[ul]
[li]Baywatch[/li][li]Beverly Hills 90210[/li][li]Big Brother[/li][li]Buffy the Vampire Slayer[/li][li]Cheers[/li][li]Dallas (yes, it’s an old show)[/li][li]ER[/li][li]Frasier[/li][li]Friends[/li][li]The Sopranos[/li][li]Seinfeld[/li][li]Sex and the City[/li][li]Survivor[/li][li]Temptation Island[/li][li]West Wing[/li][li]Will and Grace[/li][li]The X-Files[/li][/ul]
Yes, I do watch TV, I just tend to shun the more popular network programming.
There are a ton of shows I’ve never seen, including some shows that every other person on the planet has seen:
The Flintstones
Leave it to Beaver (or any show from the 50s except “I Love Lucy” which I only saw about two years ago)
The Jetsons
The Simpsons (I’ve seen maybe twice)
ER
Survivor
West Wing
Sopranos
Sex and the City (saw one episode and didn’t laugh once)
Everybody Loves Raymond
Law and Order
Babylon 5
Enterprise (or any Star Trek since about one year into Voyager)
Alias
…
Well don’t I feel like the plonker now. I like reality tv…not cause it is “reality” more cause it is full of people making plonkers out of themselves. Now thats “good” tv
Nothing at all that aired from 1967-1983, as I was living in places that didn’t have TV reception.
Just reading through the other posts for those that I’ve never seen - Those I’ve never even heard of are marked with ?.
Alias ?
ER
Survivor
West Wing ?
Sopranos
Sex and the City
Beverly Hills 90210
Big Brother ?
Dallas
Fear Factor ?
NYPD Blue
South Park
Six Feet Under
Survivor
Temptation Island
West Wing
Will and Grace
Big Brother
Joe Millionaire
Trading Spaces ?
I don’t watch TV often so I’m sure the list could be a lot longer.
Where to begin? There are so many:[ul][li] X Files[/li][li] Survivor[/li][li] American Idol[/li][li] Big Brother[/li][li] Hill Street Blues[/li][li] ER[/li][li] Fear Factor[/li][li] South Park [/li][li] West Wing[/li][li] Trading Spaces [/li][li] Will and Grace[/li][li] Seinfeld[/li][li] Roseanne[/li][li] Joe Millionaire[/li][li] Temptation Island[/li][li] Dallas[/li][li] The Sopranos[/li][li] Sex in the City[/li][li] Beverly Hills 90210[/li][li] Everyone Loves Raymond[/li][li] Enterprise[/li][li] Friends[/li][li] Buffy the Vampire Slayer[/li][li] Baywatch[/li][li] The Cosby Show[/li][li] Oz[/li][li] Bachelorette[/ul][/li]
Basically, any modern sit-com, reality show, medical drama, talent search or dating game is right out. My television has remained off for over two years now. I prefer not being bombarded with programming material that makes Romper Room look like Masterpiece Theater. Hell, there’s ads that outpace the quality of modern television shows.
Among currently popular shows, I’ve never seen:
-Everybody Loves Raymond
-Frasier
-Sopranos
-Six Feet Under
-American Idol (any version)
I did accidentally see a few episodes of Survivor (my roommate and ex- were both into it), although I’ve basically never watched any reality show.
However, the shows that I’ve really never seen are shows from pre-1991 or so, including many that are completely iconic, such as:
-I Love Lucy
-Three’s Company
-The Mary Tyler Moore Show
-All in the Family
-Father Knows Best
-The Odd Couple
-Hill Street Blues
-MASH (if I’ve seen an entire episode of MASH, I don’t remember it now)
-Ed Sullivan
I’m glad that this thread was started and that I’m not the only one that has no desire to watch:
ER - Seen it, but don’t understand why people are compelled to watch
Friends - White people that live together and hang around a coffee shop is even less interesting.
Everybody Loves Raymond - This show doesn’t seem to be funny at all (from the clips that I’ve seen).
Six Feet Under & The Sopranos - I love HBO shows, but these two hold no interest for me whatsoever.
The West Wing - Why would anyone be interested in fake politics when there is so much going on in our world today? The real president is infinitely more amusing.
And the others that deserve a mention: All NBC, FOX & ABC reality shows, Without A Trace, L&O: Criminal Intent and South Park.
I strictly avoided “Dallas,” even to the point of leaving friends’ houses when they were going to watch. I couldn’t see the appeal of Seinfeld, and the first one I saw was the finale (which, of course, baffled me.) I avoid most sitcoms. They’re unfunny and predictable. It’s amazing how many times they can steal the same plots and gags from I Love Lucy and old Warner Bros. cartoons.
The “reality” shows are so stupid, they make my teeth hurt! Argh.
I went without television from 1979 to 1990 (by choice too… I was offered one but turned it down) this of course means that I never saw a single episode of 30something … I just had to listen to otherwise intelligent people drone on and on and on about it.
As for current television, I can proudly say that I have never sat through an entire episode of any of the so-called reality programs, with the exception of two episodes of Big Brother 2… I stumbled across it one night and discovered that one of the players was real sexual fantasy material… he got voted off, and I haven’t seen any of these since apart from channel surfing through them…
Alias
24
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
American Idol
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
The only “reality” show I’ve ever watched was the first season-ending episode of Survivor, just did it out of curiosity and wasn’t impressed. Will never, ever watch any of them.
Most of the TV I watch is either sports, Star Trek or DVD rentals. The only shows I’ve mildly liked over the past 2 years are:
Everybody Loves Raymond
King of Queens
West Wing (was much better 2 yrs ago, though)
& The only one that has ever mattered just a bit Twin Peaks: I like David Lynch, all the people I respect saw it and loved it. I missed it at the time it was on and never tried to catch it later. It is still “going on” in some places (refernces, “remember when”, in the sty;le of TP, the TP classic etc.) and I just get reeeeally quite