General Television Thread

[Rich]

With stupid mid and end of season breaks.

When we get a series they will run for consecutive weeks until the show finishes, unless there is something particularly special going on.

[Pesci]

Yeah, what do you actually watch during the Summer?

[Josh]

Not much, really.

[Mx. Canadian Destroyer]

HBO starts some of their shows in the summer, usually.

But other than that, the summer is full of re-runs. I usually take the time to catch up on shows I've missed, so I don't mind.

[GoGo Yubari]

Mad Men traditionally starts in the summer too, but it won't this year because of fucking contract negotiations.

[Fitzy]

Weeds and the first half of the Burn Notice season also usually air during the summer.

[Damian WayLNKe]

If you watch baseball, each team plays a three-hour game 6 or 7 times a week between April and September.

Edit: Instead of making a new post, I wanted to talk about my revelation last night. I was watching The Wonder Years on HUB last night and decided to look up who the narrator was. It is none other than...

Daniel Stern (Marv from Home Alone, Phil from City Slickers and Brickma from Rookie of the Year)

I didn't see that coming at all. He talks so goofy in all of those movies.

[Fitzy]

Lights Out is fantastic. And its ratings are worse than Terriers. Fuck you FX.

Shit, no way?

This better make it to a second season; when has a down-on-your-luck boxing story ever not had mass appeal, especially when done as well as this one?

Well, it won't. They announced today that they won't renew it for a second season.

[Mysterio2000X]

Lights Out is fantastic. And its ratings are worse than Terriers. Fuck you FX.

Shit, no way?

This better make it to a second season; when has a down-on-your-luck boxing story ever not had mass appeal, especially when done as well as this one?

Well, it won't. They announced today that they won't renew it for a second season.

Die in a fire, FX.

On an unrelated note, that new Sherlock show is great. Sucks that they're only doing three-episode seasons, though. =\

Edited March 25, 2011 by Mysterio2000X

[TGC]

Yep RIP Lights Out.

I finished the UK version of Life On Mars last night. Awesome. Loved the ending. Now a question. Is it worth it to locate and watch Ashes To Ashes? Is it just a procedural featuring Gene Hunt or is there more to it?

[Fitzy]

Yes, it is worth it. It's a great show and they explain what happened to Sam if you are interested in finding that out.

[Benji]

I pray Boardwalk Empire gets better soon. Feels like tired same old stuff every week and I'm only nine episodes in.

EDIT: Well, fuck. I say that and then the end of episode nine and then episode ten are great.

[Benji]

The Sopranos remains incredibly fun. On to episode six and all of them have been great fun. Very well episode contained whilst still moving stories onwards at a good pace, hopefully it keeps up. I've got a feeling Uncle Junior is going to be more trouble than he's worth

[fr34k]

I just finished Lost.

I'm going to skip the long and epic rant and just say: It was okay.

[Maxx]

Shameless is so fucking good, shame that it's over for the season.

[Pesci]

Loving Community and Six Feet Under at the moment. Six Feet Under is awesome and isn't as depressing as I thought it'd be, and the interaction between characters is just superb. And they've managed to make all the characters annoying in different ways but likeable overall, which is quite the feat. And Community is fantastic too. Troy and Abed are fucking incredible

[Benji]

Six Feet Under is one of few shows that never gets better or worse. It's just a constant flow of enjoyable TV.

[TKz]

I got two seasons in before I noticed I'd been subconsciously tying a noose with my shoelaces.

[TGC]

So I watched the first episode of Ashes To Ashes and....it's LOM in the 80's with a female version of Sam? Not impressed. I will (eventually) continue watching it, but I have too many other shows to try out.

Speaking of which, five episodes into Season 3 of The Shield and I fucking love it. It just keeps getting better so far.

And holy shit at Aceveda being forced to suck that guy's dick in the last episode I saw. I could not fucking believe it when I saw it. And there is a picture of it too. Jesus this show is warped.

[Asuka's Gonna Kill You]

I just finished Lost.

I'm going to skip the long and epic rant and just say: It was okay.

How dare you

Anyway, is Breaking Bad worth starting on? As usual almost every show I watch has gone on a break (which seems to happen every god damn fortnight or so with US television) and I'm looking to start on something. I never watched anything of Dexter up until late last year and that turned out to be outstanding. I've heard good things about BB too, is it something that is great straight off of the bat though?