Am I the only one who seems from time to time to notice something on TV that you want to comment on but which really isn't worthy of a whole thread? I figure maybe it would be good to have a thread for off-the-cuff remarks like that. If no one else uses it i will. First thought- Nick at Nite has done it again. Thye've introduced me to a show I really enjoy that I never watched in it's original run. "Everybody Hates Chris" is a lot of fun, especially Chris Rock narration. I haven't always been a huge fan of Rocks but this show hits all the right notes to me. Another thought on this show - Terry Crews really impressed me. I wonder what he'd do with a juicy dramatic role? I get the feeling he'd do very well. Sort of like the progression John Amos made from Sit-Com dad to movie tough guy. Of course, maybe he's done that sort of thing before and i missed it.
On another subject. while I find "Fringe" just slightly above average (and only got back into it because they cast Nimoy) I have to say there's something that impresses me about Joshua Jackson. I wish he had more to work with.
Dollhouse is the best show on tv and I'll punch anyone who disagrees. The fact that more people don't watch it is disgusting.
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I don't disagree. Dexter season four is looking better than seasons two and three so far. The previous two seasons were very good but not up to the level of season one.
I prefer waffles that are thin-ish and kinda crispy. Otherwise I love pancakes. They're easier to make for one thing. LOL
I've been watching the second season of Entourage. The show is ok. I don't watch it religiously, but I like the hot girls in it.
Eh, never seen it and really don't care for it. Kind of like the Sopranos, don't care! Fuck I just realized the only TV shows I do care about are Myth Busters (which I watched a marathon of today), House and whatever's on Food TV.
Being Erica is perfect comfort TV, without being brainless. Mucho Love from this corner. Must make more boys watch it, because it's not as girly as you'd think. Nice to have a grownup show for once, that doesnt involve murder.
I loves me some NCIS, but TNT has gone totally overboard with how much often it shows that series. Might as well rename the channel TNCIS or something.
They used to do (still do?) the same thing with Law & Order. Spike does it with the various CSIs, too, I believe.
Not sure of the thinking but the thing is epidemic. Nick at Nite and TVLand tend to do it with sitcoms two. A 2 or 3 hour block of the same show and then that same block re-run again later at night. I can't see the value in burning out your audience. As many TV shows as have been produced by now, why bother? Does it really cost so much money to pull "Dave's World" or "Evening Shade" or "NewsRadio" out of mothballs?
As time goes on, I'm hating animated pop-up promos more and more and more. The most obnoxious ones ruin what I'm watching for me. many of them block pertinant parts of the picture at inopportune moments. Some cable channels are leaving text promos up next to the logo for the whole fucking show now. Thank god for DVDs. On a related note, News channels cover so much of their video with clever captions and info crawls that you can't see the damn news video any more. ShootER, do you have to compose your shots now using only the top 2/3 of the image?
Is anyone watching Sons Of Anarchy? It's basically Hamlet with motorcycles and pornstars. Season two is shaping up better the first, with the added bonus of Henry Rollins as a creepy white supremacist.
It's probably not a show geared towards girls. My friend told me she thought it was suppose to be Sex and the City, except for guys.
The worst ones are the ones where they have the cast doing wacky shit. Syfy is getting bad about it with Ghost Hunters ads on every fucking show. And another thing, I am so glad that South Park shit on Ghost Hunters. Piece of shit is nothing but losers listening for bumps in the night and claiming that ghosts are doing it.
I dig how Bruckheimer and Hart Hanson steal from Belasario. Watch an episode of NCIS, wait a year or two, and the same plot and even some of the dialogue will turn up in CSI: NY or Bones...
Nope. About 15-16 months ago, they introduced a huge fucking banner that runs in our stories and often covers or obscures important things near the bottom of the frame. When we complained, they told us to frame our shots differently. No, motherfuckers, I won't frame my shots differently (the same shots that win awards for your worthless asses). I was shooting this way long before you came up with this stupid gigantic banner and I'll still be shooting that way when you've moved on to some other bullshit "trimming". God forbid that we actually show the viewers something. If anything, I've made some of my composition even more extreme (I put my horizon line near the bottom of the frame a lot ) in hopes that enough viewers will complain that maybe they'll drop the goddamned thing. If I feel that a story will truly be harmed by having the banner obscure the video, I'll have the producer pull it after the first few seconds. But otherwise I don't care. The unmolested, "clean" version goes on the web (they don't run the aircheck version of our stories there) and on my save tape. Fuck 'em.
I've noticed that too and it makes no damn sense. That's what commercials used to be for. Now all the commercials are for the damn prescription medication and they have these stupid little things during the actual show. I've never seen it before but lately with the new season coming out, I've been thinking of trying it. My whole problem is having to catch it on hulu or hope they have a repeat.
Any person involved with those thrice-damned pop-up promo things needs to be beaten severely. I fuckin' HATE those things. Worst one was our local Channel 5 (Fox), which would run pop-up banners to tell you which show you were watching while you were watching it.
Why is it that every bloody hour-long drama now has to have some stupid sappy pop song from an artist no one has ever heard of over a montage near the end scene these days? I really hate that.
Since this is Media Central, I'll keep it clean. My teen daughter watches a lot of brainless Disney/MTV related TV. Having said this, I would gladly dump a huge load of s***m all over the face of Amanda Bynes. I would also tongue the p***y of Vanessa Hudgens until it was raw! Let me divulge more information by saying that I would gladly b**e the hell out of Miley Cyrus and munch the s****h of Miranda Cosgrove until my mouth was bleeding...once they turn 18 of course! And don't get me started on Emma Watson riding on my d**k so hard my b***s are bruised!
On a not-really-related note, several of the shows I happen to be watching seem to be finding excuses to get their characters to sing or otherwise introduce a "live" musical piece into the episode. Reminds me of the old B&W days when the plot of a movie would stop for five minutes for a musical number and, presumably, the audience thought nothing of it.
Just finished watching the first season of Dexter. It's pretty good, but I'm worried because a lot of people say it goes downhill after the first season.
