Team Jumped the Shark is happy to select in the World category is:
Coupling
The show centres on the dating and sexual adventures and mishaps of six friends in their thirties, often depicting the three women and the three men each talking amongst themselves about the same events, but in entirely different terms.
“Where’s the remote?” are thrilled to be able to select in the 7th round the excellent BBC series,
HUSTLE
This grifting show will represent our Crime/Law category. It is available to buy on DVD in North America in a 4 season gift pack and and can be seen on BBC Canada. Highly recommended just for its sheer style alone.
Hustle is a British television comedy-drama series made by Kudos Film & Television for BBC One in the United Kingdom.
Created by Tony Jordan (who also wrote many of the scripts) hand in hand with Bharat Nalluri who conceived the original idea, Hustle follows a group of London-based con artists as they attempt to dupe money out of their victims ("marks"). Despite their chosen trade, they adhere to codes such as "bad behaviour breeds bad luck". In particular they adhere to the first rule of the con "you can't cheat an honest man" because an honest man doesn't want something for nothing.
Each episode also amounts to a confidence game played upon the viewers through the use of misdirection and hidden plot details that are revealed at the end of the story. Not all cons depicted are successful, and some episodes focus on the characters dealing with the consequences of their actions. However, even if a con does fail, the characters usually come out on top in some way or other.
In addition to one long con, each episode features a number of short cons played by the major characters on members of the public. The short cons demonstrate the seemingly endless array of tricks professional con men possess and the ease with which short cons can be played.
"If you're going to do it...do it right the first time."
With our seventh selection, the Channel Surfers would like to select Holmes on Homes in the Reality (Ongoing) category.
from Wiki:
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The show's premise revolves around general contractorMike Holmes visiting homeowners (initially in the Greater Toronto Area in the earlier seasons, but also to various locales across Canada and the United States, starting with the seventh season) who are in need of help, mainly due to unsatisfactory home renovations performed by hired contractors. A typical episode has homeowners describing their experiences with the previous contractor, including what had caused the original contractor to leave the work incomplete or with substandard work (often under Ontariobuilding codes). Holmes would also go into detail to explain why the work he sees is substandard and needs to be replaced during the repair process. The original contractors are never named on the shows, although an episode of CBC Television's Marketplace has done investigative journalism behind a sixth-season episode and exposed the contractor alleged to have been at fault.
Typically, after beginning the repair work, Holmes and his crew of contractors often find that their small repair project has escalated into a larger one due to surprises that they find and are forced to fix; only on rare occasions have the show's crew not been forced to tear everything down and start over. However, in the end, Holmes presents the homeowners with a completely finished place, often with a few extra surprises. Throughout the rebuilding process, Holmes often comments on the professionalism of the people hired for the job or lets other contractors talk about how to build things correctly - on some occasions Holmes has vented out his frustrations with previous contractors' substandard work in front of the camera.
YouTubes of the actual show are pretty scarce, but I might be able to find some good ones to add in later.
As a young kid, my parents found the subject matter of this epic miniseries important enough to let me watch it, despite the seriousness of it. The series did an excellent job of showing the dark history of slavery and how it impacted real people, not just a historical idea.
It spurred me to read the gigantic book and I did so before my 10th birthday, and that act was probably the single largest act of inquisitiveness of my youth and I think it was important in determining how I viewed my world at the time.
It also exposed the viewer to genealogy and how rewarding family history study can be.
Possibly the most powerful scene of the series
__________________ I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love." - John Steinbeck
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I'm not going to complain even though Flamesguy__SJ cut in front of me and stole my pick.
Can't believe I didn't get Holmes on Homes.
Damn you SJ.....DAMN YOU!!!!!
__________________ I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love." - John Steinbeck
Were you really going to make that pick? That's gotta be a first in these drafts.
No, I was just trying to be hilarious.
I do like the show though. Mike is great and really does an excellent job of explaining why something is wrong, how it got that way and what could happen if it isn't fixed. He never ceases to let his annoyance show!
__________________ I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love." - John Steinbeck
That was going to be my pick in the information category. Didn't think too many hear watched it
Roots was also going to be my pick in the mini series.
Didn't I do that to you a couple of times in the movie draft too? We must have similar tastes.
__________________ I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love." - John Steinbeck
