What do you watch on TV? Anything good on these days?

I'm pretty discouraged by what is on these days -- Syfy is a bust, and the only show I had any interest in, Defying Gravity on ABC, seems to have not been picked up.

What do you like? What's new and interesting out there?

I do like "Saving Grace" on TNT but there are so few episodes, really. Doesn't make cable worth the effort....

but I'm a Stargate fan, so that's a given ;)

As for other new shows, that's it. I spend more time watching TCM than any other channel, I think. I have my DVR catch "Jamie at Home" and "Ghost in the Shell: Stand-Alone Complex, 2nd Gig", but nothing else other than the odd movie here and there. Recorded "World's Fastest Indian" last night and would have liked to have caught "Whale Rider" too, as both are New Zealand films :D

For a while they were SOOOO militarisitc; I liked it better when the focus was on archaeology or mythology, etc. Forgot Universe was coming on. Thanks for reminding me....

so you should be able to catch the pilot again, or I would think so. They get into the regular season shows this week.

I'm like you, too, in that I preferred the archeology, problem-solving and exploring. Still, Jack was a great commander and the banter between him and Daniel was always priceless :D

I download watch totally legally at great expense:

Dexter (new season just started)
Sons of Anarchy (middle of second season)
Whale Wars (between seasons right now)
True Blood (between seasons right now)

whaling? Then there is no conceivable way I can watch ... can't even bear the thought of whaling, much less watch anything about it.

I'm one of those animal lovers / environmentalists who can't really cope with what we're doing to the planet and its creatures. I'm a wimp.

Whale Wars is a one-hour weekly American documentary-style reality television series that premiered on November 7, 2008 on the Animal Planet cable channel. The program follows Paul Watson, founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, as he and his crew aboard the MV Steve Irwin attempt to deter Japanese ships that hunt minke and fin whales off the coast of Antarctica.<1>

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society disputes the Japanese claim that the whaling done in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary is legally accepted research and is instead banned commercially based whaling.<2> Sea Shepherd has been both criticized and praised for tactics which include throwing glass bottles of butyric acid at, boarding, and attempting to disable the Japanese vessels. Due to the controversial nature of the show, Animal Planet displays the disclaimer:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale_Wars

probably won't catch it -- too painful for me. Glad they're airing it, though.

The commercials are so long I ask myself, "Do I really want to see this?" And then I decide I don't.

I review the projectrungay blog every week to see what's happening on project runway and noticed they mentioned the show ...

Glee is an American musical comedy-drama television series that airs on Fox. It focuses on a high school show choir, also known as a glee club, set within the fictional William McKinley High School in Lima, Ohio.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glee_(TV_series)

it is a good show with many hot guys.

:bounce:

It's my favorite this season.

and I love reruns of Golden Girls and Roseanne

I'm watching, and loving, FlashForward!

Everyone on the planet (well, almost everyone) blacks out for just over 2 minutes, and during that down time, they see things...

Plus there's the chaos of accidents etc that happen when you lose consciousness for that long...

Fascinating!

Channel.

...but I don't necessarily watch them when they're broadcast, I'll usually get them On-Demand or via Hulu.

As well as the old cartoon standbys: The Simpsons, Family Guy, The McLaughlin Group.

I really like to watch the Naked Archeologist, music concerts of various kinds, news programs and a very few odd shows. I usually have HLN on for noise, later in the morning changing to MSNBC.
But there is only so much of that I can stand.

mark

I work second shift. But when I have a night off during the week I like the crime shows, CSI, Law and Order, Criminal Minds, etc..

Last night, I watched four hours of Law and Order:SVU on USA. Nothing better was on the Big 4 networks so I enjoyed a mini-marathon of a pretty decent show.

Not a whole lot--far less than I used to watch, I have to say.

- Mad Men (excellent)
- Desperate Housewives (I have no idea why I still watch this show; it's the equivalent of rice cakes--not tasty and not satisfying but you keep eating anyway in the hopes that it might tickle your taste buds)
- Greek (but it's gotten mundane; the first season was great--scrips were far wittier)
- Glee (THE BEST this season--I look forward to it every week)
- Community (much better than I expected; I thought it was going to be empty snark, but it has far more heart than it originally appeared to)
- The Office (an old standby, by now)
- FlashForward (my jury is still out for now, but it seems interesting enough)
- Gray's Anatomy (more rice cakes; I'm getting so I can take or leave this show)

That's it. And waiting for Lost to return OF COURSE. Also spent the month of July snagging torrents of the newest episodes of Top Gear, and I'm looking forward to doing it again in November.

Sunday: Curb Your Enthusiasm
Monday: Jack
Tuesday: Shit
Wednesday: Modern Family, might try The Middle again this week, oh, and LOST come January. Plus I sometimes watch Top Chef with the wife.
Thursday: The Office, Parks and Recreation (only if I'm bored)
Friday: Nada
Saturday: Nothing

Plus throw in The Daily Show (Mondays-Thursdays), Conan (if I'm still awake), plus a liberal amount of CNN, CSpan, ESPN and your baseball and football.

And True Blood and Big Love, whenever those come back on.