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What Other Shows You Watch?
Topic Started: Jul 16 2006, 01:36 AM (7,491 Views)
campgrrls
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Yes I enjoy Hotel Babylon. It's on here at the moment. It's a good bit of fun. Tamsin Outhwaite - not a favourite of mine but she suits the prog. It is unusual and quite camp.
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Hi from the land of the Kiwi.
Hi I also watch Hotel Babylon, find it entertaining, a good bit of mindless fluff.
Great to just blob to without having to concentrate to much.
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Helen&Nikki4ever
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ooh a general tv question! what dont i watch would probably be easier! Ok a list of my fave tv progs past and present....

The X files
ER
Sex and the city
The L word
Lois & Clark
The Bill
L&O SVU
Star Trek Voyager
Cagney and Lacey

Im sure theer's more but i cant think of them right now...
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I'm also enjoying Vincent. A fairly conventonal PI who is a bit rough and anti-establishment. But I like that genre. And he comes over macho but ultimately is quite respectful of his female side-kick who is very cpapable of doing her own investigations in difficult territory. I find this prog very welcome amongst so much glossy stuff on TV.
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Tasha Yar
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Sep 23 2006, 01:42 PM
it might be too late tasha, but allo allo and dinnerladies are a couple of really appalling english comedy shows... i really wouldn't buy them!

the shows i watch are bad girls
x factor (watching it right now, in fact)
american idol
our new life in everwood
desperate housewives
taggart

just realised my whole list is trashy tv really, hahaha! i'm very deep honestly, :rofl

Thanks for the suggestion. Um..don't take this the wrong way but you are suggesting I not get those programs and yet you like American Idol and Desperate Housewives? Just kidding. :-) Housewives was good the first season, but I found it disappointing after that. Of course that didn't stop me from watching it though <g>.

BBC-A is showing commercials for Wire in the Blood so perhaps it will start to air here. Haven't seen it yet, even though I did download the first ep with Simone in it.

Almost downloaded Hotel Babylon so perhaps I will go back and do that now.

There are a bunch of new shows here in the fall program lineup. Curious to see how long some of them will run before getting the axe.

Just can't wait until Oct 6, when Battlestar Galactica begins again!!!!
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I said SIT IN THAT CHAIR
to be honest, i don't really get that much time during term to watch tv, so usually i just want tv i can switch off in front of, such as desperate housewives or american idol. when i get time to watch something seriously, i prefer dramas, and films.
no nikki this is not the way
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Helen&Nikki4ever
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oh yes i forgot desperate housewives! I love it too, mainly coz of my long time crush on teri hatcher and since ive been watchin the show developed a liking for marcia cross also ;)
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Wire in the Blood: Simone or no Simone, I didn't think I'd be able to sit through WitB, the camerawork was too irritating. At a certain point I got innoculated, though, & am just finishing watching the rest of the series. So I guess I'm pretty into it at this point. ;)

Veronica Mars: There are a number of things I am not crazy about in Veronica Mars, so I start each season expecting to like it far less than I wind up doing. She's got no female friends, the show's not just straight but fairly male-centered, all the mother figures are pretty much evil, or at least bad--but its class politics are remarkable, esp in this climate: poor/working class people (there's no real middle-class to speak of in Neptune) are either Good or capable of changing their behavior to become better, but rich people are ba-a-ad; the show's use of music is often excellent & quite moving, and some of the acting is way impressive, esp Jason Dohring who plays the Spike character, Logan. Guy could be the next Ed Norton. But don't try to watch random episodes, I did & it was hopeless, it's a totally plot-driven storyline, you'll be lost & won't care. You gotta sit through the first season & watch in order if you want to give it a fair try. For Btvs fans, half the cast shows up at one time or another: Charisma Carpenter is on a number of the S2 shows, Joss Whedon does a walk-on, Alyson Hannigan's in several eps.

Grey's Anatomy: If I like VM more than I want to, I wind up liking this less. A lot of the supporting characters are very well-acted, there's Sandra Oh who's always wonderful, but the main character, Meredith, & her boyfriend/doctor, McDreamy--the longer they're on screen the more I actively dislike them. Not good for your central characters. Racially the show's very diverse--it's produced by a black woman, so in addition to a lot of people of color in positions of power there are mixed couples & no one cares, it's a non-issue--but the show is incredibly straight. A lot of good small pieces but the voice-over narration here (unlike Veronica Mars) is a mistake, I feel, ultimately giving the episodes less meaning rather than more by compulsively summing them up. Katherine Heigl as Izzy is one of the more interesting characters with a good backstory, but it looks like she's gonna get axed at the end of the season. On the basis of classic 'American' looks alone, she's another one with a long career ahead of her. But as for the show: meh, oa a bit too pat. It often entertains me but it doesn't stay with me.

The Wire Finally starting season 3 of The Wire, which continues to rock. Idris Elba is always excellent, the whole cast is great but the writing is killer. The show has a kind of weird history, it last aired in 2004, season 4, and then was just picked up for a final fifth season--this month. So it's been on a 2-year hiatus, which seems bizarre to me. If Evangelist was around I could ask her what's up with that.

I'm thinking of giving Spooks a try, I'm finding good scriptwriting a sort of no-compromise area for getting involved with tv shows. After the braininess of WitB & The Wire, it's hard to be satisfied with less.
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I pretty much agree with you on those assessments ekny. I like Wire in the Blood as much for its acting and characterisations as anything. Like Waking the Dead it has older experienced actors in lead roles, and they portray them as sexual people. Also that sexuality is appropriate for their ages.

We've only had season one of Veronica Mars here but I liked that show mainly because of its class politics and smart writing. I found Veronica to be much more of an engaging character/actor than Buffy/SMG who always put me off BtVS in spite of its great writing.

I have tried to watch Greys Anatomy more than once but find the whole thing a turn off - don't know why. Maybe just a mix of the characters and writing. Also have gone off Desperate Housewives during the second season. The style is wearying after a while.

I have watched a few eps of The Wire but I have to remember to set the VCR cause it's on late here. I find it very unusual and intriguing. Don't know which season we have last seen and the women too glossy and bitchy towards each other to keep my interest.

I like Spooks though it is a little disappointing, at least in the first series, for its politics and being a total fantasy. It also is more glossy than a lot of Brit series, because it's aiming for a US audience I think. Robin Nelson told me at the conference I went to in the UK, that he's written about Spooks in his latest book about to be published. He continues from his last book in comparing some Brit and US progs apparently. He agreed with my ideas (as above) about Spooks but still thinks it retains British qualities. I preferred the politics in the last series. It was more critical of the Blair/Bush line on terrorism than the first couple of series I think. I think it has some very good actors in it and am looking forward to seeing Hermione Norris in it.
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ekny, your reviews are spot on for VM and GA. Even though I find GA to be mindless at times, I still watch it. If anything it allows me to participate in lunchtime work conversation the next day.

As for VM, I wish I had her guts when I was that age. Constantly, I find myself saying to myself "where was she when I was in school?" I enjoy the narrative in that show and find that it definitely compliments.

I bought the first season of Spooks but haven't gotten further than the 2nd ep. I had been told that it aired in the States as MI5 and that some things were different. Not sure what exactly, which is why I went with the original. I don't like it when things are "sanitized" or 'Americanized" for US consumption.

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Sep 26 2006, 04:22 PM
As for VM, I wish I had her guts when I was that age.  Constantly, I find myself saying to myself "where was she when I was in school?" I enjoy the narrative in that show and find that it definitely compliments.

Yes, and also, Veronica is often wrong, which is really unusual as she's the hero of her own show. And she gets to learn something interesting each time she's wrong. So we get the narrative contrasting with content as often as it complements it.

With Grey's Anatomy, though, I get the feeling I'm a) being talked down to with this moralizing summing-up tone that really grates as it's mainly a bunch of banal useless generalizations BUT, more to the point, b ) the producers don't realize themselves that their heroine doesn't seem to get half the stuff that's coming out of her mouth. If there's supposed to be some Irony there... I don't think it's working.
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I've watched all three series of the Wire that we've had here but sometimes its hard to understand all the slang! Baltimore black gang language is not something we've had much exposure to here! Its one of those programmes i watch and find i dont really get inot it until the last 10 minutes and just when i have its finished and i have to go thru the whole process the next episode!

also remebered Ive just started watching the West Wing as they started it again from the begining and it was a show i thought at the time i could get into. Mostly I'm just waiting for the series that has annabeth Gish in it ;)

Forgot on my list that i also loved Commander in Chief! Geena Davis as president is HOT!!!! :wub:
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Sep 27 2006, 08:56 AM
I've watched all three series of the Wire that we've had here but sometimes its hard to understand all the slang! Baltimore black gang language is not something we've had much exposure to here!

The Wire has subtitles. For the first few shows I didn't realize it, there was no reason it would occur to me, we all spoke the same language, didn't we?

Well, no, actually, we don't. Then I wondered if they were there & of course had a kneejerk spasm of liberal guilt when I found them right under the subtitle button. I should understand! Subtitles are cheating! etc.

Then I thought, look, the issue isn't that this is black slang but that it's black regional slang, inner-city slang specific to a drug subculture I know absolutely nothing about. Why shouldn't I need subtitles?

So now I use em when I need them. I tend to resist in general as I don't like having the screen cluttered up, but if you rent the show & can control the remote, it's a whole lot more interesting & pleasant when you're not always saying Wha--? Huh? can we rewind? Wha--? Cause eventually you stop asking because you feel stupid & don't want to bother if your friend or partner don't know either. Or at least that was happening to me. I'd think Oh hell, who knows, every time he opens his damn mouth I don't understand half the phrases, it's hopeless. Sort of like Al & her Glaswegian accent: Oh. Yeah. Right. It's Al. She's saying something hostile and threatening. Next scene, let's move on. Not optimal. ;)
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hmm....do u watch it on FX in the UK? If so then i think maybe i will try the old subtitles button! Sometimes Americans just talk too fast.....or maybe i listen too slow-either way im often rewinding to hear things again and often still not getting what's been said! :err
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Just started At Home with the Braithwaites & am finding it likable so far, the characters are credible without too much straining; well-cast; and for those who are concerned with such things, seems pretty much totally a female-centric show, kinda a girls' version of Batman, according to 1 friend. Sarah Smart plays lesbian daughter.

It takes some risks in satirizing itself, its characters, & its format, but seems to be getting away w/it. & I suppose that inclination isn't surprising, given the producer, Sally Wainwright, cut her teeth on Coronation St & Emmerdale. Anyway... 3 eps in & still interested; best thing is the show seems to know just where it wants to go. -e
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