List your "Can't Miss" shows

Rico · October 07, 2009, 04:20:59 AM

Here's a nice little article about some of the new shows on this fall. I pretty much agree with their choices (at least of the shows I have seen).

http://www.tv.com/story/18498.html

CMOHamm · October 07, 2009, 04:40:04 AM

Is anyone hopping on the "House" bandwagon with me?

X · October 07, 2009, 04:48:37 AM

Quote from: CMOHamm on October 07, 2009, 04:40:04 AM
Is anyone hopping on the "House" bandwagon with me?

Yep! I'm a huge fan of Hugh and House.

Rico · October 07, 2009, 09:53:19 AM

Quote from: CMOHamm on October 07, 2009, 04:40:04 AM
Is anyone hopping on the "House" bandwagon with me?

"House" was on my list. I've watched it from the first episode and all of them since. Excellent show.

CMOHamm · October 08, 2009, 04:21:41 AM

Yeah it is a great show. I really enjoyyed his character development throughout the series. I was affraid the show would get cheezy in the fourth season. But every season since has kept me hooked. I also like that they keep a nice balance between the episode story and the seasons story.

KatzeKitty · October 08, 2009, 10:51:36 AM

We DVR:

The Daily Show
The Colbert Report
NCIS
Fringe
Warehouse 13
Defying Gravity
Mythbusters
House Hunters International
Good Eats
America's Test Kitchen/Cook's Illustrated (on PBS... great resource)
Good Buy, Bad Buy
All CSIs (but multitask during NYC and Miami)
L&O Criminal Intent (again, multitask)
L&O SVU (multitask)
Star Trek TOS
House (multitask)
Bones (multitask)
Psych
Monk (somewhat pleased, however, that it's the last season... he's starting to get a bit irritating)
The Office (Brit & U.S.)
Big Bang Theory
Burn Notice
Royal Pains
In Plain Sight
Heroes (just the guys; I don't watch)
Clone Wars (just the guys again)
Monty Python anything when I see it, but I often skip through what I've already seen 30 times already
The occasional Bollywood, samurai, and John Wayne movie (wouldn't it be something if John Wayne starred as a samurai in a Bollywood flick??)

We have lots of hours of crap on the DVR. We don't have a lot of time to watch tube, especially ChadH. I have it on when I'm doing paperwork or putter-cleaning. And, I love the skip-ahead feature. Some shows have so little substance or repeat themselves so often (HGTV programs especially) that I can "watch" a half-hour show in less than ten minutes. I often wish that I could watch at a faster speed with audio; hopefully Dish will add that feature soon. That, and a quick-edit feature so you can keep the four minutes of a show that you want, and not have to eat up your storage space with a lot of crap (one of the boys has 30 hoursused because of a single four-minute song in each program... irritating!!!!)

Ah, television.

~katzekitty

ChadH · October 08, 2009, 11:09:58 AM

Katze you're very descriptive, but you forgot "Batman the Brave and the Bold", "Fight Japan" and any and all TNG, Voyager, Enterprise, and DS9 episodes the TV Gods care to bestow upon us. :)

*EDIT* P.S. Thanks for listing all that Katze. You da bawm!

billybob476 · October 08, 2009, 11:16:36 AM

You guys must have quite the drive on your PVR.

KatzeKitty · October 08, 2009, 11:20:43 AM

Quote from: ChadH on October 08, 2009, 11:09:58 AM
Katze you're very descriptive, but you forgot "Batman the Brave and the Bold", "Fight Japan" and any and all TNG, Voyager, Enterprise, and DS9 episodes the TV Gods care to bestow upon us. :)

Quite true, I totally neglected that damned cartoon. :)

And Fight Japan. How could I forget the emotive Robert Cline talking with so much passion about kid sumo wrestlers and stuff (this is another of ChadH's shows).

I didn't include the other Star Trek serieseses because they're not showing "new to me" episodes anymore, if any at all right now :( We have the one TNG left... then what'll we do?!?!?!? No more "Riker's got a li'l captain in 'im" cracks... no more Data is "fully functional" reminders... no more repeating in Picardesque voice "Numbah Won"... no more Wesley onesies...

*sigh*

ChadH · October 08, 2009, 11:24:27 AM

Quote from: billybob476 on October 08, 2009, 11:16:36 AM
You guys must have quite the drive on your PVR.

We're pretty thorough about clearing stuff out right away after it's been viewed.

Feathers · October 12, 2009, 09:42:15 AM

At the moment, a fairly short list:

Stargate Universe
Warehouse 13
Flash Forward
Sanctuary (starts today)
Dollhouse (probably, when it comes back)
Heroes (if it comes back)
Merlin
Dr Who (whenever it's on)

I'll add Red Dwarf when it comes back again!

For the longest time I've been re-running through TNG, DS9 and VOY as Virgin1 have been running an episode a night forever. They've only just broadcast the end of VOY (7 more episodes to watch) and then its all done - so, more viewing time is just about to be freed up each week.