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Gil Galvanti
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Hey,
I did a search and didn't see anything for this. So what are your favorite TV shows and channels? I like Discovery, National Geographic, History, Military, and Discovery Times. On Discovery I like Man vs Wild, Survivorman, Mythbusters, and Deadliest Catch. On National Geographic I watch Explorer, Final Report, and specials on wars and other issues in the world. Discovery Times also has a bunch of specials, and docudramas that I like, mostly anything war, law enforcement, or crime related. I don't like the black and white WWII footage on History Channel, but I do like some of their shows (like Shootout, which reenacts battles using actors and computer graphics). And of course other specials like the "Gamer Generation" one that just came on Discovery Times.


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Snowblind 44
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Shootout(History Channel),Mythbusters(Discovery),Deadliest Catch(Discovery),
CSI(original,Spike and CBS).


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MikeB
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Sky Movies (saw Scary Movie 4 for the first time. Wow)
Simpsons
Top Gear

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PowerSoft
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Prisonbreak
Porridge
Mythbusters
and others,

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Oolite
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The way they do the movies now is very cool, i like the indie channel, some half decent movies on there sometimes.

Anyway..
Top Gear
Prison Break
Mythbuster
How Its Made (poor of late though, damn repeats)
Cooking in the danger zone (don't judge me, at 2 in the morning its rather entertaining)
American Dad (prefer it now to family guy)
South Park (not as funny as it used to be but it has its moments)
CSI (original is still the best, followed close by miami)


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Steve J
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Battlestar Galactica!

Time is ticking away.
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Grandma
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Tv shows:

Battlestar Galactica!
...that's about it.

Channels:

Discovery
Travel channel
Al-jazeera (no, not that one )
1 local channel
and Extreme sports

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Oraculaca
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Apart from the last few weeks I don't get much time to myself so I dont have a fav tv channel as such.
I like any David Attenborough documentary's
or adventure type progs like Ray mears or Bear Grylls
also I love Lost

but that's about it.

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Zotoaster
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I like Paramount Comedy 1.

Shows:

Raymond, Kind of Queens, Two & a half men, etc.

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I like a lot of BBC shows... Ed vs. Spencer, Graham Norton, Life on Mars (which seemingly isn't airing this season ). Then on HBO I love Entrourage and Flight of the Conchords. I'll watch just about anything on Discovery, National Geographic, or History Channel... especially that show about Dog Fights, Survivorman, and Mythbusters. I love "National Geographic Presents" specials also. Another show I dig is Jack Dee's Lead Balloon, although they don't show it on television here .


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Inspire
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Yep, Battlestar Galactica.

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Beyond Belief: Fact Or Fiction
Mythbusters
Cops
The News

Thats about all I watch.

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Um, I don't really watch TV

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Jeku
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Dexter (can't wait for Season 2)

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That's it for now.

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Dazzag
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Quote: "Dexter (can't wait for Season 2)"
Damn it! You beat me to it! Yep, that was the best thing for quite a while. Did you like the Tears of Endearment scene? Heh heh, "something light"....

Currently though I love Rescue Me. Brilliant program. Is about firemen and is very funny. Although mixed in with tragedy.

What could be really good as well is something called Burn Notice. Is about a CIA spy who is sacked and he is finding out why, but in the meantime getting money (when they burnt him they get rid of his money and everything) by doing detective type things. His little tips to the viewer are class.

Oh, and Psych was pretty good too. Bloke who is really good at noticing small details and putting 2+2 together pretends he is a psychic for the police force.

Cheers

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Van B
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Posted: 3rd Jul 2007 11:22
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LOST
Prison Break
Mythbusters
Weeds
American Chopper
Still Game
The Mighty Boosh
Porridge
Deadliest Catch


There's precious little viewing in that lot these days, looking forward to the new season of Prison Break (YAY!, back in jail you freaks where your supposed to be, breaking out!) and Mighty Boosh is more of a religion for me and is coming back quite soon. Lost ain't on for months yet, and I've no idea what happend to Weeds.

You know I think they could make a pretty decent game based on Deadliest Catch, strategic like, maybe a bit like those hunting simulators. Maybe competing online to make the most money, that would please so many middle-aged casual gamers that it's not even funny.


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Hobgoblin Lord
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Galactica is about the only show I ever plan to watch and my favorite show on now. I will watch NESN alot when the sox are on

Late night I end up watching History channel, sci-fi or Cartoon network.

ATHF
Futurama
Simpsons
Robot Chicken
Family Guy

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Freddy 007
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Favourite shows:

*Pure Pwnage
*Milk Paton

Well, I don't watch Tv

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Battlestar Galactica.

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VanB good choices! And another Porridge fan!

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Space, Above and Beyond
Red Dwarf
Futurama

Been nothing decent on TV for ages, I think i need a SciFi channel

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Oh man, forgot to mention Robot Chicken and Futurama! Woops . Definitely love those shows, the Robot Chicken Star Wars thing left something to be desired though.


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Dazzag
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Hmmm, I thought it was more current TV. Otherwise would make a massive list. Instead I will go for the saviour of horror, the giant amongst TV shows, the epic story that is Darkplace (see avatar). Nothing less is accepted and the sheer scale of the thing is awe inspiring. Not to mention the next-gen special effects, that even today are something to write home about, and not naff at all. Plus it has apes and broccoli in it. Oh yes...

Here is a quote to whet the palette... Padre : "You are the most sensitive man I know... and I know God.... come, embrace the infinite...". Brings a tear to my eye that does....

As Garth (writer, director, actor...) himself said, he doesn't expect much, apart from changing the way you think about life. That it does....

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Quote: "Damn it! You beat me to it! Yep, that was the best thing for quite a while. Did you like the Tears of Endearment scene? Heh heh, "something light"...."


Yah that was great hehehe. His character is so emotionally detached. I wasn't crazy about the season finale, but I like the direction the show is heading, as sooner or later we all know that Dexter will be caught.

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Apparently the new series will see him attracted to a pyro woman. Could be interesting.

Personally I reckon someone will find out the truth, but will let him carry on secretly. I thought that would happen in the 1st series to tell the truth. As in he only kills serial killers, so what's the harm? Especially if he saves them.

The look on his face when he smacked the ex-husband over the head with a frying pan was class. Sort of a "oops, I spilt the milk" type look

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Simpsons
Futurama
Family Guy
Doctor Who
Mythbusters

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Jeku
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Do you think Dexter's girlfriend will care if she finds out what he did to her ex? I had the feeling that she could care less why he's in jail, as long as he is. He was being a prick with the charges he brought on her, etc.

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I loved the old G4, not the modern spike tv clone its become. I loved almost all the shows on it, Icons, Screensavers, Filter, judgement day. What happend......


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Quote: "Do you think Dexter's girlfriend will care if she finds out what he did to her ex?"
Not initially, but after he started talking to her she started getting a bit worried. Plus don't forget she is a bit jumpy. And she has a kid. She will have to find out exactly what he does and maybe then be ok with it. If she just gets the outline of what he does (kills people in a very serial killer kind of way) then will probably send her straight to the police. Although the whole program is all about him managing to avoid this. Loved that Jesus moment too.

Cheers

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The Shield & Battlestar Galactica.
The two most innovative series ever.

"An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind."
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Quote: "I loved the old G4, not the modern spike tv clone its become"

Here-here! G4 should be a channel devoted to gaming, NOT nerding. I'm not sure if "nerding" is a word but if not I just invented it. Anyway, I stopped watching the very second they merged with Tech TV because I could foresee where it was headed... straight into the toilet. They took an intelligent channel for gamers and by gamers and turned it into a channel for nerds. Star Trek and Man Show? Huh? Just because someone loves or even plays games doesn't make them a nerd. Heck, Jeku works in the mainstream industry, and he eerily looks like Matt Damon! Most of us don't have and have never owned a pocket protector (or so I assume). It's a very disturbing turn they've made.

Sort of like MTV, who stopped showing Music sometime back in the 1990's. Now they're just TTV... Television Television. Or maybe RTV, Reality Television. But since 99.9999% of their programming has nothing to do with music whatsoever, I demand they change their name at once .


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Quote: "Heck, Jeku works in the mainstream industry, and he eerily looks like Matt Damon!"


Haha, you don't know how many times I've been told that. Literally about a hundred. That being said, it hasn't been much of a benefit in my social life

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TV Shows:
* Futurama
* Family Guy
* South Park
* The Simpsons
* Jackass
* Viva La Bam
* Mad TV
* FLCL
* Rurouni Kenshin/Samurai X
* Kikaider
* Mythbusters
* Man Vs. Wild
* Survivorman
* How it's made
* Dirty Jobs
* Hazard Pay
* Any specials about the universe
* Any specials about going to mars, or another planet

GENERAL CHANNELS:
* Discovery Channel
* Travel Channel
* Science Channel
* Comedy Central

MOVIES:
* Samurai X Trust
* Samurai X Betrayel
* Samruai X Reflection
* South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
* Jackass the movie
* Jackass 2
* Mr. Deeds
* Click
* Billy Madison
* Family Guy movie (The only one there is, atm)
* The Hills Have Eyes
* Halloween series
* A Nightmare on Elmstreet series
* Friday the 13th series
* The Leprochaun series
* Freddy Vs. Jason
* Scary Movie 1, 2, 3, and 4
* Date Movie
* Epic Movie
* Die Hard 1, 2, and 3


Cheers,

-naota


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Jeku
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Quote: "* Date Movie
* Epic Movie"


Are you ok? Those two are the *worst* movies I have *ever* seen, and I've seen a LOT. I used to work in a movie theatre and wrote reviews online, and those two are the worst.

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Date movie?.... Really? I love all those type of movies but that one really sucked badly. Worst of all of them. By a long way. What made you want to list that rather than, say, Scary Movie, or even better Airplane, Hot Shots, Top secret, Every Other Comedy Film Ever? Did you just list your TV Guide?

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DB User, Pumpkinhead, it's a horror movie from the 80's I think you'd love, it's actually my favorite horror movie.

Date Movie sucked so bad I wanted to hurt myself after watching it.


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Quote: "Date Movie sucked so bad I wanted to hurt myself after watching it."


And Epic Movie is even worse, if you can imagine such a feat.

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Quote: "That being said, it hasn't been much of a benefit in my social life"

Get up from the computer and go look at your wife again, lol.


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