I regularly watch the non-reality shows American Idol, Survivor, Big Brother, and Apprentice, martial arts shows of the UFC, Pride and WEC, travel/food shows by Anthony Bourdain and Andrew Zimmern, and Showtime series The L Word. My nature shows (Meerkat Manor, Wild Kingdom, and others) aren't on these days.
American Idol. Likes. I like to evaluate things. I would have loved being a critic of restaurants, movies, plays, singers, or a sports commentator giving opinions about MMA artists. I like Paula's kindness, Simon's objectivity and originality, Randy's friendliness, Ryan's sympathy for the performers. Sometimes I like a few of the songs. I like the competitive nature of the show and that you get to know the contestants more each week. I like the emotion when someone leaves and you can see a strong bond between the singers.
Dislikes. The judges' comments often seem utterly irrelevant or incorrect to me. The singing often sucks. The songs often suck. Paula usually has no mind of her own and just parrots what Randy just said. Randy says the same stupid mindless things over and over, dog, yo yo yo.
Survivor. I like the format where only one person leaves each week, as in AI, and you get to know the remaining players better as the series goes on. I like watching people reveal their personalities and react with each other in a realistic manner even though they are in a completely unrealistic experience and there are cameras on them.
I dislike that the host says the same formulas constantly. I'll go tally the votes, etc. And there isn't any creativity in the production, it is the same every season.
Big Brother. I like that we get to know these people better in this show than in Survivor, because all they're doing is interacting with each other constantly. As above, the comment about people revealing their personalities and reacting to each other applies.
I dislike that they have a penchant for choosing the stupidest people they can find as contestants. The majority of contestants are annoying twits who amaze me when they are able to tie their shoelaces.
Apprentice. Same "likes" as the other non-reality shows. People revealing their personalities and reacting to each other, people leaving one by one, as we get to know the remaining ones better in time. I also like the way Donald Trump decides who to get rid of. He's often a sharp guy, almost always, and he has some likeable traits.
I dislike the way everyone calls him Mr. Trump and treats him as if he is hot shit. He's not. It is offensive to me to watch people kiss ass. The competitions themselves are often pretty stupid.
UFC. I like seeing the best fighters in the world at their craft. I like the color commentator they have, the guy from Fear Factor. I like the sport immensely, because there's so much action and talent and training and strategy involved. I wonder if most people realize that the current MMA artists have what amounts to doctorates in their field, many many years of study in extremely technical areas. These are not pugs who can bust somebody up in a bar. They are brain surgeons, rocket scientists, meticulously trained artists, specializing in the chess-like arts of jiu jitsu and Greco Roman wrestling.
Dislikes. I can't stand the main announcer Mike Goldberg and his phony hawking like a carnival barker, and his ignorance of the sport. I can't stand their boss Dana White and his huge ego, which is shown in the tv commercials he allows to show, all of which take swipes at Fedor Emelianenko without mentioning him by name. The current ones describe Anderson Spider Silva as the best pound for pound fighter in the world, which is absolute horseshit and an insult to Fedor Emelianenko. The ones last month described Brock Lesnar as the big superstar of the heavyweights, again an insult to Fedor Emelianenko.
Pride. I like seeing the old clips of the greatest MMA fighters of all time. Pride always had more talent than the UFC because Pride had much more money behind it, and why fight for peanuts? Today's UFC world champs, Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, Quinton Rampage Jackson, and Anderson Spider Silva, were ALL Pride fighters, not UFC fighters, so Pride absolutely took over the UFC and proved that they were far superior all along, which was always obvious anyway. The UFC had Randy Couture and Chuck Liddell, two of the few guys who were good enough to be in Pride. I also like the announcers a lot, far superior to the UFC announcers. Frankie Twinkletoes Trigg and Jay Glazer are funny and smart. I like that they show Rickson Gracie now and then. They are the only ones who ever show the great Fedor Emelianenko. So the only way to see the two best fighters who ever lived, Rickson Gracie and Fedor Emelianenko, is to watch Pride.
Dislikes. Their camera work is so bad. Whenever something exciting happens, the idiot camera director shifts away from the action to show some idiots in the crowd. It is maddening. And all they ever show is old fights.
Maybe I'll get to the rest later but I have to go to work now.
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quietone said on Feb 29, 2008....
awe too bad, I just got home from work and going to take my nap! I don't really watch much tv as there really isn't much on druing the day, and I work at night. So, I watch a bit of CNN, my soap daily "As the World Turns", maybe Dr. Phil, mostly not as he is starting to drive me nuts.Larry King before I go to work and lots of movies. . Lifetime channel.I like the movies on lifetime -yes cause they are girly movies, romance and such. Larry King sometimes has good guests. CNN just to keep up with whats going on in the world, and background noise. But my soap.. I can't miss that, don't answer the phone, don't answer the door when that is on! LOL Have a great time at work Lbno! :) I used to watch the X files all the time. -
Eilan said on Feb 29, 2008....
Most of the time, the television in our living room is on Nickelodeon, so I know a lot about some of those shows whether I like it or not!
I like The Simpsons, South Park, and King of the Hill, but I haven't watched them recently.
Right now I'm addicted to Ninja Warrior on G4. It's currently my only must-see show. My second-grader has a crush on Makoto Nagano!
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Twylarants said on Feb 29, 2008....
We record our favorites so we can watch without commercials:
Monk, Psych, Burn Notice, Lost, Eli Stone, Kyle XY, Boston Legal,
Ugly Betty, Two and a Half Men, The Riches, Meadowlands, Californication, Weeds, Chuck, Scrubs (where is it, btw?), Corner Gas, Midsummer Murders.
History Channel, Natgeo, Ovation, Discovery Channel, FoxNews, BBCAM. Soundscapes and VH1 Classics for music (don't know what happened to The Tube.)
For movies...Sundance and IFC.
No reality shows..Randy's dawg yo yo crap drove us away from Idol the 199th time he said it.
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secretlife said on Feb 29, 2008....
i like HGTV......wrote a post about it last week, but i love to see projects completed and creative ideas related to homes.i watch Idol too.i just find it amusing and love the idea that lives can be changed because of getting noticed on tv.i love America's Next Top Model....that is my guilty little pleasure. -
coptips4u said on Feb 29, 2008....
i am a news junkie cnn i do watch csi all of them -
kelly said on Feb 29, 2008....
No TV. I'm free! -
lfbno7 said on Feb 29, 2008....
Quiet, I don't know what it is, but I really dislike Dr. Phil. It's nothing he said, and it's not because he quarreled with Oprah. I don't watch him or Oprah. It is just his face and his manner. He really rubs me the wrong way and I can't begin to explain why. I kind of like Larry King but I think he is the king of the bullshitters. If he told me today was sunny I'd get an umbrella. If he told me he had eggs for breakfast I'd know he didn't. He used to say how he was friends with the baseball player Sandy Koufax growing up, and then one day someone asked Sandy Koufax about it and Sandy said that Larry King was lying about it all, and they never met. Anyway, he is a likeable guy, though a pathological liar.
Eilan, I used to watch Simpsons when it was new, but I got saturated with it long ago. It is such a long running show, and the characters are established, and I been there done that. My favorite of your favorites would be South Park. I have a baseball cap with South Park characters on it, including the aliens.
Twyla, I'm with you on History and Discovery channels. They are two of my favorites. I watched all the Sundance movies On Demand and found them to be intelligently done.
Secret, I only watched one episode of America's Next Top Model and found it kind of interesting but it didn't grab me enough to watch it again. But my wife asked me to DVR every episode of Kimora and Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency, and I got drawn into both of them after initially hating them both. They grew on me. As for HGTV, I bet you are a lot handier around the house than I am. The only thing I can fix up is a clogged toilet.
Cop, did you ever see the British Parliament on tv? I think I used to see it on CSpan, not CNN. It's an eye opener.
Kelly, you're free of tv? Wow. -
lalalalalala said on Feb 29, 2008....
Not much TV these days for me. I have to record my shows and hope I remember to actually watch them. Bravo's Project Runway and Make Me a Supermodel. -
TinSoldier said on Feb 29, 2008....
I mostly watch Discovery, History, Military, and other stuff like that.
Sometimes I like to watch old reruns of MASH or tune in to Scrubs. I'll watch movies on TMC or Encore or whatever. Old movies, newer movies.
I have satellite TV but I'm too cheap to pay the extra $5 a month to get local channels. I do have a regular antenna though, but local TV doesn't go on until bedtime for local news.
I'm sure that will change in 2009, though, when analog broadcasting goes away.
Oh, and while I watched the first and maybe second season of Survivor, I don't watch much in the way of reality shows. However, my one weakness is Top Chef on Bravo.
My kids like cartoons and kids' shows such as iCarly, Drake and Josh, The Suite Life of Zach and Cody, and such fare. They also like to watch wrassling when it is on. I don't care for that so we send them to another room to watch it.
Now that I have the Internet, though, TV isn't as important as when I was growing up. However, much like when I was growing up, the thing is on for about sixteen to eighteen hours a day whether it is being watched or not.
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lfbno7 said on Mar 01, 2008....
Lala, I have to record all my shows or I'll never see them because I fall asleep in the early evening when they're on, and then wake up in the middle of the night, like now at 3:45 a.m.
Tin, a lot of shows on Discovery, History, and Military will hold my attention too. I'm not one for tv sitcoms or serial dramas. I'd rather watch a documentary, about something that actually happened, rather than watch a script that a professional commercial writer came up with. I used to watch Mash though, and Taxi, so if the writing is really good it will sometimes pull me in. -
lfbno7 said on Mar 01, 2008....
My idea about mentioning the likes and dislikes hasn't caught on yet. That's my thing though. For example, Anthony Bourdain. I like his overall personality and the way he travels the world and shows us real people, not just tourist spots. I dislike the little games he plays, like pretending to have a silly rivalry with somebody that's all staged, and pretending that some shitty food is really great because it is local. I guess he falls for his own bullshit while he's saying it. But he does have a certain enjoyability factor about him.
Andrew Zimmern, I like that he takes us to foods we'd never see otherwise, like grubs and bull's balls. I also like that he is so polite and friendly to all of the regular people he meets. He tries to give us some idea of what it's like to eat these things, but he really doesn't succeed in that too often, and I don't know if anyone could. I think you'd have to taste it yourself, rather than listen to a guy tell you the texture is strange.
The L Word, I like that I've gotten to know the characters very well after all this time, and I consider them old friends. I'm hooked and can't just walk away from them. I don't like that the storylines are always utterly unrealistic, they are almost always about people way beyond my economic level, and I don't find any of the main characters sexually attractive. Maybe I know them too well, so the bloom is off the rose. I don't like that they always shoot for sensationalism rather than really bring us the down to earth problems and situations that lesbians have with each other. I know some lesbians, and they aren't living a life that could be on this show, but there's plenty of drama and heartbreak in their lives. Also there isn't enough pettiness and stupidity and cruelty between the characters, as there is in real life. Not enough hysteria either. And Bette and Tina's child is a puppet, not a child. She doesn't draw any attention to herself as a real child would. Who wants a real baby in their synthetic plastic L Word world?
The WEC, I like that it's mixed martial arts, and I love that sport. I like that it at least brings us a 145 pound division, which nobody else does, and right now you have Urijah Faber and Lil Evil Jens Pulver in that division, which is great. I dislike that it is insular, a dead end, it just keeps good fighters like Carlos Condit and Paulo Filho from fighting top competition and trying for a Real title instead of just a WEC title. -
Twylarants said on Mar 01, 2008....
Oh, you wanted the whys an wherefores? Didn't read that part, sorry.
I like sitcoms because I have a short attention span...I'm antsy and can't focus too long. I read while the tv is on and only look up if something catches my attention, so the sitcom has to be very well written.
The hour long shows I watch have to be fast paced, and most are with the exception of Monk. But I like the character, so I ff thru the slow parts.
Reality shows annoy me because most people annoy me. And all reality show contestants strike me as idiots.
I like the Travel Channel's Passport to Europe, and a show with a guy named Cash, who was dropped off... Cash Peters!...in a different location each week with no money, and had to depend on strangers for food, entertainment, and a place to spend the night.
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lfbno7 said on Mar 01, 2008....
Those reality show contestants really seem to be extraordinarily stupid. Passport to Europe and Cash Peters are the kind of shows I'd watch too.
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