TV Likes & Dislikes By Bashan (Read 2,083 times)

[Bashan]

The wife and I, after years of avoiding it, have got back into watching some TV in the evening. We record on the Dish DVR so we don't have to contend with commercials; maybe that's why. Anyway, what are you guys into and what makes you nauseated?
Top five likes, in descending order:

• Fringe
  
• CSI Vegas
  
• The Mentalist
  
• Big Bang
  
• The Daily Show & The Colbert Report (ya' gotta' put them together)
  
  Dislikes:
  
• CSI Miami (actually kinda good for a hoot)
  
• Justice
  
• Detroit 1-8-7
  
• Hawaii Five-O (another resurrection nightmare)
  
• Any Reality Show
  
  

[4denise]

I don't watch TV! I consider cable and satellite to be a waste of money. I'd rather spend it on gas and accessories for my scooter. You'd be surprised how many people look at me in horror when they find out that I don't watch TV. I have to wonder, sometimes, if those people have lives.

[ccprof]

I don't watch a lot of TV either. I'll watch the local and network nightly news, Occasionally the Daily Show & Colbert, sometimes Rachel Maddow. The only shows I watch consistently are "Community", "30 Rock" and "Outsourced".

Things I hate - political commercials, all the commercials for drugs and reality shows.

[runningslow]

The wife and I just recently got cable back after a good 2 year hiatus. Since we live in the greater Orlando area, we were able to get pretty good broadcast reception and money was tight. There were only 2 or 3 cable channels we really missed. I also have a HTPC (home theater PC) hooked up to my TV that I built, so I still had DVR functionality for our broadcast TV. (Did I mention I was a geek?) That HTPC also serves as our BluRay and DVD player, not to mention its great for streaming services like Hulu and Netflix (even if I haven't tried Netflix)

Anyway, my current must watch shows are:
1) Chuck
2) The Big Bang Theory
3) Bones
4) Mythbusters
5) Dirty Jobs
6) The Daily Show (I usually fall asleep before Colbert)

(We really missed Discovery Channel when we didn't have cable.)

Shows that I want to watch:
1) Fringe
2) Supernatural
3) Castle

I was a huge fan of Lost, even if the finale confused the hell out of me. Also, despite the fact that most of it aired before I was born, I LOVE catching reruns of M*A*S*H.

Shows I would be watching had they not been cancelled before their time:
1) Firefly
2) Dead Like Me

What nausiates me? 24 hour cable news channels and 95% of the rest of the drivel that passes for entertainment. We really need to have à la carte cable options. I get like 200+ channels on my basic HD cable package. I want about.... 5, plus the networks.

[LUKE]

likes:...i like shows that really happens in everyday lives,i hate scripted movies
1)How it's Made
2)How Do They Do It?
3)Swamp Logger
4)American Chopper
5)Bizarre Food with Andrew Zimmern
6)Overhaulin'
7)Dirty Jobs
8)Red & Green Show
9)Mc Gyver


dislikes:
1)anything Political/News (never ending corruption and promises)
2)UFC--i hate it 100% (fighting without gloves/this show must stop)
3)Apprentice(why do they have to fire someone in public/ so st...pid, and i don't like D. trump.,he doesn't smile.
4)Wife Swap

..but honestly i don't watch TV too much......lol

[Bashan]

Oct 29, 2010 5:56:39 GMT -6 ccprof said:

Things I hate - political commercials

Man, tell me about it! Lately around here it's this formularic drivel of some propped up bonehead looking like they're being wheeled around on an invisible dolly with  FAITH  FAMILY  CONSERVATIVEacross their mug; how disingenuous can you get?!

Oct 29, 2010 7:32:41 GMT -6 runningslow said:

What nausiates me? 24 hour cable news channels.

More propped up talking heads spewing out drivel

By the way, Netflix is great! Rich

[speedracer]

Dish Network my DVR Football, Baseball, Nascar, Criminal Minds, March Madness.

[puddle jumper]

I watch tv regularly and here is my likes:
1 House he's an a-hole but ya gota like it.
2 Glee yes I said Glee (I majored in music)
3 CSI-Miami and the original
4 TV Land and Retro TV( the older tv shows are great)
5 WWE RAW and Smackdown (I've watched these shows for years shut up lol)
6 American Idol

my dislikes:
1 political shows all of them I hate a bunch of liers
2 Reality TV and don't nobody go there
3 talk shows cause they suck
4 news talks to much wrong and death
5 UFC

[scooterran]

Don't watch much TV. Too busy doing the real thing. Hunting and fishing shows. How about the Great Late Night Show------Here's Johnny !!!!! Yep, The bed time King.

[4denise]

Well, when I was a kid you couldn't keep me away from Star Trek, and when I had a housemate who got satellite, she got me hooked on InuYasha.

[Bashan]

Oh YEAH! Original Star Trek.......my fav......lived for it when I was a kid. I think Shatner is fantastic I don't care what the critics say. Has anybody seen his new comedy S%&!T My Dad Says? It's really funny, the guy is a force of nature. Rich

[madcollie]

Everyone else forgot to mention THE WORST!!! Jerry Springer, Biggest piece of SH!T on the air EVER!

Give me PBS
the "How to" shows
all Star Trek's
Star Gate SG1
and Big Bang (gotta laugh)

M/C

[ccprof]

JR - "Biggest Loser" - my wife's nephew's wife was some kind of producer on that show - picked the "contestants" - and we refuse to watch it. Personally, I love Clint Eastwood marathons.

[ccprof]

How about a couple of our own "reality" shows ?

"Scootin with the Oldies" featuring some of our older (older than me) members?

"Dr JR's Arkansas Cookin" - JR prepares his special Ozark recipes with special guest shots. Luke can do his Asian recipes. I'll do the Feb. 2 segment on how to cook a groundhog?

"Scooter Hospital" where a team of brilliant scooter docs (LOL!) attempt to revive an almost dead scooter?

We already have Josh (Runningslow) and the continuing saga of the Matrix 170.

Something on the order of "Orange County Choppers" where Bashan converts a perfectly nice scoot into a rat bike?

Scooter Five O?

[madcollie]

"Survivor", meeting Left turn Lucy and living to tell the story?