What TV Show Are You Currently Watching?
 

I prefer that you post your entry with in following scheme:

[TV show] - [episode title] on [channel]

This is of course not required though.

If you do not wish too miss part of your show, I'd suggest posting during a commercial, unless it's on a premium channel, in which you may wish to post after the show.

Just finish watching Blood Ties - Wild Blood on Lifetime.

Now watching Who's Line Is it Anyway on ABC Family.

'Nother episode of Who's Line... on ABC Family.

MXC on spike. oh my god. peeing our pants here. iron chef meets jackass.

40 Greatest Metal Songs on VH1 Classic (for the 10th time)

iCarly - iScream on Halloween on Teenik (west)

I think it's safe to say that this thread has lost its novelty.

RFN I got "On Any Sunday" on in the background on FuelTV. Directed by Bruce Brown. Digital/HD remastering coming soon, as I understand it.

Absolutely fabulous late sixties / very early seventies motocross, dirt track, off-road footage with all those famous racers (and legendary bikes) I could only read about years after the fact. Steve McQueen race footage too. He was an genuine badass. But he was no Malcolm Smith.

If you're over thirty, and you've EVER had the most minimal fondness for any kind of motorcycle, you have to see this film. A real, historical must-see.

Damn!! I want another bike sooooooooo bad right now.

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OMGOMGOMG!

just saw The Tudors on yesterday (a mini marathon) and it was AWESOME!

so good! so crunchy! so sexy!!!!

I'm looking forward to 3rd Feb - Living has comissioned a new drama (they usually only show imports). It's called Bedlam, it's dark and spooky and it stars Will Young.

Right up my alley.

You got a new job? congrats!

:p:

I freakin' love Criminal Minds and Ancient Aliens on AE and History Channel.

Harry's Law. I just love Kathy Bates.

There's an article in NY Times this morning about a show called "Portlandia" (PDX).
Has anyone seen the show... what do you think ?

Being Human is back!!!!

Oh. Oh I love Mitchell. And Georgie-peorgie. And Annie's so sweet.

I was particularly pleased to see them back, having attempted the other night to watch the US remake's pilot episode.

To be fair, had I never seen the original, or had the US been the original, maybe I'd have liked it. It wasn't completely horrible. It's definately no Life on Mars(US), or indeed Red Dwarf(US). They've taken the basic elements and given it an American flavour. Also to be fair, this is the pilot, and they've tried to stay very close to the original series here, basically setting out much of what went on in the first series through the pilot and first couple of eps, then veering off onto their own turf with the premise set.

The original Being Human had some obvious flaws. It was made on a shoe string so the effects are ropey as fuck. The plot goes a little flat mid season then picks back, up from time to time things seem rushed. The North American version has a bigger budget, and a longer run, so it should be able to do the story more justice. The trouble is, there didn't seem to be much chemistry between the three leads. Their friendship didn't seem believable.

The dialogue isn't as good. To me anyway. And the voice over pieces are less subtle with much more in the way of outright exposition. Stuff that came through the interplay of character and plot is said outright by the characters far too often. The vampire's first scene has him discussing his love of the whole 'living breathing thing', quoting death related poetry and pointing out how beautiful death really is.

Terrifyingly, his date of the evening, then invites him in for a drink. Seriously, girlfriend? No warning signs?

Probably not fair to pick on a specific piece of dialogue or scene and judge the whole show on that. I couod easily find a scene or two in the original if I wanted to trash it.

But overall, it just seemed to lack a warmth, and lightness of touch. And chemistry. I'll give the rest of the series a go, because you really can never judge a programme by its pilot. Once they depart completely from the British series, they may find their feet and be worth watching in their own right.

There's a definate trade-off. Some good for some bad. The vampire underworld is more convincing in terms of overall scale, but the menace is too obvious. What made the vampire leader Herrick scary, was that he was entirely unremarkable until he chose to be scary. He was charming and avuncular and completely believable as a trusted man. What makes the vampire leader in BH US scary is a more overt sense of power and menace. Which works in its own way.

Likewise with the werewolf. The fully transformed werewolf in Being Human is complete pants. It looks, as various critics have noted, like a bloke in an alsation mask. very unconvincing, cheap effects. In Being Human(US) they've gone the CGI route. Which makes for a much more convincing wolf.

Unfortunately, they also CGI'd the transformation. The transformation scenes in Being Human were fantastic. The combination of Russell Tovey's performance, horribly physical animatronics, and rather brilliant use of the power of suggestion, make these scenes very, very visceral. They've taken their cues from American Werewolf in London. And it works brilliantly, giving a real sense of bodyshock.

The transformations in Being Human(US) aren't nearly as visceral. They serve the purpose of plot and character development, but they lose some of the horror.

Anyways.

Being Human season 3 began last night on BBC3. I loved it. was glad to see Mitchell's appalling crime near the end of season two wasn't just left behind with that season's conclusion. There are consequences.

I still have very high hopes that one day Lamp will answer my question about why he uses the airport designation for where he lives????? sigh... :o

Bitch!

:p

But I've asked him a few times. I'm just curious.

I wasn't even aware of airport designations until the advent of Travelocity. Now they are second nature. At least the local ones and the big ones.
IAD
DCA
BWI

I know m'dear. It just started such a shit storm the last time i couldn;t resist :P

Yeah, LAX and the like. I mean, I know what they are but I've never heard anyone use them as location before. Thought maybe it was some old-timey thing, like when phone numbers were like "Pennsylvania 6-5000." ;)

I'm saying this with as nasally a Brooklyn accent as I can muster: ya rat bastard. :D

Sorry Shawnee,Foot3 answered once and I thought that scratched the itch.

No biggy... PDX is my trivial and lazy way of distinguishing between Portland OR (PDX) and Portland Maine (PWM)

Ohhhhhhh. Thanks Lamp. I missed the explanation. Yeah, I'm a bit obsessive. Thanks for telling me. :blush:

I missed it too, Shawnee.

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Last time I took time to really follow something on TV was September, 11th, 2001

Ever since seeing this thread in my "New Posts" 5 days ago, I've been wondering; why the resurrection attempt.

Robotech season 1, episode 22

RFN? "American Pickers"

Cuz I was (then currently) watching an excellent show. On tv. And I wanted to share.

Outrageous Fortune-NZ series about a family involved in mostly petty crime. Thursday night's highlight.

Made for HBO movie, so it's not quite a movie and not quite a TV show, but ...

The Sunset Limited

About an hour and a half of two extremely skilled and powerful actors interacting with each other.

Wow.

Johnny Cash's America on the Bio channel

Being Human (*grins*). Which I have talked about elsewhere. Fourth episode of the new series is airing tonight *dances about in excitement*. I love it!

Here's a little clip from the last series that I think shows how they can swerve effortlessly between comedy and drama:

The set up: George the werewolf is desperately attempting to grab some kind of a normal life. At the last full moon he locked himself in a metal cage and swallowed a bottle of tranquilisers. He transformed, but remained asleep, as the wolf the whole night.

He's started teaching at a language school, and dating a girl who works there. Unfortunately, having denied the wolf its outing, it begins to come through in other ways...beginning with sudden onset tourettes.