on the last season of 30 Rock.

30 Rock. Parks and Rec. Office. Netflix has no more funny for me.

Now all my cue has left is killing and sorrow and darkness. Later season Weeds. Later Season Angel. Later season Fringe. Breaking Bad. Documentaries on the state of our food supply system, our environment, etc.

One can only watch so much of that sort of thing before wanting to do away with TV entirely.

Modern Family?

I will try Childrens Hospital, I had never heard of it. Nor of Modern Family. The latter doesnt seem to be on netflix. Also interested in Big Bang theory, which is also not on Netflix.

Modern Family is very funny, more mainstream than Childrens Hospital. Weird, I thought it was on Netflix, oh just for disc rental.

Party Down is pretty funny too. It only ran two short seasons. Meh, it's only disc rental as well.

Another more mainstream show that can be funny is How I Met Your Mother. Or go to some recent oldies and try My Name is Earl or Malcolm in the Middle. Malcolm has Bryan Cranston playing a goofy dad, completely different than his Breaking Bad character.

Oh, there's a British comedy called The IT Crowd you can try. I've watched a few. They were funny, broader humor.

Childrens hospital reminds me of the web comic Cyanide and Happiness. I just watched the first two, im not sure its cohesive enough for me, but you are certainly correct in calling it wrong and funny.

We just finished the most recent How I met your mother offered on Netflix.

I dont really care for malcolm in the middle. I tried IT crowd, but It didn't really grab me, just a little too cheese ball for me, I think

Thanks for the ideas. I needed a few lighter things

you should watch that, it's very good.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1509004/

But I will keep my eyes open for a chance to try it out. Thanks.

It's about sanew[oyd vpfr]...

for about a month after I got into my new apartment, but it was waaaay too boring. After a while, you run out of things to do on the Interwebs, and you can't watch local pro sports games until after they're over.

and/or online gaming come into play.

You don't need to have cable to watch. It has a lot of cool shows from the 60's and 70's.

TV was better back then.

Thanks for the heads up...

Didn't watch much TV for the last year and all the stuff I want to watch is available online or in the shops anyway, so it's no big deal.

And on the entertainment side - I'm a big fan of the Big Bang Theory.

I'm not a big fan of reality shows and most of the current sitcoms aren't all that funny, though "The Big Bang Theory" is pretty well done. And I did watch "Law & Order: SVU" tonight, since it was a "ripped from the headlines" episode, investigation of a NY mayoral candidate who called himself "Enrique Trouble" when communicating online with young woman.

It's nothing but cheap, lazy television and I refuse to contribute to it in any way. So it's really just news, sports (my Giants finally managed to win a game) and Big Bang. Perhaps an old episode of MASH or Seinfeld if I pass it in channel surfing. Nice to see SUV really does take stories right from the headlines.

I worked with the commercial networks for a lot of years, was responsible for the network TV listings in the newspapers. I watched a lot then, got to see screeners ahead of time or recorded what I liked or needed to keep up with. First, it was the profusion of news shows, "48 Hours," "Dateline," "20/20," much cheaper to produce in terms of sets and writers. But then came the reality shows and I think it's gone downhill from there. It seems like half of the shows that are on are talent contests or some kind of competition, including weight loss. I know they have a following, but I miss good writing and interesting characters. SVU is one of the few I still watch and I enjoyed his one, LOL.

My mother-in-law is a huge fan and has always told my wife and me that we should see it, though we generally don't care for sitcoms.

So we finally sat down and watched an episode.

It was hilarious.

My first brush with the show was while I was in Greece. Just happened to be on an English speaking channel and my friend and I fell in love with it. I couldn't believe it when I came home and found out it had been on for 5 years and I had never even heard of it. And yes, the show is hilarious (and educational). It was nice to see Bob Newhart finally win his Emmy with his guest appearance there. I read somewhere that Bob Newhart will be back this season along with Bill Nye the Science Guy (I think I got that name right).

And I'm watching it first run, for a change! Home with the flu.

and the Walking Dead. Beyond the news propaganda, I find the tone, culture and of course the advertising, pretty sickening.

"We all know" threads really have a tendancy to be annoying.

I like to see how they make stuff. I like to watch anything about the pyramids. Through the worm hole with Morgan Freeman is excellent. Just to name a few

Thats about it.

MHz has 24 hour world news from many international sources. In the late evenings there are foreign language subtitled dramas. My favorites are Montalbano (Italy), Wallender (the original Swedish versions), Magret (France), and the Brunetti mysteries (German, but filmed in Venice). They also used to cover the Australian Football League, which was absolutely wonderful (one game a week during the season, plus a weekly hour-long wrap-up show -- sadly no more).

PBS has News Hour (don't always watch), Nature, NOVA (always watch), opera (always watch), Frontline, Bill Moyers, etc.

THIS! is broadcast by a local Fox affiliate. It has old movies and TV 24/7. Late night they broadcast the original "Outer Limits" (less frequently now), "Sea Hunt" (Lloyd Bridges!), and "Highway Patrol" (Broderick Crawford). Lots of good, and not so good flicks.

Now here's the deal. I paid ten dollars for my TV (used). I have a decades old deep fringe antenna and rotor on my roof, both of which still work fine. At any rate, there's no cable TV here in the Manistee National Forest. No broadband Internet either. And few paved roads.

But I have lots of books to read and I have an iPhone which has fair access to 4G. And I have MHz from WGVU in Grand Rapids, MI.

Pretty damned good. Now if I could only afford a snow plow to get me out of here in the winters. Fortunately, I have neighbors with tractors.

1980... I watch some news shows online and two favs on Comedy Central - online. Not worth the price of the unit or the cable, Internets is all I can afford and is all I really need. When I get bored, I go outside and watch the wildlife, far more interesting. If there's something I really have to watch, and I can't recall when the last time that happened to be, I go to a friend's house who has TeeVee and is going to watch it too.

and 70s, sometimes a movie. I don't care for any of the so called reality shows or any series.
Usually it is just background noise.

Bernard Hopkins fights on Showtime tomorrow night.

NCIS, Criminal Minds and Person of Interest on occasions.

The talking heads on the cable networks? Not in this lifetime.

don't have.. due to being sick to death of it in 2002. Oh I still had a tv for years after that but only to watch my shows. For 3 years now I've watch them all online.. so I don't even have to surf through the bullshit.

Never thought I'd be tvless.. but here I am.

No TV set, so I rely on YouTube clips and DVDs that I watch on my computer.