I'm Bored! Need someone to recommend a new tv show!

abcxyz123

Hi. I need to start watching a new tv, everything i like at the moment is either on break or stopped.

Here's an insight into shows i like,

Grey's Anatomy
E.R
The Wire
Prison Break
LOST
Heroes
The Simple Life
Rescue Me
Knights Of Prosperity
Gossip Girl

EDIT: The Shield:D

Shows I've Started To Wtch Because Of This Thread;

Jericho

Private Practice

datk

Have you tried Private Practice? I've heard it has improved A LOT since the pilot - haven't gotten around to watching it though. Heard good things about Pushing Daisies. Friday Night Lights is very good, it's slow tempo but enjoyable - it's on it's second season. In a cast interview they said it has as much to do with football as Grey's has to do with medicine.

abcxyz123

datk wrote: »

Have you tried Private Practice? I've heard it has improved A LOT since the pilot - haven't gotten around to watching it though. Heard good things about Pushing Daisies. Friday Night Lights is very good, it's slow tempo but enjoyable - it's on it's second season. In a cast interview they said it has as much to do with football as Grey's has to do with medicine.

thx.........ill give private practice a watch!

Peyton Manning

You should give Jericho a shot too. Theres only been 1 season so far so you dont have too much to catch up on before the 2nd which should be out in January sometime. Great little show about a town thats survived numerous nuclear attacks all over America, with a great cast too. Last episode was phenomenal television.

Fremen

Arrested development is one of the smarter comedies around.
There's no laugh track either.

DundalkDuffman

If you liked the Wire then I suggest The Shield. I fell across it about 4 months ago and couldn't stop at one episode a night. I was doing 4 at one point. Season 7 is due out soon in the US, the first 6 are well worth a look. If the first episode doesn't snare you then give up!

Leon11

The Class? Only prob is that it's on a sat evening at 6 with 2 shows back to back. Gonna get better as it goes along.

EdgarAllenPoo

Criminal Minds, the Shield and House would be my recommendations.

abcxyz123

GDM wrote: »

Criminal Minds, the Shield and House would be my recommendations.

DundalkDuffman wrote: »

If you liked the Wire then I suggest The Shield. I fell across it about 4 months ago and couldn't stop at one episode a night. I was doing 4 at one point. Season 7 is due out soon in the US, the first 6 are well worth a look. If the first episode doesn't snare you then give up!

Thx i actually have watched all the shield seasons, i just forgot to add it in!!

Archimedes wrote: »

You should give Jericho a shot too. Theres only been 1 season so far so you dont have too much to catch up on before the 2nd which should be out in January sometime. Great little show about a town thats survived numerous nuclear attacks all over America, with a great cast too. Last episode was phenomenal television.

Thx, i googled this and it looks good, im getting the first few episodes now!!

Conor108

Battlestar Galactica
Stargate
Spooks

bubonicus

Pushing Daisies
Dexter
Weeds

L'prof

Somebody already recommended House so, I'll second that...it's great! I have only watched one episode of Life and Journeyman but, they look like pretty good shows! Bones is OK too, it's pretty popular! I'll second Dexter and I think Nip/Tuck is great too!

abcxyz123

does any1 here watch House and Jericho???
If so, which is better, i dont want to be starting to watch too many tv shows!

EDIT: Dexter sounds pretty good!

L'prof

I don't watch both but, House has been on for longer and it's great...I'd recommend that first as you have alot of catchin up to do I intend on watching Jericho sometime soon!

abcxyz123

ok, im getting the first of episode of 'jericho' 'house' and 'dexter'
ill whittle it down from there!!

ixoy

abcxyz123 wrote: »

ok, im getting the first of episode of 'jericho' 'house' and 'dexter'
ill whittle it down from there!!

I personally thought "Jericho" was woeful - watched about the first seven. I'm told it got better after that but I'm always going to doubt given the dreadful quality of the first few.

Of the other two "Dexter" is the most consistent. It also benefits from having a strong story threading through each season. The first season, for example, is based on the first Dexter novel and the second season has its own, pretty much self-contained, story.

"House" is good also and is a more episodic show (bar a few small arcs here and there). It's easier to watch in single instalments and it's lighter in tone - very witty at times too.

Pacifico

Jericho is one of the worst TV shows i've ever seen.

Dexter is brilliant though, you won't be disappointed!

tvnutz

Dexter is brilliant,well worth watching. Agree with most posts on Jericho's first half of the season,it was fairly bad,but I watched on and it does improve considerably. So it really comes down to whether or not you want to watch about 7-9 episode of crap to arrive at another bunch of episode that are watchable,but nothing amazing.

Oh and if you have never seen Alias,you should give it a watch,just bought all 5 seasons on dvd and have re-watched the first 2 so far. They are just brilliant,I remember it declining in quality after season 2 but not by much and it has been so long since I have seen it. Brilliant first 2 seasons though.

DeVore

OMG you havent watched BSG? Nor House?

I hate you because now you get to gorge yourself on both.

Gorge now. GO!

DeV.

Ivan

Havent seen much of House myself, but I have heard it highly recommended from many trusted sources, so I've vote for that.

Avatar is one I cant stop recommending to people. Its a cartoon mind, but I wouldnt let that stop you. Watch 4 episodes minimum and never look back

Endasaurus

I love Peep Show and Curb Your Enthusiasm, can see why they wouldn't be everyones cub of tea though!!


House is very good also yes I agree.

abcxyz123

i watched private practice and jericho so far, i enjoyed both of them, i found private practice to be a nice continuity from addison shepphards story in grey's. And jericho seemed interseting and very watchable. I will watch the first episodes of dexter and house laterl.

constipatinator

Dexter must be wached by anyone who hasn't seen it yet. It's simply amazing.

tman

constipatinator wrote: »

Dexter must be wached by anyone who hasn't seen it yet. It's simply amazing.

QFT
I liked it so much that I've even gone ahead and ordered "Darkly dreaming Dexter" for myself, which is saying a lot given how little I read books these days...
Can't wait for season 3 to start:)

Extras is well worth a watch as well if you're after a few lols

abcxyz123

constipatinator wrote: »

Dexter must be wached by anyone who hasn't seen it yet. It's simply amazing.

i watched the first episode of dexter there, and i didnt find it amazing:p it was a bit weird, i might have set my expectations too high....i will watch a few more episodes.:cool:

Lump

The Wire, House, Dexter.

Ivan

My brother said the same to me, the other day and I thought, "Hmm, weird" until we realised that he had actually watched the first episode of the second series. So make sure you arent making the same mistake

Burning Eclipse

I bought House S1 for €21 in Virgin... -10% student discount that's €18.90 for one of the best things on TV. Get into it now!!!

dodgyme

roaring 20's or makin jake.

Mr E

Life on Mars starts tonight on Bravo from Episode 1.
I gorged on this over Christmas, and I absolutely loved it.
Sky+ the series (16 episodes in total) with Series Link, and enjoy!

L'prof

dodgyme wrote: »

roaring 20's or makin jake.

I heard they are both terrible! Saw a bit of Makin Jake and I hated ir!

Pigman II

Another strong recommendation here for Dexter. Just a brilliant show.

If you want to check out something old then give Duckman a try. I'm plowing thru it atm.

Dudess

Damages, the legal drama starring Glenn Close, recently started on BBC1 - two episodes so far. Episode two is being repeated on Friday night if you're in or if you can record it. It's absolutely fantastic. It's been on Sunday night so far but I think the Beeb is moving it to Monday night.
Intriguing stuff - more twists than you can shake a stick at. And great multi-dimensional characters. It's a really dark, thrilling programme. Watch.

dodgyme

jasonorr wrote: »

I heard they are both terrible! Saw a bit of Makin Jake and I hated ir!

no they are supposed to be really really good. I heard they are excellent. Apparently rte have commissioned a new series of "making jake" and a full one of the roaring 20's.

The new series of the former sees Jake set to jet off to cape town south africa in his new series called "cape in Jake" where he goes to shanty towns pulling the piss outta the locals. Should be greeeat!

L'prof

dodgyme wrote: »

no they are supposed to be really really good. I heard they are excellent. Apparently rte have commissioned a new series of "making jake" and a full one of the roaring 20's.

The new series of the former sees Jake set to jet off to cape town south africa in his new series called "cape in Jake" where he goes to shanty towns pulling the piss outta the locals. Should be greeeat!

Whatever you're into I suppose but, it's not for me!

redfacedbear

Jasonorr - your irony detector seems to be malfunctioning - please check the settings.:D

Armin_Tamzarian

24 (I probably liked Season 2+3 the best)
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Seinfeld
Frasier

Armin_Tamzarian

dodgyme wrote: »

no they are supposed to be really really good. I heard they are excellent. Apparently rte have commissioned a new series of "making jake" and a full one of the roaring 20's.

The new series of the former sees Jake set to jet off to cape town south africa in his new series called "cape in Jake" where he goes to shanty towns pulling the piss outta the locals. Should be greeeat!

Here's hoping that the next series will see Jake going to Saudi Arabia where he'll go round to fundamentalists taking the piss out of Mohammad...

is_that_so

From a few years back "Dead Like Me" - great show, same guy has done Pushing Daisies.
Journeyman - likely to be a one season show but great

L'prof

redfacedbear wrote: »

Jasonorr - your irony detector seems to be malfunctioning - please check the settings.:D

It's far too early for such things :D

witnessmenow

House is amazing, so amazing that i've started a request for a house thread!

Click the link in my sig and show some support if you like it! Spread the word

dodgyme

Armin_Tamzarian wrote: »

Here's hoping that the next series will see Jake going to Saudi Arabia where he'll go round to fundamentalists taking the piss out of Mohammad...

They could call it "Mecca'n Jake"

ixoy

Armin_Tamzarian wrote: »

Here's hoping that the next series will see Jake going to Saudi Arabia where he'll go round to fundamentalists taking the piss out of Mohammad...

Yep, RTE have commissioned this as "Jake'n'Faith" where Jake brings his charm to all the religions of the world, pretending to adopt their faith and see how they react when he can't fully get their customs. There's a particularly funny gag upcoming where he's coming out of a fundamentalist temple, at prayer, and Jake - hilariously and originally - whistles at the wives of his "fellow" muslims!!! It'll be a must see!!

Sherifu

Rome

tomm1077

Good to see you've started watching Jericho! It's one of my favourites. Finished watching the first season for the second time a few days ago. Season 2 is starting on Hallmark on Friday 16th May. Can't wait. I hear that season ends with as much of a cliffhanger as the first! Other shows you should check out are 24 which is the best TV show I've ever seen. Law & Order SVU is very good too! Others would include Stargate SG1 & Stargate Atlantis. If you want to go for 80's TV then I recommend checking out Macgyver & V! Top viewing!

Necronomicon

tomm1077 wrote: »

Good to see you've started watching Jericho! It's one of my favourites. Finished watching the first season for the second time a few days ago. Season 2 is starting on Hallmark on Friday 16th May. Can't wait. I hear that season ends with as much of a cliffhanger as the first!

Sorry, you heard wrong There are only 8 episodes in Season 2, it was cancelled.

OP, I hope you've started watching House and/or Dexter by now!

Mr E

No cliffhanger on Jericho either... They had 2 endings filmed, and they showed the 'non-cliffhanger' version. I'm sure the cliffhanger version will be on the DVD later this summer.

Necronomicon

Mr.S wrote: »

Jericho could still be saved, their looking for another network to pick it up - so it will be ages before a new season comes around, but at least theres a chance!

Wouldn't hold my breath. Especially with the ending that aired. I mean, not every detail was wrapped up

like Jake/Eric killing Constantinu

but not sure what they'd do if it was picked up again

after Jake and Hawkins got the bomb to Texas

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