TV Shows - what do you watch?

The West Wing

I have to admit to being a West Wing junkie. I watch the reruns on Bravo nighty, and of course watch the actual show Wednesday night. It is the most satisfying show I have ever watched. I have some great discussions at school about the show with some of my peers, including the principal. I also don't watch any of the shows live but tape them for a more convenient viewing time.

Jeff

 

I really don't watch TV on a regular basis. When I do watch TV, it's usually sort of a random event and, typically, will be some news show or movie. OTOH, I have seen parts of many shows and, also randomly, catch certain segments of some of the more popular shows (primarily because I'll walk in while my kids are watching them).

What I find strange is that I watch two shows on a fairly regular basis but can't explain why I watch them. One show, ER, has really gone to hell yet, somehow, my wife and I almost always end up in front of the set when the show airs. The other show contains subject matter in which I'm not even interested; motorcycles. That show is on the Discovery Channel and is called American Choppers. I watch it with my two sons who, for some inexplicable reason, also enjoy it.

 

I watch Angel...used to watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer but that is gone now

I got slightly addicted to American Chopper during their marathon on New Years but I dont know if I will watch it on a regular basis.

The local news I watch regularly and when I remember, the Daily Show.

shona
still waiting for her BC

 

Alias is my favorite show

my other favorite is Joan of Arcadia. I also will watch West Wing with DH, and I also watch Everwood (I know, I know, it's the WB ), & sometimes Ed.

 

I forgot about Joan of Arcadia...I watch it with my sister when I visit my little nephew.

The WB isnt to bad :mrgreen: After all Buffy started on in and it has Angel.

shona

 

I use Dish Network with a 510 DVR which can record 100 hours of shows, so I almost never watch live TV anymore. Just program it once a week and it records what I want which is the following:

24 - MUST SEE TV!!!!!
70's Show - Latest season isn't as good as the reruns.
American Chopper - Got to love the way those guys love/hate each other
Trading Spaces
Stargate SG-1 - New season is on, and it looks good!!!!
Babalon 5
XPlay
Supercross
Motorcross
Monster House

Thats about it, other than some movies and such that I want to see.

Atoyot

 

Apparently, I'm the only Sci-Fi junkie of the bunch. The only "network" programming I watch with any regularity is Enterprise on UPN. I'm typically watching reruns of TNG on Spike TV. If not these, then I can be found watching local news, Discovery channel or TLC when they aren't doing the latest revision of trading spaces or motor vehicle butchering. Whenever History Channel is airing Modern Marvels, you can pretty much bet that I'm watching it. If Sci-Fi channel is playing something good like the Twilight Zone marathons they had over the holidays, I'll watch those as well.

 

Buffy (two repeats every weekend!)
Angel
Gilmore Girls
StreetSmarts
Days Of Our Lives
What I Like About You
Friends ('because it's the last season, of course)
ER
Antiques Roadshow
Urban Theatre
Austin City Limits
This Old House
and sometimes Charmed

That looks like a lot, doesn't it? I miss some every week... in my defense...

8)

 

Reviving this old thread....

I watch (in no particular order):

Desperate Housewives
Charmed
7th Heaven
Related
Gilmore Girls
LOST
Twins
Hot Properties
Will & Grace
My Name Is Earl
Everybody Hates Chris
The OC
What I Like About You
How I Met Your Mother
Reba
The Biggest Loser
Jake In Progress
King of Queens
Girlfriends
Wifeswap
Real World
Girls Next Door
Breaking Bonaduce
Malcolm in the Middle
Family Guy
Spongebob
Dr. 90210
Nip/Tuck
Saturday Night Live
Wildfire


And some shows that are not currently airing new episodes but I can catch reruns or watch on DVD or go by pure memory:

90210
Melrose Place
Sex & the City
Beavis & Butthead
Beauty and the Geek
The Bachelor
Baywatch
Daria
Old B&W Twilight Zone (I have them all on VHS)


Conclusion:

Yes I love my television. I also love my Tivo and Time Warner DVR so that if need be, I could simultaneously record 3 shows that might possibly be on at the same time.

 

Lost.

I haven't been able to find any syndications of Northern Exposure, the best TV show ever made, since A & E ran it several years ago. (I have DISH.) Has anyone seen it lately? Anyone else like it a lot?

 

Man, you folks sure do watch a lot of Television!!!

If I can sit down long enough, I try to catch:

Family Guy
Battlestar Galactica (waiting for new season!)
Little Britain
Weather Channel (during hurricane season)

The wife is a dedicated Charmed fan...yikes.

 

Primarily Anime on Cartoon Network's "Adult Swim" block, "The Anime Network" on "On Demand" and on DVDs.

I have DVR so these get recorded automatically.
I can zip through commercials and get through a 1/2 hour show in 22 minutes.

My avatar is "Vash the Stampede" from Trigun.

 

PBS, especially NOVA, Frontline, Masterpiece Theater.

Avoid normal broadcast television. We watch Monarch of the Glen (Scotland) on DVD and Westwing on DVD - no commercials, good continuity from episode to episode.

I think of Edward Abbey's comments from "Desert Solitaire"

"Do you know the principle of television?" "No."

"Vacuum tube." Do you know what happens when you stick your head in a vacuum tube?" "No."

"It sucks your brains out!"


We prefer to read, ride our bicycles, walk our dogs, work in the garden and not be couch potatoes.

 

I am of a major minority in the States... I don't have a TV!

I have a 5-DVD changer, but I only use it to play CDs.

I rent approx 1 movie every three months. Most recent rental - The Chorus (French).

Podcasts however:
Theory of Everything
Digital Flotsam
WGBH morning Stories
2600's Off the Wall and Off the Hook
MAKE Audio
A Way with Words
Ockhams Razr (Australia)
Ocaasionally the Daily Source code, but that's declining

 

Only free tv.

Smallville
The OC
Everwood
Surface
Invasion
Stargate Atlantis
Days of Our Lives
Desparate Housewives
Ebert and Roeper
McLaughlin Group
Nova Frontline etc sometimes on PBS

 

Dallas
Good Times
Oz
Sopranos
Dr. Who
Simpsons


h34r:

 

Dr. Who is the best! B)

 

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