Show too soon to judge
Monday Mornings TNT

New Shows I can’ wait to see
Defiance – SyFy
Orphan Black- BBC AM
Glory Hounds- Mili

Able to tolerate
Wild Tuna
Bones- Fox
Supernatural- WGN
Chicago Fire

Guilty pleasure
Bunheads
Food network

TV shows I could not stomach
Glee- The TV series Fame was much better with much better talent
Grey’s Anatomy- The medical drama that competes with ER on how many cast members will it kill in it’s run.
All reality shows on the big three alphabet network and most reality shows on cable.
Most of the remakes like Hawaii-Five O
All Talk shows
Law & Order

I don’t currently have a lot on the DVR that’s scripted. I do enjoy Scandal, Glee, Mad Men, The Following. Several people have recommended Walking Dead, Sons of Anarchy, American Horror Story. I’ll probably give these a try once life settles down again. In spite of all the outrageous reality shows on cable right now, it seems like scripted TV is enjoying a renaissance, which is nice. Of course, as a conservative, you have to look past the blatantly liberal bias in 95% of the programming out there, but I’m able to do that. If I didn’t I’d be watching nothing but the Food Network and HGTV. I feel like good storytelling can exist independently of Hollywood’s left wing agenda.

Storage Wars Texas…that’s very different, takes a little extra effort to watch.

I don’t know about a 3rd one…oh wait is it like New York or something? I can’t keep up with em all. The gold digging shows, loggers, it’s insane. I do enjoy Gordon Ramsey on Fox and BBC.

Here’s one you might like, Bar Rescue…on Spike I think.

It’s hard to innovate when everything that is part of our culture for the last 90 years is protected by law.

Rocks

Everything coming out today being completely unoriginal and based on something that’s already out there contradicts that argument. Original ideas don’t have to worry much about copyright.

Browncoats Unite!

The Schaef on February 20, 2013 at 5:40 PM

I will never forgive them for cancelling Arrested Development. I know the premise could not have lasted forever, but it had a few more seasons left. Thank god for Netflix bringing it back for another season. They also recently cancelled Ben and Kate, which was way underrated and very very funny if given a chance.

Just a reminder: TV is as creatively bankrupt as the film industry, if not more so

Yet, incredibly, nearly everyone reading this comment will stare at the TV for at least 10 hours this week.

Get a life, dudes!

I would add to that the HBO series “Deadwood” and “Rome” and “The Wire”. All were awesome and I was crushed when they were cancelled although “The Wire” had, admittedly, run its course.

tommyboy on February 20, 2013 at 2:32 PM

And the Walking Dead. Its recent resurgence no doubt due in some small part from Shield producer Glen Mazarra taking over.

I actually think TV has improved considerably over the last few years…

Ditkaca on February 20, 2013 at 5:23 PM

You’re actually making my point for me here. Nearly every single show on your list is shown on cable TV, the exceptions being Survivor which launched reality shows, and Homeland and The Following are on Fox. Fox is often the exception that proves the rule: while other stations are running endless police procedural drama shows and their panoply of spin-offs, or shows that compete for controversy, Fox showed all of Joss Whedon’s programs at one time or another, plus House, Bones, Glee, 24, Fringe, the Terminator series, The Tick, Tru Calling, Family Guy, Futurama, The Good Guys, Arrested Development… the only thing worse than all the bad shows on all the other channels is that Fox gets all these good shows and then cans most of them before they get off the ground. Case in point: all of the aforementioned shows are gone except Bones and Glee; House, 24 and Fringe ran their course, and Family Guy was brought back, but all the other ones just died a quick death.

Drama:
Homeland
The Following
Breaking Bad
Banshee
Dexter

Reality
Face-Off
Survivor
Deadliest Catch
Storm Chasers

Comedy:
Impractical Jokers
Tosh.0
Joe Shmoe Show

Any Chicago sports (Bulls, Hawks, Cubs, Bears)

Yes to both. The Following is, unwittingly, Hollywood’s best argument for the death penalty.

1) The Munsters
2) Hawaii Five-O
3) Partners
4) Bionic Woman
5) Charlie’s Angels
6) Battlestar Galactica
7) Dallas
8) Nikita
9) V
10) 90210
11) Melrose Place
12) Dragnet
13) Knight Rider

And that doesn’t include the Movie Launches of old TV Shows.

I miss 24 and Jericho. Oh, and a good Star Trek series (like Next Generation).

Canadian television.

“Lost Girl” is my all time favorite television series. (The Showcase version, I suspect Scifi edits out some of the more risque stuff.)

Sexy, funny, smart. Great actors, great characters, great music, great fashion, great stories.

“Kenzi with a chain saw.”

“Kenzi beats the pig people with a magic stick.”

Hillarious.

Big Bang Theory is the only network show I watch anymore.

BBT is a show that I dislike but somehow watch more than I like to admit. The constant repetition of “coitus” is sickening. But there’s no doubt Jim Parsons created a unique character in Sheldon. It was interesting to watch the pilot the other night and to see a more normal and less way-out Sheldon.

I’ve been marveling at Downton Abbey and its popularity (no spoilers please — I’m on Season Three, Episode 4). It most certainly is a soap opera, and it’s in no way the achievement that Brideshead Revisited was. Still, it’s certainly compelling, and I find myself thinking about the characters (I know — get a life).

The only other shows to recommend, besides the classics of Mary Tyler Moore, etc., are the first few years of Scrubs and Anthony Bourdain.

Also like that hour long primetime drama about doctors that take risks and the sitcom about a bunch of friends that work together/hang out/pair up and screw in varying combinations.

I mostly just play around on the computer putting up auctions and online sales. When it gets warm I’ll spend more evenings working in the shop.

TV is basically dead to me.

I have to admit i actually like Pawn Stars.

clearbluesky on February 20, 2013 at 12:55 PM

Chumbama for president!

(Oh, and ScyFy hasn’t produced any actual science fiction – much less any good science fiction – in a looong time.)

Big Bang Theory does make me chuckle, even though I am certainly not in the target demographic.

Anyone see the common thread? Great actors, engaging serial story arcs… and NOT on broadcast TV even when they were originally aired.
The Schaef on February 20, 2013 at 2:08 PM

I would add to that the HBO series “Deadwood” and “Rome” and “The Wire”. All were awesome and I was crushed when they were cancelled although “The Wire” had, admittedly, run its course.

/watches Castle and Bones, the wife watches Glee and everything else we watch on Netflix or Hulu. Having torn through BSG and Doctor Who, we’ve moved on to The Shield. Anyone see the common thread? Great actors, engaging serial story arcs… and NOT on broadcast TV even when they were originally aired.

I LOVE Finding Bigfoot so there’s that.

How can you NOT watch that!?! Complete with subtitles.

This stuff is cheap and they’re never going to be held hostage by a writer’s strike again.

Net result, we are buried in a blizzard of low life trash.

Can I have an ‘amen’?

Just a reminder: TV is as creatively bankrupt as the film industry, if not more so

I would not put this down to creativity but economics. These things are either much cheaper to make or are guaranteed a return if they choose to go big. This is like saying there is no creativity in food preparation because most places make hamburgers. If the entertainment market was as free as the restaurant business you would have more creativity. It isn’t. You want creativity? Reform the copyright laws. It’s hard to innovate when everything that is part of our culture for the last 90 years is protected by law.

Of course I’d rather watch Game of Thrones, Castle, The Mentalist, The FOllowing…basically something that is actually creative.

I like the hoarder shows. They motivate my wife to throw stuff out.

kh6zv9 on February 20, 2013 at 12:41 PM

Haha, I watched a couple to make myself throw stuff out too.

Once, at a family gathering, I was informed by two relatives that I should check out “the show about people bidding on storage lockers

Heh. I happen to really enjoy the original Storage Wars based in California (Barry Weiss is one funny dude). It’s entertaining watching them dig out all sorts of goodies from their lockers, if any, and having the experts they take items to give up a little history on the ‘treasure’ and what a collector might pay. Now A&E network has Storage Wars: Texas and Storage Wars: New York piggybacking off the original’s mega success. No, thank you.