For me its the Sci Fi Channel. I have Showtime and a whole list of others, but 90% of my viewing time all goes to Sci Fi!
The little time I'm actually at home and not sleeping? Sci-Fi, FoodTV, and Discovery......every once in a while something will catch my eye on the History channel but it's very rare.
They were so much better when they were TechTV. The Screen Savers...Tech Live...Unscrewed...Nerd Nation...Call for Help... Back then, I used to keep it on in the background alot bacvk then...not now. In fact, almost never watch the channel. (I am just not personally into Cops and Japanese game shows. Not knocking them...just not my thing. ) I also miss when the Learning Channel actually had educational programing (and A&E had arts programing...) Of course, most the science when to the Science Channel...but the shows like Great Books had nowere to go... Huh...I don't really watch any one TV network...ah...Sci-fi, Discovery, Science Channel...Food Network, BBC America, PBS, Comedy Central, Travel Channel, IFC, Nat Geo (liked Trio in it's short life) mostly...and then just whatever shows are on the major networks I like...
IIRC, Tech TV was supposedly merging with G4 and at the time I thought to myself, "I wonder how long the Tech is going to actually stay." Screen Savers went on for a while, then they almost simultaneously lost Kevin Rose and the Asian chick and led it under the banner of Attack of the Show. Then the blonde chick left and it basically became the Kevin Perreira hour with a couple hotties tossed in who never understood Kevin's sarcastic whit. A lot of over the head jokes flew around and it became more gimicky. Still good, but not as tech focused as it used to be. I hate that they added Trek 2.0 to the lineup, I guess they just needed more geek cred. Then it was Cops 2.0, but not after the lame ass additions street-racing shows. They made other changes too, now they have a bimbo who isn't believeable as a gamer, at all, hosting the show Cheat and introduced a show called cheaters which is like a cross between Jerry Springer and a P.I. show. X Play was tanking, then a format change breathed in some new life. Ubeatable Banzuke is fun enough, the zany courses they come up with and the freaks that can complete are fairly entertaining. I love Ninja Warrior. It is actually interesting every time they have an American on it, because they don't generally get very far. I hated Ninja Warrior "Lite" though- the watered down ladies edition. Women don't usually make it past the first round of the normal course, so they dumbed it down. I think it is insulting to women and especially those who actually gave it their all on the normal course. Needless to say, I've only seen those episode run once, because I'm pretty sure I wasn't alone in my feelings. I wish they'd through in some robotics comp coverage, do some more tech focused programming, drop Cops, drop Trek, drop Cheaters and bring back a few old staples that seemed to have left: the gamer arena show and a couple others that left long enough ago that I can't really remember them.
Sci Fi, followed by Cartoon Network, then a random assortment of individual shows DVR'ed from the other channels.
I used to have TechTV on "in the background" all day. After it changed to G4 it got more and more like one big annoying ad though. Hey, here's a great idea! Let's get rid of awesome shows like "The Screen savers", "Future Fighting Machines", and "Big Thinkers" and replace them with a 30 minute loop of video game trailers (Cinematech) and a retarded video game competition which is really just a flimsy pretext to advertise SOCOM games (Arena). That channel quickly went from my very favorite channel that I gave 80% of my TV time to, to a channel that I stopped watching entirely. Maybe it's better now, but at the time, there was really nothing good on. The most entertaining part of it was watching Adam Sessler's hairline recede with each episode of X-play. These days I mostly just watch Comedy Central (Daily Show, Colbert Report, Stand up specials) and some stuff on Adult Swim. Also, if college football is on (and its a team I care about), I'll watch that. I'm also a big fan of history channel and discovery channel but to be honest I haven't been tuning in recently for some reason.
Netflix. But seriously, FOX as it has Terminator, Prison Break and 24. After that I watch ABC as it has Pushing Daisies and Lost. As for cable, it's FX for The Shield and Rescue Me. That's about it for me.
^Oh my god - Is that a joke ? Code Monkeys must be the most unfunny show ever. EVER. It's not even bad show funny. G4 has its own history of completely awful shows - let's not forget the much hyped Spaceballs cartoon which 5 mins after airing was shoved as far away from primetime as the network could fling it. That Olivia Munn is hot, but is Attack of the Show funny ? No. Not at all. The best part of the show is the stuff they find on youtube - the rest of the show looks like its aimed for 15 year olds.
Food Network, CNBC, discovery and History chanel, by far. On Sundays I watch Iron Chef, Dexter and Entourage Mondays, it's Sarah Connor, and Heroes. Depending on what they show, Nova on Tuesdays. Bill Maher on Friday night. After that, it's up for grabs.
Probably a tie between BBC2 and Hallmark, Hallmark being the best channel for L&O over here. But I also watch quite a bit on BBC1, Dave, Paramount Comedy, Sci Fi, FX and Sky One.
Put me down for the Food Network as well, though I spend quite a bit of time watching Discovery Science and the History Channel as well. SO watches all that Bravo crap which I try to tolerate, if only to watch people cry.
