the money-making business." This is an obvious jab at ABC's failure to make the show a hit.
* Casey McCall is said to be modeled after Craig Kilborn, which is emphasized in the episode "Thespis" in the allusions to Casey having been offered "Conan's late night show." Dan and Casey's professional and personal relationship is said to be modeled after Dan Patrick and Keith Olbermann, who were the most well-known team on SportsCenter on ESPN.
* In the episode "Dear Louise", Natalie tells Casey there is an error on the teleprompter, and that they left out the 's' in the phrase 'bulging disk.' This actually happened on SportsCenter, and anchor Steve Levy said 'bulging dik' before correcting himself.
* In the Season 2 episode "The Giants win the Pennant, the Giants win the Pennant", mention is made of Isaac missing a crucial home run in a famous baseball game because he was in the bathroom. This is a reference to Christine Lahti, the actress wife of executive producer Thomas Schlamme, who famously was in the restroom when she won a Golden Globe Award in 1998 for her role on the TV show Chicago Hope.
Cast
* Josh Charles — Dan Rydell, Co-Anchor
* Peter Krause — Casey McCall, Co-Anchor
* Felicity Huffman — Dana Whitaker, Executive Producer
* Joshua Malina — Jeremy Goodwin, Associate Producer & Research Analyst
* Sabrina Lloyd — Natalie Hurley, Senior Associate Producer
* Robert Guillaume — Isaac Jaffee, Managing Editor
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