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Good television?

Teh Ebil Snorlax said:
Criminal Minds
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This fuck yes.

If you get A&E, you might want to try The Glades as well since it currently comes on right after Criminal Minds on Sundays. The storylines are kind of meh so it's not "good television" the way I'd consider Criminal Minds good television, but you do seem to like "enjoyable" and the characters in The Glades are pretty awesome.

...honestly, I don't watch a wide variety shows either; anything that's not the above, MythBusters, The Colony, the occasional Deadliest Warrior or a few other occasional Discovery Channel shows is something nerdy on History Channel or whatever. :P
 
House, White Collar seems pretty good though it's only recently gotten into a second season, and Psych can be downright hilarious.
 
Kratos Aurion said:
This fuck yes.

If you get A&E, you might want to try The Glades as well since it currently comes on right after Criminal Minds on Sundays. The storylines are kind of meh so it's not "good television" the way I'd consider Criminal Minds good television, but you do seem to like "enjoyable" and the characters in The Glades are pretty awesome.

...honestly, I don't watch a wide variety shows either; anything that's not the above, MythBusters, The Colony, the occasional Deadliest Warrior or a few other occasional Discovery Channel shows is something nerdy on History Channel or whatever. :P
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I watch it on the Irish terrestrial channel, RTÉ Two.
 
Dannichu said:
(I am sorry, but I am such a TV snob D:)

By 'Good Television' I assume you actually mean 'good' and not 'enjoyable'. Because by absolutely no strech of the human imagination could some of the suggestions so far (Family Guy, Two and a Half Men, Friends, How I Met Your Mother) be counted as good television. Sorry, guys :/

I second opal's suggestion of Battlestar Galactica, and strongly recommend The West Wing, or really anything by Aaron Sorkin.
The UK version of The Office is, IMO, massively superior to the US one, but many people (mostly from the US) disagree with me.
I have to plug the recent BBC adaptation of Sherlock Holmes (creatively titled 'Sherlock'), which is absolutely excellent (it made my icon!), but, if you're a USian, rather hard to come by, since it's only available on the UK-only BBC iPlayer at the moment (if you're in the UK, go and watch it now).
I don't know how UK-only Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes are, but they're excellent, too.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a very good television show cunningly disguised as a very bad one. Joss Whedon's other shows, Angel, and especially Firefly, are well worth a go, too.
I've only seen the first part of The Wire, but it's absolutely fantastic stuff.

I count good television as that which I can't veg out in front of - you have to pay attention, it's original, it doesn't patronize you and it forces you to think.

TV which provides a great distraction and is enjoyable enough include House, 24, anything by Bryan Fuller (Pushing Daisies, Dead Like Me, Wonderfalls), Doctor Who and Torchwood, 30 Rock, Northern Exposure and series 1 of Heroes.
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No mention of QI? Who are you and what have you done with Dannichu :'c

Zangviper said:
Is Brainiac still airing? I don't really know because I can't seem to find that show anywhere in the US.
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Brainiac was good when Richard Hammond did it. When Vic Reeves took over it went kinda meh imo :l But I don't have Sky any more so I've no idea what it's up to these days.
And frankly Mythbusters is better than even Hammond-era Brainiac.
 
Mike the Foxhog said:
Brainiac was good when Richard Hammond did it. When Vic Reeves took over it went kinda meh imo :l But I don't have Sky any more so I've no idea what it's up to these days.
And frankly Mythbusters is better than even Hammond-era Brainiac.
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Brainiac started getting worse a while before Richard Hammond left. It went from doing stuff to prove questions they had to blowing up caravans for no reason other than for fun. To keep the science in they just said what chemical they were using as a sidenote.

I don't have Sky but I have Virgin (wish I didn't though, the box is the buggiest thing I've ever used) and as far as I can tell, they've stopped making Brainiac.
 
You could watch reruns of Whose Line is it Anyway on ABC Family in the U.S. It comes on late on weekday nights. But I'm sure Whose Line is rerunning somewhere in the UK. Can anyone prove that?
 
Flareth said:
You could watch reruns of Whose Line is it Anyway on ABC Family in the U.S. It comes on late on weekday nights. But I'm sure Whose Line is rerunning somewhere in the UK. Can anyone prove that?
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It's on all the time in the UK, not sure if it's the UK or US version that's on most since I don't watch it that much but it's there on Dave. I don't watch it much because they always seem to show the same ones every other day.
 
Wow, excellent turn out of replies. Thank you all, I'll be sure to check some of these television programs out.
 
all of whose line (us) is on youtube, I know that.

people failed to mention:
Community (new-ish)
Fringe
Bones
The Drew Carey Show
The Good Guys (new)
Invader Zim, if you're one of those types of people
Corner Gas
Malcolm in the Middle
 
wolftamer9 said:
all of whose line (us) is on youtube, I know that.

people failed to mention:
Community (new-ish)
Fringe
Bones
The Drew Carey Show
The Good Guys (new)
Invader Zim, if you're one of those types of people
Corner Gas
Malcolm in the Middle
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:DDDDDD

I would've mentioned it but it's not on anymore and barely any episodes are on Youtube anymore. And only the first season is out on DVD. Okay, a "Best of" type set was made but it's out of print. -is a nerd-

Invader Zim's still on reruns on Nicktoons, I think, so that works. I've watched a few reruns recently and still like it, so.

So yeah. My two-cents: Watch Zim
 
Yes. Zim is great. Watch it. And tell me where to get screenshots? I second Avatar: The Last Airbender too.
 
Mike the Foxhog said:
No mention of QI? Who are you and what have you done with Dannichu :'c
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Okay, okay. I thought we were talking scripted TV. QI is definitely one of the greatest things to ever grace our unworthy television sets. <333

wolftamer9 said:
all of whose line (us) is on youtube, I know that.

people failed to mention:
Community (new-ish)
Fringe
Bones
The Drew Carey Show
The Good Guys (new)
Invader Zim, if you're one of those types of people
Corner Gas
Malcolm in the Middle
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Oooh I haven't seen much of Community, but I like it. It's like Glee, with less singing (whether this is a good or bad thing is debatable), but it actually gives its minority characters plots and personalities.

Also giving a *totally unexpected* recommendation for the recent BBC miniseries, Sherlock. Best TV I've seen in a very long time. It's on DVD in the UK at the moment and I cannot recommend it enough (the audiocommentaires are fantastic), and I think it's airing in the US (probably on BBC America?) sometime in October. Watch it, you will not possibly be disappointed.
 
Dannichu, I love your taste in TV. :v

I'm secconding Sherlock. And QI. And... hrr... watch Doctor Who. Just because. Oh, and The Daily Show and the Colbert Report.
 
I'd definitely agree with the recommendations for Frasier. If you have Comedy Central and its variations, it's shown frequently on those. Also, this is a film, but United 93 is showing today on ITV, if you have access to that. It's extremely sad, of course, but moving. Dunno whether you've seen it before, but I thought I'd mention it anyway. If you don't have access to ITV, I'd recommend finding it online; it's worth watching.
 
Doctor Who


nuff said, shows on BBCA at 4 on weekdays, not sure about the UK.


Also, House, as mentioned multiple times..

Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Bones


Another show on BBC, Being Human is quite good.


Now to promote the SyFy channel
Stargate (SG-1 would be the best to start with, but you could start with Universe, but I've heard baaad things about Universe)
Ghost Hunters (Whaaat?)
Destination Truth (Gates is really funny.)



but Doctor Who is amazing you should give it a shot. :D
 
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ANIMALS COPS FOR LIEFE

even tohugh there as hat tcat who got burned and stuff that one time :(( but I-

ok it's shit whateverr

burn notice is good. there. WATCH BURN NOTICE
 
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