Someone mentionen on another thread that there is no general TV thread. There are some for specific shows or for the worst/best shows, but not just a general one for anything. So here it is. All things TV can be discussed here. Ask questionas about TV shows, announce cool shows that you like. Angst about shows that are canceled. Whatever. So, I’ll start.

There is a new show coming on today called Defying Gravity. It’ll premiere at 9/8 central on ABC. It stars Ron Livingston, Daisy Adair Laura Harris, Christina Cox, Andrew Airlie, Paula Garces, Peter Howitt, and other people, but I’m tired of listing them.

It looks sort of interesting, but what’s weird is that it has barely been advertised at all. I’ve seen one ad. A bunch of articles say that it’s a summer show, but it’s premiering tonight. That sounds more like a fall show that’s starting early. I’m hoping it’s not just like all the other crap on TV but in space. I have high hopes, but I shouldn’t.

Okay, so talk about whatever TV stuff you wish.

Lately, I’ve been watching Being Human on BBC America. I’m only 2 episodes in, but it looks like a good show.

I’m only on the third episode and… eh, I’m not very impressed. The whole high school thing, the cringe-worthy one liners, the utterly horrible fight choreography.

But I’m sticking it through because it has ‘Joss Whedon’ in the credits.

Yeah, I heard the same. We’ll see.

Anyone watching Dollhouse?

NCIS, Scrubs, Gilmore Girls, and South Park.

Is Burn Notice any good?

Monk used to be good, but then I got bored of it.

I don’t watch much of Psych, but it looks really cute.

Burn Notice is great. Especially the most recent episode.

You should.

Uh, Bristol is a city in the south of England…

Hey, don’t blame us for yous celebrities picking weird names.

My cousin said TV shows in England are much better than those in the US when she visited England, and much less conservative.

What's the good stuff? I've never watched any shows from across the pond.

I hate reality shows. I'm trying to remember what my cousin watched and told me about. Pretty sure she watched Dr. Who.

Well yes, documentaries are fine, but for the most part I, too, want talent.

Well I have never seen those, so I can't judge.
I can't think of a really good reality show in America.

Never watched Hell's Kitchen.

Ugh, Ramsey’s a dick. I can’t stand him. There are better chefs out there. <<

I think his screaming would get old after a while.

I’d like to join in on the hating reality shows. They have taken over in America too. They stay on forever, while good, original shows are canceled.

I just finished watching the premiere of Defying Gravity, and I thought that it was pretty good. It has potential. I actually like two characters, which is more than I can say for most shows, and am only mildly annoyed at two others. It was good compared to a lot of what’s on television now. It’ll probably get canceled, unless it becomes crap, at which point, I will no longer enjoy it. It’s an international show, so if it’s canceled, maybe it’ll be on BBC or something.

I’ve never watched Hell’s Kitchen either. I think that Ramsay would annoy me, although House is awesome. =)

That too. I don’t like to watch annoying people on TV. They can’t hear me yell at them. Except when being annoying causes them misery in an amusing way, like this show where idiots try to remodel their houses and always screw up. Then it’s funny.

I’ve never seen that either. What is it exactly?

Wow. I like Most Extreme Elimination Challenge. The voice overs are hillarious… sometimes.

Ninja Warrior is the greatest thing to ever air on television.

Yeah, the reality shows are aaaall over the airwaves here, too. shudders

I watch Doctor Who and Merlin, of the shows that are on right now. I kinda follow Bones.

(The BBC wins at Life. Seriously.)

Currently am in the middle of watching TOS, and am having great fun mocking it while loving it to bits.

HIGNFY is awesome.

I still enjoy it without Angus Deayton, but, not so much.

Have I Got News For You, it’s a satire show about current news. Scripted, but, full of funnies. Mainly thanks to the team captains, Ian Hislop and Paul Merton.

Eh, different. It’s done in the form of a competition: caption contests, spot the odd one out, etc.

I think you’d like it, Virgil. >:D

Ah, yes, in the vein of QI. :D

Stephen Fry <3

I love The Colbert Report.

Lol, ok, BRIAN BLESSED.

@QC: I like the Daily Show better, but Colbert is very funny as well.

QI! Yes! Stephen Fry, pretty much anything that man does, I will worship.

Has anyone else here watched Jeeves and Wooster? much love

Another hater of reality TV here. I don’t even believe its authenticity. Somehow I doubt real people would act as badly as they do on reality TV if they knew their behavior was being recorded by omnipresent cameras.

I rarely watch TV these days, but when I do, the kind of shows that interest me are nature documentaries and cartoons.

Ugh. I hate Avatar.

I don’t watch TV often, most of my viewing is via the Internet. I’ve seen most episodes of How I Met Your Mother and Big Bang Theory. I haven’t seen any NCIS lately, but I’m quite fond of it. Anyone else think Gibbs is a total BAMF?

Anyone else think Gibbs is a total BAMF?

Hell yeah.

Also, The Chaser’s War on Everything.

I love those guys.

Overrated, maybe, but Avatar is pretty good if you ignore the not-so-great to crap episodes that make up 1/4, 1/3 or maybe even 1/2 of the episodes. It has too many stand-alone episodes that have some lame stuff in them.
But the mythology of the show, the overall plot, the super real characters, the subtle humor, the awesome fight scenes, the art and the animation make the show great. Really great.
And I love it when creators of shows can poke fun at themselves, like the play episode. They are also pretty funny at comic cons, making fun of “shipping” and stuff.

Yeah, about 80-90% of the first season sucked, the second season was a little better, it had some really amazing episodes, Crossroads of Destiny really surprised me when I saw it. The the third season started off a little rocky, but the Bloodbending episode was really good, as was the Southern Raiders, and the final battle made up for all of it.

The fight scenes and characters are just amazing, I do agree that it is overrated as a whole, but you can find some really amazing episodes in there, and overall, I think it did really good for a children’s cartoon. :P

Lol.

ROLF.

Yeah, from Ed, Edd, and Eddy. Duh.

What’s a BAMF?

OHHHH.

Gotcha.

Its also the sound Nightcrawler makes when he teleports.

Chuck Norris, anyone?

Batman is my favorite superhero. Because someone like that could actually exist in our world. Well, and the everyone in Watchmen.

I love Burn Notice. It rocks.

It get much better after the first few episodes, especially when it gets to the Xing arc.

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That’s nothing to be ashamed of!

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And nor is that! I noticed very quickly after arriving that there are no televisions here. So it’s fine.

Disappears two weeks later due to legal action taken against me.

@ hmyd.windmere (how do you quote someone? Is that what whispering is?)

POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT BUT I DON'T THINK THEY REALLY COUNT AS SPOILERS!! AT LEAST NOT TO hmyd.windmere WHO THIS MESSAGE IS FOR!!

Yes I am a huge fan of the manga having read it all so far, and Brotherhood does follow the manga almost exactly. Sadly though it does skip some parts. So far it's skipped the Elric brothers stopping those terrorists on the train, the mining town incident (and yet the previous owner of the deed still plays his part in the story joining Scar), and they shortened some things like when Al first meets the chimeras he doesn't run around to tire them out and when the brothers meet the pickpocket in that automail town they shorten the chase scene and change the location.
Also they removed Edward creating the giant statue of Leto to stop the priest, which is meant to be briefly mentioned when they return to that town but it hardly matters at all. Oh and they removed the guy trying to kill them on the island during their month of training flashback.

So yeah I like Brotherhood a lot more than the original anime series, though I watched Brotherhood before it. While missing and changed things are a bit disappointing, it has a completely different better feel to it and a better overall storyline. Probably better animation and drawings. I quite liked the completely random irrelevant first episode of filler.

But it seems other people already told you it was good and you've probably already started watching it...

I was a big fan of FMA during its initial run on [as]. I never really got that far in the manga. I’ve been following the new series out of curiosity, and it’s pretty good now that it’s gotten past the overlap with the first series. It’s my first exposure to the original VAs, although they sound pretty similar to the American ones anyway.

Valkyria Chronicles is the only other ongoing anime I’m following atm. I enjoy it, even though I’m not convinced it improves on the game much, if any. Not sure a love triangle needed to be shoehorned in, and my favorite character didn’t even make it into the show ;_;

Also, everybody should watch Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann at least once. If you haven’t, you should drop what you are doing and watch it this instant.

Futurama is my favorite English language show. Yay for uncancellation.

But people who watch a lot of anime but don’t read manga annoy me a bit.

I’m usually an advocate of reading the source manga since 9 times out of 10 it’s better paced, especially with long-running shounen shows. I just rarely, if ever, get too deeply into monthlies because they are too annoying to keep up with compared to weeklies that come out in Jump or what have you.

Also people who watch dubbed anime over subbed, even if the sub is alright., annoy me a bit. Even if it is a pretty good dub, something about the voice acting always seems fake and lame to me, but it somehow doesn’t when in Japanese.

As someone with a pretty decent grasp on the Japanese language, subs are somewhat overrated by many English-speaking fans IMO. As English speakers we are able to see the flaws in English voice acting easily, but it’s much harder to tell when somebody flubs a line in a foreign language unless you’re familiar with the nuances.

I do agree subs have several advantages. There’s a much, much larger pool of professionals, and consequently the quality of the extras is much higher. Leaving it in Japanese also keeps some of the neat characterization details with speech styles(pronouns, verb forms, etc.) that are difficult, if not impossible, to transliterate.

On the other hand, you end up with crap like kid Goku having the same voice as adult Goku, and I don’t know how anybody could take that seriously.