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Couldn't find the old thread. Figured it's probably old & outdated anyway, so why not start a new one.

What's everyone watching these days? Anyone want to chat about their shows?

I'm loving ABC's comedy lineup on Wednesdays. Old Christine, The Middle (esp. Brick), Modern Family. Even Cougar Town is pretty good. Other comedies I try to watch are Big Bang Theory & How I Met Your Mother. Waiting for Rules of Engagement to return (not sure if it will?)

Dramas? I gave up on The Closer & Saving Grace, I lost track last summer, was just too busy. I will try to watch Damages when it returns. Still watch Supernatural & Grey's and Brothers & Sisters faithfully. Medium & Ghost Whisperer if I happen to catch them. Love the new show Mercy too.

Reality shows. Biggest Loser, Amazing Race & Idol on network TV. Project Runway (new season starts soon - woohoo!), Launch My Line & Top Chef on cable. I missed the first Worst Cook in America, but I'm going to try to catch the rerun & see if it's any good.

Silly cable shows (don't know what else to call them): Pawn Stars. I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant. Deliver Me (LOVE this show.) My First Place. House Hunters. Hoarders (so sad. so gross.) Renovation Realities. Daily Show, Colbert & Chelsea Lately when I happen to catch them, which is not often enough.

Have to say that I used to love the Girls Next Door - guilty pleasure. No idea why I liked it but I did. Well, I saw 1 ep. with the new chicks - awful. I won't watch it again. They're really boring.

Modern Family and The Good Wife are very good, I watch every week. Plus, Brothers and Sisters. Can't wait for Damages to come back, and Project Runway.

I finally have DVR. It's a godsend. And it's pretty cheap, too, thanks to AT&T U-Verse.

I use DVR to record the following:

1. JUDGE JUDY. I couldn't live without Judge Judy, one of humanity's brightest lights & a beacon of justice, reason, & wipe-the-floor-with-their-stupidity good sense. She's like H. L. Mencken & Ethel Merman all rolled into one.

2. TWO & A HALF MEN. This brilliant show combines wit with truth. Some of the jokes fall flat, but overall it's the best American sitcom since MARRIED WITH CHILDREN.

3. COPS. A superb series built on a simple-enough idea: Thanks to squad-car video, we get to experience the thrill & the pleasure vicariously of chasing, smacking down, & busting the dregs & the thugs on the street. One complaint: The cameraman ought to use a Steadi-cam device.

4. REBA. This sitcom took a season or two for it to find its bearings. Initially, the character of Reba was the sole foil for everyone else's shenanigans & idiocy. But since then, the character has been allowed to be an occasional idiot, too.

5. FOX NEWS. Their programs are too often gummed up by grandma-&-apple-pie sentimentality, but the Fox pundits & their typical guests are still the most unapologetic right-wing commentators to be found in the mass media. Bill O'Reilly, please: Less "culture wars" & more emphasis on violent thuggery & activist judges, who are doing more to destroy the fabric of civilization than anyone who prefers to say "Happy holidays."

I'm excited for Big Love which is starting its new season on Sunday. Anyone watch?

love the middle, modern family~
i also watch:
the vampire diaries
v
ugly betty
desperate housewives
true blood
all the real housewives on bravo
teen mom
csi vegas
icarly, i have a 10 year old:shrug::lol:, it's a cute show all the same~~
& alot of cnn & lmn~

Pawn Stars is my new addiction. That show is fantasic!!! I love all of those guys, they're awesome.

I need an Intervention intervention. Love. that. show. There are some truly sick people out there.

Also love Tabatha's Salon Takeover. I'm starting to use her trademark phrases in everyday speech- "I'm taking oy-vah." "I was gob-smacked!" "This is absolutely disgusting!" All bow to Tabatha.

And when it was on... Dexter. The 4th season, especially the finale, was brilliant.

And can there ever be enough "Jersey Shore" on MTV? Best. show. ever!

One Life To Live.

hell yes. i can't even describe how much i love that show.

i just did a 2-day dexter crack binge of the 4th season. ho****. good riddance, rita. i never could decide who was worse: the actress or the character.

i was so irritated with the baby premise and how plot-devicey it appeared that i refused to watch it till the season was over. they really laid on the mom-and-baby BS thick, but they did manage to make it relevant and it offered some interesting color & context to the story arc.

I watch too much TV!

Currently:

Tough Love
Frank The Entertainer(?) - basically ALL of the VH1 Dating Shows and their spinoffs
For the Love of Ray J - basically ALL of the VH1 Dating Shows and their spinoffs
American Idol
The Real World
Jersey Shores
Taking the Stage (premieres Jan 28!)
Fox News (try to catch Ann Coulter whenever she's on)
McLaughlin Group
THE SOUP <---this keeps me sane
The only show I'm embarassed to say I watch is Celebrity Rehab

Also: constantly dvr'ing Turner Classic Movies

jersey shore is a hot mess:laugh:, i have caught a couple of episodes~

i like intervention too~ i watch it w/ my son & use it as a learning tool of sorts~ especially seeing that we have an uncle who literally lives under a bridge, because meth is his mistress~

anywho, during intervention they show the previews to the hoarders shows & i can't handle that~ i can barely sit thru the preview let alone thinking of watching an entire episode~ that show freaks me out~ maybe because i am ocd about being clean~

don't you also watch the realhousewives of nyc?~ bethenny is preggers & i just saw her hawking her latest book on qvc~ & kelly posed nude for playboy~ should make for an interesting season~

I think it's brilliant how they always manage to refer back to previous seasons for plotline elements. The only thing I didn't care for this season was the way La Guerta and Batista got together- from completely out of nowhere. And talk about zero chemistry! And yeah... Rita had to go- she spoiled all of the fun! I think Julie Benz is a terrific actress (with a great boob job!), but Rita as a character was insufferable. Unfortunately I think she will be returning in future episodes as a figment of Dexter's imagination (like Harry). But I have to admit I felt elated to see her sitting there in a bathtub full of her own blood! :eek: :sorry:

Love that show. I'm also wathcing Dexter, Real Housewives (can't get enough of these bitches and now Tamra is getting a divorce! :eek:) Jersey Shore (yes I admit it) and a bunch of other stuff.

Yes, I have to admit that I am fascinated by the Housewives. All of them, even NJ. They are all absolutely the most repulsive people I have ever seen, but it's interesting to observe their antics, no matter how vapid or egregious. Call me a glutton for punishment. I am definitely looking forward to the new season of NY Housewives!

I'm so happy for Tamra. Her husband Simon is a stubborn, pious chauvinist piece of crap! :eek: Good riddance, I say.

I now officially hate you :distress: I haven't seen all of Season 4 yet. I knew Julie Benz was going but that was it.

Well, what did you think was going to happen to her? Go on a long vacation somewhere??

I too watch all the housewives shows. All though i gave up on Atlanta about half way through the most recent season.

And I hope Tamra follows through and claims her independence from her overbearing husband. Maybe next season we will see her dating Slade.

I can't watch Jersey Shore. Just can't get myself to do it. I have too many of my own memory of Seaside Heights. My brother is horrified to admit he went to high school with "The Situation."

I can't watch Jersey Shore, Kardashians or any of the Housewives. I've tried and I just can't. I have to draw the line somewhere, and apparently my fine shaky line is somewhere around Rock of Love and Celebrity Rehab. :o

What's pathetic is is that I'm actually impressed by this.

Oh, so that makes you think you're better than us, eh? :mad:

Hmm...currently I watch:

Comedy:
The Simpsons
Clevland Show
Family Guy
Glee (Okay a dramaedy)
Modern Family
Community
The Office
30 Rock

Dramas:
Masterpiece Classic (PBS)
Lost (can't wait for this to come back)
Fringe
Dollhouse (this only has a few episodes left)

Reality:
Intervention
Hoarders (I find it compelling, it also inspires me to clean more! How do people get like that?)
Lots of stuff on Home and Garden, TLC, and the Food network when I'm flipping through channels
The Soup (Joel McHale is awesome)
Chelsea Lately (so funny I can't even stand it. I love Ross Matthews, Loni Love, and Chris Franjola)

Well, since I moved and no longer have the Premium Digital package or a DVR (basic cable is it, and a VCR as a recording device...UGH!), my TV watching has gotten down to Football, NBA Basketball (ok, Lakers specifically) or almost nothing (compared to a few months ago when I'd be watching a ton of stuff I'd recorded on my DVR).

COMEDIES: The Office, occasionally 30 Rock (used to watch more consistently), Psych

DRAMAS: House, The Closer, Bones, Criminal Minds, Ghost Whisperer, Medium, Castle...and when it's on, Burn Notice.

REALITY: Dancing With The Stars (and ONLY DWTS)

LATE NIGHT: Used to be a big Letterman fan, but now I can't stand ANY of the late night shows. I'll watch something on SyFy or History channel instead.

If I had a DVR, I'd still be watching: Fringe, CSI (the original) and Numbers & the final season of Monk...all of which have fallen by the wayside of my TV watching....and a ton of stuff on the aforementioned SyFy or History channels that conflicted with something I was watching live.

The News I get online, not from TV....unless there's something really major going on (i.e. 9/11, an assassination, etc)

I think what I miss MOST about not having the Premium Digital package, is the on-screen channel guide. I'm back to having to refer to the miniscule log in the daily newspaper....what is this, 1980 again? I'm definitely living in some sort of weird time-warp.

My brother said that the way the guy acted on the show was the same as he was in high school. I'm going to see my brother tomorrow and I'll have to ask him some more about it.

Yes. Isn't it apparent that my TV standards are much higher than yours? :rolleyes: :distress:


I can't believe I forgot the bolded shows above. See what happens when network TV is all reruns for a few weeks?

And I concur with Chili - the DVR & the channel guide are gifts from god. :wavey:

three of my favorite shows.
can't wait! I'm in trial so I'll have to DVR them and watch them when I get back.

I watch:
Project Runway
Flipping Out
Rachel Zoe
Hoarders
Obsessed
Bridezillas
American Idol
Moving Up
Big Brother
Real Housewives
Kathy Griffin
Renovation Realities
True Blood
Nurse Jackie
Wipeout
Survivor
Dancing with the Stars
Bill and Guiliana (just started watching)
Keeping up with the Kardashians

rita always irritated me but once i saw julie benz on some talk show (regis & kelly? jay leno? i can't remember for the life of me), i was over her completely. i can't even make up my mind whether i think she's a good actress or not, i just can't stand her.

i actually liked la guerta and batista together, but maybe that's because i want to bone lauren velez so bad it hurts. seriously though, i don't think it came out of nowhere. batista was single and lonely and la guerta is/was so uptight she probably needed a shoehorn to take a sh*t. with the two of them spending so much time together at work, it seemed inevitable to me. :shrug:

i hope you're wrong about rita returning as a figment of his imagination, but i could see it happening, especially since he's deviating from the code of harry.

the evolution of dexter's character is fascinating, and the true genius of the show is the way it taps into not only everyone's vain fantasy that he/she is an outsider but also everyone's fear that he/she is a monster.

sharona - i'm really sorry, i should have used a spoiler alert :sorry: :sorry: :sorry:

Just about everything is available for streaming/download online these days. Its getting to the point that I only actually "need" my cable service for sports in HD... and occasionally the convenience of having the DVR to pause/rewind live TV. I'm seriously considering dumping cable entirely- its too ridiculously expensive when considering how much out is out there for free.

And Carrie let's not forget SPORTS SOUP on Versus channel. It's modeled of course on SOUP, but it has far more heart & a lot less of that preppy sneer & "I'm So Clever" attitude that ruin David Letterman's show, Rachel Maddow's show, & even Jon Stewart's show (all three of whom constantly put themselves above not only every item they report but every viewer interested in those items). Letterman, Maddow, Stewart et al. are alienating; the great Matt Iseman is all-inclusive.

SPORTS SOUP represents what's best about American entertainment & the American spirit of play & humor.

i ditched my TV 2 years ago and i don't miss it at all.

your crib notes are showing, david. :D

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200910/satire

http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/...ama/index.html

i hardly ever watch letterman. i used to watch jon stewart religiously, and i have no issue with him. he's on comedy central, for chrissakes. who is he alienating? palinites? sweet, they're not his demo.

i agree that maddow's sneering attitude bugs. and on that note, so does keith olbermann's. in particular, that maudlin, patronizing monologue he gave some months back about gay marriage & prop 8 made vomit rise to dangerous levels in my esophagus.

however, i don't expect much else from the MSM in a world where the up and coming generation is as jaded, insincere, and apathetic as this one is.

If you HAVE a computer & ISP (and modem) that is fast enough to DOWNLOAD/STREAM the content, then yeah, that's an option, but if you don't, then it's a moot point.

fwiw, my laptop cost $400 two years ago and my internet is $9.95/mo and i stream/download all the time. :shrug:

HOUSE is the show of shows for me! :nod:

Currently I watch

Desperate Housewives
Brothers and Sisters
Fringe
Greys Anatomy
90210
Supernatural
Medium
Ghost Whisperer
Lie to Me
Private Practice
Nip Tuck

Awaiting the return of

Lost
24
V
Fastforward

I'ma telly addict! haha

Seriously? How do you have time to watch all this, go to work, clean the house, and feed the baby? LMAO! :laugh:
I wish I had time to keep up with a show.

Jersey Shore. Samantha is an MTV whore, so she left it on one day, and I somehow got sucked into the first episode. Then the second.... ugh! Heh... not too sure what to think. I know I really hate that Mike dude, and the girl with the big poof on her head all the time is a dumbass. I can't stand her either.

Now that I'm done quoting everyone....

Honestly, I don't watch much TV at all. I usually just somewhat watch whatever the girls are watching. If I'm here alone, I shut it off. There are I few things I watch when I do watch though. I've always loved Grays... been my show since the first season. I'm a whore for Family Guy. Giggidy. I like MythBusters.... and now I'm drawing a blank.... uh.... If I think of anymore, I'll post. haha!

Its Always Sunny in Philapdelphia- Funniest show of all time
House
NCIS
Lost
Dexter- CANT believe that finale
South Park
Family Guy
Rescue Me
Psych
The Office
Community
Monk- It ended such a short time ago that I'm including it, im basically in denial that its over. Greatest show ever

And I just discovered that wednesday comedy line up a few weeks ago and Im liking all 3 of those new shows.

I absolutely love "The West Wing." They've been showing reruns of that on the Bravo network and I absolutely love it; I feel it's one of the best shows ever on television. It's very "real" but entertaining at the same time, and I love the way it makes me think. A lot of the time one of the characters will say something and there's like, other stuff going on in between the lines and I'm like, "HUH!? :shrug: " and then I have to really think about what just went down; and I really like the way that makes me think - trying to figure out the "puzzle" of what was just said, or the reasons why somebody did something. Also, many people feel it's a "liberally biased" show but I don't agree with that - - Essentially, from one point of view, it's the "bio" of a failed administration - so I like the way it makes me think about the "issues," too. Plus the acting and cinemetography are often fantastic. For me it's right up there with The X-Files, ER, The Cosby Show or any other of my all-time favorites.

Oh lord, I got addicted to this show about 5 years ago, but haven't seen it in a long time. It got to be a bit predictable - on practically every episode, the first time they interviewed the addict's parents, you knew immediately why the addict was so messed up. Immediately.

I think I've watched more TV in the last 6 months than I have in the last 6 years. I've gotten into the Biggest Loser (I'm not sure I care for any of the participants on the new season - I thought Danny & Rudy from last season were super hot after they lost all the weight), although I have mixed feelings about it. Glee is brilliant, and so is Modern Family. My bf and his mom like Bones, but I've gotten sick of it. I can't watch those murder shows anymore.

I also love Food Network - I especially enjoy those cake challenges with that nasty Australian (or whatever she is) woman who never seems to like any of the contestants. And of course my beloved Paula Deen.