Usual stuff; favourites?, what are you watching now?, yadda yadda.

Some of my favourites:

The Wire (genius, one of the best TV shows ever made IMO).
Babylon 5 (how can you not like a show that has a five year story arc? ).
All the Star Treks apart from Enterprise.
Dexter
Sleeper Cell (It was everything that 24 should have been).
John from Cincinnati (only one season? ).
Breaking Bad
The Simpsons (up to about season 8 anyway).
Red Dwarf
The Mysterious Cities of Gold
Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds
Belle and Sebastian
Azumanga Daioh!
Fullmetal Alchemist
Cowboy Bebop
Dragonball Z (most of it anyway, the prefect Cell saga was a snooze-festival).
Tons of documentaries
Various pro-wrestling shows

(Yeah I like Sci-fi, what of it? )

Currently watching:

Dexter (season 3)
Flight of the Conchords (season 2)
Various documentaries (including "South Pacific" on the BBC, where I found out about flesh-eating caterpillars! ).

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What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet. - Gerard Manley Hopkins

Some Favourites

US Series
House
Eureka
Penguins of Madagascar

Anime
Getbackers
Major
Love Hina
Fruit Basket
Code Geass S1 & S2

Asian Series
Gokusen All Seasons
Galileo
Bambino
Hana Yori Dango
La Femme Desperado

They aren't amongst my favourites but I do like Eureka and especially House, House is just so great a character (and Hugh Laurie is so good at playing him) that I don't know how anybody could not like it.

I tried getting into Fruits Basket a while back (watched the first episode), but TBH I just couldn't see what all the fuss was about.

Death Note OTH, I've just started watching recently and I'm a total convert. It's awesome.

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What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet. - Gerard Manley Hopkins

Hey DC, do all of you in the UK have difficulty understanding the "black gangsta" accent in US TV shows like The Wire? I was on IMBD and discovered that alot of people in Europe are baffled by it, so I was wondering what you thought.

TV that Stars watches:

-Battlebots, Robot Wars
-The Wire
-Pushing Daisies
-Twin Peaks
-House
-Seinfeld
-The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
-The Colbert Report
-Monty Python's Flying Circus

Anime:

-Yu Yu Hakusho
-Azumanga Daioh
-Death Note
-Cowboy Bebop
-Record Of Lodoss War
-anything by Gainax: Neon Genesis Evangelion, FLCL, His & Her Circumstances

Animated:

-90s Cartoon Network
-90s Nickelodeon
-Aqua Teen Hunger Force
-Sealab 2021
-Invader Zim
-The Critic
-The Simpsons
-South Park
-Futurama
-Sonic The Hedgehog ( )
-Grim Adventures Of Billy And Mandy

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"It is a melancholy fact that massive works of the intellect do not spring from the abstract workings of the brain and the imagination; they are deeply rooted in the personality." -Paul Johnson

INFP, 4w5 sx/sp

I watch two shows. Seinfeld and Death Note.

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Officially given up personality theory. I don't need a test to know myself!

Personally I didn't have any problems with it, but I can see why some people did. Maybe I've just been exposed to enough "gangsta" culture stuff on the TV to have picked up an ear for it.



- Can't believe I forgot about Pushing Daisies!
- I really should watch more Seinfeld. From the little I have seen and the lots I've heard about from a friend of mine who's a fan, it's right up my street.
- Daily Show/Colbert Report. (I'm looking forward to seeing Conan in his new slot too).
- Python's overrated. (Still pretty good though, have you seen Michael Palin's "Ripping Yarns"?).
- The 1st season of Johnny Bravo and the first 2 or 3 seasons of Dexter's Laboratory were practically on infinite repeat in my house when I first stated watching them.
- Like all of Adult Swim's stuff, the quality levels of those shows were all over the place, but the Sealab episode where they have to take the sub to save a couple of stranded researchers - one of which is trying to eat the other one - is pure class.
- Tried getting into Zim once, but it didn't do anything for me. Maybe I should give it another go.
- It's funny, out of all the animated sitcoms that turned up in the '90's I would have said that South Park would have the shortest life span, but IMO in terms of consistent quality it's outlasted all the others.
- Futurama's best years are behind it IMO, but it's still a great show.



You could do worse. (Can't think of an appropriate smiley, use your imagination).

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What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet. - Gerard Manley Hopkins

Other shows that I like:

Quantum Leap
The Prisoner
Due South
Inspector Gadget
Monkey
The Avengers
The X-Files
Ulysses 31
Trap Door

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What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet. - Gerard Manley Hopkins

I watch a dutch programme called De Wereld Draait Door. I can't understand it but the guy who presents it is really hot.

I'm pining for England so I enjoy watching Cash In The Attic.

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I don't watch anything except BBC News 24 :O

And Doctor Who when it is on *nod*

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~I'll think of a witty comment later, or not. Maybe something to do with clouds?!~

Thought I'd post an update seeing as Dexter and Flight of the Conchords both ended this week.

Dexter was typically good, though not as good as the first series I thought. The inclusion of the ghosts/inner visions didn't really add anything to it, and I would have liked to have seen a more climactic finale, but I really liked the interaction between Dexter and Jimmy Smits' character, and Dexter's sister seemed less annoying than in previous seasons.

I thought this series of Flight of the Conchords was just as good as the first in terms of its humour, but the songs didn't seem as catchy this time around, and the way they set some of them up seemed pretty awkward sometimes. But apart from that it was great, can't wait for the third series (if there is one).


Currently watching:

Chuck (season 2)
Reaper (season 2)
Ugly Betty (season 3)
Chowder ( this show)


And I've also started watching a new show that airs on channel 4 over here in the UK called "You Have Been Watching". It's nominally a quiz show, but really it's just an excuse for Charlie Brooker and whoever he's got on that week to rip the piss out of the previous week's TV. We're only two episodes in, but so far it's been hilarious.

EDIT: Also currently watching season 3 of "A Town Called Eureka".

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What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet. - Gerard Manley Hopkins

Lost
Twin Peaks
Fringe
Carnivale
24
Sopranos
Seinfeld
The Big Bang Theory
How I Met Your Mother
Big Brother
Star Trek: Next Gen.
Quantum Leap
Battlestar Galactica

I like too many animated shows to list them

...And here's some of my favourites.

The World at War
The Theory of Everything
The Mark Steel Lectures
The Power of Nightmares
Time (w/ Michio Kaku)
Guns, Germs & Steel
Around the World in 80 Faiths
The Story of Maths
The Cell

There're probably others, but I can't remember them right now.

Documentaries I'm currently watching include "Life" on the BBC (which is of the typically high standard I've come to expect from BBC wildlife documentaries) and the new series of Horizon, also on the BBC (which so far have been typically mind-expanding).

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Season 2 of Chuck ended this week, so I figured it was as good a time as any to pass my superior judgement over what I've been watching and update my "currently viewing" list while I'm at it.

I thought Chuck was pretty good, but I'm not sure about the way they ended this series, I hope they haven't messed with the basic formula too much for the third series to work.

Reaper was fun, and unlike Chuck the way they ended the series really had me interested in where they were going to take things next. So typically, the show's been canned and there's not going to be a third series.

Oh, and A Town Called Eureka was also pretty decent , though it's seems to be starting to suffer from a bit of "same old, same old"-itess.

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Currently watching Flashforward (which is pretty intriguing so far), Season 2 of Fringe (which I'm enjoying, though I'm disappointed the idea of "The Pattern" didn't last very long), and Stargate: Universe (which I'm liking quite a lot so far, I love how different the feel of the show is from the other Stargate series).

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What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet. - Gerard Manley Hopkins

I don't watch too much TV, and can't say that I follow any serial shows now a days (except maybe for animated comedies...but even those don't get regular viewing lately), but I am kinda excited about the upcoming re-envisioning of The Prisoner, with James Caviezel and Ian McKellen. I recently finished watching the original series and thought it was very good. The ads I've seen for the new series look interesting.

I was also going to watch the new V (mini series?). The first episode was on last night, but there was also a hockey game on so...well...hockey won out.

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omg guns germs and steel is a documentary!?

i loved that book. the Time series was good too...um....

as for television... i lovelovelovelove house. love it.

i also sometimes watch intervention, the xfiles, penn and teller's bullshit, and little britain. pretty much everything except house is from netflix

DC i haven't seen a good documentary since jesus camp, where do you find those? do i have to... pay money? :/

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Isn't it pretty to think so?

http://uk.tv.ign.com/articles/104/1041621p1.html

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I had no idea they were re-making it. I hope they do a decent job, I really like the original series (especially the last episode, which is insane) but the show was so much of its time it'll be...interesting...to see what direction they take it in.



I had a quick look and it seems like most of them are on youtube. The only exceptions were "Around the World in 80 Faiths" which seems to only be on there in bits and pieces, and The "Theory of Everything", which I could only find this little clip from. There is a series on the subject presented by Stephen Hawking on there though, but I don't know if it's any good or not. Oh, and if you want to watch "The Cell" search for "The Cell BBC" or something like that, otherwise you'll never find it.

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What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet. - Gerard Manley Hopkins

Battlestar Galactica
House
I watch Gossip Girl and still don't know why. I'm just fabulous like that.
Dexter
Seinfeld
Curb your Enthusiasm
True Blood
Californication
Iron Chef
Daily Show/Colbert (It's like a continuation of the same show so...)
Rome
Merlin
And hopefully "A Song of Fire and Ice" when they get around to making it.

Don't really dig anime :/

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The world moves on a woman's hips
The world moves and it swivels and bops
The world moves on a woman's hips
The world moves and it bounces and hops
A world of light...shes gonna open our eyes up

-Talking Heads

Ne, Ni, Ti, Se, Fe, Fi, Si, Te

Been meaning to read the books for a while now, I hope they don't ruin it like they did with the Sword of Truth adaptation.





*random child from google image search results disapproves of this opinion*

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What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet. - Gerard Manley Hopkins