Beefy's Corner.......For all off Topic threads

How can you not like pointless!?! :O

As for good American programmes: The Simpsons, Futurama, Scrubs, Friends, Malcolm in the Middle, The Middle, Glee, The Colbert Report, etc and that's without thinking.

I do agree panel shows can get a bit repetitive, and there have been some good documentaries. I think that's one thing we do do well, but then there's lots of great historians here like Simon Schauma, Mary Beard.... Not David Starkey though.

Oh and I also missed out Star Gazing Live, possibly the best programme on British TV. Brian Cox is amazing.

 

Only things I watch on TV is Game Of Thrones, Walking Dead, Family Guy and The Following that's it. Most TV these days is awful and I hate all these period dramas that ITV and BBC always put on. I want to start watching Breaking Bad but have never got around to it.

 

...South Park, Family Guy, American Dad, Bob's Burgers, Archer, The Daily Show, Bill Maher, The Wire, Breaking Bad, Walking Dead, The Office, Game of Thrones, Game of Thrones, Game of Thrones, Game of Thrones...

 

Ah forgot South Park.

 

you missed out Game of Thrones.

 

also homeland and the shield are/were pretty good.

 

How can you like Glee?, I watched 5seconds of it and wanted to claw my eyes out.

 

Have to say I feel you're being a bit blinkered here TSS. How extensively have you actually watched US TV to be so sure that you detest all of it? If you look beneath the surface of utter crap enough I'm sure the things you have mentioned that are you believe exclusive to British TV are present in the US as well.

 

Apart from crime shows, I also like programmes about history, art and architecture...so BBC4 is great. Also like Pointless...only quiz show I like...apart from QI.

I have started various American series...they often start well with a good premise...then deteriorate because if a show is a success they will not recognise when it should have ended. Endings are so often disappointing. So I haven't started watching any for some time...decided against Game of Thrones, Borgias and that one about the returning POW (can't remember it's name)...they are all shows that I would have watched in the past, but they just go on too long.

 

Ffs Joe can't believe you forgot Game of Thrones.

 

stealing my joke Dan, pathetic really

 

Believe me, it's rarely off my mind. 13 days left and I can hardly contain myself.

 

Didn't see it cause you're on my ignore list.

 

so you won't see this post calling you a **** then?

 

I can't believe I missed out Family Guy and American Dad. Those two!

Also, don't diss Glee. It's amazing!

 

Khlaleesi best get naked again.

 

I'll get naked.

Who wants pics?

 

Do you look anything like Emilia Clarke?

 

Fran upon discovering PompeyLapras' naked pics....

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It's all dross aimed at mass audiences. Yes, The Simpsons and South Park is good and clever TV, but I'm not going to actually bother to alter my day and watch it, over and over again. Bloody hell, it's better to get out and actually do something, rather than sit on the sofa.

As for being blinkered, I really don't think so. I have had to endure some of the crap that comes out of the USA, and believe me, I really would find most of it a cure for insomnia. Saying that, 90% of all TV output is nowadays, whether it be British TV or American. Too many channels.

Do you ever watch Horizon or The Sky at Night, for example, or cultural programmes like Sicily Unpacked..? As for Brian Cox, the actor, did you not see his Addicted to series..? Very good indeed. As for the other Brian Cox, the physicist, there was his excellent Wonders of Life series. Then there is the Natural History Unit at Bristol, which produces countless programmes either fronted or narrated by David Attenborough. Do you not watch those..? Michael Mosley medical science series, Michael Wood history series. Dan Snow military series. Simmon Schama, as you say. Anything that Simon Reeve has written and presented [e.g. Equator, Tropic of Capricorn, Indian Ocean, etc...] is excellent. And there many more of these. USTV just doesn't do this kind of programme, either in quality or in number. In fact, I can't think of any they do at all. Now that's the kind of television I like, so you'll now see why I say British TV is best. Plus, the stuff I watch doesn't have any adverts in it, which is a bonus. And you expect me to sit through crap like Pointless..? The reason I don't is pretty much summed up by the title. QI is great fun and I do love This Week..!

Loved all the Star Treks, except Deep Space Nine, which was entirely miss-able, imo. I think I was one of the few who loved Enterprise. There was also an HBO series back in the late 1990's called From The Earth To the Moon, which was a serial dramatisation of the US Space project covering from the very beginnings to the end of the Apollo programme. It was superbly produced and something that only the Americans could have done. Of course, it was broadcast here on CH4, midday on a Saturday, during the football season, with no repeats, so nobody watched it. I recorded it and then bought the video boxed set, it was that good [I don't bother doing that sort of thing normally]. Nowadays, the only thing I regularly bother to record off the TV is every MotoGP event during the season.