I'm sure there are some obvious psychological reasons for me to love the shows on BBC America - but luckily their high quality makes it all OK.
I enjoy the light fare, Footballer$ Wives and Hotel Babylon and I have even recently scaled nerd-dom heights by watching the sci-fi classic Doctor Who and its spinoff Torchwood (an anagram of the original series' title).
But my favorite show by far is Top Gear. It is amazingly entertaining: I actually laugh aloud when watching it. I never thought I could care about a car show, and the brilliance of this show is that I don't have to care about cars.
So if you want to laugh, watch season 9 (series 9 in British parlance) episode 3. It's available on YouTube, Parts 4-6 are the best.
Saturday, November 17, 2007
MY TV Taste is better than the rest of the world's
My three favorite new shows on TV this year are Journeyman, Pushing Daisies and Life. Sadly, I read in the New York Times that these shows only have a chance of staying on the air because of the screenwriter's strike.
Journeyman is reminiscent of the 80's staple Quantum Leap, and stars the actor Kevin McKidd, recently of HBO's Rome.
Life is a fun show in the partner detective mold, starring Damian Lewis who played the upstanding Dick Winters in HBO's Band of Brothers, and supported by Robin Weigart, who played Calamity Jane in HBO's Deadwood.
Pushing Daisies comes from the creators of Dead Like Me and Wonderfalls, and is just as whimsical and winning.
Not winning are the shows that are apparently popular this year: Samantha Who?, Chuck and The Big Bang Theory. The Big Bang Theory tells the story of some nerdy physics grad students with a dumb blond living next door. And though it has technical advice from a great physicist and person, Dave Saltzberg, it's pretty atrocious. Sadly their jokes are pretty accurate for what scientists say, but we all groan when people say those things; we don't laugh.
So I can only reiterate what the New York Times suggested, that others take this screenwriter strike to give Journeyman, Pushing Daisies and Life a chance, and come to their senses about most of the rest of the crap that's on TV.
Journeyman is reminiscent of the 80's staple Quantum Leap, and stars the actor Kevin McKidd, recently of HBO's Rome.
Life is a fun show in the partner detective mold, starring Damian Lewis who played the upstanding Dick Winters in HBO's Band of Brothers, and supported by Robin Weigart, who played Calamity Jane in HBO's Deadwood.
Pushing Daisies comes from the creators of Dead Like Me and Wonderfalls, and is just as whimsical and winning.
Not winning are the shows that are apparently popular this year: Samantha Who?, Chuck and The Big Bang Theory. The Big Bang Theory tells the story of some nerdy physics grad students with a dumb blond living next door. And though it has technical advice from a great physicist and person, Dave Saltzberg, it's pretty atrocious. Sadly their jokes are pretty accurate for what scientists say, but we all groan when people say those things; we don't laugh.
So I can only reiterate what the New York Times suggested, that others take this screenwriter strike to give Journeyman, Pushing Daisies and Life a chance, and come to their senses about most of the rest of the crap that's on TV.
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