<p>Soon the new tv season starts! I don’t spend much time watching tv, but much of what I do watch is either reality or TLC/HGTV/Food Network stuff - brainless entertainment! (which is fine with me!)</p>
<p>I am interested in adding a regular “series” to my DVR que. Something I can follow from week to week and that is popular so I can talk with others about it.</p>
<p>Currently, my “regulars” include:
Desperate Housewives (I love my guilty pleasure!)
Amazing Race
Top Chef
Project Runway
Glee
American Idol </p>
<p>Thank goodness for DVR because I hardly ever watch live tv! </p>
<p>So, help me decide. What’s the ONE show you can’t live without that I might consider adding to my que? I’m more a comedy, light watching person, but am open to other genres.</p>
<p>Big Bang Theory! Not a new show - entering its 4th season - but it’s one of the few sitcoms that still work. Absolutely perfect cast (Jim Parsons just won the Emmy for lead actor in a comedy). The best portrayal of brilliant nerdy guys I’ve ever seen on TV.</p>
<p>Brothers and Sisters
Desperate Housewives
One Tree Hill (yeah, I know…not my age group)
Law and Order SVU
Friday Night Lights (best show on TV)
Army Wives (over for the season)
Men of a Certain Age (not back on yet)
Grey’s Anatomy (I keep hoping it will get good again)</p>
<p>The Amazing Race
Dexter
In Treatment
Friday Night Lights
The Closer
Law & Order: SVU
Three new shows last year whose season 2 I’m really looking forward to are Nurse Jackie, Modern Family (the best written and acted sitcom I’ve seen on tv in years) and The Good Wife.</p>
<p>30 Rock
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Nurse Jackie
In Treatment
Boardwalk Empire (starts this Sunday: Martin Scorsese’s new series on HBO, with Steve Buscemi!)</p>
<p>Just gotta say, abasket - what do you think of this year’s Project Runway? At first I hated the new 90-minute format, but how can 30 extra minutes of Tim Gunn be bad?</p>
<p>Friday Night Lights (which, unfortunately, will be gone forever after then next 12 episodes). It has been the best-written show on broadcast TV since its premiere. No show has ever handled parenting and the process by which teens become adults better. They should do a highlight reel of mother-daughter fights.</p>
<p>The Good Wife. I tend to dislike legal dramas a lot, but everyone in this one is pretty great – Julianna Margulies and Archie Panjabi, especially, but also Chris Noth, Alan Cummings, Josh Charles, Christine Baranski. And good, realistic kids, not 20-year-olds playing 15.</p>
<p>Parenthood. A little soppy, and I would have liked to see Lauren Graham play someone who was not annoying in exactly the same ways her characters have always been annoying. But the kids are stupendous, especially the one playing a boy with Asperger’s.</p>
<p>I liked Chuck a lot its first season, not so much last season. It’s basically Moonlighting with the personal characteristics assigned to different characters (i.e., the blonde bombshell is the pro, not the inspired amateur, and the wisecracking cynic is another character altogether), and a couple of sitcom-ish overlays (wacky employment comedy at the Best Buy, too-perfect doctor couple). But, hey, I liked Moonlighting while it lasted, too.</p>
<p>Scout, I think the 90 minute format is unnecessary - I find the last half hour DRAGS! I enjoy seeing some of the couch/relaxing time with the contestants, but don’t really want to hear Michael and Nina bash the contestants longer…</p>
<p>I am a bit behind in watching (thank you DVR!) . You should always feel free to start a thread on it cause I’m sure there are followers here! I just can’t participate when I’m behind a couple of weeks!</p>
<p>I have always wished that I started watching FNLights from the beginning. I think I would like Big Bang and perhaps Modern Family and I wonder what all the hubbub about Mad Men is. I need to investigate the premise of The Event.</p>
<p>I see there are alot of fellow Amazing Race fans! Can’t wait till we can revive a Fall 2010 thread on AR!!! That is one of the only shows I watch, without fail, on the actual night!</p>
<p>There are a couple of shows that are filming in Dallas - clients keep signing contracts to have parts of their buildings/garages used, but I always forget to watch them.</p>
<p>Don’t watch much tv, but I do watch House and Grey’s Anatomy. I was almost ready to give up on Grey’s Anatomy, but the season finale gave me hope for the upcoming season. Also looking forward to a new season of Breaking Bad. The show is going into its fourth season, which begins in 2011. I hadn’t watched it on tv, but saw three episodes with my D and son-in-law (who are fans). I liked it so much that I bought the box set of DVDs for all three seasons. Bryan Cranston (the protagonist) won an Emmy this year for best actor in a dramatic series. The series revolves around a brilliant high school chemistry teacher who gets a diagnosis of inoperable lung cancer and changes his life–he becomes a drug dealer. Not as improbable as it sounds–as a genius chemist he can cook up a great batch of crystal meth and he hooks up with a former druggie student to insure the financial well being of his family. Actor who plays the student (Aaron Paul) is excellent as well. It’s filmed in Albequerque, New Mexico, and there are great outdoor scenes.</p>
<p>Friday Night Lights, Parenthood, The Good Wife, House…I saw Glee once, but couldn’t remember what night or what time it is and I don’t put “energy” into turning on or figuring out TV and sometimes networks move shows and then I can’t find them anymore but I do like the shows I mentioned and I know what time, what channel and what day they are on.</p>
<p>Can’t wait to watch ‘The Event’ to see if it lives up to the JJ Abrams hype. I can’t imagine anything will replace the void left by LOST.</p>
<p>Love Fringe, Chuck, Bones & Lie to Me.
Parenthood, Glee, Grey’s & Private Practice are good, but I’ll delete if I need room on the DVR.
Brothers & Sisters, and Desperate Housewives (although I can miss this and not want to watch online).
House is getting tiring…it’s never Lupus, and for crying out loud get Chase a woman!
Loved my summer with White Collar & Burn Notice.</p>