Favourite tv series, what's your favourite? Options

[Ethelle]

I searched, but I didn't find a topic like this in the next three pages, so I figured I'd create one. If there is a topic like this already, I sincerely apologize.

So what's you favourite tv series, if you have one?

At the moment, I'm a great fan of House. I've always been a fan of the Blackadder series, so I was pleasantly surprised when Hugh Laurie got his own series. A hospital series at that. I hate hospital series, usually, but I make an exception for this one.

I used to be a fan of Stargate: SG-1 a few years back, and I recently started to watch the dvds I had bought a long time back. As I remember, I stopped watching because I found it boring, but now I can't remember why. I love the series now more than ever.

[Christo_2992]

Lost!
Heroes!

[Ethelle]

Meh... I'm not a big fan of Lost *dodges rotten tomatoes*

I have heard a lot about Heroes, however. What is it about?

[Christo_2992]

*throws rotten tomatoes*

Anyway, heroes is about people who suddenly get super-powers and have to save the world.

I know it doesn't sound original but it's awesome!

[Alexander]

I don't really watch tv, so I'm really not up to speed on the latest series and such. Classics that I do love though;
- Mash
- Blackadder
- Dharma and Greg
- Married with Children
- Home Improvement
- Roseanne
- Will and Grace

And probably a half dozen I'm forgetting.

[treydog]

Favorites at the moment are:

Chuck- Computer repairman "becomes" a CIA/NSA supercomputer

Bones- Forensics

Blast from the past: The much-too short Firefly- Spaceships, horses, (and Adam Baldwin)

[canis216]

I'm not much for watching TV... I don't own one. When I do watch, I'm usually watching NBA basketball. Maybe Mythbusters, sometimes. That's about it.

[Ethelle]

@ Christo: Well, I think it does sound rather original. Don't know about any other series with a concept like that.

@ Alexander: Ah yes, Mash too. They broadcasted it last year here. The main character Hawkeye is such an arrogant person though that I couldn't always bear to watch. And yay for Blackadder and Dharma&Greg!

@ Treydog: Hmm... I think I saw Bones once. I remember thinking "This is less bad than CSI", which surprised me because I recently turned away from the genre firstly because I don't like CSI, and secondly because all sorts of clones appeared. Bones wasn't so bad.

@ Canis: I'll have the same problem when I'm moving out. I will have a tv, but no money for cable or satellite or something. I'll have to stick to watching dvds then. Mythbusters is fun. What's the guys name with the silly hat? I love his moustache!

This post has been edited by Ethelle: Apr 8 2008, 09:46 PM

[Alexander]

@ Alexander: Ah yes, Mash too. They broadcasted it last year here. The main character Hawkeye is such an arrogant person though that I couldn't always bear to watch. And yay for Blackadder and Dharma&Greg!

Heh, yeah at times he's quite annoying, though overall the characters and the story lines make it a very compelling show. I was also impressed with the positiveness I've always heard and seen was said about it by those people actually in a real MASH during the koren war. I think that adds quite a dimension to it.

And I seem to recall it being repeated quite a few times over the years, I'm pretty sure I once saw the entire thing on RTL5, or maybe SBS6. Though that was back in the days I did watch TV a lot

[Wolfie]

Stargate SG1 and Stargate Atlantis are my two favourites. I've always felt SG1 went kinda downhill after Richard Dean Anderson wasn't in it anymore, but never to the point I didn't look forward to watching it. And Atlantis had a shakey start, but it's really picked up and gotten great.

I'm also a fan of Heroes, though I've never actually watched it on tv

Other than that.... Bones is pretty good, though I rarely get to see it anymore.

[minque]

Ahhh let's see now....

1. Grey's Anatomy
2. Bones (forensics..yummy )
3. ER
4. House
5. Chicago Hope
6. Jordan
7. Private Practise
8. Kyle XY
9. Lost
10. Heroes
11. NCIS
12. 2900happiness (danish one)
13. Miami Vice (Don Johnson..yummy)
14. Mash
15. Scrubs

and many more out there!

[Ibis]

I am totally with Alexander's list .. my tastes exactly.

Especially concerning MASH. When I was active duty in an Air Force hospital .. a double MASH came on at 4-5pm every weekday - shift change time - and the whole hospital settled down to watch MASH ... except the nurses who were exchanging shift notes. This is not unexplainable though considering that this was immediately post-Vietnam and the actual MASH's had been evacced through Germany to our stateside hospitals.

And later when we lived in San Antonio, TX MASH came on 11 times a week. Again not unusual since San Antone at that time had 5 military bases.

[Bolzmania]

Mythbusters is fun. What's the guys name with the silly hat? I love his moustache!

His name is Jamie.
I like Heroes, House, Anders & Måns (swedish), Kvarteret Skatan (swedish), Family Guy and Simpsons.
BTW I'm gonna stop writing "//Daedroth". I'm getting tired of it.

This post has been edited by Daedroth: Apr 9 2008, 05:23 AM

[stargelman]

Oh, He robbed from the rich
and he gave to the poor.
Stood up to the man
and he gave him what for.
Our love for him now
ain't hard to explain.
The hero of Canton
the man they call Jayne!

I too love that series and recently rewatched it, what little of it there is.

Aside from that, I like:

- Babylon 5
- MASH
- ST:DS9
- Red Dwarf
- Lexx
- Whose Line
- Brittas Empire
- Stargate
- Simpsons
- Blackadder
- My name is Earl
- Rome
- Married with children
- Frasier
- Hogans Heroes
- War of the Worlds (the series!)

And a few others I probably forgot.

[Ethelle]

Stargate SG1 and Stargate Atlantis are my two favourites. I've always felt SG1 went kinda downhill after Richard Dean Anderson wasn't in it anymore, but never to the point I didn't look forward to watching it. And Atlantis had a shakey start, but it's really picked up and gotten great.

I've never seen more than Seasons 1 to 5 of Stargate SG-1, so I wouldn't know if the series goes downhill eventually. I think Anderson's final season is 8, right? Personally I think I would have a lot less fun watching without Col. Jack O'Neill. You can always count on him to endanger any diplomatic relation. I'm thinking about buying Season 6 soon. Don't know about Stargate Atlantis. From what I've seen of it so far, I don't think I'll be able to get into it.

Especially concerning MASH. When I was active duty in an Air Force hospital .. a double MASH came on at 4-5pm every weekday - shift change time - and the whole hospital settled down to watch MASH ... except the nurses who were exchanging shift notes. This is not unexplainable though considering that this was immediately post-Vietnam and the actual MASH's had been evacced through Germany to our stateside hospitals.

Cool . The first part, of course, not the war itself.

[stargelman]

Well, IMHO Claudia Black kind of saves it, but season 9 is still kind of bleh. Season 10 is ok/good because of the characters, not because of the story.

[treydog]

My family used to watch the MASH re-runs faithfully after supper every night.... At some point, I kind of got over Hawk-Eye's flawed sanctimony. The show worked best as an ensemble show, with everyone getting some screen time. And there were some really great "concept" programs- like the one from the POV of the soldier who had a fractured larynx and could not talk.

Have to plug "Chuck" again- it is worth a long look- Adam Baldwin is a hoot, the pop-culture references are thick, and Yvonne Strahovski is brilliant as well as beautiful.

Somehow never got hooked into SG-1 or SG-Atlantis, even though they are my kind of programming. Of course, I never went for Babylon 5 or STNG, either....

Have to add my vote for Mythbusters- any program where people have that much fun blowing things up must be good. Especially when you can say, "But it's science!"

[stargelman]

Start with Babylon 5. It's brilliant and in my opinion definitely the best SciFi show ever made, and next to shows like Firefly and Lexx that says a lot. What's special about it is that most of the writing has been done by a single guy (JM Straczinsky) and much of the plot has been planned before the show started. There's a story that spans four seasons and that is very coherent. You see little bits that you can't quite make sense of, and a season later you see something else and you remember those bits and suddendly they make sense...

The characters are much deeper than your average tv show characters. I'll give an example, Centauri ambassador Londo Molari. He's the kind of guy you can (and will) both love and hate, even at the same time. He has very endearing traits, but at the same time does things, terrible horrible things against his own better judgement.

The actors are superb, the dialog writing is top notch. Quite frankly, if you don't watch this show, you're missing out, big time.

[Wolfie]

I'm going to have to add Firefly to my list.... it's incredible. What strikes me as odd is that considering its success in DVD sales, no network has tried to get more filmed, aside from the movie.

[Dantrag]

Well, I liked the first season of "The Riches" that came on last year, but the new season kind of sucks. Since it's just close call after close call now, it got unpredictably yet predictably lame.

I really like The Office, been watching that a lot recently. (Got into it kind of late)

I love many of Adult Swim's programs as well:
Metalocalypse (easily my favorite show of all time)
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Venture Bros.
Etc.

there are probably many more, I just can't think of any more right now...