[girltrouble]

i'm with you blanche. top whatever still isn't as good as project runway. and top design feels like too many hgtv shows (which i love, but still). and that dood's mouth and his crazy eyes...yikes!

i can't wait for workout cos jackie (is it?) and mimi. they are just such a trainwreck.

does anyone watch THE UNIT? and love saying that because of it's obviously phallic name. it's a collaberation between shawn ryan (THE SHEILD), and playwright david mamet. i'm as lefty as they come, and i think the show is very interesting. the unit and battlestar seem to be the only shows directly talking about the war, and you would expect that a show that focuses on a millitary unit and their wives to be pro military, but it's got these tiny subversive moments in each episode. usually it's the dialog-- like last night there was this scene were the wives were talking. it went like this:

first wife "but you can't send him....he's just a baby."
second wife "(pause) who do you think fights wars?"

did they just say that? O.o. last week there was an iraqi who gave this great, very eloquent speech about how americans are immoral talking about why we kill and how hypocritical we are. there was even an episode where the unit was sent to a training camp where our government tortures it's own soldiers. and that's not even the stories about the wives. very strange show.

[sybarite]

Cheers all for feedback on The Dresden Files. Increasingly we've been DL'd shows and it's so much nicer than watching them live with ads that I've been casting around for new ones.

I have to say, pretty boy Jake (Johnny Depp-a-like Skeet Ulrich) is not my favourite character in Jericho. Too cliched by a mile and the blonde girl from his past bored me instantly. I like the shady ex-agent Rob much better.

Sci-fi is one area the mister and I share a love for; currently we're making our way through the start of series 3 of Battlestar. Do you know how hard I work to avoid peeking into the no doubt spoiler-rich Frack Me thread??

[girltrouble]

i'm watching top design-- does anybody else think that the guy with the brown buddy holly glasses is a psycho killer? he looks like as soon as you turn your back he'll stab you with a knife...:/

[girltrouble]

sure it counts culture! i have a friend who does nothing but watch movies and tvshows on dvd. he can only get one channel without cable.

i like the dresden files, but i don't go out of my way to see it. scifi shows repeats a lot so i watch whatever else is on because on one of those days when nothing else is on, they'll be something good on.

i am shocked that someone else watches jericho....

i don't know what to make of that...

and i am super happy other people like popular. my friends thought i was crazy but it was a ball.


...ut! time for heroes! later peeps!

[culturehandy]

All this talk of tv makes me wish I had just a wee bit more time for tv watching. When I get home, and the tv is on, it's all news for me. How exciting. Does it count that I watch tv shows on DVD? I watch roseanne and The Simpsons on DVD.

[vesicapisces]

Sybarite, I'm watching The Dresden Files. I LURVE Paul Blackthorne, the guy who plays Harry. He's a Brit, although he seems to play Americans frequently.

I'm enjoying the show, although it's nothing too deep and earthshattering. Sometimes you just need a nice fluffy magical whodunit.

[candycane_girl]

I'm still into Nip/Tuck. Season 3 was really out there but Ryan Murphy said that this season would be lighter in tone. I haven't seen Running With Scissors yet, but I want to cause I loved the book.

There was something about Popular that I just loved. The show was wacky and silly but then it could still be really touching at times. My friends bought me the first season on DVD for my birthday and they've been showing it every night on the Family channel.

[kittenb]

I am new to Jericho but I wish I had started watching it sooner. I like how we are watching the end of the world as we know it, told by a very small town.

[sybarite]

I loved Popular. It was a little smarter than it initially appeared but still had lots of high school bitchery which was fun.

I quite like Jericho; good and diverse cast and nice premise. I like Lennie James particularly; he's a UK actor who seems to have successfully jumped the pond.

[girltrouble]

oh god, i loved popular... it was so smart with this pop veneer. so when i heard he was doing a series for fx i went nuts (i love fx for the sheild and rescue me). i loved nip/tuck for the first season and 1/2, but i am growing a bit...disinterested in it lately. still haven't seen running with scissors...hmmmmm.

my show last year was 'threshold'. i watched all the monster/virus serial shows before i settled on that one as the best. i was mad when it got cancelled mid season, but well, none of the serials got picked up for a second season. so i guess it didn't matter which i picked.

[candycane_girl]

girltrouble, I can't really remember any shows from last year that got cancelled but in the past there's been Popular (lasted 2 seasons), Undeclared, Life As We Know It and Grounded for Life was cancelled on Fox then resurrected on the WB only to get cancelled again.

[sybarite]

I can never venture into threads about the US shows I watch, because I am way too likely to trip over spoilers. But! My darling mister has cottoned on to the whole DL phenomenon and we have surfed through series 1 and 2 of Battlestar over the last month and I've gotten hooked on Heroes. If I catch up I may be able to discuss the finer points of recent episodes with you people...

Btw, has anyone heard of something called The Dresden Files?

[girltrouble]

kari, i forgot it was on and caught the ending which was great...

"wait till i tell tupac..."


candy, meeeee too. the thing is it's usually this odd little gem (like wonderfalls, years ago), and then it gets the ax.
sucks.

i had a feeling about studio 60. it never got good ratings. sniff.
i thought for sure jericho (don't know anyone who watches it but me) would get the ax,it's not and i'm losing interest.

what was your last year's cancellation?

[karianne]

Did anyone catch 30 Rock last night? Good episode, I lauged out loud several times.

[candycane_girl]

I loved Studio 60 but I had heard months ago that the show probably wouldn't last through the first season.

I find that just about every year, the one show that I really enjoy gets cancelled.

[kittenb]

I had heard the announcement about the Studio 60 cancellation the day I posted that first comment. I really don't feel that bad about it. I know that there is more love here for it than I have, but I was so often annoyed by it's tendancy to condescend to anyone who didn't agree with "the message." And then the whole story with Danny stalking, pardon me, "romancing" Amanda Peet was just the last straw.

[bunnyb]

It sucks .

[aviatrix]

is it official? :/ i thought that was just kitten's theory...it has been 2 weeks....

As of February 17, 2007, Studio 60 had been pulled from NBC's lineup to be replaced with The Black Donnellys starting February 26. No date has been set for its return.

damn. kitten is good!

an' divala i agree. i love that dude from the west wing, and i love the new blonde love interest for mathew perry they had on the last ep. i was all excited about that.


the wiki did say they bought 22 eps, so they will pro'lly come out on dvd eventually. guess that's sumpm.

[Divala]

So Studio 60 is cancelled now? Noooooooo!!! I want more Amanda Peet and whoever that love interest guy is! Yeah, there has been way too much Harriet, but that's a small crime in the grand scheme of an otherwise really decent show. Damn.

Maybe I'll tune into The Riches. I've never seen Eddie Izzard act.

[vesicapisces]

I watched it, and it was good, but I can't quite imagine where they will take it and how. I almost wish that we could adopt the sort of series treatment that they do in the UK - self-contained arcs of 3-7 episodes that tell a story and don't necessarily have to be continued over years. I could see a short-term series like that being a very effective treatment of a lot of material. Like LOST, for instance! How much better would that show have been if they didn't have to drag out the story over several/many years!