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I was so bored last night I actually watched a show on network TV:  The Forgotten, starring Christian Slater.  The cops find a body they can't identify, and the show is about this group of investigators who try to track down who it is so they can inform the person's family, and hopefully catch whoever killed them.  It was moderately interesting, and tossed in a couple of mild twists.  I probably won't bother watching it again, but it was okay.

Anybody else watch any of the new Fall shows?

Im watching the new season of supernatural and waiting on lie to me to start but that's it.

the new season of house and ncis

Network TV is pretty much dead to me.

I'm upset this season.  3 shows I want to watch are on at the same time.  Fringe, Supernatural, and Community (because I think Joel McHale is hilarrious).

I plan on watching NCIS but missed the season opener.

 Not a lot of new shows I want to watch.

The only thing I want to watch on the telly is the third series of Ashes to Ashes....I don't think that's back tilll April.  :bluesad:


Well, maybe Doctor Who but that's it.


I find myself watching less telly as I get older.

Watched the season opener of House. Pretty good, although a bit too derivative of "Cuckoo's Nest" and pretty much every other nuthouse movie. I liked it, but I'm not sure where the series can go from there, except perhaps over a big shark. I'll likely check out CSI and Smallville later this week, and Lost in January. Other than that, I've barely been aware of a new TV season, and I couldn't name a single new show.

Funny, I remember back when I knew every new thing that was coming on, and looked forward to checking out half a dozen new shows every fall. I don't know if it's the greater number of alternatives to network television, the increasing sameness of shows, or just having better things to do, but the new TV season just doesn't excite me anymore. I think the only new show to grab my interest this fall is Pitchmen, on the Discovery Channel. But I can't watch it without being very much aware that there will be no future episodes, and if there are, they won't be anywhere near as entertaining without Billy Mays. The show was doomed before it hit the air.

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I don't really watch a lot of 'new' shows.  Most seem to get cancelled anyways, and most don't interest me.  Community looks promising.  The Cleveland Show got off to an interesting start.  Beyond that I doubt I'll watch any.

As for returning shows, the only ones I go outta my way to watch are the shows in the Law and Order Franchise, The Simpsons and South Park.  I don't watch as much tv as much as I used to, outside of SNL, Simpsons, Law and Order, South Park, and The Craig Ferguson Show.

There's a lot of network shows I loathe: Lost, The Office, 30 Rock, Parks and Recreation, The Jay Leno Show, NCIS, CSI, The Amazing Race, Survivor, and about a dozen others.

Let's see here, I'm watching The Big Bang Theory, The Simpsons, CSI (All three verisons), NCSI: LA, Law & Order: SVU, The Forgotten, and when it comes out, Blue Collar.

Oh yeah, SyFy is airing Monster on October 12th (EXTREMELY excited to see this).

As you can tell, I am a huge fan of crime dramas.

I don't think I've watched any TV shows on a regular basis since about the late 1970s.  However, I do buy them when they are released on DVD.  If you count the DVD sets, my most recent "complete" viewings were all the SOPRANOS episodes and all the SEINFELD episodes.  I'm currently working my way through:

* KUNG FU
* NIGHT GALLERY
* THE ROOKIES
* THE NIGHT STALKER
* THE TIME TUNNEL
* THE OUTER LIMITS
* THE MONKEES
* THE TWILIGHT ZONE
* THE PRISONER
* CAPTAIN SCARLET
* ULTRA MAN
* LAND OF THE GIANTS
* THE AVENGERS (Diana Rigg episodes only)
* THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.
* COLUMBO
* THE FLASH

As you can see, I'm living in the past . . .

The only network TV shows that I follow are as follows: NCIS, The Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men, CSI, CSI New York, The Simpsons  and Family Guy.

I've not watched any really.  Not 'network' shows.  Only Law and Order, The Simpsons, and South Park.

Beyond that, I'm loving the Wrestling Channel.  On Demand.  It's WWE Classics, with thousands of wrestling shows and pay per views dating back to the mid '60s, from the gamut of pro wrestling organizations (NWA, WCCW, WCW, AWA, WWF, WWE, ECW, etc.)

I hate wrestling now, but I have taken my nephews to a couple WWE events.  I was a wrestling fan in the 1970s when it was on TV Saturdays (followed by roller derby).  When I watched it, these were some of the popular wrestlers:

* IVAN PUTSKI (my favorite)
* CHIEF JAY STRONGBOW
* ANDRE THE GIANT
* BRUNO SAMMARTINO
* GORILLA MONSOON
* KEN PATERA (who once won The World's Strongest Men competition)
* MISTER FUJI
* PROFESSOR TANAKA
* TONY GAREA
* THE WOLFMAN
* SGT. SLAUGHTER

Those were the days . . .

About all I'm watching now is Destination Truth with Josh Gates.  They search for monsters.  I get a kick out of it, they go out in the jungle with a thermal imaging camera, they see a spot in the distance and start freaking out.  Dude, it's the jungle - there's animals out there.  I dunno, it's just kind of entertaining.

I'm 'younger', so to speak (25).  I was more a fan in the late '80s-the late '90s.  Much more entertaining for me then (Hulk Hogan, Roddy Piper, Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Undertaker). 

I try to watch their current product, but mostly find more fun in the 'older' stuff, from the '70s and '80s as opposed to now.  Which really sucks for them as they could make more money with a better product instead of relying on their past product to bring in money.

That got me thinking of Waldo Von Erich, who lived in my hometown for many years. Until his death this year, in fact. I didn't know him, but I remember seeing him around. Hard to miss a licence plate that says W VON E. I kind of think my brother might have gone out with one of his daughters at some point in the 70s.
(http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/Microgalleries/WaldoVonErich/2009/03/11/Lano.VonEWaldoFullGimmickbackstageCleveland.jpg)

He retired in 79, which was a bit before I got into wrestling. I mostly enjoyed it in the golden age of the WWF, from about 1983 to 1990. I think my interest waned shortly after Wrestlemania 6, which I attended. I did, for a couple of years, watch Wrestlemania at a local bar, just as an excuse to spend a Sunday afternoon consuming beer and nachos with friends. I was a huge fan in the 80s, but I can't say I've watched wrestling at all in 15 years or more. If I had to pick the best years, I'd say 1983 to 87 or 88. There were about five years there when it was really good, and my friends all followed the WWF faithfully. Today, wrestling is an idiotic soap opera. They've given up even pretending any of it is real, and really aimed at the lowest common denominator. I mean wrestling never had much class, but what class it did have is long gone.

I don't wanna take it too 'off topic', but the WWF did have a really good run from about '97-'01 as well.  By that point they completely obliterated the 'Is it real?" aspect and came out and said it's 'sports entertainment.'  They completely enhanced the Undertaker's character, making him an undead zombie warrior with mystical powers, blowing stuff up with lightning.  At the same time, they had 'real' characters like Stone Cold Steve Austin, who the working class could relate to: he drank beer, flipped off authority figures, and would attack his boss on a routine basis.  Who here at one point hasn't wanted to show up to work one day, and just go to his boss and be like, 'Screw you" and clothesline him?