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| Television; Do Civility-ites Watch TV? | |
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| Topic Started: Jun 21 2007, 01:54 PM (3,403 Views) | |
| Post #101 Sep 20 2007, 07:41 AM |
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Thanks for filling me in on "If These Walls Could Talk". I was wondering what that show was about when I see it on the Guide. I really enjoy Army Wives. From what I understand from real army wives and former army wives, it's a pretty good depiction of what goes on on a military base. The final episode of Saving Grace was really good. Her secret is out in the open. You'd think after that experience, she'd have changed her ways. Maybe next season she'll get her act together. And Hamm finding out what a slut she is, was good. But, he's not a lot better. He's married. Boston Legal really has hubby and I hooked. There was about a week delay on receivind disk 2 of season 2, you would have thought we were being denied food. So when disk 2 arrived in yesterday's mail - we watched the entire disk. Such junkies. :D I watched a really good movie yesterday. I'll start a thread over in movies. |
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| Post #102 Oct 9 2007, 07:57 PM |
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So how did you guys like Boston Legal? Has anyone seen the new sitcom Cavemen? It stars the cavemen from the Geico commercials. I missed the first episode last week, and the second one aired tonight at 8 on ABC. I haven't watched it yet- I DVR'd it. |
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| Post #103 Oct 9 2007, 09:07 PM |
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| We're still watching the third season of Boston Legal on DVD. I'll let you know when we're caught up. We made our friends at dinner Saturday be quiet so they wouldn't give anything away. |
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| Post #104 Oct 10 2007, 10:43 AM |
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| I caught the last half of "Cavemen" last night. It was okay. Better than I expected so I am going to give it a try and see how it goes. Anyone else watching it let me know what you think, please. |
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| Post #105 Oct 16 2007, 07:58 PM |
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When I first heard that they were making a Caveman series, I wanted to see it. The 15-seconds-at-a-time of quality story and acting boded well. At least until I found out that the series would have little to do with the creative commercials save for the erstwhile exaggerated, now underplayed, brow. Then I didn't want to see it. Seeing it in the TV listings online tonight piqued my curiosity again. So, I watched tonight. The star-rating roller-coaster continued as I watched. I initially was unimpressed as I confirmed that the show captured nothing from the commercials. However, it grew on me as it developed its own existence. The characters were surprisingly 2½-dimensional and not uninteresting. The plot was semi-clever and not as predictable as the typical sitcom. All in all, it wasn't a wasted half-hour. I might just not waste another. |
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| Post #106 Oct 17 2007, 06:51 AM |
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| Recently, my family has done quite a bit of watching the various "Law and Order" shows (and repeats). Since so may of these shows are based on recent news headlines, they are interesteing to my teenager and provoke him to discuss issues with us. We've gotten into discussions of Miranda rights, parents rights, religious freedoms, the Patriot Act, abortion, capital punsihment and such. JAG opens quite a few discussions, too. |
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| Post #107 Oct 17 2007, 07:30 PM |
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MIL was here for a few days, so I missed Cavemen again last night. I have one on the DVR that I haven't seen yet, either. CT that's great about the L&O series. I like watching those, too. When Picket Fences was on in the early nineties I used to watch it for that very reason-- it made you think. However, L&O is on all the time, and my MIL LOVES them all. She watched quite a few of them while she was here (we get more channels than she does.) It gets depressing after a while. I LOVED JAG. Not just because Harm is so handsome, but because I am so proud of our military, and the JAG team represented the military very well. The show's creator is also a retired Marine and son of a WWII vet. |
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| Post #108 Oct 17 2007, 09:25 PM |
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The original was great. SVU was good until it got preachy. CI--with Dinoffrio (sp?) was outstanding. Unfortunately, it has been relegated to cable. The other incarnations stunk. Trivia: The long-time DA (before Thompson) was replaced on a show decades ago by Peter Graves on what show? |
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| Post #109 Oct 23 2007, 08:05 AM |
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| Post #110 Oct 23 2007, 06:39 PM |
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Correct. In the first season, the IMF was led by Dan Briggs, played by Stephen Hill. In the second and later seasons, Peter Graves played the Jim Phelps character (who was unceremoniously bad-guyified in the first movie). Many fans of MI don't even know this, because, when the show went into syndication, they only ran Phelps episodes. I always thought the Briggs episodes had better stories. |
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| Post #111 Oct 23 2007, 10:44 PM |
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Hubby and I caught Cavemen tonight. I left after the first 15 minutes and hubby fell asleep before he could change the channel to something more of his liking. We did not like it. Boston Legal was cancelled so they could do a special on the fires in CA - boohoo! After growing up in CA, the fires are a normal thing - no rain, high temps and then the Santa Ana wind conditions equals fires. It has been this way since I can remember. And with the heavy rains in 2003, 2004, and 2005, there is lots of undergrowth to catch fire. Glenn Beck hit it tonight on his show - poor forrest management by BLM and the Forrest Service. I feel for the people that have lost their homes, but from what I understand most of those homes aren't covered by insurance and then the government goes in and bails them out. I know I couldn't get insurance from one company due to how close I was to mountains - and the likelihood of a fire from those mountains reaching my home were pretty slim. |
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| Post #112 Nov 7 2007, 08:37 PM |
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About the writer's strike, from what I have read on imdb.com's message boards, most daytime soaps have enough episodes written to get them through the new year. So besides all the late night variety shows and Saturday Night Live (Jay Leno and Julia Louis Dreyfuss are on the picket lines), Desperate Housewives is the first to be affected, as well as Friday Night Lights and Las Vegas. 30Rock, til death, Back to You and other sitcoms filmed before live studio audiences will soon follow. Unfortunately, it looks like reality and game shows are on their way in, since there is no need to write for those. So prepare to be bombarded. tvguide.com has a blog on the strike. Here's the link to November's entries. http://community.tvguide.com/blog/TVGuide-...22?month=200711 |
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| Post #113 Nov 7 2007, 08:48 PM |
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Let 'em strike. There is plenty of their pablum out there. Unfortunately, the industry execs will think that they need more, so they'll crawl on their knees to the writers, if for no other reason than to save the primary news source for most Americans: Leno and Letterman. |
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| Post #114 Nov 7 2007, 10:57 PM |
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| So far the shows that have been affected from what I heard, are shows I don't watch. There's always Blockbuster Online DVD rentals. And plenty of cable channels that run reruns. |
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| Post #115 Nov 8 2007, 12:43 AM |
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| I watch The Young and the Restless and Desperate Housewives. But that's about it. Hubby likes to watch reruns on A&E of Cold Case Files (documentaries of real life cold cases) and Law and Order, etc. |
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| Post #116 Nov 8 2007, 09:01 AM |
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I just hope they don't mess with Boston Legal, Private Practice and Grey's Anatomy. That will make me sad. And I hope this strike is over by the time The Closer and Saving Grace are ready to re-start their season. I think I'm watching more shows this year than I've watched in the last 5 combined. To me that means the shows are getting better. But I stay away from sit-coms (other than Bill Engval), there is too much male-bashing. And the humor would in most cases require large quantities of drugs for me to find any humor in it at all. (Meaning, I find the humor juvenile and I'd have to reduce my "wisdom".) |
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| Post #117 Nov 16 2007, 05:18 PM |
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| Has anyone watched the show "Chuck" on Mondays? We've been watching it and it has grown on me. I really like it. Kinda funny, mixed with some intrigue. |
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| Post #118 Nov 16 2007, 06:40 PM |
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| Wendy and I DVR it every week. I think Chuck's college "buddy" is about to be somehow resurrected. |
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| Post #119 Nov 17 2007, 12:11 AM |
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| I finally watched an episode of Cavemen that had been on the DVR for a while. It reminded me more of a long Doonesbury cartoon than a sitcom. I had 3 of them on the DVR and I erased them all. |
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| Post #120 Nov 19 2007, 09:39 PM |
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BOOYAH! Right. Again. |
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