Quickie Survey: Your Top 5 current TV Shows

INPO:

WAR STORIES- Fox News: Oliver North makes me cringe, but it’s still a great documnetary of some real tough battles

SMALLVILLE- WB: Dawson’s Creek meets X-Files

MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE- Fox: Evil Wonder Years

THE PRACTICE- ABC: Just watching Dylan McDermott overact more with each episode is worth watching in itself.

E! TRUE HOLLYWOOD STORY- E!: Makes me glad I’m a average Joe (or Vin!) :slight_smile:

This is tough, since I’m such a channel surfer …

**West Wing

E/R

The Daily Show

Win Ben Stein’s Money

Battle-Bots.**

That’s about as quick as I can do it. And yes, I do watch too much Comedy Central.

Trying to think of 5 whole shows that he actually watches.

Let’s see …

The Practice - I acknowledge that this show isn’t great. But it’s fun and I’m addicted.

NOVA - Always a good show.

Frontline - Usually good depth on an interesting issue. Better than most of the network news programs anyway.

The Red-Green Show - I can’t wait for the movie to come out. :slight_smile:

Red-Dwarf - Sci-fi comedy rocks. The new season kinda sucks though.

(What can I say? I’m a PBS junky.)

from the man with the rabbit ears…

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the Simpsons (of course)
Enterprise (finally a Star Trek that doesn’t rely on styrofoam rocks)
Blind Date (popup video meets real world, only not agonizingly long)

um

hrm…
Smallville (might as well, Kristen Kruek is a hottie, and the WB is an eye candy network anyways)

uh…
and…
Professional Football (does that count?)

The West Wing – the best written show on TV, and one of the best ever.

Farscape – First-class space opera with great pacing.

Angel – Pretty good take on the “fighting demons” model, and it seems to be growing into interesting new areas.

Buffy, the Vampire Slayer – coming close to jumping the shark this season, however. Those nerdy villains are the biggest miscalculation since the original Ferengi. It’s really had to do funny/sinister, and this is painful to watch.

Simpsons – Assuming we see another new one anytime this season. A slack off in quality, but still better than 90% of everything else.

Actually, these are the only TV shows I watch every week. In addition, I’m salivating at the chance to see The Tick, which sounds inspired.

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No… I don’t see any pattern. :wink:

In no particular order:

  1. Buffy
  2. Angel
  3. Simpsons
  4. Daily Show
  5. Uhh…maybe Futurama? The above four are the only ones I really watch consistantly.

INPO, and NO news shows included, though I do watch several faithfully…
Angel
Buffy
CSI
Law & Order CI
UC (Undercover)

You can also add West Wing(disclaimer - all politics in pablum form) and Wolf Lake. Can’t decide if this show is actually interesting, or just has a couple o’ hot guys…{{shallow, so shallow}}

  1. Late Show with David Letterman
  2. Late Night with Conan O’Brien
  3. Junkyard Wars
  4. Simpsons
  5. Survivor

Honorable Mentions
South Park
MAD TV
SNL
Jackass
Anything good on The History Channel

Well…

1.The Simpsons
2. Fututrama
3. Enterprise
4. Smallville
5. The Tick (it hasn’t premiered yet, but so far I only watch four shows, so I had to include it.)

  1. Buffy the Vampire slayer
    I’ve always loved this show, now there are FX reruns and new episodes. It is a pleasure overload.

  2. Angel
    I’m only know comming around to liking this show. I never really had an interest in it, mostly because I traded its time block away to my roommate during freshman year to get the Buffy time slot. However now that I’ve started watching it I really like it.

  3. The Simpsons
    I am not worthy to comment upon the greatness that is the Simpsons.

  4. The Daily Show
    Without the moment of zen my life would be out of control.

  5. Cow Boy Bee-bop
    I’ve been watching it on cartoon network’s adult swim. The music style themes for each episode is a great idea.

  1. Angel
    This one is getting better all the time. Had my doubts about Fred at first, but she’s growing on me.

  2. Buffy
    Wish they’d get rolling with the season’s ubervillian. The geeks are driving me nuts.

  3. West Wing
    'Nuf said

  4. ER

  5. I don’t really have another show that I make it a point to watch every week. I guess it’s a toss up between Dark Angel, Charmed, and Smallville, but just lately I can give or take any of these.

1.) Iron Chefs
Ohhhhh … this is the most beautiful television show in existence. Cheesy voice-overs, Kaga’s wardrobe pulled directly from Elton John’s closet, the incredibly sexy Kobe, the adorable Sakai (I just wanna pinch his cheeks! What a cutie!), friendly Chen and arrogant-beyond-words Morimoto … Food that alternates between gross-beyond-words and gorgeous-beyond-words, commentators with patently unpoetic comments, and the ever-knowledgable Doc Hattori … there is nothing, -nothing-, on television that can rival this. Mmmm.

2.) Good Eats
Not all of my favourite shows come from the Food Network, but I love Alton Brown’s style. He’s so funny! And “W” is classic. What a great show. The coffee and chocolate episodes are classic.

3.) ER
I wanted to be a trauma surgeon. I screwed up my life, but I can still live vicariously through Drs. Carter and Greene! (That is, when I’m home to watch it.)

4.) West Wing
I at one point in time wanted to be a senator. I woke up and realised I let myself get taken advantage of way too much to be a politician. But I can live vicariously! :smiley:

5.) Third Rock from the Sun
If John Lithgow’s amazing wonderfulness hadn’t sucked me in, the line, ‘Guns don’t kill people, physics kills people!’ would have. (Oh, can you guess? Yes! Half of my major in University was Physics! lol) I adore this show.

So yeah. There’s my list.

Malcolm in the Middle

The Simpsons

Buffy

Futurama

The Amazing Race

In order, I can come up with 4:

Alias - Best new show
Buffy - Get rid of the geeks already
Angel - Still don’t like Fred that much
Enterprise - Seems better than Voyager was in the beginning, plus there are no obnoxious characters

Once these start their new season, the list will change:

Simpsons - Always a classic
Malcolm - Best, actually only good non-animated comedy
Futurama - Sci-Fi + Simpsons = Good

  1. Enterprise
  2. Whose Line is it Anyway (ABC… the US Version)
  3. Hi Opal!
  4. E.R.
  5. Whose Line is it Anyway (British Version on Comedy Central)
  6. Star Trek: Voyager (We missed the last season, and it’s being rebroadcast on our local ABC affiliate).

The Amazing Race (Wed, 9PM, CBS)
Once and Again (Friday, 10PM, ABC)
Survivor (Thursday, 8PM, CBS)
Friends (Thursday, 8PM, NBC) D’oh
The Practice (Sunday, 10 PM, ABC)

Crap, I forgot ER (10 PM, Thursday, NBC)

Sorry, I have six.

  1. Buffy - I like the geeks.
  2. Angel
  3. Friends
  4. David Letterman
  5. The Daily Show

1.~Friends~
2.~W! True Hollywood Stories~
3.~Frazier~
4.~South Park~
5.Lifetime Intimate Portrait(sp)

:):):slight_smile: