Firefly
Lost
House (saw one episode, looked good but too lazy to keep watching)
Survivor (watched part of the season 1 finale and nothing else)
Big Brother
24
Not a single episode of …
24
Lost
Survivor
CSI
Law and Order
American Idol (until this season)
Everybody loves Raymond (until just a few months ago)
Only about 2 episodes of Gray’s Anatomy
The last TV show I watched was Ally McBeal. Before that was the first few seasons of the **X-Files ** and The Critic. I did watch **Cheers ** in reruns.
So, everything else you can put me down as “never watched.” Hell, I’ve never even seen **Friends ** or Seinfield.
Oh, I have caufght a few **Simpsons ** episodes.
I’m not some old fuddy duddy. I just don’t care for TV. Unless you count sports. Now, *that * I’m all over. Plus I’ve got 100s and 100s of DVDs to watch, either sitting on my shelf or in my rental queues.
Actually, if it’s a soap or a sitcom, and it’s not animated or on HBO, in the last ten years, I haven’t seen it. These days it’s American Idol, Apprentice, Sopranos, Real World, Simpsons, Family Guy, or pretty much any documentary on anything, and that’s it.
Reruns of Beavis and Butthead, Jackass, and Futurama notwithstanding.
It would probably be easier for me to list the ones I have seen: CSI, Lost, Grey’s Anatomy, Without a Trace, Buffy, Angel, Desperate Housewives, L&O… and that’s about it. Living in Korea limits one’s options drastically.
I haven’t watched most of those womany shows like Sex and the City, or Desperate Housewives. I’ve also managed to avoid anything with the word Idol in it.
American Idol
The Sopranos
Family Guy
South Park
The Simpsons
Any version of Star Trek
The X-Files
Buffy or Angel
Desperate Housewives
House
Ally McBeal
The Apprentice
Most current sitcoms, except Scrubs, The Office and My Name Is Earl
Anything Sci-Fi
Anything reality, except The Amazing Race and Survivor
I don’t like the “Find Your True Love” shows or the “Watch My Dysfunctional Celebrity Family Implode On Camera” shows.
Sometimes I think I watch too much TV, but then I realize there’s a lot I don’t watch, and I feel better.
As for current trash culture television I wouldn’t want to be without: America’s Next Top Model can be gold. But as for general impact on my psyche, I wouldn’t have been the same man if I hadn’t grown up with the Simpsons.
My list will be nice and tidy if I list what I do watch:
The Simpsons
Desperate Housewives
Once in a while, American Idol, but I don’t care much if I miss it. I don’t even know what the contestants look like this season.
Oh, and if I’m awake, old re-runs of Roseanne.
Anything else that’s on right now? Nope. I catch glimpses of shows once in a while, but I don’t actually sit down in front of the television to watch a program unless it’s one of the above (or a DVD). And even then, I don’t care much if I miss it. I go through dry periods like this sometimes. Eventually, the pendulum will swing back and I’ll find I watch *too much * television.
Heck, there are shows you all are mentioning that I’ve never even heard of. I’m fairly sure I’ve not watched a primetime show on any major network in the past five years (but I have seen The Family Guy, so I guess I’m ascribing Fox to the Minors).
Never seen a second of:
Survivor
Desparate Housewives
24
House
The O.C. (Might belong on the following list, but it sounds familiar)
The Apprentice
The Office
Lost
Firefly (did see the movie, it was very good)
Amazing Race
Sex and the City
Big Brother
Never even heard of, before this thread:
Ghost Whisperer
Medium
Scrubs
Grey’s Anatomy (that’s a reference book to me)
Brideshead Revisited
Without a Trace (wasn’t that a film?)
America’s Next Top Model (please tell me you’re making that up)
My Name is Earl (can’t even guess what that’s about – rednecks maybe)
Those are the ones culled from this thread. I’ve got no idea what else I haven’t seen.
24
The Sopranos
Survivor
Desparate Housewives
Firefly
Lost
Amazing Race
Big Brother
Buffy
Angel
Smallville
The O.C.
Grey’s Anatomy
Ghost Whisperer
Medium
If it’s being broadcast nowadays, I haven’t seen it. I dropped the cable when I realized I was only watching movies anyway. Now I just rent them, and save money.
There are many old shows which seem to have a lingering presence in pop culture – which are mentioned casually in other shows, or comic strips or movies or whatever, as “everybody knows about this” material – which are well known, even touchstones, to people only 5 or 10 years older than myself – but which I’ve never seen even in reruns. Ozzie and Harriet. The Loves of Dobie Gillis. My Mother the Car. My Three Sons. Others I can’t think of at the moment.
The West Wing
Lost
24
I feel like if I wasn’t thtere from the beginning, neither will be worth watching. And I can’t make the kind of a commitment to watching all the episodes unless I get them on DVD, so…
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Angel
Firefly
Smallville
Ghost Whisperer
As much as I like some teen shows, I have no interest in the “supernatural” stuff.
Seventh Heaven
One Tree Hill
Everwood
And these teen shows just don’t interest me…from the commercials, not from having actually seen any of them.
I’ve seen at least one episode of most of the shows listed here, though…it’s surprising to me how many shows I’ve watched exactly one or two episodes of (usually when I’m bored and home alone) and then never watched again.
I went 15 years without a TV, so I missed nearly everything from 1976-1991. I spent about 7 years catching up, and lost interest again. I haven’t seen any network prime time show except “The Apprentice,” which my wife likes, and is on during dinner. She also likes “House” and she’s bought the “Buffy” and “Angel” box sets, so I have an idea what they’re about because I hear them from down the hall. But there are no shows I must watch.