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BarcaRulz wrote:

CARNIVALE: I'm only through the first season so far, but still this has quickly climbed the ranks. Very interesting concept, very freaky occurrences, and it just gives you the feel it intends, you feel compelled to watch and are at all times sucked into the fantastic plot.

YES!!! I found someone else who loves this show. I love the mystery shows with deep mythologies, like LOST. But how come all the good shows are cancelled within two to three years. Arrested Developement, Deadwood, Firefly, Invader Zim...

So, greatest drama of all time is Deadwood. The shows I watch on tv now are Lost and Heroes.

Greatest comedy of all time is Arrested Developement. The shows I watch now are Weeds (best comedy on TV now that AD is gone, but how are they possibly going to do season four?), Reno 911, and The Office. And yes, Always Sunny in Philidelphia is awesome. It is a lot like Seinfeld, in that it is a show about nothing, staring 3 guys and a girl who are completely selfish, only it is way raunchier. I liked early Scrubs but it is tired now. 3rd Rock From The Sun was fantastic, true British absurdism and slapstick on American TV.

Also loved the british Office and Extras. Alyson, I loved the ending of Extras. Just like the Office finale, it was almost depressing for the first hour and forty-five minutes, and then the last 15 minutes is the best possible way the show could end. I like that he doesn't want to drag the show into the ground like Seinfeld.

Also, and I don't know what categories these go in, I guess reality, I always watch Meerkat Manor (OMG I love this show!!) and Flavor of Love

. It's a guilty pleasure, but Love is sooooo trashy and the idiots are sooooo entertaining, and watching it makes me feel a lot better about myself.

Animated: Invator ZIM, Venture Brothers, Fullmetal Alchemist, and Neon Genesis Evangelian.

Also, I love MASH. I own every season.

I really wanna watch Dexter. I think I am gonna look it up online.

Most of my favorites have already mentioned - chuck, house, lost, heroes, Jericho..so I'll name off a few no one has said:
Dead Like Me
The L Word
4400
What Not to Wear
Big Love
Nip/Tuck
My Name is Earl

Oh, you totally reminded me of two, becs. I forgot to put Nip/Tuck, and i can't believe I left out Dead Like Me. It is such a good show. Another great show cancelled two to three seasons in.

Becs, did you hear that they are making a Dead Like Me movie? It has been in the works for a while. You can look it up on IMDB. I love these canceled TV shows getting movies, like AD. Now people need to kick David Milch in the ass and get him to do his much talked about Deadwood movies.

Also, I like Project Runway........so my gay-ness comes out sometimes.......

Also, I like Project Runway.......

Oooh I love that one too! And Queer Eye. Basically if you gave me Bravo, TLC, and the BBC I would be a happy duck..

Oh I also forgot red dwarf and dr. who..

becs wrote:

I would be a happy duck.

[QUACK]

You mentioning Bravo reminds me I also forgot Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D List. I love her, I think she is hilarious.

Also, I would add, for game shows, QI, but it is british and I doubt anyone knows it. But if you do, you are awesome.

My favorite current shows are the following:

Heroes
House
Pushing Daisies
Psych
Monk
The Shield

Plus anything on The Military Channel, History Channel, and Discovery Channel

alyson, have you watched that Extras Christmas special with Clive Owen in a fucking hilarious cameo?

did someone say family guy?????

Yuck, if there was an award for unfunniest show on tv, family gay would win it every year.

I certainly don't think that it's the best TV show on, but "Friday Night Lights" is still the only must-see TV show I have. Yes, it helps to have really (REALLY) pretty actors, but the TV show does something the film medium can't do and uses the time to introduce elongated storylines and characters that was impossible in the film version.

By contrast, I love the TV coach in comparison to Billy Bob Thornton's coach in the film, mainly because there is a hard-nosed compassion with the TV coach that seemingly is non-existent in the cinematic coach.

The main reason to watch: Minka Kelly. She was the only good thing about "The Kingdom". Her 3-minute cameo with Jamie Foxx totally upstaged Academy Award winners Foxx, Chris Cooper and the (always) spunky Jennifer Garner and Jason ("Hogan Family") Bateman.

Well, in terms of all time, my favourites are

DRAMA
1- Twin Peaks
Another series that re-invented TV to broaden its scopes. There'd be no Lost if it wasn't for this risky show. Bizarre, indiosyncratic, and featuring some of the most memorable characters (Dale Cooper, the grinning FBI agent) in any media.

2- The Prisoner
Another mad, mad series, basically created by an actor who was disillusioned not just by conventional TV but by soecity around him, and devised this surreal myster about a spy who quits, only to have his own agency send him to this odd little village, in which he can either accept his imprisonment or confess his secrets. Neither of which he wants to do, and what we get is 17 rip-roaring spisodes of cat and mouse, ending in a strangely symboilc episode.

3- The Sopranos
The series was consistently great, even when it repeated its themes several times. It's the kind of series you never want to end, but when it did, it took and risk and did it brilliantly.

COMEDY

1- Father Ted
Maybe it's because I'm Irish, and recognise a lot of the stereotypes involved, but this show never had a dud joke in its entire 3 series. Mad, manic, silly, and satirical.

2- Fawlty Towers
Kudos to Cleese for ending the series before it started fa(w)ltering. Classic

3- Curb Your Enthusiasm
Possible more consistent than Seinfeld, this show really reinvented comedy on TV to incorporate the cringe-inducing style of mocumentary. Brilliant, and often devoid of the reliance on one-liners.

Mooreland, Neon Genesis Evangelion was a very ambitious series, I have to say.

Recent shows I'm watching are Weeds, Flight of the Conchords, and Heroes. I'm also watching Lost, but it's really getting crap. They're just voiding giving answers by introducing even more new characters to divert our attention. I've also given up on Family Guy. It used to be watchable, but now it's just plain bad.

6 : I have to disagree regarding Lost, sure they are introducing new questions, but with the addition of the Flash Forward instead of the flashback it really seems (to me anyway) that all the threads they have been spinning are finally coming together. Maybe I am the idiot they are catering to and faking me out to keep watching because I think they are answering questions.

I really disliked the vast majority of last season exactly because of the reason you are citing, they Lost (tehehe) me because it all got too stupidly complex and there were no answers to be found. There were more orphaned storylines than relevant ones. at the end of last season (probably the last 3 shows) it finally started to come full circle and reach a point of wrapping back up on loads of things that were open ended.

my currently watching list includes House, The Sopranos (i waited for this to end before watching the first season, coz i didn't feel i could wait for weekly episodes), Entourage, Shark (not the best show, but it has a season 1 climax to kill any other show dead!!)....and i used to watch Las Vegas, but not since Caan left the building....

EmmanuelLubezki wrote:

alyson, have you watched that Extras Christmas special with Clive Owen in a fucking hilarious cameo?

did someone say family guy?????

Yuck, if there was an award for unfunniest show on tv, family gay would win it every year.

Not gonna lie, I teared up a little during his speech at the end. Personally my favorite cameo during the special was Gordon Ramsay, mostly because I LOVE the BBC version of Kitchen Nightmares.

Alyson wrote:

EmmanuelLubezki wrote:

alyson, have you watched that Extras Christmas special with Clive Owen in a fucking hilarious cameo?

did someone say family guy?????

Yuck, if there was an award for unfunniest show on tv, family gay would win it every year.

Not gonna lie, I teared up a little during his speech at the end. Personally my favorite cameo during the special was Gordon Ramsay, mostly because I LOVE the BBC version of Kitchen Nightmares.

I saw that episode. I cracked up at what Clive Owen said. Especially the last line.

Emmanuel: I'm not sure if this has been brought up in here, but I notice your name matching a cinematographer on imdb. Do you admire him? He's worked on some great films. Children of Men, and Y tu mama tambien are very well shot.

Emmanuel: I'm not sure if this has been brought up in here, but I notice your name matching a cinematographer on imdb. Do you admire him? He's worked on some great films. Children of Men, and Y tu mama tambien are very well shot.

Considering his nomination for 21st Century Masterpiece was Children of Men, I am sure he is a fan.

no, i think he killed him and....BECAME HIM!!!!

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