Top Chef fan, but not of other cooking shows. On HGTV tend to watch the fixing up shows - property brothers, love or list it, and even flip or flop. Not as interested in the house hunter shows. Has nobody mentioned Dance Moms? The show is unwatchable except for the last 15 minutes during which the girls actually dance. I am almost never just watching TV, housework, reading, working or surfing the net with the TV on in the background. I feel guilty about having the TV on (except for Shondaland Thursdays which is just plain fun).
@mom2and - The dancing is the only reason I watched Flesh and Bone - that and the fact that an actor I like from another show was in it. The rest of it was beyond dreck …
I guess the deadliest catch might count, but the filming on that is amazing, and there is enough drama to make it interesting, but yep, I watch that regularly. I love NCIS, I have gotten my wife hooked on it and we have been binge watching it, an amazing cast and because it is not all serious and boring, it is fun, and we both just love Gibbs, from the beginning Mark Harmon fit into that role like a pair of comfortable shoes:).
The one I would call a guilty pleasure is “The Curse of Oak Island”, that is the show that after I watch it, I ask myself why I keep wasting the time to watch it, but I still do. Episode after episode, they have all these wild theories, they have all these supposed big finds, promises of the next week…then they basically find nothing. Yeah, the episode where the crazy diver from the book “Shadow Divers” goes down the 140 foot deep shaft to find there is basically nothing at the bottom (the dive itself was impressive, to get to the bottom he had to go through like 50 feet of pipe that is only 28" wide, and was blocked by a drilling bit, too…). They have this annoying voice over guy, who reiterates some idiotic theory as a question, they should drown him in the shaft…but I keep watching it, and like my unbeloved beloved NY Jets, I do so and wonder why all the time:)
So amusing that we’e a smart bunch, on a college forum, and admitting the crap we turn on. 
Used to watch Dance Moms with my D2 - haven’t watched it in a couple years - it’s still on?
PG, you would be a great tv partner with my H! - Pawn Stars and Pickers!
I also want to say that never you say you wouldn’t watch a show - until you’ve watch it - I never in my life wanted anything to do with Survivor - seemed hokey and not my taste - ended up watching a couple episodes about a year ago and now, HOOKED.
abasket, I think Dancemoms is still on. I could only stand to watch half of the first season. As a former competition dance mom, the fakeness (um, no, you don’t get big roomy private dressing rooms at these things) and the manufactured conflict kinda ruined it for me.
If any of you are into art at all, the show FACE OFF is awesome. Artists are tasked with coming up with original “creatures” and then making the prosthetics, doing the make up and clothing the models.
Its an elimination type show.
Very cool.
Face Off is on the Syfy channel and I watch it w my D.
About half the shows on Bravo are my guilty pleasure.
I watched a few episodes of Dance Moms early on as one of my kids was a dancer so wanted to check it out. That show stressed me out instead of being relaxing entertainment! That woman’s screaming and unpleasant demeanor just put me on edge. I can’t watch those Gordon Ramsey shows either for the same reason, although I like cooking shows. Give me The Great British Baking Show where people are pleasant and respectful with one another.
The problem with a lot of these reality shows is that participants are manipulated – and encouraged – to create drama. Every one ends up a shouting match. Life’s too short…
Oh someone just reminded me of American Pickers. I am very much attached to Frank and Mike. But with the season over I forgot about my two secret boyfriends.
“we’e a smart bunch, on a college forum, and admitting the crap we turn on.”
Back in the days of TelevisionWithoutPity.com, a turn of events on 16 & Pregnant/Teen Mom prompted me to mention on the forum that I got a gift from my parents to celebrate my graduation from Harvard Law. The next ten posts in row were all people confessing their credentials: “I’m so glad I’m not the only one with a master’s degree watching this!” “Me too, and I have a PhD!” “My whole dorm floor at Columbia Law gets together to watch this show!”
Wrong section. Nevermind.
@doschicos I just discovered the Great British Baking Show, and instantly fell in love. The woman host (at least I think it was the same person) was on a show that I can’t remember the name now, but she and her partner explored food of past times, in costume. It was both hilarious and educational.
If you remember the name, @LasMa, let us know. I love the British Baking hosts!
OK this took some digging but I’m glad I found it. The premise is that these two people go back to a period and eat the food for a week. They live as people of the period – dress, activities – so it’s an exploration of culture as well as diet. They get health exams before and after to determine the effect of, say, a medieval diet.
To start, there was a single episode about the Edwardians. Then there was a season called “The Supersizers Go…” and a second called “The Supersizers Eat…” It looks like they’re all on Youtube.
Speaking of that, anyone remember UK’s Manor house (aka Edwardian County House) and then later the PBS Frontier House and several others where modern people entirely lived the period lifestyle? We and the kids were glued to these.
. ^^I like those shows. They were on a long time ago. I don’t consider stuff on PBS as guilty pleasures though. I can get much more base.
I remember.