with all the current shows ending I thought it might be a good time to catch up on some shows I've missed, anyone got any recommendations? are weeds or 30 rock any good?

These are the shows I have been watching to avoid naming the same and to give you an idea of what I like

Entourage
Heroes
Lost
Battlestar Galactica
24
Smallville
Dexter
Rome
Deadwood
Family Guy
South Park
Extras
Arrested Development
EDIT> Forgot a few..
Prison Break
Scrubs
Black Books
League of Gentlemen
Jericho
Trailer Park Boys

I did watch most of the first season of the office (US) but never really bothered downloading the rest though, do they get better?

I started watching American Dad too but gave up on it

Taste noted and flavours suggested that you may enjoy when you purchase future DVD set releases....

The Shield
The Unit
~ If you like The Unit, there is a pommie show that deals with the trials an tribulations of a British SAS unit that goes by the unfortunate name of "Ultimate Force" - same action vibe with classic british humour, less desperate wife stuff

If you like SouthPark for keeping it real, try a stronger stench called "Drawn Together" political and social correctness is thrown clean out the window (usually while it's still closed!)
/end .2c

PS: Chris Ryan (actual ex-SAS guy behind movie Bravo Two Zero is a consultant in this shows production [if I have my facts correct - feel free to correct me] )

PPS: One of the SAS squads members is none other than Suresh from Heroes :)

PPPS: Lee Adama (Battlestar galactica) may or may not be an english speaking "Rupert" in charge of the squad!!!

last edited by HERMITech at 20:27:20 24/May/07

I really like The Unit.

It's about some covert ops guys doing counter-terrorist stuff in places that you could make CS maps out of. The main character played David Palmer (the president) in 24.

Very enjoyable:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460690/

I've started watching buffy/voyager on foxtel after work.
Grey's Anatomy, Medium, rosemary & thyme, NCIS

I Love Boston Legal on a Monday night a bit late but great!

House
How I met Your Mother
Supernatural

word to all your selections wet. although i've never seen bsg. maybe i should.

I get almost all o that plus sopranos, the wire, rescue me, and the 2 stargates.

I have also found the US office to be VERY entertaining. Not quite comparable to the uk version, just different and also good. afterall, it IS written by gervais and merchant aswell. i'd definetely recommend.

Also, if u haven't seen Curb Your Enthusiasm, get all of it.

:)

lolz, NCIS, tv for dumb people (right up there with CSI and all its spins offs, total rubbish)

the only tv worth watching is:

the bill (actually still watch it on tele, still the best character driven show on the box and has been for 20 years, although got the wobbles atm)

entourage, best characters, best script, period. as good as american tv gets

and heroes, mainstream gear that doesnt suck

oh and scrubs, still funny 6 seasons in and occasionly learn something

ive been meaning to get around to watching my name is earl, will do when i get a chance

curb your enthusiasm and sopranos.

From your list I don't watch bsg, deadwood or extras. I'd add to my list Kat's list and:
Scrubs
Sopranos
Two and a Half men
The office US (imo it seems to get better)
Black books

I've started watching the riches. It has started off slow but I think it might grow on me.

Bargin: I only just started watching BSG a week or to ago and I'm loving it, not usually into that type of how either

Spook and Alize: Yeah I neglected to mention I watch scrubs and black books as well :) I'll update my list with those I've forgotten :)

Shark.

How I met your Mother
Medium
The Shield (Definitely, it's the best show on TV)
Oz

I've tried The Traveller, first episode seemed ok, in that lame-o non-serious pretty boy prison break sort of way. Gonna watch the 2nd ep before ditching.

the season ended the other week, but wilfred is f***ing funy

I definately recommend weeds! Top show!
The mother in it actually won some form of best female actress in a TV series!

I just stumbled upon "The Riches" and am 6 eps in and loving it.

Brief plot outline - family of gypsies (husband, wife and 3 kids) who go around stealing and conning people to make ends meet are involved in an accident with a rich couple who end up dead. They basically steal their lives or as they put it "steal the American dream". He takes the dead guys place as a lawyer and obviously has no knowledge of the law etc which makes for some great situations you wonder how the hell hes going to get out of.

Totally not going to make sense how they can steal their lives just like that, so you will just have to watch it to find out how :)

My regular list is as follows:

Heroes
Prison Break
Entourage
My Name Is Earl
The Unit
Scrubs
The Office (US)
Everybody Hates Chris
24

Rescue Me was also a good series I am eagerly awaiting the next season of.

last edited by rubba-chikin at 22:56:06 24/May/07

How come noone ever suggests Big Love?!?!

I was in the US last year when this was screening and watched almost the whole thing On Demand on my relatives cable (US cable f***ing pwns all over .au cable with the On Demand stuff). Definitely worth checking out. HBO + Bill Paxton == recipe for success!

Wet, grab season 2 and 3 of The Office. It's a million times better than the first season and there's like 24 eps in each. Plus Dwight rocks extremely hard.

Also, Ugly Betty is a damn cool show as well. It's extreme cheese but it's f***ing hilarious. And get 30 Rock as well, even if it's only for Alec Baldwin because without him the show would be crap. And for something a little different try Deadliest Catch. A Discovery Channel show about crab fishing boats that head out into the Berring sea (sp?) in North America. Not s***ty little canoes, these are like the boats in Perfect Storm. Wild weather and wild times for all involved.

8-)

Frisky Dingo
Sealab 2021
Family Guy
Reno 911
30 Rock
SNL
Drawn Together
Entourage
Extras
Robot Chicken
Southpark
Ultimate Fighter
Trailer Park Boys
The IT Crowd
The Chaser's War On Everything
Metalocalypse
Assy Mcgee
Cathouse
Whose Line Is It Anyway
The Office (UK)
I Pity the Fool
Dog the Bounty Hunter
Wife Swap
Dog Whisperer
Flavor of Love
Brat Camp
Spawn (animated)
Iron Chef
Ren and Stimpy
The Tick
The Daily Show
The Soup
Wonder Woman
Black Books
Monkey
Prisoner
Tripping the Rift
Monty Python
Young Ones
Fawlty Towers
Blankety Blanks
Seinfeld
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Red Dwarf
Blakes 7
GP
Roger Ramjet
Arrested Development

...+ more that I can't think of right now.

You cant have Roger Ramjet and Monkey in there without Count Dukula, Banana Man, Danger Mouse and Trapdoor.

I grew up on these shows!
That probably explains a great many things actually >_>

For me
The Unit
26
NCIS
Entourage
Supernatural

Also, Ugly Betty is a damn cool show as well. It's extreme cheese but it's f***ing hilarious.

Rev sometimes you seem cool, then sometimes you make me wonder

Also, Ugly Betty is a damn cool show as well. It's extreme cheese but it's f***ing hilarious.

hehehe agreed. I don't know what it is about that show, i get a twinge of excitement when it comes on.

Also, i watched the first 4 seasons of scrubs in pretty much 2 weeks when i was stuck at home.. i really miss that show, i cant wait to see the rest.

How can you not like a show that has Mistique and Caleb Nichol in it???

incredible_veggie listed all the good ones... although a heap of terrible ones as well :P i just want them to make another series of rome.. (best evah!).. but i know it's not happening. entourage is still going strong, southpark for the funnies. family guy has gone downhill of late imo... too much gay.

I did watch most of the first season of the office (US) but never really bothered downloading the rest though, do they get better

I found The Office got really good after the first season. 3rd season has been the best of it so far, I actually prefer it over the UK version now.

www.eztvefnet.org

Create a MyShows account. Very bloody handy. You tick all the shows off as you watch each episode. Mine are below.

American Dad Airing: Sunday
Drawn Together On break, returns: 2008-01-01
Entourage Airing: Sunday
Family Guy Airing: Sunday
Prison Break On break, returns: 2008-01-01
Simpsons, The Airing: Sunday
Weeds On break, returns: 2007-08-15

I'm the biggest Scrubs fan there is, but Season 6 (and 4/5 to a lesser degree) absolutely sucks balls compared to 1 - 3.

It's still a good show to watch and better then 99% of the crap out there, but it has just turned into stupid, random, stoner type humour.

edit: Season 4 gets a break because Heather Graham is f***ing gorgeous ;)

last edited by CHUB at 09:52:42 25/May/07

Sorry Chub, I'd bet my gf is a bigger fan than you.. we have S1-4 on DVD (S5 is out in June) and she's probably watched them plus S5/S6 at least 5 times. She'll just put the DVDs on one after the other and sit there for hours.

My TV list;

- Heroes
- Sopranos
- House
- Weeds
- Scrubs
- BSG
- Studio 60 (but it's canned I think)
- Smallville
- Jericho (canned now)
- Top Gear

Her TV list;
The above minus BSG but add in Gilmore Girls and Greys.

Would it be right to call people who watch Scrubs "scrubbers"?

Sorry Chub, I'd bet my gf is a bigger fan than you.. we have S1-4 on DVD (S5 is out in June) and she's probably watched them plus S5/S6 at least 5 times. She'll just put the DVDs on one after the other and sit there for hours.

I got 1 to 4 on DVD, 5 and 6 somewhere else :)

I've watched every episode on the DVD's about 15 - 20 times each (I think I had a problem at one stage).

I just got into the habit of watching 8 - 10 episodes a night, every night, without fail...

last edited by CHUB at 10:01:24 25/May/07

Would it be right to call people who watch Scrubs "scrubbers"?

As long as we can call people who watch Ugly Betty "retards" :)

Hehe

Well played.

8-)

the wire is done by the same people who did the shield. i heart the shield big time so i was sorely disappointed to find out the unit sucked massive donkey cock.
also, the wire is possibly my favourite show of all time. buikding casework from the ground up and no f***ing csi stylez blue torches. real POlice.

i like csi: miami for the original dialog.

u arent a scubs fan at all chubby my boy

season 6 is awesome

me and wifey scored the first 5 seasons, and sat and watched them relentlessly after never really watching the show on tele

we both love it and crave it coming out weekly now

i love a bit of drama with my comedy, and i love the random s*** they pull in scrubs

very much my style of humour

And for something a little different try Deadliest Catch. A Discovery Channel show about crab fishing boats that head out into the Berring sea (sp?) in North America. Not s***ty little canoes, these are like the boats in Perfect Storm. Wild weather and wild times for all involved.

Have to agree with Rev on this one, at first I thought "Who the f*** wants to watch a show about people fishing?" but I've seen the first 4 eps of season 3 and thought "Holy s***!!". Three people dead in the first episode. Worth having a look at.

yer, we've watched a bit of Dealiest Catch, on discovery channel when we find it

pretty amazing what they go through, just to catch pink crabs!

dunno if i could watch seasons of it though

was pretty moving watching the ep, where the crew thought their boat was going to go down, so they abandoned ship, and all but one of them drowned

the next day however they found the boat rightside up and still afloat

that would be pretty emotional

last edited by Spook at 11:56:56 25/May/07

Have to agree with Rev on this one, at first I thought "Who the f*** wants to watch a show about people fishing?" but I've seen the first 4 eps of season 3 and thought "Holy s***!!". Three people dead in the first episode. Worth having a look at.

Woah, checking this out ASAP!

Also Spook, you're dead wrong :)

Luckily they're going to stop after Season 6 and the show won't be TOO ruined.

that will be good if they get out while the going is good

still, i will be sad, season 6 is just about over, 1 ep to go i think :(

Shows that I watch at the moment are:

Hustle
Naruto Shippuden (Anime)
Claymore (Anime)
The Unit
House MD
Scrubs
My Name is Earl
Heroes
Supernatural
The Knights of Prosperity

go watch nine seasons of the x-files assuming you havnt already

or :

er
angel
buffy
macgyver
firefly
west wing

claymore?


id recommend Bleach for Anime seeing as naruto is already said or city hunter (if anyone knows where to hire the live action movie for this tell me now. i cant find it anywhere

or friday night lights (not anime now)

er
angel
buffy
macgyver
firefly
west wing

Do I need a VCR to watch these?

Luckily they're going to stop after Season 6 and the show won't be TOO ruined.

Sif your a Scrubs fan - There will be a Season 7

no

i have them on dvd (yes, from jb

sure spock

we don't believe you because you had to add that

thats a terrible reason

Claymore is a new anime that's just been released a few months ago. I quite enjoy it ... has a Vampire Hunter D feel to it

http://www.tv.com/claymore/show/72911/summary.html?q=claymore&tag=search_results;title;0

I'm with TiT, Boston Legal is bloody hilarious

are you the reason judge now?

Glad season 7 of Scrubs is gonna happen. I just finished watching season 6 and the way it ended would have had me pulling my hair out if there was no new season!

Just saw a new episode of Studio60 released - and I thought it'd been canned. For those who don't know it's made by the same guy as West Wing and is just as well written as it.

Oh, everyone should watch Buffy 1 - 5 and the first 2 seasons of Angel.

Awesome, beyond awesome shows. You need to sit down with the DVD's and really give it a chance, addictive as hell.

LOL CHUB I have the full series of Buffy on DVD. Only once I've sat down and watched every episode back to back (took about 2 weeks with work and s***).

I still haven't watched all of 6, didn't like it much... the musical episode though was a breath of fresh air (Anthony Head/Giles was actually in musical theatre prior to Buffy, very good vocalist).

Season 7, I watched about 3 episodes... and decided I would rather pretend they didn't exist and live in denial :)

Ah but you have to finish it off to see who lives and dies in the end. Angel I lost interest after series 3 I think it was.

thats funny, i gained interest at season three end/ four then it got good

The Wire...best tv show ever

Law and Order
Scrubs
All Saints
Neighbours

Stargate Atlantis
Penn & Teller's Bulls***!
Ugly Betty
Lost

also within two weeks there will be new Criss Angel's Mindfreak.

haha, criss angel

what a stooge

Oh I forgot to mention a documentary series called "Man vs Wild" its pretty interesting. What happens is some english army guy gets dropped by helicopter into some dangerous area like the Moab desert or costa rican rain forest with only a water bottle and a knife. He shows you how to survive and make it out.

I'm the biggest Scrubs fan there is, but Season 6 (and 4/5 to a lesser degree) absolutely sucks balls compared to 1 - 3.

It's still a good show to watch and better then 99% of the crap out there, but it has just turned into stupid, random, stoner type humour.

So true, was one of my favourite shows for the first few seasons, now I can't be bothered even trying to get hold of it.

I just watch Entourage, Heroes, The Chasers. I miss Rome already :)

the way it ended would have had me pulling my hair out

huh? You have tweezers attached to your finger tips ???

heroes
the unit
entourage
24
house

The Unit rocks real hard in my Book of Goodness
Recomended

last edited by Fnukle at 21:17:10 26/May/07

haha, criss angel

what a stooge

Criss Angel is the biggest douche of all time.

The Unit rocks real hard in my Book of Goodness

Given the history of that show, they'll make a vague reference to season two and act like nothing has happened. Still a good show, but they sure have f***ed it up royally.

Hmm, that Man vs Wild tv show sounds interesting. Will be grabbing them for sure.

The Unit got best in it's last 3 or 4 shows this season. Sure hope they don't just ignore what happened when Season 3 rolls around.

List of shows I watch/watched, I have removed ones you already listed.


American Dad
Day Break (Canceled first season)
Drawn Together
Firefly
It's always sunny in Philadelphia
Rescue Me
Sleeper Cell
Studio 60
The Shield (BEST SHOW ON TV EVER)
The Unit
The Wire
The Chasers War on Everything
Thief

if you have cable watch Balls of Steel on the comedy channel. they have a number of regular acts that try to compete for who has the biggest balls of steel. these acts include the annoying devil, the the militant black guy, neg's urban sports and Alex Zane's gameshows.

last edited by hast at 14:07:49 27/May/07

and the f***ers!