Favorite television shows

The ClubHouse: General Discussions - Jan -Apr. 2001: March: Favorite television shows

Twiggyish

Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 05:16 am Click here to edit this post

I love the show Gideon's Crossing. The characters are very real and moving. Andre Braugher, is a wonderful actor, too.

Other favorite shows, ER, West Wing, Ed and Survivor. With sitcoms, Everybody Loves Raymond, The Fighting Fitzgeralds (Brian Dennehy takes the show) and Will and Grace.

What are your favs?

Riviere

Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 06:02 am Click here to edit this post

My new fave will probably be The Job. Also like NYPD Blue, Drew Carey, Malcolm in the Middle, Biography, Miracle Pets, Who Wants to be a Millionaire, and anything with the Croc Hunter. I was wild about The Mole and liked Survivor 1 but only watch Survivor 2 to see how Keith is doing..

Bearcatuc

Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 06:25 am Click here to edit this post

I love all reality-based shows (Survivors, BB, TI and The Mole). I also love most HBO shows (The Sopranos, Sex and the City, Arliss). My favorite sitcom is Will and Grace and my favorite drama is ER.

Mishamisha

Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 06:40 am Click here to edit this post

Sitcoms: Will and Grace, Dharma and Greg, That 70's Show, Drew Carey, Ed, Titus, Malcolm in the Middle

Dramas: ER, Providence

Soaps: (when I'm home sick I watch) Y&R and Guiding Light

Reality Shows: BB (duh), Survivor I & II, Real World (seen 'em all), Trauma: Life & Death in the ER, Paramedics

Other: House Beautiful, Trading Spaces, Martha Stewart <ducking & running>

Hmmm...do any of you get the impression I watch a lot of TV?

Norwican

Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 06:51 am Click here to edit this post

Will and Grace, Biography, Trading Spaces, O'Reilly Factor, The Spin Room.

Loved the Mole.

Most of the time though the TV is tuned to ESPN or a sporting event.

Twiggyish

Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 08:17 am Click here to edit this post

I like Trading Spaces, too. My favorite part is seeing the expressions of the participants when they view their new room! The one decorator who does the lamps is a riot..lol I can just imagine what she would do with my home.

Max

Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 08:44 am Click here to edit this post

Don't feel bad, Mish, I watch TV almost constantly! :)

Sitcoms: Just Shoot Me, Frasier, Drew Carey, Ally McBeal, Friends, Absolutely Fabulous

Dramas: West Wing, Law & Order (both original and SVU), Boston Public, NYPD Blue, 100 Centre Street (on A&E), ER, Gideon's Crossing, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Third Watch, 7th Heaven

HBO: The Sopranos, Oz, Sex and the City

Reality: The Mole, Survivor, BB (on the web was better than TV, though), Temptation Island, Real World/Road Rules, Trauma: Life in the ER, Paramedics, Castaway (on BBC America), Medical Detectives

Soaps: All My Children (I've been watching this off and on for about 30 years! EEK!)

Other: Trading Spaces, Changing Rooms (the BBC original Trading Spaces is based on), Decorating for the Sexes, Carol Duvall (crafts)

Norwican

Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 08:59 am Click here to edit this post

Yes, you reminded me Max... I do like some of the shows on HGTV too.

Digilady

Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 09:00 am Click here to edit this post

Arrite, Riviere and Max! How LONG have y'all watched NYPD Blue? Me, forever. Talk about your addict.

Max, I watched Ally once. Hated it. Watched it again and now I'm hooked there too. In general, I loathe sitcoms. MASH was funny, tho!

ST Voyager (and all other STs), horror movies, drama movies. JAG. Nash Bridges.

Now that I've moved in with my Dad, no,... wait. Explanation. UNTIL I moved in here they drank like fishes. Never watched TV at night, were always passed out.

SO I need a good sitcom recommendation. He likes funny. Every one we've watched have been weaker than shit, and are not listed in you guys' posts above.

So, what for a an intelligent guy who used to like Frazier? And Mash?

TIA

Maire

Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 12:11 pm Click here to edit this post

I don't watch TV as much as I used to. But I do have a few definite favorites where I make a point to stop everything and watch:

Judging Amy
ER
Survivor

Also, Felicity if it ever comes back on.

Noslonna

Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 12:25 pm Click here to edit this post

Dark Angel. My kids got me watching it and I surprised myself by liking it.

Bearcatuc

Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 12:39 pm Click here to edit this post

Max, I am also a HUGE All My Children fan. I have watched it 26 years. I also follow the other ABC soaps (One Life to Live and General Hospital).

Digi, I started watching NYPD the first season. I still really miss Jimmy Smits, but Rick Schroder is doing a great job.

Schoolmarm

Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 02:09 pm Click here to edit this post

I'm glad to see that others like the BBC "Changing Rooms" it's my favorite....and did you know that it is an Endemol production? Yes, the same folks that brought us Big Brother. Trading Spaces is good to but the original on BBC is better.

I got hooked on BBC America when it was recently added to our digital cable....hooked on "Can't cook, won't cook", "Castaway" and "Changing Rooms".

I also like "Sex and the City" on HBO.

Will and Grace, Frasier, ER

Oh, my, it seems like I have the TV on all the time while I work at home!

Glass

Friday, March 16, 2001 - 02:07 am Click here to edit this post

As I've said before... I like "quirky" characters. Malcolm in the Middle is usually pretty good, and so is Titus. These are dysfunctional, interesting, almost real characters (not regular sitcom fare). Drew Carey is sweetly innocent and creative(The full monty episode with the spinning UPS boxes is my favorite). For campy action I like Xena - Warrior Princess and Hercules.

Lately, I have been hooked on Junkyard Wars (the original british version). Two teams of ordinary mechanically inclined folks are let loose in a junkyard to design, build, and race (in a 10 hr period), boats, submarines, flying machines, race cars, all terrain vehicles, hovercraft, windmill operated coffee grinders, etc. Often with humorous but functional results.

Battlebots has been interesting. Gearheads build remote controlled robots (in different weight classes) and fight each other (sometimes to the death as parts fly)in an enclosed arena with fans cheering them on.

Anything from the BBC is usually great. Comedies like Absolutely Fabulous, Monty Python. Sci-Fi classics such as Dr. Who, Red Dwarf. Detective series - Inspector Morse, Prime Suspect.

And YES I watch WAY TOO MUCH tv - the curse of working out of my house and owning three vcrs.

Guruchaz

Friday, March 16, 2001 - 08:01 am Click here to edit this post

My favorite show is "Jackass" on MTV. Of course, I've only seen it once but it seems to be a good role model.

Rollerboy

Friday, March 16, 2001 - 08:36 am Click here to edit this post

I agree Glass, "Junkyard Wars" is great.

I really like your choice also Guru. It's truly extreme TV. It's "Tom Green Show" without the socially redeeming qualities.

"Eco-Challenge" is up there as well.

Digilady

Friday, March 16, 2001 - 09:00 am Click here to edit this post

I'll go with Eco-Challenge too. Fascinating! Last year's was so gorgeous, too.

(OK, I watch the Geek channel too. Shoot me again.)

Willi

Friday, March 16, 2001 - 09:19 am Click here to edit this post

Glass,

I love anyone on sight who uses the word "quirky." :)

On to TV...
Some favorite past shows:
Andy Griffith, I Love Lucy, Picket Fences, Seinfeld, Cheers, Big Brother & The Mole.

Some favorite current shows:
Survivor, West Wing, Will & Grace, Just Shoot Me, & Ed.

I also enjoy the Discovery & History channels. And, I'm a "political-junkie" so all those shows on MSNBC & CNN & Fox where people are yelling at each other & "discussing" politics & social issues........Love em!

Grooch

Friday, March 16, 2001 - 12:26 pm Click here to edit this post

Since some people mentioned Trading Spaces, did anyone see it last week? It's the first time I've seen the show and it was the one where they were doing each others living rooms. One guy said he would beat up the other guy if his house turned out ugly.

In his house the 2nd couple wanted to make it casual elegance, but then they are painting the walls an ugly dark purple and the decorator is making lamps out of garbage cans. It was hideous! Even the decorator hated the purple. I stayed tuned just so I could see the expression on the guy's face when he saw it! But as luck would have it, the satelite dish went out just as he was walking into the room and I missed it.

Can someone please post what the family thought of the purple living room? Was there a bloodbath? Thanks!

Lancecrossfire

Friday, March 16, 2001 - 12:46 pm Click here to edit this post

Although I rarely get to see it (I don't have cable), I really enjoy Celebrity Deathmatch. I usually am crying from laughing so hard by the time the show is over.

It's great that clay can do that for me.

I also enjoyed The Pretender, although NBC was nice enough to cancel the show. (bunch of richard inhalers)

Norwican

Friday, March 16, 2001 - 01:31 pm Click here to edit this post

Didn't catch that one Grooch... but I've seen the lamp lady before.

Twiggyish

Friday, March 16, 2001 - 02:39 pm Click here to edit this post

Grooch, I saw that one. That lamp lady has no taste. The garbage can still looked like one when she finished. That's what everyone needs, a large metal garbage can in their living room. YUK.

I like the older guy decorator. He has some great ideas.

Grooch

Friday, March 16, 2001 - 02:49 pm Click here to edit this post

So Twiggy, what happened? Did the homeowner get upset when he saw his purple livingroom, or did he like it? I gotta know!

Twiggyish

Friday, March 16, 2001 - 05:04 pm Click here to edit this post

The husband was not pleased and the wife said she liked it, but would change some things.

Riviere

Saturday, March 17, 2001 - 02:23 am Click here to edit this post

Digilady, yep, been with NYPD Blue since day one, amazing the stuff they put Andy through, heheh. I really like The Job, edgy & not really a sitcom but fast paced, you might like it. Having a six week run and how I hope ABC picks it up for lots more! Oh, The Pretender is on TNN in the early evenings here, guess they picked it up and do new shows.. Funny I don't watch much tv after I have owned pc's since '86, where did tv go?!? At least I have a tv in my office, so I can listen as I work. Usually tuned to CNN or Court TV...

Misslibra

Saturday, March 17, 2001 - 03:05 am Click here to edit this post

I enjoy watching all the reality shows. I don't like sitcoms. But will watch Malcolm in the middle.
I never have been able to get into Ally. I like shows like Dateline, Primetime, and 48 hours. I like most of the court shows. The discovery channel. I use to be addicted to soaps, but now you couldn't pay me to watch a soap.
I like the real ER on TLC, and Paramedics.
The shows on HBO, OZ, Sex in the City, The Sopranos, mostly all the HBO shows. I also like some of the Showtime shows, but they have not been as good as the ones on HBO.

I also like Dennis Miller, Chris Rock, Arliss, and PI.

Digilady

Saturday, March 17, 2001 - 08:50 am Click here to edit this post

Riv - you TOO on NYPD Blue?

Yep as to all the shit for Andy. Then the kid this season!

I tried The Job. Neither dad nor I thought it funny. RATS. We liked MASH, as I said... tis a hard follow up.

I love Dennis too, but have IDIG and am having trouble figuring out when it's on, of all things. That and other premium comedies might do the deed and make him laugh.