What was the last TV show you watched?

[Katarina]

I'm catching up on Burn Notice. How I let that show skip my radar, I don't know.

 

[Diamondback]

Gotta love that show--especially the change-up with having the girl be the designated Triggerhappy Gun Nut.

 

[acl1]

Another one for House, M.D. Such an original show!

 

[DanielJones]

The Top Gear Polar special. Where they explore up to the North Pole. Rather a fun one.

Cheers!

Dan

 

[Rock31]

Just started watching M*A*S*H

Finally decided I need to watch the series, picked up Season 1 on Amazon for $5

 

[CopperNY]

season premiere of 'Big Bang Theory'. just an awesome show.

Big Bang Theory and No Reservations (w/ Anthony Bourdain) are my only reasons for cable.....

 

[Lady Day]

The season premiere of Dexter. Eh. I was a very part one opener, but I just didnt like the handling of it at all.

LD

 

[Paisley]

Death Note, via Netflix.

When I got the first disc in the mail, I read the summary and thought, "Why in the world did I get this?" But then I watched all four episodes in one sitting. It's the best show I've seen in years.

 

[Diamondback]

First half of The Next Iron Chef, followed by the season finale of The Glades. For some reason, its style reminds me a lot of Burn Notice: sorta snarky lead gets in hot water with bosses, gets relocated to Florida, and has to make his way along best way he knows how. Personally, I wish A&E and USA would pool resources and do a crossover miniseries, except that I'm not sure how far Longworth's office is from Miami...

 

[Mugwump]

season premiere of 'Big Bang Theory'. just an awesome show.

CopperNY, I couldn't agree more!

Come to think of it, that show was the latest thing I've watched on TV. As far as DVD boxsets of TV shows, I'll proudly show off my "Millennium" series ( ) that I'm going to be re-watching very soon. I miss Frank Black...

 

[vinspired]

One after the other on ABC1 - Spicks and specks (funny bits show - very funny indeed); the IT crowd (extremely funny) and United states of Tara - GREAT tv shows.

 

[Alex Oviatt]

Last night it was the Rock Follies--a real slice of London circa 1976:

http://www.therockfollies.co.uk/

 

[CopperNY]

"Castle" w/ Nathan Fillion of "Firefly".

this week involved a steampunk club in NYC. handled pretty well.

 

[dragonaxe]

watching Grand Designs right now. For those who dont know its a weekly documentary that follows people design and build the house of their dreams. Its a real architecture lovers dream

 

[LizzieMaine]

I've been gradually working my way thru "The Ultimate Goldbergs," a boxed set of all 71 surviving episodes of Gertrude Berg's landmark 1949-56 series. I've been a fan of the earlier radio version of "The Goldbergs" for a long time, but the television version has been pretty much inaccessible outside of an archival setting for nearly sixty years now, and finally getting a chance to see it is an absolute revelation. There is literally nothing like this program on television today.

It's usually described as a "sitcom" in modern TV histories, but it fits that description in only the very broadest sense of the word. What it really is is a series of intimate one-act character studies, and the technique is absolutely fascinating. All but the final year of the show was performed live, on one set with minimal scene breaks, and the dialogue is delivered in the most naturalistic style I've ever heard in a TV show -- lines overlap, words are slurred or mumbled or thrown over the shoulder, and half the dialogue sounds ad-libbed, even though it was in fact very carefully scripted. The radio show was very much like this as well, and indeed, "The Goldbergs" has to be the most faithful adapation of a radio show that TV ever achieved -- the characters look and act exactly like radio listeners would have expected them to look.

About half the shows in the set come from kinescopes preserved and restored by UCLA, and are presented with original commercials intact. Gertrude Berg herself wrote the ad copy, and delivers it in character as Molly Goldberg, leaning out her tenement window and talking directly to the camera -- and if there's anyone who could get you to drink a cup of Sanka and like it, she could.

An extraordinary collection. I don't imagine it's going to sell very well, because the whole style of the program is so utterly alien to modern viewers -- but if you want to see proof that the 1949-55 era was The Golden Age Of Television, this set of shows is as good as example as you'll ever see.

 

[Tomasso]

Gertrude Berg herself wrote the ad copy, and delivers it in character as Molly Goldberg, leaning out her tenement window and talking directly to the camera -- and if there's anyone who could get you to drink a cup of Sanka and like it, she could.

[video=youtube;NItH5P7gd6k]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NItH5P7gd6k[/video]

 

[Lady Day]

Mike & Molly
I haven't watched a real situation comedy in years, but this one is actually quite amusing at times.

LD

 

[DanielJones]

Have been catching up on my Doctor Who lately. The seasons starting in 2005. Been watching the previews for the latest Christmas Special with Matt Smith as the Doctor. Can't wait.

Cheers!

Dan

 

[DanielJones]

Oh, this morning it was Christmas specials with Blackadder, Keeping Up Appearances and Absolutely Fabulous on BBC America. Lots of fun.

Cheers!

Dan

 

[LordBest]

Pie in the Sky, the British television show, not the film.