I thought this might be interesting...just to see what people find fun enough to record...
Monday - Adventure Time (this is "for my kids", but I love it, too) and How I Met Your Mother (I like it when we sit down to watch it...but it's getting a bit stale).
Tuesday - We were watching Ringer...but only lasted five episodes. Glee is having a great year, so far, and The New Girl has been very, very funny.
Wednesday - Modern Family has been a bit hit and miss, but we still like it a lot. We also record Bitchin' Kitchen on the Cooking Channel because Nadia G. is awesome.
Thursday - Community is still the best written show on TV...LOVE it. We also record The Big Bang Theory (at least one or two good moments an episode), Parks and Rec (better...still not at the Community or 30 Rock level), and The Office (beginning to turn a bit too sentimental this year).
Friday - Batman: The Brave and The Bold (this season has been even more surreal and that's OK with me) and Young Justice.
Saturday - um...
Sunday - Our only drama night. Homeland has been amazing. We finally watched the first episode of the second season of The Walking Dead last night (still good). And we watch a lot of the PBS Masterpiece series...mystery (Sherlock and Insp. Lewis) and contempory (Downton Abbey).
How about you?
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it varies. Ssome shows we watch (such as In Plain Sight and Alphas) are on in the summer TV doldrums. Also, we don't always (or even necessarily ever) watch the shows the night they're on. We try to spread them out so we have a little something to watch every night. Currently, it's...
MONDAY: The Playboy Club
TUESDAY: Ringer, Parenthood
SUNDAY: Pan Am, The Walking Dead
In addition, we usually watch the three CSI shows and two sit-coms (Two and a Half Men and Big Bang Theory), but we don't set up the DVR to record them. There are also two in contention (Once Upon a Time and Grimm). Ringer, Parenthood, Pan Am and The Wallking Dead are the only four I wouldn't want to miss.
Our main shows -- and I won't list em by day, since the DVR frees me from having to know that information -- are:
Comedies: How I Met Your Mother, Modern Family, Suburgatory (our only new network show), Parks and Rec, Community, The Office. And 30 Rock and Cougar Town, when they come back on. The Daily Show and Colbert Report.
Animated: Venture Bros., Bob's Burgers, Ugly Americans. The Simpsons every now and then.
Dramas/Action: Burn Notice, White Collar, Walking Dead, Eureka, Breaking Bad, Oh my god, is that it? I guess so -- we've been really light on hour-long shows lately.
Reality/Documentary/Talk: The Amazing Race, Mythbusters, Penn & Teller Tell a Lie, Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
We also get NBC Nightly News and the occasional Rachel Maddow show, but we hardly ever watch either.
Plus, every now and then I look at TCM's upcoming listings and pick out a bunch of movies to record.
The Good Wife (I finally learned to extend the time a half-hour because of constant football overruns!)
Reed Between the Lines
Glee
The Big Bang Theory
Chuck
Wow! You guys watch a lot of TV.
About every 2-3 weeks me and the wifey find the time to watch one episode on DVD of a TV show. We are currently halfway through complete viewings of The Wire and Mad Men and almost finished Battlestar Galactica. We started watching BG after we got married in 2007! And the other two after we moved to Australia in 2008!
They are quality shows, but not very up-to-the-minute, obviously.
Come to think of it we have watched about three seasons of reality-cooking programme 'Masterchef', in which ordinary schmoes strive to become great chefs. Each season lasted about 3 months, on for 4-5 nights each week. That was a big time commitment for us, I suppose.
Figserello said:
What is this DVR thing you speak of ...?
Seriously, I don't pay for DVR and I'm glad I don't.
If I'm lucky, I watch maybe one or two "series" shows a week. Right now it's Walking Dead and Chuck for sure. Glee and Big Bang if I can remember to catch them.
I prefer to watch shows that require no dedication to them -- old shows without a real continuity, documentaries or reality shows. For reality shows, its more the documentary kind and not the competition shows. I'll watch things like Intervention, Cops, Animal Cops, Storage Wars, etc. because they require absolutely no dedication to follow them so I can do other things while they're on.
I don't have enough time to ~carefully~ watch much of anything.
Shows like Cops have a terrible political stance behind them. Watching societies paid thugs pick on the mentally unbalanced and otherwise marginalised. It's like the kind of TV shows that future dystopia movies used to warn us about. I always find myself wondering what they'd be up to if the cameras weren't on them.
What is 'storage wars'?
I make the distinction too about shows you need to be dedicated to. The three dramas I mentioned are really televisual equivalents of long 19th century novels. You have to be able to be totally absorbed in them.
Sometimes I can see that a show is good and know that I can't devote any time to it. I had to forego getting into The Shield and Six Feet Under, even though I could see they were good shows. Glee isn't quite my thing, but I can see it's a clever show with its heart in the right place. I did see the Fleetwood Mac show and thanks to it, I got the Cd of Rumours again and listened to it a lot for weeks after it.
Based on how folks here like it, I watched an episode or two of Chuck, but couldn't see what the fuss was about at all. Did nada for me. 'The Scarecrow and Mrs King' was probably a better show... :-)
Revenge
Big bang theory
The league
walking dead
There's a lot of stuff I watch in real time or on demand
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