HopScotchNSoda: Reaper, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and Caprica were rather lousy at the start, and were cancelled just when they had started to get quite compelling.

I really didn't understand how they could make a premise out of Sarah Connor and her adventures between T2 and T3 but after they sort of said fark continuity, I dug the show. I even have the DVD of the shortly lived series.

No broadcast network besides Fox should really try to commit themselves to a sci-fi show. Lost I think was an anomaly but even with that show, though it was sci-fi, most of it was set on the island and dealt with the characters.

I wish I was wrong, I wish we could have sci-fi TV as the mainstream instead of the farkING doctor/lawyer/cop shows. Three professions no one wants to deal with in real life but for some reason that's all that's on scripted TV. Or should I say TV that admits to be scripted. I'm glad I pretty much just watch movies for entertainment.

There's like 5% of TV that is better than most movies, which is more than it used to be. Movie stars are going to TV and it's not a disgrace like it once was. This is all thanks to cable of course. But the networks make up for that quality with reality and game shows and insipid sit-coms

A headline like that on Fark is akin to dividing by zero.

The_Sponge: Lucky Louie (HBO).....IMHO, it's better than Louie on FX, which is no easy task.

This is wildly, ridiculously, incorrect.

Planet of the Apes
Logan's Run

silvervial: Glad to see all the ones I miss covered here in the thread:

Profit
Action
Rome
Deadwood
John from Cincinatti
Carnival
G vs E
Brimstone
Alien Nation
Firefly

I have stopped watching all the broadcast networks because they cancel shows I like way too soon, and then HBO started doing it to me too. Now I wait a few years and if something is on a while and seems like I'd like it, I'll catch up with it on DVD then watch it on air. But most of the time I don't bother. I watch maybe three channels on TV now and none of what I watch is a series. TV has ruined TV for me.

It's a brutal business. PVRs have reduced the effectiveness of ads so advertisers don't want to pay as much. It's kind of like the Wal*Mart effect, except on TV - we don't want to watch the ads where before we were a captive audience, they pay less, less money for shows, more shiatty shows (endless farking talent shows: I never imagined Howard Stern to be so farking lame, but there he is on America's got talent), less content.

It's like the audience was split to a million cable channels but realized that the cable channels were mostly irrelevant shiat or old syndicated stuff and so they cluster around a bunch of really strong shows (Game of Thrones, and some people like Girls, though its not my thing at all - I realize it's Judd Apatow but it's just a bunch of semi-attractive chicks, with a lead that looks unattractive [its her nose, I'm sorry but that requires fixing]).

I should check out Boardwalk Empire because I've heard good things about it.

Browncoat: I really liked The Mister Whipple Show. I know it ran for years, but what made it such a quirky hit (for me at least) was that they showed it at odd, seemingly random times. Episodes would often be repeated for weeks or even months at a time. But what ultimately doomed the show was the repetitive theme. Plus by the time I got my snacks ready, the show was over almost as soon as it had begun.

I actually googled that, you magnificent bastard, and I'm 42.

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The Mole. It's how I was introduced to Anderson Cooper. Season 2 was pure genius.

And this is how I came to name my son, Anderson.

/seriously

MadSkillz: and some people like Girls, though its not my thing at all - I realize it's Judd Apatow but it's just a bunch of semi-attractive chicks, with a lead that looks unattractive [its her nose, I'm sorry but that requires fixing]).


Not to mention her tattoo that looks like it was done by a retarded monkey.

/Holy shiat that show sucks.