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I really like Deep Space 9, well from about series 5 when the whole Dominion story line kicked off.
Sparticus has been a good watch and I am enjoying the final series (although missing it tonight as at work). Can't wait for Game of Thrones either.

One point on US TV. Over the last few years it has improved dramatically and many "A List" Hollywood actors are now appearing on TV series there. This is a direct result of the crap Hollywood have been chuirning out. Many actors and directors are turning to TV as there are no new genres being developed for film. It is the same old rubbish being re hashed. With a new series they can really tell the story properly and develop plot and characters rather than have to rush it through for a film.

I always find it difficult to get in to a new programme but Homeland is excellent and very though provoking.
 
I've just been alerted to the fact that Croatia face Serbia this Friday, and the game is being refereed by the guy who sent off Nani. So that's Croatia v Serbia, with a Turkish ref. If that isn't a recipe for chaos, I don't know what is. I wouldn't miss this game for the world.
 
Joe Steinberg said:
I've just been alerted to the fact that Croatia face Serbia this Friday, and the game is being refereed by the guy who sent off Nani. So that's Croatia v Serbia, with a Turkish ref. If that isn't a recipe for chaos, I don't know what is. I wouldn't miss this game for the world.
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That's my Friday night sorted, along with NI v Russia of course.
 
I just realized how strong the Yugoslavia team would be if it was still a country and spent the last 10 minutes assembling my Yugoslavia dream team. It looks something like this:

---------Handanovic
Srna---Ivanovic---Subotic---Kolarov
------Kuzmanovic---Pjanic
Mandzukic-----Modric-----Jovetic
--------------Dzeko

That team could win things.
 
Joe Steinberg said:
I just realized how strong the Yugoslavia team would be if it was still a country and spent the last 10 minutes assembling my Yugoslavia dream team. It looks something like this:

---------Handanovic
Srna---Ivanovic---Subotic---Kolarov
------Kuzmanovic---Pjanic
Mandzukic-----Modric-----Jovetic
--------------Dzeko

That team could win things.
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You think that's strong, you should read this article about the US national team about just how good some of the players are who have been turned down.

http://www.mlssoccer.com/news/article/2012/12/10/monday-postgame-top-five-us-stars-who-got-away

Admittedly not as strong, but still, funny the names that didn't get into the team for whatever reason.
 
TheSecondStain said:
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.
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You're so curmudgeonly.
 
tomw19 said:
Oh dear oh dear oh dear. The Venky's have well and truly ****ed up Blackburn Rovers.
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Just seen somewhere that Blackburn are now looking for their 5th manager of the season? I know they've gone a bit mental, but 5, really? Is that even true?
 
tomw19 said:
Well let's see: Kean, Berg, Appleton, so that's 3 excluding caretaker managers.
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Cheers Tom, I haven't been paying enough attention to Blackburn to know who they've had this season. Still, that's them looking for number 4 for the season which is impressive in itself! And I'm sure it's really going to help propel them back to PL...
 
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