karly05- Rumor is, they’re trying to get Leonard Nimoy on for next season. which would be epic
TDIT: I don’t need to kep it a secret. It’s Adam Lambert. The finalist from last season.
Epic, indeed! 
I hope it works out. (LOL, maybe Sheldon can teach him “Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock.”)
TSS - Oh, wow! You guys are totally lucky!
karly05 - I watched my first episode of Big Bang Theory on FTA last night. It was entertaining to try to keep up with their jargon-filled way of conversing. And I can see how Jim Parsons is appealing, the fact he delivers his lines in such a rapid and deadpan way is just hilarious.
TDIT: No, I’m not lucky. my sister and school was lucky. 
sheepishly raises hand
I’ve watched every episode this season. The top 12 is disappointing on several levels.
Tonight I’m excited to watch the first episode of the new season of South Park, which I’m hoping is going to be funny, cuz last season was good until about the last 2 or 3 episodes. I also might give a new show a watch called Ugly Americans, which doesn’t look that funny, but I figure I should at least give it a shot. I’m kinda already mad at this show because it’s replacing one of my favorite shows from last September - November called Secret Girlfriend, which had to have been one of the funniest, coolest, and interesting shows that I watched! I really enjoyed it and now it’s gone 
Alright, SP FTW, mo! It’s one of the few cartoons-for-adults that never loses its ‘mojo’ after so many seasons.
Two days ago, I watched what is quite possibly the funniest sitcom I’ve ever seen. It’s called The Young Ones (some of you may recognise the theme tune), and it was made in the UK in the 80s, so there’s shades of ‘Red-Scare’ and ‘Thatcherism’ in there. But what makes this show so unbelievably hilarious is its insane surrealistic humour and dark comedy. It’s like Family Guy on steroids and in live-action, without the ‘offensiveness’.
I instantly recognise the character’s personalities from my first episode, and being a college student, it helps I can identify with their situations (though it’s a lot crazier than mine, I can say). The episode I saw was ‘Bomb’, and as its name implies, a nuke has dropped right into their living room and they spend the rest of the episode trying to defuse it, while warding off the persistent ‘TV detector man’, squashing talking critters, and surviving random rockstar cameos. Never have I howled this much in half an hour! It’s brilliant, outrageous, madcap fun, and even my brother, who doesn’t laugh much, was chuckling throughout.
I think they sell the DVD set in retailers, but you can watch this clip to get a taster.
If only sitcoms these days were half as entertaining as this.
Hmm…now the chances arent so good. Leonard has mentioned that he wants to retire from acting (again). But its still not impossible. I think he could easily come out of retirement to do one episode.
Hmmmm things I watch,
CARTOONS… Ed Edd n Eddy, Dexters Lab, Cramp Twins, Simpsons, Courage the Cowardly dog, Fosters home for Imaginary friends, Scooby Doo (from the 60s and 70s not the modern garbage), Original Pokemon & Yu Gi Oh series, Wacky Races, Tom and Jerry (again the old ones from the 40s and 50s), Looney Tunes, Flintstones and quite a few more.
(i’m a 16 year old male BTW not a 6 year old )
I enjoy Drake and Josh also.
Other than that, I like Documentaries, Animal and Nature programmes etc.
Ermmm Bear Grylls haha, things like that.
Football and the occasional Movies (usually Disney Cine like Aladdin, Wall E etc).
The odd biography and other ‘entertainment’ channels also.
I NEVER EVER EVER watch the music channels, seriously, in my whole life I have never sat through 5 mins of music channel at once, not my thing 
EDITEDITEDIT - Forgot to add, Atom Ant, Top Cat and Powerpuff girls :D. Cannot beat classic Hanna-Barbera and Original Cartoon Network programmes <3
- Ben 10, Batman the Brave, Johnny Test … pfft they’re trashh.
And that’s what I watch … End offffff 
Pixarinho*- I LOVE Bear Grylls! What a strangely entertaining man! My favourite parts of his programmes are when he picks up some random insect or disgusting animal and just shoves it in his gob, making the weirdest facial expressions as he describes how the insect has ‘burst’ inside his mouth and is all ‘gooey and horrible’. Great TV. 
Ditto on the music channel thing, I don’t really get the point of them. Even if a song I really like is on, it’s a struggle just to sit there watching the video.
I’ve ended up loving Glee much more than I thought I would! The OTT characters and general perfect American styling of the programme is quite refreshing, and though a lot of it is implausible, it’s very fun. Plus, I love Sue Sylvester. Actually adore her.
I’ve also been watching a lot of Wife Swap USA. I know it’s completely staged and unreal, but that doesn’t make it any less entertaining to watch.
Hah he makes me laugh when literally anything he picks up, it could be a little green spider or something it always has protein in it, his common quote is ‘… good bit of protein’
Anyone a fan of “the mad man with a box” aka Dr Who?
Other than a few intermittent episodes (I remembered one where the Doctor had to go to a Great Depression New York and the Daleks were hiding out in the Empire State or something like that 
) and a brief speed read through the Wikipedia entry, I’ve had no exposure to what has been hailed as the longest-running sci-fi show in Britain, so it was with little preconceptions and experience I settled down to the latest season opener two Sundays ago (they premiered it on ABC free-to-air in Oz then).
Again, bear in mind I have never got into this show before, so I literally went in knowing little more than “there’s this time-travelling guy who teleports in a phone booth and usually has a female companion with him on his adventures”. For a season opener, it does introduce the viewer to the basics fair enough (the Doctor’s an alien, that phone booth is called a TARDIS, there’s more than one Doctor, etc.). Matt Skinner has a very confused and dazed look that reminds me of Damien Lewis from Life, only more frazzled. Karen Gillan looks fabulous playing police-officer dress-up (Arrest me, please!) as reluctant sidekick Amy Pond.
The plot is fairly predictable, I guessed the scope of the alien’s destruction (It’s gotta be the world, not just the house, duh) and how the Doctor would take much longer than fifteen minutes to return to Amy. I didn’t see the trick-defeat the Doctor used on ‘Prisoner 0’ coming though, and the reference to the previous Doctors was a nice touch for beginners and a fitting homage.
Really, when it comes to television, it’s pretty hard to beat BBC and by extension the Brits at family-friendly, entertaining drama, and from my informal initiation, Doctor Who is no exception.
I missed the second episode yesterday, unfortunately, but I’m hoping my Sunday nights will be much more livelier when the Doctor’s around!
Oh, and the action theme is my current earworm.
My friends would approve of that post, thedriveintheatre- they absolutely love the Doctor. I never got into it myself, especially as the Doctors seem to be getting younger and younger.
I’m not much of a T.V. watcher. But I do like these shows:
Iron Chef
Surivior
Spongebob Squarepants
Colbert Report
SNL
South Park
The Office
Dancing With the Stars
I’m not much of a T.V watcher either, but I do tend to watch a lot of music videos sometimes. I’m a bit of a music fanatic and listen to it all the time. When I’m in control of the T.V, the music channel is ALWAYS a first.
I discovered a new show today called Modern Family. It’s a mockumentary along the lines of The Office or Curb Your Enthusiasm where we follow a group of people throughout their day’s misadventures. What makes it different from your usual family sitcom though, is that these families ain’t your conventional husband, wife, two-and-a-half kids and a dog stereotypes.
The first is the most typical (but probably the most dysfunctional); two parents and their three kids (one a teen, the second a pre-teen, and the youngest a kid). Before the first break, the dad sprained his arm, the mum suspects her teenage daughter may have brought home a boyfriend, and the kid shot his pre-teen sis with a BB gun!
Then there’s the ‘old guy and his young wife’, except it’s the old guy’s second marriage, and he has a stepson from his partner’s previous marriage (a little boy who is quite the Lothario!).
Finally, there’s the gay couple who adopt a kid from Thailand. One of them suspiciously looks like Patton Oswalt, but I was disappointed he was not (He would probably be swearing more anyway, judging from his standup routines ). Anyway, one is neurotic, while the other is overtly flamboyant. They even had a friend who shared my first name (Ugh!) and I particularly liked The Lion King number they used to introduce their ‘new arrival’.
I thought they would be quite annoying characters along the lines of Two-and-a-Half-Man, but by the end of the pilot, they won me over with their endearing traits and love for each other. And ironically, these ‘unusual’ families, are becoming the status quo nowadays.
Lie to Me Season 2 is also returning on Australian free-to-air! If you haven’t seen this brilliant and thought-provoking show, well, you should! Cos’ like, you can learn some pretty nifty tricks on the art of deception detection! And Carl Lightman (wicked Brit Tim Roth) will be up against his toughest foes yet; terrorist bombers, poker players, CIA agents, and even a multiple-personality-disorder patient! I’m irked that Ten has jumped to begin airing mid-season onwards… 
But really, I’d be lying if I said I don’t immensely enjoy this show!
Has anyone seen that ‘little miss perfect’ ??, i’ve never (thank god!) watched it, only seen it advertised on the BioHD channel, makes me want to throw up when i see the adverts of it. 
There’s a new series of The Apprentice on at the moment, but this time it’s The Junior Apprentice, full of whiny, spotty teenagers who think they can make it big in business. Absolutely love it so far, especially the over use of lots of tracks from Pixar films. So far I’ve heard excerpts from Up, WALL-E, Toy Story 2 (in particular the sequence where Geri is fixing up Woody) and Monsters, Inc. in the series, and we’re only two episodes in! There must be someone working behind the scenes on this programme who secretly loves Pixar movies.
Wow, really, lizardgirl? Is it a UK edition, or the pilot season for the new series? 
I’m really looking forward to three NBC-produced dramas (Good on you, NBC, but why in the blistering blue barnacles did you have to cancel Law & Order?):
The Chase - Kelli Giddish plays a beautiful and resourceful US Marshall who hunts down missing people, kidnap victims, and generally dangerous people in every episode of this Jerry-Bruckheimer produced series.
Undercovers - Mr and Mrs Smith in TV-form, except with government spies instead of contract assassins. A bored married couple rediscover their passion for each other when they are called back into action by ‘The Agency’.
The Event - I have no idea what in the world is this show about. Reminds me of Lost and Flash Forward a little. But I did like the trailer’s use of Audio Machine’s Guardians at the Gate.