Science Fiction shows, or reality/nonfiction shows. what do you prefer?
I prefer reality shows. My favorite channels are: Discovery Health, TLC, Animal Planet. I rarely watch actual movies. Of course, I watch alot of cartoons with kids around.
I like both, although not the mainstream reality tv shows. But sciency kinds of reality shows, like Little People, Big World, are good.
Tbh though, I don't watch much of either nowadays. I don't have a tv and usually just purchase on dvd most of the things I watch. Or download if I can't wait or don't mind not owning it.
Don't watch much TV but
I am in love with HOUSE.
I am liking Dexter.
and I enjoy documentaries that are on television.
I do not care for Star Trek, any sci fi (other than real life things like on Discovery), or any fantasy. Cartoons always bored me unless they had a plot like The Flintstones. Not much on Sit Coms I do not find them funny usually but I do like BRITCOMS as was mentioned in some thread earlier. My sense of humor is odd. I don't laugh at jokes they are too predictable but have a cow fly by in clothes and i giggle like a 3 year old ;)
I actually have a hard time just sitting and watching anything; I prefer the computer as it is more interactive.
I like some fiction. Most of the stuff on USA network (House, White Collar, Law & Order SVU, Burn Notice, etc.)
I find a lot of reality tv annoying but I like nonfiction shows, especially medical ones or shows about things out of the norm. Pawn Stars is pretty interesting too.
I also like Grey's Anatomy, but I don't understand a lot of it. I like it mainly because it gives me something to talk about with my stepmom. (They did have an Aspie character once too)
I don't "watch" a lot of TV, I have it running while I am doing other things like stuff on the computer or a puzzle or a Nintendo DS game. So I mainly just listen to it.
Most American television (well, broadcast) I don't care for. However, I am up for good television, period, regardless of genre.
I agree with you David. I am partial to British television from what I've seen of it.
I like/liked Law & Order, Heroes (the first season, especially), House, Monk, Numb3rs. Actually, with young kids about, I don't watch that often anymore.
My husband loves cooking shows and documentaries about science and WWII.
My son loves anime, action adventure, cartoon hero and sci-fi shows on Nick.
I don't usually care for fiction. In most comedies, what other people consider funny I find mean or sad, or I just miss the jokes completely. The 'situation' in situation comedies always makes me uncomfortable. And dramas, with their romantic themes, I understand even less. Also, so many people on tv these days look the same to me. I'm rather face-blind, so unless the characters always dress the same (like Star Trek or Gilligan's Island), I can't tell them apart.
I'm into this show on the military channel called Battleplan. They highlight a battleplan/episode, things like blockade or counter-insurgency, then they compare and contrast how 2 different commanders in 2 different wars planned and executed it. It's got real footage and everything.
Also, I like to watch old baseball games on MLB Classic.
I watch tevoed cartoons with my pet starling every day when he has his time with me. He likes the sound effects.
Jacoby, I'm not sure I am as face blind as some are, but compared to most NTs I know, definitely more so. I watched "Julie and Julia" and "Enchanted." And I promise you I had no idea the same actress appeared in both of them. I've seen films again after several years and said to myself, "OMG, that was Robert Downey Jr. Why didn't I notice that?" It's hard for me to think back on a film I've seen in the past and identify the actors by appearance (curiously, it's easier by voice) if I didn't think to make a note of it at the time. For me the actors often become the roles, and I think of the characters rather than the performers.
This happens to me in "real life," too. I will meet people at a function or a doctor's office, and then later at a grocery store, someone will very enthusiastically rush up to me, give me a hug and demand to know how I'm doing. I am so embarrassed when I don't know who they are!
I usually at least recognize that they are familiar, but placing them is really hard. I tell them, "I am really bad at remembering people out of the context where I know them. I'm so sorry. Who are you again?"
If they are kind, they will tell me. Sometimes, they will say, "OMG, I can't believe you don't remember me!" And then I just feel terrible.
It's not just you, Califmom! I was at a school event and this woman walked up to me, calling me by name and I had no idea who she was. Turned out to be my next door neighbour but I didn't recognise her because every other time I have seen her she was wearing a hat and that day she wasn't.
David, you lucky thing having the BBC. They produce some excellent television and even screen it without advertising. I miss the UK.
Hopefully I am not misunderstanding you Fen, but I'm not actually from the UK: I'm good ol' Canadian :) If I have misunderstood you, sorry! There is BBC Canada and BBC America as well, which air's UK content from both the BBC, ITV and others such as channel 4.
There is one show I have forgotten to mention that is an all time fav, and that is MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000. Joel, Mike and the Bots are some of the greatest creations in the history of television.
Gah! Sorry David, as evidenced by the first half of my previous message I am confused a great deal of the time.
I usually watch sci-fi and fantasy. When those aren't available, I skim through the Discovery channel and educational channels before winding up at the Home and cooking kind of things. Rebuilding and redecorating houses and such, and that bounty hunters show, also, Ghost Hunters.
I don't really watch a lot of cable/satellite TV, mainly because we don't have it in our house, so when I do watch, it's usually at the gym or at a friend's house. In which case I flip around to find something interesting.
If I had a preference though, it'll be anime....
I don't have cable tv. It's expensive here in Australia and there's nothing on. One of the providers said you can have 10 channels of sport. So? Did they put the European show jumping on? No. Do they put the international dressage on? No. The free to air tv channels have a lot of American content, as well as Australian and others. Some shows are good, others woeful. I like sci fiction/fantasy. Cooking programs; gardening programs; good documentaries (David Attenborough's series). Some of the international films are very good meaning foreign films. Good murder/mysteries. Poirot and Midsomer Murders etc.
And really, I don't really watch much tv. I read the tv guide and then decide.
I guess it would make sense to list my actual favorite television series.
-DOCTOR WHO: hands down, as the other thread probably makes clear ;)
-LIFE ON MARS -existential-police-procedure-time-travel-sort-of show, and amazing every step of the way.
SPACED - One of the funniest and most touching shows I have ever seen.
-TORCHWOOD - Perhaps the most nihilistic sci-fi series I've seen on television. Series three is perhaps the best thing I saw all of last year, and yes, that includes Tennant's good bye episode.
-MILLENNIUM (1996-1999) Chris Carter's best series and most under rated. Dark, unsettling and ahead of its time.
-PENNIES FROM HEAVEN - make no bones about it: Dennis Potter is one of the greatest writers in any medium. This post-modernist anti-musical musical is shocking, provocative, and brilliant. By North American standards, this would be a mini-series.
- FUTURAMA - depressingly, I think this might be the most accurate guess of what the future will really be like.
-BATMAN THE ANIMATED SERIES -Best. Batman. Ever.
-MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS - Do I need to explain?
David, I totally agree about Monty Python, having grown up with them. As a kid, I adored the original Star Trek series, and yes, I'm really that old. It seems really campy and sort of awful now, but back then, there had just never been anything quite like it. Dr. Who is a source of happy memories mainly because the series was so important to my husband. It's more of a contact high for me, and I greatly enjoyed teasing him about it! Pennies from Heaven was brilliant.
Hands down, my happiest memory of childhood TV was All in the Family, which I just could not wait to watch. It's hard to think of any show that shocked as many people and had as much of an effect on American culture in the early to mid 1970's. I also adored Columbo, the most brilliant detective show of its day. About the same time, I begged my parents until I was purple in the face to watch Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In. And the physical comedy of Carol Burnett-- I still remember busting a gut laughing at her Gone With the Wind skit. I was a teenager and young adult when Saturday Night Live began, which I watched faithfully through college. Straight out of grad school, working as a teacher, I was fiercely loyal to a then young David Letterman. I'd watch Johnny Carson and strain to stay awake to take in Dave as well. And then I'd get up only a few hours later to take that bus across the Bronx while it was still dark outside.
Very few things on TV interest me anymore. I am fond of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, but I don't watch them regularly, as they are on when I am usually trying to get my writing done.
My husband, who loves to cook and is good at it, has turned me on to Iron Chef, which we watch together. Oh, how I wish I could eat even a fraction of the stuff they cook on that program. It allows this GFCF waif to live vicariously.
My daughter loves the Ace of Cakes program on the food network that focuses on a team of exceptionally talented cake decorators. So I watch that with her.
My daughter is also obsessed with Heroes, which had a great first season and sort of fizzled out. And it's really a shame, as it has a terrific cast, especially Zachary Quinto, who carries that series (the reason they just can't kill him off). I keep hoping against hope it will find its way again, but NBC will probably cancel the series before that happens.
I just saw Zachary Quinto in Star Trek.
He was awesome. My husband and I, original trekkers, were apprehensive, but we liked the movie very much. He plays an especially odious and fascinating villain on Heroes. At turns smooth, oily and manipulative, or just out and out vicious predator. Great actor. Suspect he'll do a lot of interesting stuff in the future. It'll be fun to watch the projects he takes on.
I watched the first season of Heroes but missed everything after. He was pretty good. Maybe one day I'll catch up on it.
I looooved the new ST movie.
Lets see...my favorite show are:
1. Doctor Who
2. Bones
3. Mythbusters
4. Ace of Cakes
5. Torchwood
6. Inuyasha
7. Futurama
1, 3, 4, and 5 are some of my daughters favorites too
I am a die-hard "Star Trek" fan. I like "Enterprise" and some of the other spin-offs, although I don't like DS-9. It was too much like a soap opera (which I don't like).
We don't watch broadcast TV, but rather pick and choose our shows and our showtimes, by subscribing to an online DVD rental site.
I like Bones, Criminal Minds, Law & Order: SVU, and House.
I'm not into sit-coms, talk shows, 'reality' shows, sports shows, how-to shows, to name a few. In other words, I'm pretty picky. I do like a good documentary, if it's about something I'm interested in, such as history or science.
Ah, someone else who likes Enterprise! That show was brilliant in the final year it ran. Shame it was cancelled.
I like documentaries, but other than that I like fiction shows better.,
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