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MrsLarry · Jan 19, 2006, 02:05 PM

Let's go around the room...

Hello, my name is MrsLarry, and I'm a TV addict.
Currently my drug is House, with LOST as a close runner-up.

What's yours?

Eug Wanker · Jan 19, 2006, 02:11 PM

1) Battlestar Galactica
2) 24 (although I'm still just watching the first season)

SpaceMonkey · Jan 19, 2006, 02:22 PM

1. Battlestar Galactica
2. The Office on NBC
3. The Daily Show and The Colbert Report
4. The West Wing reruns on Bravo (I'm currently unemployed...heh).

Dakar · Jan 19, 2006, 02:36 PM

The Shield, Two and Half Men, & PTI are the only ones I try not miss.

typoon · Jan 19, 2006, 02:37 PM

Law and Order
American Idol (yes yes yes I know)
Just got into 24
House
Simpsons

Dakar · Jan 19, 2006, 02:39 PM

House is good. Boston Legal seems to be entertaining when I actually run into it.

Leia's Left Bun · Jan 19, 2006, 02:45 PM

1) Battlestar
2) That's it.

Monique · Jan 19, 2006, 02:51 PM

My list is rather longer because I am really sick. I always loved TV since I was a kid so here it is.

Sunday: West Wing

Monday: Medium and 24

Tuesday: Miami Ink, Amazing Race (when it is on), House, Commander in Chief (when House is not on)

Wednesday: E-Ring, Criminal Minds, Law and Order

Thursday: Not much for now.

Friday: Ghost Whisperer and Injustice

I loved MI-5 but they are not showing it anymore, I think it is really mean.

MrsLarry · Jan 19, 2006, 04:02 PM

wow - lots of this Battlestar! Never would have guessed that one!

ironknee · Jan 19, 2006, 04:06 PM

my new fav is mtv's made

Leia's Left Bun · Jan 19, 2006, 04:09 PM

Originally Posted by MrsLarry

wow - lots of this Battlestar! Never would have guessed that one!

That's what happens when it is named the best show on TV

cjrivera · Jan 19, 2006, 04:12 PM

The Office (NBC)
The Shield
Battlestar Galactica
"Reaity" shows: Supernanny, What Not to Wear (OK, go ahead and snicker), Moving Up

Doofy · Jan 19, 2006, 04:16 PM

Currently: ER (10), Stargate SG-1 (8), Enterprise (4), Desperate Housewives (2).
That's all that's on at the moment which is fresh.

waxcrash · Jan 19, 2006, 04:16 PM

Family Guy
The Office
The Daily Show

turbopants · Jan 19, 2006, 04:21 PM

MXC
Good Eats
Wife Swap
Tom Goes to the Mayor
Seinfeld Reruns
South Park

Leia's Left Bun · Jan 19, 2006, 04:43 PM

Originally Posted by Doofy

Currently: ER (10), Stargate SG-1 (8), Enterprise (4), Desperate Housewives (2).
That's all that's on at the moment which is fresh.

If you like enterpise you should try BSG. I thought Star Trek was good until I watched the first season of BSG.

Doofy · Jan 19, 2006, 05:01 PM

Originally Posted by Leia's Left Bun

If you like enterpise you should try BSG. I thought Star Trek was good until I watched the first season of BSG.

I'll check it out.

hickey · Jan 19, 2006, 05:01 PM

1. Gilmore Girls, no contest
2. Flyers games
3. 30 minute meals with Racheal Ray
4. Everyday Italian with Giada de Laurentiis

Dakar · Jan 19, 2006, 05:13 PM

Originally Posted by hickey

4. Everyday Italian with Giada de Laurentiis

Is it me or does she have an oversize head. Every once in a while when she goes to get something I wait for her to tip over.

JHromadka · Jan 19, 2006, 05:16 PM

Tie between Lost and Battlestar Galactica.

greenamp · Jan 19, 2006, 05:41 PM

Originally Posted by Leia's Left Bun

If you like enterpise you should try BSG. I thought Star Trek was good until I watched the first season of BSG.

Same here man. I used to scoff at SCI-FI that wasn't Star Trek, that is until I gave in and started watching Battlestar. Now I will conceed that no Star Trek series ever can compare to Battlestar. 'Course, that may just be b/c I haven't seen a good Trek series in a long effin time.

Enterprise had such potential, but instead of taking the sort of gritty style of Battlestar, they chose to make lame shows about male crew members getting impregnated by hot alien chics, and growing tits on their arms.

If trek ever does come back, it better be dark and dirty. I think SC-FI audiences have matured past the no-wrinkles-polished-shoes style that Trek has always kinda been. I wanna see a future Trek where Earth is destroyed by human-like Borg, and there are only a hand full of survivors, and... oh wait.

greenamp · 11:14 PM

Oh yeah on topic:

1) Battlestar
2) Lost
3) 24
4) The Office

dcolton · Jan 19, 2006, 05:48 PM

stargate atlantis
fox news

ironknee · Jan 19, 2006, 05:50 PM

Originally Posted by hickey

2. Flyers games

man i miss watching the flyers

but i think this sat, they will be on abc or fox sports

Eug Wanker · Jan 19, 2006, 05:53 PM

Originally Posted by greenamp

Same here man. I used to scoff at SCI-FI that wasn't Star Trek, that is until I gave in and started watching Battlestar. Now I will conceed that no Star Trek series ever can compare to Battlestar. 'Course, that may just be b/c I haven't seen a good Trek series in a long effin time.

Enterprise had such potential, but instead of taking the sort of gritty style of Battlestar, they chose to make lame shows about male crew members getting impregnated by hot alien chics, and growing tits on their arms.

If trek ever does come back, it better be dark and dirty. I think SC-FI audiences have matured past the no-wrinkles-polished-shoes style that Trek has always kinda been. I wanna see a future Trek where Earth is destroyed by human-like Borg, and there are only a hand full of survivors, and... oh wait.

I still the original Star Trek was the coolest sci-fi show of all time, even though many of its episodes were so hokey.

BSG is definitely #2 though. BTW, Ronald Moore used to write for Trek, but got P'O'd that he couldn't make anything dark and dirty, and that he couldn't kill anyone off either.

JHromadka · Jan 19, 2006, 06:06 PM

Originally Posted by greenamp

Same here man. I used to scoff at SCI-FI that wasn't Star Trek, that is until I gave in and started watching Battlestar. Now I will conceed that no Star Trek series ever can compare to Battlestar. 'Course, that may just be b/c I haven't seen a good Trek series in a long effin time.

"No Star Trek series?" I beg to differ. ST:TOS was before my time so I won't make the comparison, but TNG is still one of the best scifi shows ever made. It's not as gritty as BSG, but that wasn't its premise. DS9 was also excellent. I love BSG, but no way is it better than TNG & DS9.

Voyager and Enterprise were on UPN and had to deal more with ratings issues. Voyager had a crap premise (Kirk and Picard would have been home that first episode) and was barely watchable until 7/9 got there and saved the show. Enterprise wasn't given enough of a chance; its 3rd and 4th seasons were very good, but the first two seasons were so bad that it lost most of its audience.

greenamp · Jan 19, 2006, 06:17 PM

Originally Posted by JHromadka

"No Star Trek series?" I beg to differ. ST:TOS was before my time so I won't make the comparison, but TNG is still one of the best scifi shows ever made. It's not as gritty as BSG, but that wasn't its premise. DS9 was also excellent. I love BSG, but no way is it better than TNG & DS9.

Voyager and Enterprise were on UPN and had to deal more with ratings issues. Voyager had a crap premise (Kirk and Picard would have been home that first episode) and was barely watchable until 7/9 got there and saved the show. Enterprise wasn't given enough of a chance; its 3rd and 4th seasons were very good, but the first two seasons were so bad that it lost most of its audience.

Yeah I can see where you're coming from. My opinions of Trek right now are slightly biased since I haven't watched a good trek series in a long long time.

The last couple of seasons of Enterprise had many good episodes, but even still the characters and subplots had been so messed up that even bringing in 2-dozen Manny Cottos wouldn't have saved things.

Eug Wanker · Jan 19, 2006, 06:18 PM

I love BSG, but no way is it better than TNG & DS9.

IMO, BSG is better than TNG and DS9 ever were.

Monique · Jan 19, 2006, 06:20 PM

It is probably over when it comes to Star Trek, there is a future without it.

greenamp · Jan 19, 2006, 06:24 PM

Originally Posted by Monique

It is probably over when it comes to Star Trek, there is a future without it.

Nah Trek will back someday.

Leia's Left Bun · Jan 19, 2006, 06:38 PM

I am the biggest Star Trek nut there is on MacNN, trust me. BUT, I think the 2 and a half seasons of BSG is better than ALL of the star trek put together. My friends almost dropped dead on the spot when they heard me say that.

andi*pandi · 07:26 PM

Lost
Gilmore Girls (though I think I'll let this season slide, yawn)
Battlestar Galactica
Family Guy-American Dad
Scrubs

Huh. Seems I've cut back some.

edit: I was only counting shows TIVO covers, forgot Dr Who!

agentz · Jan 19, 2006, 06:42 PM

In no particular order:

Doctor Who
BSG
Lost
House

hickey · Jan 19, 2006, 07:07 PM

Originally Posted by Dakar

Is it me or does she have an oversize head. Every once in a while when she goes to get something I wait for her to tip over.

oh she definitely does have a big head, but she also has nice wide mouth, and a nice set of sweater puppets

SSharon · Jan 19, 2006, 10:25 PM

I played a drinking game with some friends where we took a shot every time House was an ass to someone, it was a fun game.

Sadly though, there is nothing on tv that I like enough not to miss. Even sunday night cartoons are good enough for me to make the effort to be home.

mydog8mymac · Jan 19, 2006, 10:30 PM

House
West Wing (it's been quite slow this season, may be about to give it up)
Bones is okay
Grey's Anatomy

Briareus · Jan 20, 2006, 12:28 AM

Another Battlestar fan here. On other days I mindlessly enjoy Surface, Invasion, and Criminal Minds. My DVR is rapidly filling up with all the Miyazaki animation showing Thursdays on Turner Classic Movies.

Leia's Left Bun · Jan 20, 2006, 01:04 AM

Oh ya Doctor Who. I forgot because it hasn't been on in what feels like forever.

Cubeoid · Jan 20, 2006, 01:06 AM

I don't care.

deej5871 · Jan 20, 2006, 01:29 AM

1) Lost and BSG (tie)
2) Boston Legal
3) Smallville
4) Stargate Atlantis
5) Stargate SG-1
6) West Wing
7) Law and Order
8) Grey's Anatomy
9) Desperate Housewives
10) ER
Mention: I think InJustice looks good, but I can't watch it since I don't have any kind of DVR and I need to get my Sci-Fi Friday fix.

Yes, I know, I watch a lot of TV.

Weezer · Jan 20, 2006, 01:37 AM

Lost, Entourage, Scrubs, Family Guy, Grey's Anatomy, Curb Your Enthusiasm...

MM-o4 · Jan 20, 2006, 02:00 AM

Futurama (reruns), Simpsons, Myth Busters, Top Gear, House, King of Queens, ...

MM

volcano · Jan 20, 2006, 02:26 AM

Unfortunately, my erratic schedule rarely allows me to watch the latest and greatest episodes of my favorite shows. But when my schedule allows, I highly enjoy:

1. Law & Order: SVU
2. Monk
3. Law & Order (Original)
4. The Daily Show/Colbert Report
5. Cold Case
6. Law & Order: Criminal Intent
7. I Love Lucy
8. All in the Family

It's not a random order, either. I tend to catch re-runs of Law & Order: SVU and Monk on USA all the time - and I usually get my "fix" when they have a marathon. I seem to have a thing for criminal shows - although Lucille Ball isn't too far behind.

Dale Sorel · Jan 20, 2006, 12:10 PM

Originally Posted by Eug Wanker

IMO, BSG is better than TNG and DS9 ever were.

I really liked TNG, but I have to agree that BSG is a much more riveting series

andreas_g4 · Jan 20, 2006, 04:58 PM

24 via download

lavar78 · Jan 21, 2006, 03:22 PM

I watch a lot of TV.

1. 24
2. Lost
3. Scrubs
4. Desperate Housewives
5. Monk
6. Battlestar Galactica
7. Boston Legal
8. House
9. Grey's Anatomy
10. Alias

I also watch Smallville, Entourage, and Prison Break. I'm still pissed they canceled Reunion. It was cheesy beyond belief, but I'm a sucker for mysteries.

nredman · Jan 21, 2006, 04:26 PM

Doctor Who
How I Met Your Mother
King of Queens
The West Wing
...and Seinfeld reruns

paul w · Jan 21, 2006, 05:13 PM

Not a TV watcher, but got my hands on the dvd of season 1 of Lost a while back and now I'm addicted.

Stogieman · Jan 21, 2006, 07:09 PM

1. 24
2. Smallville
3. Lost
4. Family Guy
5. Grey's Anatomy

I haven't seen any episodes BSG yet. I might have to check it out.

Gankdawg · Jan 21, 2006, 07:14 PM

In no order,

BSG
The Shield
Prison Break

although Seinfeld is probably my all-time favorite show.