The Year 2005 has finally come to an end, and none too soon. It kind of blew. We have higher hopes for 2006.
But even though the calendar may say 2006, and even though vacation is officially over, you'd never know it by watching TV. This is another week where the reruns outnumber the new episodes. Come next week, that will no longer be the case, but we're hard-pressed to really find anything to recommend. On Thursday, "My Name is Earl" and "The Office" move to their new night on NBC. Thursday is also premiere night for a new season of "Dancing with the Stars" on ABC (with George Hamilton apparently taking on the John O'Hurley role). And on Friday SFist fave Amy Sedaris is scheduled to appear on Letterman. But aside from that, our TiVo is relatively bare.
So we'd like to get a kind of meme/best of/reader participation thing going this week instead. Tell us the top 10 season passes on your TiVo. (If you don't have a TiVo, but are still devoted to television in one way or the other, tell us what shows you make it a point of seeing every week.) No lying and listing nothing but PBS fare. We want honesty. If "Rollergirls" already has a top spot on your list, fess up. If your number two show is "Cheaters," we won't judge.
But if "Arrested Development" isn't in there somewhere, we may have to confiscate your remote.
OK. I'll go first. (Yes, "I." Since I wasn't able to pull together a year end, "best of" post in time, I'm kind of cheating and dropping the "we" here. At least for a couple of sentences.)
1. Father Ted (I've seen most of them before, but it's been long enough that I can watch them again and still laugh.)
2. The Office UK (See above.)
3. Alias (New episodes only!)
4. Starting Over (I love my daily dose of the crazy.)
5. Desperate Housewives (I don't even like the show. Why is it so high on the list?)
6. Lost (We've waited long enough. A new episode airs next week!)
7. Medium (Not that great, but not that bad either. Do I dare use the "rare, well-done" joke again?...Naaaah)
8. Martha (If only she'd stop with the celebrity interviews. Half the time she can't even be bothered to remember the names of the people she's speaking to, much less what show/movie/album they've just completed.)
9. Arrested Development (Oh, please have some episodes for this sad season pass in the coming weeks!)
10. Late Show With David Letterman ('Cause Leno sucks.)
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although I do not have tivo, the only shows I'm keeping an eye on at all are:
battlestar galactica
stargate SG-1
24
Lost
MAYBE prison break if it doesn't suck in March
now if only FOX and the Stargate guys would start selling these on iTunes I'd be all set!
1. country boys --pbs frontline two part series about a couple of backwoods boys trying to make good despite the hardluck
2. project runway
3. americas next top
4. desperate houswives
5. arrested development
6. blind date
7. sex and the city [still love it]
8. the office
9. daily show
10. d letterman
Ooooh, such a good idea, Rain!
In random order, mine are:
1. The Office US
2. The Boondocks
3. Deal or No Deal
4. Skating With Champions (!!!)
5. Animal Cops SF
6. Everyone Hates Chris
7. Daily Show/Colbert Report
8. MTV Subterranean
9. The First 48
10. Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law
1)Lost
2)The Office (US Version)
3)The Office (English version)
4)Pardon the Interruption
5)Around the Horn
6)South Park
7)Battlestar Galactica (kicks all sorts of ass)
8)Firefly
9)The Colbert Report
And last but definately not least....
10)Arrested Development (R.I.P)
As a side note, I used to have the Daily Show up there, but had to take it down because it airs too many damn times and it would record it like four times in one day. So now I just make sure I watch it at 11.
Wow, I always suspected most of mine were cartoons.
1. Alias (just the new episodes)
2. Justice League Unlimited
3. Kim Possible (which is awesome I don't care what anybody says)
4. The Venture Brothers (they need to start with the new episodes, already!)
5. Comedians of Comedy
6. Battlestar Galactica (legacy entry; I like it fine, but don't really watch it anymore)
7. Lost
8. Veronica Mars
9. Arrested Development
10. Rachael Ray's Tasty Travels (come on, they had a promo that showed RACHAEL RAY PLAYING A TAIKO DRUM)
11. The Daily Show
I have replayTV which I love -- it has a thirty-second skip button on the remote and guaranteed/not guaranteed single/every episode options. Seems more flexible than the "season pass" thing, but I dunno. Anyway, I am recording:
1) Lost (tried to give it up this year, but dammit if it's not getting better)
2) Veronica Mars (it's no Buffy, but it's close)
3) Battlestar Galactica
4) Nova
5) Frontline
6) Daily Show
7 etc) ... a bunch of animated stuff for my boyfriend incl. South Park, Simpsons, Family Guy, and some cartoon network trash ...
Shows I've given up on this year: Alias, Gilmore Girls, Arrested Development (totally not up to quality of seasons 1 & 2)
Shows I would watch if I had HBO: Extras, Rome, Deadwood, and maybe Sopranos
Marnie--I think all the shows you say you've given up are worth another shot (even "Alias." I'm hoping it goes out with a bang.)
And last night's "Arrested Development" was one of their most brilliant episodes ever.
Rachael--I've got that Frontline show about the country boys all set to record. I'll be sure to mention it next week (it premieres on the 9th.)
Rita--I'll ignore the lack of "AR" in your list and ask about "The First 48." Is it any good? I was intrigued, but feel like I'm kind of burned out on true crime shows...
Hmm, am I the only one having problems with TypeKey?
1) The Colbert Report
2) The Daily Show
3) Battlestar Galactica
4) Arrested Development
5) Project Runway (I missed last season but I am so hooked on this one)
6) Mile High (a deliciously trashy soaper on BBC America following a bunch of shallow, oversexed flight attendants)
7) The Office (US)
8) Scurbs (finally back!)
9) My Name is Earl
10) Everybody Hates Chris
sweet! another Kim Possible fan over the age of 12!
call me, beep me, if you want to reach me...
I think my attention span is too short for Arrested Development -- you miss like one show and suddenly you have no idea what's going on. That's the same reason why I can't watch Lost or Project Runway!
I do really like the First 48 -- I'm not usually a true crime fan, but it's kind of cool to see how cops work and how they figure out murders. It satisfies the same urge for me that the blotter does.
....and isn't anyone else totally psyched for this ice skating with champions thing? Todd Bridges and Deborah Gibson falling down with Nancy Kerrigan!!!! I'm so excited!!
Ah, I loves me some TV!
At work, so I'm trying to go with memory here...
1. Lost
2. General Hospital
3. Project Runway
4. Robot Chicken
5. Four Kings (Just in case I forget to watch when it airs.)
... and now I'm running a blank. I used to have the Daily Show as well, but the multiple airings/recordings drove me nuts. I think once 24 starts up, the boyfriend will Season Pass it as well as The Shield.
Jenguin--as you and Jon mention, the Daily Show thing is a bother. I'm pretty anal about my season passes and go through them all once a week to make sure everything is copectic, and delete all those additional Daily Show recordings in the process.
Those less crazy than me might consider just setting a manual repeat recording of 11pm on Comedy Central, and deleting the Daily Show season pass.
I have:
1. Guiding Light (it's a sickness)
2. Numb3rs
3. Project Runway
4. House
5. Battlestar Galactica (that belongs to the roommate - and well, technically, so does the TiVo)
6. Manual: Daily Show. We just set it to record the manual repeat the next morning and it works pretty well. The multiple showings were killing us, too.
7. Stargate Atlantis (See #5)
8. America's Next Top Model
9. Grey's Anatomy
10. Prison Break
I want to see Country Boys, but it conflicts with something (House?) and TiVo didn't list any reruns so I'll just have to remember to watch it on another TV while the TiVo records as usual. So please make sure to remind us, Rain! The Farmer's Wife KILLED ME.
Can't. Resist. Commenting!
In no certain order:
* Project Runway
* Isaac -- I'm about to blog about my love for this show
* Roller Girls
* My Name Is Earl
* Daddy's Spoiled Little Girl
* Breakfast With The Arts
* Austin City Limits
* Subterranean
* Made
* Dog Whisperer - just in case they ever start showing new episodes
Project Runway ROX!!!!!!!!!
and Scrubs came back last night.
now I'm ready for Lost and gonna check out the Earl hype Thursday.
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1. The O.C. (not as good as it used to be, but i'm still addicted if only b/c i'm an optimist)
2. Arrested Development
3. Lost
4. Scrubs
5. The Daily Show
6. Late Night with Conan O'Brien
7. The Office (US)
8. Project Runway
9. Desperate Housewives
10. The Soup
1. Balitang America
2. Arrested Development
3. My Name is Earl
4. Surface
5. Lost
6. How I Met Your Mother
7. Warriors (Basketball/NBA keyword Wishlist)
8. California (Basketball keyword Wishlist) [Go Bears!]
9. Daily Show/Colbert Report
10. South Park
I watch a lot of basketball obviously...
All only the new ones, unless otherwise noted
1. Alias
2. Lost
3. Veronica Mars
4. My Name is Earl
5. Supernatural (shut up)
6. Medium
7. No Reservations
8. Mythbusters (I said shut up)
9. The Tyra Banks Show
10. Showbiz India
No TiVo here; I'm a bit of a Luddenite, er, Luddite when it comes to new tech.
But what does get taped:
Lost
(Veronica Mars on the weekend repeats)
The West Wing
How I Met Your Mother
House
Boston Legal
Stacked - yes, Stacked! Sue me; it makes me laugh.
And anything that might be of interest regarding the TV universe (guest stars, crossovers etc.)
And looking to add to this list:
Jake In Progress
Love Monkey
I don't think Prison Break will get me back in March. Big mistake to go on hiatus like that.
Dancing with the Stars - Series 2
So Master P makes it to the next round where Rap will meet Quickstep. It's a Surreal Life, isn't it? Ashley is so "cute"!
One of the nice things to see is how there are two Black contestants participating in Ballroom ... as indicated in the DanceScape Passion thread, Blacks in Ballroom, there tends to be lower participation from the Black community. Maybe we're seeing a new trend here, as Ballroom Dancing becomes more accessible to everyone across various cultures!
Realize he was horrible BUT ... would love to see if there is a strong enough Rap audience to support Master P.
It would actually have been fun to see his son, Romeo, which would reach an even younger urban group.
Lisa Rinna is beautiful but PLEASE, someone tell her to stop getting so much collagen in her lips. She's gorgeous enough without having such extreme lips. Her husband, Harry Hamlin, was in the audience.
Drew Lachey's brother, Nick, was also in the audience. Too bad he split up with Jessica Simpson ... it would have been a media frenzy to have Jessica and Nick cheering for Drew at the event, and if their MTV show had continued, they could have even visited Drew while he practised for Dancing with the Stars. Alas, we'll never know!
So Stacy Keibler is a World Wrestling Entertainer/Wrestler? Our knowledge of pro lady wrestlers to date had been Chyna Doll (a.k.a. Joanie Laurer - anyone see her on The Surreal Life?) ... steroids & boob job gone mad (now, she would have been an interesting contestant also, although the show would have to be renamed "Dancing with the Freaks"!). Stacy Keibler looks so slim and flexible ... has anyone actually seen her wrestle?
David Letterman had a funny joke the other day ...
"Dancing" + Celebrities = "Dancing with the Stars"
"Dancing" - Celebrities = "Dancing with the Stars"
On another note, Howard Stern premiered on Sirius radio. It was quite interesting to listen to his interview with Larry King on CNN. He said that he tended to TiVo shows like "Smallville" (about Superman's beginnings). He was also one of the few in the shock media circuit to actually support "Dancing with the Stars" Series I and predicted it would do well. Any Howard Stern fans, here? If Howard produced this show, can you imagine what kind of guests he would bring in (actually, he did say his "coolest" radio guests have been Stevie Wonder and Arnold Schwarzenegger).
It's fun to be able to just talk about Dancing with non-ballroom enthusiasts. Great variety show-styled entertainment! Don't know about you, but we're curious how Master P is going to do in the Quickstep ... and whether he will wear a Tailsuit with a Baseball Cap and Sneaker. Maybe he'll set a new trend in men's Ballroom Fashions.
Look forward to reading other comment!
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