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It is a lot like x-Files, but actually better in some ways.

Better? Really? That is saying a whole lot.... X-files is a pretty great.
I never watched Xfiles until it was off the air and in reruns...but the
subtle humor has me roling on the floor sometimes..then they get all
serious.. then they toss in a one liner that makes you hoooowwwwl!!!

I will watch this Fringe based on your recommendation.... looks like the
new season starts Sept 28th [www.imdb.com]

Thanks whitem8

GUNSMOKE....

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GUNSMOKE....

Yeah Gunsmoke High Chapparal bonanza wagontrain Dead or alive...
Pretty western but pretty old too

I'll still frequent the cinema on occasion, but i must confess, I barely watch any television. I don't watch soaps, comedy, I don't stick a Blu-Ray or DVD in, etc. most of my viewing is on YouTube.

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Newsroom. Finally an intelligent drama with real issues and thought-provoking political discourse.

+1

GUNSMOKE....

Geeeeeeeeez 21st .... thought ya be more a Sugarfoot kinda dude....



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GUNSMOKE....

Dick Van Dyke Show, Mary Tyler Moore, All In the Family, Flip Wilson Show. Just last night, I discovered that Bill Cosby had his own sitcom in the early 70s.
Sometimes, the old war horses are just what you need.

Can't wait for the new season of Curb Your Enthusiasm.........absolutely the funniest show on tv.

Loved Dallas 2012.

Hell on wheel season 1 is out on dvd now!!!!

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Can't wait for the new season of Curb Your Enthusiasm.........absolutely the funniest show on tv.

Loved Dallas 2012.

I haven't watched that show since 2002, but only because I stopped getting HBO and lost track. That show is probably my favorite comedy on TV of the last 20 years. Brilliant.

Im officially hooked on "Copper" - love the set, the feel, the characters, the arcs......
and we're just about two episodes away from Corcoran ripping the corset off the widow Haverford.
Can't wait!

This article about Louie also mentions a few other great series that I recommend, like NBC's Parks and Recreation and HBO's Girls, and Curb Your Enthusiasm.

[www.slate.com]

Louie, Season 3
Why Louis C.K.’s unclassifiable show is the most indispensible series on TV.

A couple of months ago, after watching the first few episodes of Girls, I impulsively wrote that the HBO series had instantly become the best show on TV, surpassing what, to my mind, was the reigning champ: Louie, the unclassifiable half-hour FX show written, directed, produced, and edited by comedian Louis C.K., who is also the star. The rest of Girls’ first season rewarded those expectations; I enjoyed it from start to finish as much as any season of TV since the fourth season of The Wire. But if I was granted the power to keep one and only one show on the air, across all networks and genres, my choice would still be Louie. Let me explain.
Even the very best shows—not only Girls but Breaking Bad and Parks and Recreation and what have you—generally follow in the footsteps of series that have come before. Shows that truly attempt something never previously done are exceedingly rare. Louie is one of those shows.
What else can it be compared to? Sure, the snippets of C.K. doing stand-up at the Comedy Cellar and elsewhere vaguely resemble staged stand-up bits on Seinfeld. But only vaguely. And Louie himself, the put-upon everyman who is similar but not identical to C.K., might be compared to Curb Your Enthusiasm’s Larry David, who is similar but not identical to Larry David (who, of course, helped create Seinfeld). But that show keeps David in the kind of fictional (or semifictional) universe we’re accustomed to on TV, with a cast of regular characters and plotlines that extend through multiple episodes in the manner of a more typical sitcom.


Louie has none of those things. While the show’s premise, if it can be called that—single dad with two daughters bumbling through life in New York City—might feel familiar, almost nothing else does. Sit down with any particular episode, and there’s no telling what you’ll get. A meditation on the lingering effects of a Catholic upbringing, perhaps. Or a story about going to Afghanistan with the USO. It might be a fantasia on the theme of house-hunting. Or a scripted but highly autobiographical confrontation with another, more famous comedian accused of stealing Louie’s jokes. The episode might show you some of Louie’s stand-up, or it might not. It might consist of two separate stories, a series of vignettes, or one continuous narrative. It might be hilarious. Or it might not even try to be funny.
And the episode might be stunningly affecting and brilliant—or only so-so. One inevitable consequence of such an experimental approach is that the results vary. But they will always be interesting.
And they will always be worth talking about, even if our talk about them has to take a slightly different form than much of our talk about TV. We can’t speculate about what will happen next. Who knows? And it doesn’t really matter. Any will-they-or-won’t-they chatter about Louie and, say, Pamela, is mostly beside the point. Louie is, as Time TV critic James Poniewozik has written, “TV series as worldview,” and so a conversation about the show is necessarily a conversation about that worldview, how C.K. expresses it, what he captures about the current moment and what he doesn’t capture. It’s a conversation worth having.

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Can't wait for the new season of Curb Your Enthusiasm.........absolutely the funniest show on tv.

Loved Dallas 2012.

I haven't watched that show since 2002, but only because I stopped getting HBO and lost track. That show is probably my favorite comedy on TV of the last 20 years. Brilliant.

Here you go. Watch all the episodes when you are snowed in or home with the flu.

[www.sidereel.com]

The new Woody Allen movie FADING GIGOLO has some amusing lines about Mick Jagger near the start (admittedly at Mick's expense).

Classic Doctor Who
B&W Twilight Zone

Columbo

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Rip this joint, gonna save your soul, round and round and round we go......

There's a great Aussie show from 1979-1986 called Prisoner (aka Prisoner Cell Block H). All 692 episodes are up on YouTube. The Stones get a mention occasionally, and you see a Stones poster on the wall in occasional scenes. A Stones reference in one of the episodes goes like this:

"It's ages since I've had a man. My legs have been together longer than The Rolling Stones".

Uploaded by PrisonerCellBlockH95 at: [www.youtube.com]

Twin Peaks Twin Peaks Twin Peaks.

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Twin Peaks Twin Peaks Twin Peaks.

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The Swedish show "Real Humans" beats anything that's currently on the market!

The Swedish/Danish police show "The Bridge" is very good. Also Fargo-new TV show not the movie. Both shown on SBS in Australia

A scene in The Bridge this week was in a room with a classic album covers on the wall, one of which was Exile

......Fargo



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Nurse Jackie, Weeds, Mad Men

....nurse Jackie needs mad men .....



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The Big Bang Theory

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The Big Bang Theory

Not much to watch there - BANG!...there's the universe.

True Detective - a crime story with social, ethical, existential and philosophical implications told on three time levels culminating in the present. Appreciate it more than Breaking Bad and Boardwalk Empire, which are also highlights in the history of TV series.



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Anything to do with Godzilla. On Movies on Demand and Encore on Demand they're showing the old Godzilla movies just in time for Godzilla 2014's release (today)! Gonna see it tomorrow in 3D. I'm stoked. Anyway, the older movies are great, I especially like Godzilla 2000 and Godzilla vs Space Godzilla (nasty creature!).

NYPD blue is my favourite TV series
12 years a slave is the best film I've seen recently.

Nate

"Tell me about the shooting." "It was JUSTIFIED."
I can't believe no one mentioned this one.