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I love both versions, but I have to say that the Canadian version is more fair to the dancers - all of the Top 20 are given screen time during the audition process. There is also less filler - the results show is only 30 minutes. The Canadian version also features more styles of dance, such as capoeira, African jazz, dancehall, and house. When Dan Karaty guest judged, he said that the Canadian dancers were "second to none."Quote:
Originally Posted by Mathor
The original Star Trek series
Sanford and Son
Twilight Zone
King of the Hill
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"I'm a doctor not a brick layer"
star trek, star trek and star trek
I also like desperate housewife's and Heroes
I'm not really into TV other than movies these last 10 to 15 years, but going back in time, my favorite shows were The Defenders, The prisoner, Twilight zone, original star trek. I also liked the first 4 seasons of Homicide:life on the streets, the Sopranos, Early West Wing. There was also an early western show with Richard Boone called Have gun will travel that I really loved.
Dr. Who
Boston Legal (will be sorely missed)
Dexter
6 Feet Under
Frasier
I better stop there or I'll be typing all night ;)
Survivor
The Amazing Race
Dancing With The Stars
America's Best Dance Crew
Got into 'Criminal Minds' not long ago. That show can be spooky.
Recently, it's all been about The Sopranos for me. I've finished series 3 and I am HOOKED!
I've been talked into watching the Stargate SG-1 series. I just finished season 2 last night, now on to season 3.
Doctor Who is back on the box! There go my Saturday evenings for the forseeable future!
I really liked the X-files except for the last couple of seasons. I was a big fan of the Sopranos. I'm quite fond of Dexter but I've only seen the first two seasons. I have Futurama on DVD. I can enjoy the Closer. When I was a kid I always watched Roswell.
Nowadays I don't watch TV that much.
X files is amazing. Which reminds me: I recently watched the series of Bleak House which starred Gillian Anderson as Lady Dedlock. It was absolutely superb. Great adaptation.
I recommend the following:
Breaking Bad
There are two lead on the show. Walter who lived his entire life in a straight line who finds out he has cancer. it throws him off course with no understanding of how a "clean" guy like him get this kind of "punishment". he is a chemistry teacher. he meets Jesse, a p crystal meth seller whose life is in complete disarray. Walter ends up helping Jesse. using his skills in chemistry, he makes the finest crytsal meth and starts selling. it explores how one effed up tries to makes sense of everything by trying to fix another effed up life. in the process you understand, with objectivity, how misery really attracts company and how one fundamental need to be needed pushes man to go beyond his bounds in order to feel he matters.
Perfect Strangers
Before Friends, before How I Met Your Mother, before The Big Bang Theory, there was Perfect Strangers. The ultimate story of a disastrously beautiful and funny friendship of two people from different worlds. Balky is from a town no one has heard of before whose sense of family extends to a community. He is innocent and kind to a fault. Larry is the typical American guy drowning in modernity in ambition. Together they find the worst in each other and encourages the best in each other.
Colonial House
This is a reality show inspired by history, for a change. People were made to live the 1628 life where there were no TV and other forms of technology. They discover how people were forced to commune because there was nothing else to do. Their source of entertainment were community bonfire with dancing and singing. Among the points of dissension that arise in the colony were: the rigid class and gender roles, mandatory religious observance, and the puritanical civil laws of the era, particularly those pertaining to profanity. "Not only does 'Colonial House' capture the drama of everyday life in a small colony but it also shows how ordinary people cope -- or in many cases, don't cope -- when removed from all that is familiar and comforting to them in the modern world," said series producer Sallie Clement.
Nip Tuck for the high quality soap opera, but average writing.
Sapphire and Steel, The Prisoner from the late '60s, M*A*S*H*.
Fawlty Towers, Sopranos, and Mash.
Anyone for Spartacus?
Spartacus and Eureka are the only shows I watch these days.
Spartacus is a great show. It has really good writing and great cast of characters. Can't wait for season 2.Quote:
Anyone for Spartacus?
Spartacus and Eureka are the only shows I watch these days.
I was heartbroken last year because I started watching it after the fifth episode, I think.Quote:
Originally Posted by Venerable Bede
This year started from the start, rewatching the Season 1.
Are you in the UK, Bede?
No I live in Canada. By the time I decided to watch the show, the first season was already on DVD, so I watched it from episode one. So have you seen the entire season yet or just the episodes after five?
I have seen them all now and watching the reruns as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Venerable Bede
The second season is a prequel, right?
Yeah, it deals with a younger Batiatus taking control of his father's ludus. It also shows Crixus's rise from an inexperienced recruit to the champion of Capua. Unfortunately it's not a full season, it's only six episodes, but it is still very good.Quote:
The second season is a prequel, right?
At the minute I'm enjoying the BBC's new crime thriller, The Shadow-Line - which is currently up to episode 5 of 7. It's all on the iPlayer for any Brits out there.
If you can deal with the rather slow first episode, it's very good indeed. A marvellous cast, combined with some wonderful cinematography, a nice noir style, and a script that, while hardly naturalistic, is well thoughfully constructed.
The story revolves around a major London crimelord who is assassinated within hours of obtaining a royal pardon. Following this, both the police and his criminal associates start investigating his murder. It is a slow series, but well worth sticking with, and the twists and turns of the plot are hard to predict.
Also, a certain villainous character is quite possibly simultaneously the coolest and creepiest man I've ever seen on TV...
Does anyone like the old family sit-coms lilke Leave it to Beaver?
I have to say Mad Men, Sopranos and Seinfeld.
Game of Thrones, South Park, Family Guy, Workaholics, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Wheel of Fortune. Was a fan of Fringe, but not anymore.
I used to enjoy a show in the 80's called the "Equalizer" about a british man who helped people for a living. Did anybody else watch it?
Hoarders and Intervention on A&E. I love watching all the things people "collect". And watching druggies forced to get help is kinda sad but it is entertaining.
I pretty much only watch talk shows and reality TV. I'm the worst reality TV junkie ever!
The Real Housewives of NY, Atlanta, Beverly Hills, and the OC
Top Chef
Man vs. Wild
Fatal Attractions (all about people with wild animal obsessions)
Used to watch Oprah, and still love Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz (only occasionally watch any of these shows though)
Bachelor Pad (but never the Bachelor or the Bachelorette)
Are you Smarter than a Fifth Grader?
Flipping Out
Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Realtime with Bill Maher
The Soup
Kathy Griffen: My Life on the D-List (probably my favorite)
Any of the dance competition shows except Dancing with the Stars
Various news programs ranging from Chris Matthews to Bill O'Reilly to Nancy Grace, but rarely the local news
Project Runway
I tivo and watch about half of these shows on demand and as you can see I drive my boyfriend batty!
- Ghost Hunters (the show with The Atlantic Paranormal Society) which is broadcasted on Sky Livingit in the UK :) I won't be able to watch this soon though because I'm moving into my university halls tomorrow and won't have a TV!
- Casualty (which is shown on BBC1 so I can catch it on iPlayer)
- Downton Abbey (new series begins next Sunday!)
I don't watch too much TV, to be honest. I'm more of a movies person.
Star Trek: The Next Generation & DS9
Barney Miller
Gunsmoke
Buffy and Angel
Battlestar Galactica
Andy Griffith
Jericho
Cheers
Frasier
Dexter
Law and Order: SVU
Hell's Kitchen and Top Chef
X-Files, 24 seasons 1 & 2, The Cosby Show.
The Twilight Zone
Star Trek
The Big Bang Theory
Deadliest Warrior
Watch way too much T.V. Favorite shows:
The Simpsons(seasons 1 to 8)
Freaks and Geeks
The Wire
Arrested Development
Larry Sanders Show
Kids in the Hall
Seinfeld
Current shows:
Louie(best show on T.V. right now)
Breaking Bad
Parks and Rec
Community
Bored to Death
The League
How I Met Your Mother
It's Always Sunny in Philly
DEXTER!!!
The Colbert Report
The Daily Show
Fresh Prince of Bel Air
The Office
I also really liked the first two seasons of The Tudors
Louie
Parks and Rec
Community
Simpsons(Season 1-8)
Alfred Hitchcock presents
SCTV
Kids in the Hall
King of the Hill
Mission hill
X-Files
Larry Sanders Show
Seinfeld
Freaks and Geeks
The Wire
This was a great show; no idea why they did not carry on.Quote:
Originally Posted by Laszlo Jamf
I watch sitcoms mostly; "Big Bang Theory" and "How I Met Your Mother" are favorites these days whenever I can manage to catch some TV.
Also liked "Coupling", "Office" (USA), "Spartacus", CSI (Original) and "Eureka"... And still watch the reruns of Frasier if come across.
Plus all the ideas they had planned for season 2 were amazing. But at least the end of the show led to Undeclared which was great in its own right. But couldn't reach the heights of F&G.
I am not familiar with "Undeclared" at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Laszlo Jamf
Wonder if it made to this side of the pond...
Plenty of respect for Freaks & Geeks and Undeclared, two uncommonly good series. And even consider Firefly, a heck of a show that one was. Louie, in terms of what's on TV right now, is untouchable.
There was a Canadian show called Slings and Arrows that featured a younger Rachel Adams. The season arcs were based on the Shakespeare plays that the theater company in the series was performing. This show was a literary feast, funny, and downright entertaining! Top five for sure.
But in terms of incredible television, there are, for this viewer, two shows.
Take a trip back to the years 1988-1993. Yes, you know the show...
The Wonder Years.
That was some phenomenal television right there. This viewer had to catch it later on as it started before he was born. You still have the hots for Winnie Cooper, admit it. At its best, the ingenuity of the storytelling, the use of device, etc. makes it hard to believe that this series was made in the 80's. For its worst episodes, it's an above average comedy-drama. Some of it's storytelling techniques were ahead of its time; others, now neglected or overlooked, would benefit many of the shows on television today.
The second show is hard to even sensibly talk about.
The Decalogue.
It's a polish TV show that has some recognition in English speaking countries. Each one of the ten episodes is about one of the ten commandments but this is not a religious offering. It's more a metaethical discussion with storylines and arcs that will haunt you long after you watch it. And it can be painful, even if you're agnostic/atheist, to see a presentation of an either silent or non-existent god, on a purely human level.
J
EDIT: Also, Masterpiece Theater did a show called Any Human Heart that comes to mind when thinking of exceptional television.
Ah, TV. When it's bad, it's the worst. When it's average, it's still pretty damn bad. But when it's good, oh man, it reaffirms itself as a cultural cornerstone and affects people in a meaningful, artistic way.