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| JDTAY |
Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2011 5:49 pm Post subject: 1 |
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| Tonight is the premiere of Allen Gregory. I'm basically out of steam at this point, I'll return with a mid-season topic in January. |
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| JDTAY |
Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2011 12:54 pm Post subject: 0 |
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| Tonight is the premiere of Grimm, about a dude who fights monsters. Hard to go wrong with that plot. |
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| JDTAY |
Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 2:25 pm Post subject: -1 |
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| Beavis and Butthead and Good Vibes premiere at 10pm and 10:30pm ET tonight on MTV. I'm lazy today, go find the descriptions yourself. |
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| Scurra |
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2011 9:56 am Post subject: -2 |
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| JDTAY wrote: |
| Finally, on Discovery is Penn and Teller Tell A Lie, in which Penn and Teller make outrageous claims, such as "you can melt steel with bacon" and "wallpaper can stop a wrecking ball". Most will be true, but one in each episode will be a lie. Can you tell which one? |
Was this any good? Not being in the US I am not sure if this show will make it "over here" (there is a curious disparity between the various Discovery channels) and I believe it has some sort of phone-in vote segment which might make it tricky to export. |
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| Chuck |
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2011 1:57 am Post subject: -3 |
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| I thought I'd watch episodes 2 and 3 out of order and let my brain rearrange them if it mattered, but I lost interest half way through episode 3. I didn't watch episode 2 and probably won't bother watching the rest. |
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| Chuck |
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 8:50 pm Post subject: -4 |
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| It looks episode 2 won't be available until after episode 3 is aired. I suppose I could watch the whole series there to see them in order. Or I could finally buy something to replace my now useless VCR and record episode 3 to be watched after I see episode 2. |
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| Zag |
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| Chuck |
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 3:57 pm Post subject: -6 |
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| I forgot about Terra Nova and missed episode 2. I've gotten out of the habit of looking at TV listings because it's too depressing. Maybe I'll start watching again when it goes into reruns unless it's canceled before then. |
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| JDTAY |
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 1:48 pm Post subject: -7 |
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Get your DVR ready. Tonight at 10pm we have three premieres.
On Comedy Central is the return of South Park, in which Cartman gets Asperger's Syndrome and Stan continues to struggle with his recently acquired cynical assholism.
On FX is the premiere of American Horror Story, from Ryan Murphy, the creator of Nip/Tuck and Glee. We all know Murphy's at his best on cable. Info on the plot has been very scarce, not much I can tell you about it.
Finally, on Discovery is Penn and Teller Tell A Lie, in which Penn and Teller make outrageous claims, such as "you can melt steel with bacon" and "wallpaper can stop a wrecking ball". Most will be true, but one in each episode will be a lie. Can you tell which one? |
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| Dread Pirate Westley |
Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 9:55 pm Post subject: -8 |
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| It's not lupus, and you're an idiot.[/House] |
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| Mr Nigma |
Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 5:19 pm Post subject: -9 |
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| No, he'll do a diagnostic on himself and find out he has lupus. |
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| JDTAY |
Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 2:29 pm Post subject: -10 |
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Beginning today, Pop-Up Video will be on vh1 weekdays at noon, combining the awesome powers of music and trivia.
Tonight at 9pm on FOX is the return of House, where he winds up in prison and some dude tries to shank him. Scary. He better not get hurt, they'll need him for the rest of the season. >_> |
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| JDTAY |
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 1:48 pm Post subject: -11 |
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| New Girl received a full season order, 11 additional episodes. Yay for additional Zooey Deschanel hawtness. |
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| Chuck |
Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 4:24 pm Post subject: -12 |
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| Terra Nova wasn't bad. I'll watch the next episode, but I expect it to go downhill fast like Earth 2 did. |
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| MNOWAX |
Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 3:44 am Post subject: -13 |
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| i ended up watching Raw, how was terra nova? i was hoping it would be kinda funny tbh |
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| Chuck |
Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 2:29 am Post subject: -14 |
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| I'm watching Terra Nova now. I also watched The Big Bang Theory but it wasn't as funny as I remembered from past seasons. I didn't bother with the rest of the new shows because they sounded boring. |
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| JDTAY |
Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 12:56 am Post subject: -15 |
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Damnit, Cartoon Network moved Secret Mountain Fort Awesome up to 8:30 at the last second. I hope noone missed it.
Not that impressed with Terra Nova so far. |
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| Scurra |
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 3:36 pm Post subject: -16 |
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| It's possible that someone has read Julian May's Saga of the Exiles and thought that it would make quite a neat idea if you added dinosaurs to it...? |
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| Zag |
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 2:51 pm Post subject: -17 |
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I'm a little curious about Terra Nova, mostly wondering if they've made any attempt to make it science fiction, as opposed to dumb-science fiction. I'm willing to make the initial suspension of disbelief for the time travel step, but that doesn't mean that they should just flout all the rest of the laws of physics.
For instance:
Why did they jump back to a time when there are all these humongous predators around. It's not as if there aren't plenty of other choices.
Have they addressed the time paradox / butterfly effect problem? I mean, it's hardly the flap of a butterfly, since they intend to live and grow, starting a whole new civilization of humans, sometime before mammals even existed. Do they expect to erase the present? Or do they know that their mini-civilization is doomed from the start (because it did already exist in our own history, and obviously didn't make it)? Or are they creating a new reality that exists in the multi-verse, but doesn't affect the reality that they left?
Do they avoid doing the billion other stupid things that they could easily have avoided if they had just hired a bright physics or engineering undergrad to tell them, "no, that's stupid, it's overly complex and wouldn't work -- just do this instead"? You know, all the stupid stuff that most "science fiction" that comes out of Hollywood does. |
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| JDTAY |
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 11:44 am Post subject: -18 |
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At 8pm on Fox we have Terra Nova, in which humans from a dystopian future try to establish a new society 85 millions years in the past. Hurray CGI dinosaurs. I give this one season.
At 8:45pm on Cartoon Network is the series premiere of Secret Mountain Fort Awesome (though a preview episode ran back in August). It's about five creatures called Disgustoids who are banished by humans to the sewers for being too disgusting. One of the creatures has a body made of farting butts and is called Fart. He's the sensitive one.
At 9pm on the CW is Hart of Dixie, a show about a doctor in a small town which is in House's timeslot. Yep, move along folks, nothing to see here. They shoulda shot for next year. |
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| JDTAY |
Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2011 12:20 pm Post subject: -19 |
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Tonight at 10pm on ABC we have "Pan Am", about airline stewardesses in the 1960s.
More importantly, at 7pm on CBS is the season premiere of "60 Minutes", featuring an interview with Matt Stone and Trey Parker. Yay. |
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| JDTAY |
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 11:29 am Post subject: -20 |
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Tonight is the premiere of A Gifted Man, about a surgeon whose ex-wife returns from beyond the grave to try to convince him to give people free healthcare. Now that not even death can shut up liberals, I suppose I'll have to suspend my plans to murder them all.  |
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| JDTAY |
Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 11:42 pm Post subject: -21 |
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| Bad news, guys. Gary Johnson finally made it into another presidential debate, but noone will watch him since he's on against "Person of Interest", which surely everyone will be watching. Although the debate does last two hours, so maybe people will see the second half. 9pm on Fox News if you're interested. |
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| Scurra |
Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 6:30 pm Post subject: -22 |
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| What is going to happen to Amy Pond? Who knows. All I know is that Rule One applies. (As it did with RTDavies as well.) So I'm not going to make any presumptions about anything. There are a lot of rumour and counter-rumours floating around e.g. that Gillan and Darvill have been seen on the set of the Christmas Special which is currently filming. |
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| Zag |
Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 6:03 pm Post subject: -23 |
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| http://thedoctorsathogwarts.tumblr.com/post/8971801110/oh-my-amy-so-apparently-amy-pond-is-no-longer wrote: |
So apparently Amy Pond is no longer going to be the companion… As of next year said Steven Moffat, their will be a new companion.
I am quite sad and shocked just as amy is in the picture…  |
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Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 2:45 pm Post subject: -24 |
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| Zag wrote: |
| Mild spoiler on The God Complex: OMG, please tell me that they aren't writing Karen Gillan (and her magnificent legs) out of the show. I see that there's only one episode left this season, and I just watched the trailer -- there's no sign of her. I'm very sad now. |
That was a complete change of pace from the episode, which wasn't as good as I thought it might be...
If it's true, then it's very unexpected and a secret expertly kept...so I don't think it's the end.
BTW, there are 2 episodes left. |
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| Zag |
Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 2:13 pm Post subject: -25 |
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I finally got a chance to get caught up with Doctor Who last night. The last episode I had watched, Night Terrors, was pretty lousy -- just formulaic Doctor and co get in some scary fix, until the Doctor figures out that it is just the side effect of some ridiculous alien. However, the first of the two I saw last night, The Girl Who Waited, was terrific: Doctor Who at its very best. The second one, The God Complex, was also quite good but paled compared to the first. Taken together, they were a very interesting mix of themes w.r.t Amy Pond's relationship with the Doctor.
Mild spoiler on The God Complex: OMG, please tell me that they aren't writing Karen Gillan (and her magnificent legs) out of the show. I see that there's only one episode left this season, and I just watched the trailer -- there's no sign of her. I'm very sad now. |
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| JDTAY |
Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 12:32 pm Post subject: -26 |
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Tonight at 8pm on ABC is the premiere of Charlie's Angels, a show about three women who fight crime. Sounds very original.
Also at 8pm and 8:30pm on CBS is the return of The Big Bang Theory. To celebrate, I've come up with a dumb joke. What do you call a CBS sitcom about redneck physicists?
The Big Dang Theory
The highlight of the night, at 9pm on CBS, is Person of Interest, in which Jesus Christ teams up with the dude from Lost to stop crimes before they happen using a high-tech surveillance/analysis system.
At 9:30pm on NBC is Whitney, which you need not know about since you'll be watching Person of Interest.
Finally, at 10pm on NBC is Prime Suspect, starring Mario Bello in a remake of a British show about a female detective in a department full of chauvinistic males. I wish chauvinism still existed in real life, it's pretty awesome. |
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| JDTAY |
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 12:58 pm Post subject: -27 |
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| Tonight is the premiere of a singing competition show with Simon Cowell and Paula Abdul in it. I have a good feeling about this one, guys. |
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| Zag |
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 3:30 am Post subject: -28 |
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| I just saw Unforgettable. I thought that the flashback scenes were too slow. Why would memories be slower than the actual experience? Anyway, I suspect it won't have legs; it's too much of a one-trick pony. |
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| JDTAY |
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 3:03 am Post subject: -29 |
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| New Girl and Unforgettable were both pretty good, I shall continue watching them. |
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| LordKinbote |
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 1:24 am Post subject: -30 |
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| Zag wrote: |
| Except that the premiere was last week. |
No, it premieres tonight. However, it's been available legally online and through Time Warner On Demand for a week or two as a sneak preview (my wife and I watched it about a week ago). |
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| Zag |
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 1:43 pm Post subject: -31 |
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Except that the premiere was last week.
But she is hawt. She has the most expressive face I've seen on television in a long time. |
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| JDTAY |
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 1:29 pm Post subject: -32 |
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At 9pm on FOX tonight is Zooey Deschanel in the premiere of some show with Zooey Deschanel in it. Screw the title, I just likes me some Zooey.
Then at 10pm on CBS is the premiere of Unforgettable, about a detective who never forgets anything ever, except the circumstances around her sister's murder. Yeah, that's... convenient. My money says she did it. >_> |
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| wordcross |
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 2:56 am Post subject: -33 |
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| [/edit] NCIS (& L.A.) is on Tomorrow night, not tonight. I am disappoint. |
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| dethwing |
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 11:22 pm Post subject: -34 |
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Saturday: Football
Sunday: Football
Monday night: Football
Thursday night: Football
Friday night: Football
At some point I'll make time to watch Big Bang Theory. |
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| wordcross |
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 11:10 pm Post subject: -35 |
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Lot's of primetime premiers tonight. The one's I'm interested in are "Castle" on ABC, "NCIS" and "NCIS Los Angeles", plus an hour of "How I Met Your Mother" on CBS.
"Mythbusters" is back in a little over a week. "Dexter" and "Psych" don't start again until October. That's about all of the TV shows I watch that aren't currently airing or that haven't just finished a season. |
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| JDTAY |
Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 4:59 pm Post subject: -36 |
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| Tonight is the premiere of Hulk Hogan's MCW on trutv, which promises "half the size, twice the violence." That's right, it's little people wrestling. Why this wasn't on TV ten years ago, I do not know. |
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| MNOWAX |
Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 1:05 am Post subject: -37 |
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| BBC America is what, 6 months behind on Top Gear? At least they're giving it an 80 minute slot so there's no cuts. |
yes. which makes it better, but I have been spoiled on having no commercials haha |
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| JDTAY |
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 7:02 pm Post subject: -38 |
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| First new show of the fall season, "Ringer", premieres at 9pm ET tonight on the CW. It stars Sarah Michelle Gellar as a chick in a dangerous situation who assumes her twin sister's identity only to find out her sister is also in a dangerous situation. Yay, high-concept. |
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