What is better than FIREFLY? I'm looking for other things to watch....

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FERREL

Thursday, June 30, 2005 4:26 PM

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Originally posted by Zoot:
Charlie Jade sounds fantastic - d'you think we'll ever get it over here in Blighty???

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Okay, I'm lost, I'm angry, and I'm
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Not sure. I'm assuming it will eventually. It's a Canadian/South African production. We're currently at episode 13 of 20. It would be a shame if a show this good did not get international recognition.

BATMARLOWE

Thursday, June 30, 2005 4:26 PM

The Sopranos! It's a must see.

I don't know if Hill Street Blues is on DVD but it's the grandaddy of the arc-driven hour long shows. Did somebody mention Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared? I haven't seen them myself but they've both gotten high acclaim.

Older shows like The Avengers (the Emma Peel seasons) and The Prisoner.

I second The Black Adder and of course Fawlty Towers if you're one of the few people on the planet who hasn't seen it.

A lot of the Adult Swim stuff from Cartoon Network is on DVD now.

A second on Time Minear's Wonderfalls.

The first two seasons of Alias are pretty entertaining after that it gets a little dicey.

All the episodes of Roseanne that Joss wrote :)

I haven't it but you may like Brimstone and I think it's on DVD. I've heard good stuff about Dead Like Me.

If you liked Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels then you should see Snatched if you haven't already.

But if you haven't seen The Sopranos, then you gotta see it. Of course it's all opinion but it may be the best hour long show ever.

ZOOT

Thursday, June 30, 2005 4:33 PM

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What is the sport of kings?

Well, according to Casey its Poker, but Dan is right when he says it's horse racing ....

Do I get my Sports Night decoder ring now??

I should also get extra credit for it never haivng been on TV in England and having to buy region 1 DVDs which I can only watch on my Apple....

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Okay, I'm lost, I'm angry, and I'm
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ODDNESS2HER

Thursday, June 30, 2005 4:43 PM

I can't believe nobody has mentioned "Veronica Mars" yet! It's great and now that it's been moved to Wednesday nights (with reruns on Sunday) you don't have to choose between it and "House"
anymore!

AUROTER

Thursday, June 30, 2005 4:48 PM

Classic double for Firefly in terms of 'the out on you're own with nothing more than a ship and a gun to do whatever freelance job comes by' genre (which is pretty slim in general) is Cowboy Bebop. If someone already mentioned that, I wouldn't be surprised. Not on TV, but easily available on DVD. One of the few anime's I've seen with actually good voiceovers. Great comedy, drama, action, and fun. Two men, a woman, a girl, and a dog. Check it out.

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BAYBREEZE1

Thursday, June 30, 2005 4:51 PM

Seems nobody has mentioned "House". Sorry to say it's on FOX, who of course I loathe, detest, and despise. However, I'm not a believer in "cutting off my nose to spite my face" and just couldn't let my hatred of FOX keep me away from this great show. Daughter and I watch it every Tuesday at 9:00. It's in reruns now from its first season and has been given the greenlight on a second season. As a general rule I don't normally watch medical shows, but this show is just so great, tense, funny, etc. and Hugh Laurie who plays Dr. House is incredible! I HIGHLY recommend it!

Also, did anyone mention "Veronica Mars" on UPN? I completely fell in love with this show and it's characters. It has also been given the go ahead for a second season, unfortunately I don't know why they bothered since they are changing it's time slot from Tuesdays to Wednesdays opposite Lost and American Idol. Talk about kiss of death! Ah well, it was a great show while it lasted! The DVD's for season one will be out in October.

ODDNESS2HER

Thursday, June 30, 2005 4:55 PM

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Originally posted by BayBreeze1:
Seems nobody has mentioned "House". Sorry to say it's on FOX, who of course I loathe, detest, and despise. However, I'm not a believer in "cutting off my nose to spite my face" and just couldn't let my hatred of FOX keep me away from this great show. Daughter and I watch it every Tuesday at 9:00. It's in reruns now from its first season and has been given the greenlight on a second season. As a general rule I don't normally watch medical shows, but this show is just so great, tense, funny, etc. and Hugh Laurie who plays Dr. House is incredible! I HIGHLY recommend it!

Also, did anyone mention "Veronica Mars" on UPN? I completely fell in love with this show and it's characters. It has also been given the go ahead for a second season, unfortunately I don't know why they bothered since they are changing it's time slot from Tuesdays to Wednesdays opposite Lost and American Idol. Talk about kiss of death! Ah well, it was a great show while it lasted! The DVD's for season one will be out in October.

Damn, I forgot about "Lost"! Here I was exulting that VM didn't have to compete with "House" anymore when now it has to contend with an even huger show (which I also happen to love). Darn the luck.

SNEAKER98

Thursday, June 30, 2005 5:30 PM

Another second on Lost, Cowboy Bebop (damn, I hate most anime... but that show is just amazing), Family Guy, and Futurama.

Likely, Futurama is my all-time favourite cartoon series. Too bad there were only 4 seasons... but at least their last season was by far the best.

"I do the job... and then I get paid. Go run your little world."
-Malcolm Reynolds

BADGERGIRL

Thursday, June 30, 2005 5:30 PM

Seems no-one's mentioned Crossing Jordan yet, which is a real shame. It's in reruns right now, but it's on at 9:00 central time on NBC, Sundays. A great medical drama which focuses on the character plots, without being a soap opera.

Navy NCIS is also a very good show. A nice ratio with the drama/comedy too, and the cast is brilliant! It deals with some current issues, but in a semi-fictional sense, sort of like West Wing. Tuesdays at 7:00 on CBS.

Numb3rs airs at 9:00 central on Fridays, CBS. A genius mathematician helps his FBI agent brother to solve crime! It premiered on January 1, so the first season is incredibly short, but it's been given the greenlight for a second season.

Dead Shows that are on DVD:

Jeeves & Wooster. A hilarious British show about high society in the 1920s/30s. Basic premise is that Bertie Wooster (Hugh Laurie) keeps getting engaged to people without meaning to, and his not-quite butler Jeeves (Stephen Fry) has to get him out of trouble.

Now & Again was another short-lived prodigy that was based around an Everyman who got hit by a train, and the government rescued his brain and put it into an invulnerable body. A good action show with it's share of intelligence and humor. Either won or was nominated for an Emmy.

Nero Wolfe was two seasons long, and was a murder mystery show set in the 1940s. Very charming, and it has it's own cookbook on amazon.com now! A cast with great interaction, and recurring character actors, so everyone looks familiar.

X-Men Evolution was a witty cartoon about the X-Men, some of them younger than in the comics. It used to air on WB, but got cancelled after its 4th season.

And I'll second most of the shows already mentioned. :D Have fun!

Death to the men without the pretentious initials!

FNORDCHAN

Thursday, June 30, 2005 6:19 PM

If you're a big fan of genre television, you may want to look into the wonders of them there Japanese cartoons. If there's anything anime is good at it's science fiction television with self contained storylines - beginning, middle, end, the whole nine yards. Sturgeon's Law is, as always, in full effect, but there's still plenty of good stuff to be had. A few favorites:

Cowboy Bebop - As mentioned, if you like Firefly you should absolutely give Bebop a shot. It's about a group of perpetually down-on-their-luck bounty hunters travelling throughout the not too distant future solar system in their shabby spaceship and trying to keep food on the table. The characters are wonderful, the animation is top-notch, the funny episodes are a hoot, and the serious episodes are a kick in the teeth. However, where Bebop shines is the overwhelming amount of style the series has. It looks positively phenomenal and is backed up by a truly astounding soundtrack made up of bebop, jazz, and everything else under the sun. Highest possible recommendation. 26 episodes available on 6 DVDs, plus a movie that takes place roughly halfway through the series.

Samurai Champloo - From the creators of Cowboy Bebop, this is a hip-hop samurai show. No, really. And, despite what you're thinking, it works; the series has a funky soundtrack, slick animation, tons of style, and it takes positive delight in goofy anachronisms (my favorite being the samurai riding around in his low-rider palanquin with beat-boxing backup singers). This is a lighter affair than Bebop - the characterization, while solid, isn't quite as good, and it's even more episodic than Bebop - but the funny episodes are still funny and the serious episodes, while not as harsh as Bebop, still have plenty of impact. 26 episodes, with two of a projected six DVDs currently available. Also, the dub is currently being broadcast on the Cartoon Network's Adult Swim.

Planetes - The best hard SF television I have ever seen, period. In the near future mankind has established a solid foothold in outer space - orbital industry is booming, there's a thriving moonbase, and a manned mission to Jupiter is in the works. Of course, all this tearing around space leaves a lot of trash orbiting Earth...and someone has to pick up the garbage. Enter our heroes, corporate employees with the worst job in space: debris collection. Planetes is terrific on a lot of levels, but what really makes the series are it's wonderful characters. Early episodes are generally light-hearted (two words: moon ninjas), but once the main plotlines crank up (involving the Jupiter mission and eco-terrorism), woo boy. The ending of the series is, simply put, beautiful. Also, the "Fee is jonsing for a cigarette" episode is the greatest thing ever. 26 episodes, with the first DVD recently released in the US as a snazzy special edition.

Serial Experiments Lain - An introverted highschool girl finds her life changed when she receives email from a classmate - a dead classmate - at which point she begins to transform from luddite to Bruce Sterling. The resulting series is beautiful, literate, dense, more than a bit obtuse, and manages to be very cyberpunk without a hint of chrome in sight. Lain is not to everyone's tastes - it's slow, talky, and isn't going out of it's way to be easily understood - but the series works and is full of suprises; I was completely floored when one episode begin discussing Ted Nelson (the man who coined "hypertext"), Majestic 12, and extremely low frequency radio broadcasts. 13 episodes, available as a (relatively cheap) box set; it's available at Best Buy for all of forty bucks, which is a bargin by anime DVD standards.

Paranoia Agent - As if life in urban Tokyo wasn't bad enough, the city is being plagued with assaults by a mysterious figure named Shounen Bat, a teenage boy with rollerblades, a baseball bat, and the tendancy to brain hapless citizens when they least expect it. But, is Shounen Bat a serial attacker or something more? Satosh

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