The Sofa (General Chat Thread)

Mr E

Billions? The Night Manager?

Skid X

I was disappointed to see locatetv.com is closing

http://www.locatetv.com/blog/locatetv-closing/

I found it's personalised schedule handy, you could set alerts for programmes, films, actors etc and whenever they were on air the details would appear on your calendar.

Anyone know of any alternatives? Would digiguide do something similar?

pickarooney

LaVail wrote: »

Is it me or are there few shows really worth watching this year?

I seem to have F all to watch with the exception of Better Call Saul, Baskets, 11.22.63

Not really finding Happy Valley as good as last season's either.

Have been bingeing on the Sopranos/Wire/Breaking Bad just to get by (Highly recommend watching the sopranos again if you've not seen it in a while. I had forgotten how good it really was)

Anything else I'm missing out on here?

Vinyl, Billions, Girls, Fresh Meat, Togetherness on Monday.
Better Call Saul, Midmorning Matters on Tuesday
New Girl and Brooklyn 99 on Wednesday
Sunny in Philadelphia, Suits on Thursday
Vikings, Elementary, Baskets, workaholics on Friday
Animals on Saturday
Night Manager on Sunday

Love, Master of None, House of Cards on Netflix.

Horace and Pete

Some are habit watches but there's enough half decent stuff to fill the time

Mr E

Skid X wrote: »

I was disappointed to see locatetv.com is closing

http://www.locatetv.com/blog/locatetv-closing/

I found it's personalised schedule handy, you could set alerts for programmes, films, actors etc and whenever they were on air the details would appear on your calendar.

Anyone know of any alternatives? Would digiguide do something similar?

Much more simplistic than locatetv, but I use http://myepisodes.com

LaVail

Mr E wrote: »

Billions? The Night Manager?

pickarooney wrote: »

Vinyl, Billions, Girls, Fresh Meat, Togetherness on Monday.
Better Call Saul, Midmorning Matters on Tuesday
New Girl and Brooklyn 99 on Wednesday
Sunny in Philadelphia, Suits on Thursday
Vikings, Elementary, Baskets, workaholics on Friday
Animals on Saturday
Night Manager on Sunday

Love, Master of None, House of Cards on Netflix.

Horace and Pete

Some are habit watches but there's enough half decent stuff to fill the time

Some great suggestions in there, ta lads.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Mr E wrote: »

Much more simplistic than locatetv, but I use http://myepisodes.com

I've been using myepisodes.com for awhile and quite like it - the calendar is very clear and handy, even if show and episode information is pretty much non-existant. I used to use tvrage.com for years, but it shut down last year, and then re-launched a few weeks ago, by which stage I was used to myepisodes and preferred the layout of it.

Mr E

Yeah I think I've been using myepisodes for at least 6 or 7 years now.

pickarooney

I use https://www.pogdesign.co.uk/cat

And Series Guide android app.

The Black Oil

I don't follow any specific sites. GEOS is what I first stumbled on back in the 90s. http://www.geos.tv/

Mr E

An interesting show started on SyFy in the States last night called "The Internet Ruined My Life". It's about innocent tweets or posts that spiraled out of control and pretty much ruined peoples' lives.

The first one last night was an asian-american woman who got offended by a piece of Stephen Colbert's satire (admittedly close to the bone) and got #cancelcolbert trending. She did an interview on TV the next day and ended up insulting "white people". Yeah, that didn't end well.

The second one was a guy who tweeted something along the lines of digging Marilyn Monroe's body up, and "destroying america" a few weeks before travelling, and was arrested by Homeland Security when he landed.

Worth a watch. I wonder if any ex-boardsies can make this claim?

LaVail

Poor aul Chumlee

Pawn Stars' 'Chumlee' Arrested In Las Vegas

The Black Oil

There was a woman who tweeted something along the lines of 'Going to Africa, hope I don't get AIDS, lol' before she boarded a plane. She woke up to quite a reaction.

ETA, story below.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/how-one-stupid-tweet-ruined-justine-saccos-life.html

Also Starring LeVar Burton

With the CW having just renewed it's entire prime-time schedule for next season, gained in viewers over the past few years while the other non-cable networks have lost viewers, and having a number of shows with very loyal fan following, has people's opinions of The CW network changed?

It used to be known as the network that only showed dramas that appealed to teenage girls (with the exception of Supernatural and Smallville which were carried over from when The WB became The CW), but they've really gone a different direction in recent years, and personally I think the quality of programming on The CW is superior to the Big Four networks. Once a network that was never taken seriously, it's now sneaking up on it's competitors and going from strength to strength.

Thoughts?

The Black Oil

Supernatural's the only CW show I watch, don't know how about their brand.

Catching up on Better Call Saul season 2. Still have to finish The Leftovers s1.

CastorTroy

It's probably the network I watch shows from the most. The 100, Supernatural, iZombie, Arrow, The Flash, DC's Legends of Tomorrow. Not forgetting they also used to show the excellent Nikita

Lovely Bloke

I don't know or care which network, or whatever, any American show is on tbh.

Unless it's HBO, I'll usually give a HBO show a bigger chance than anything else.

pickarooney

I don't think I've ever watched a CW show. None of the above titles sound remotely interesting to me.

I'd probably watch mostly HBO, FX and Showtime though I don't make a conscious effort to look out for the channel name.

Edward Hopper

I've no idea where most shows I watch start, they usually have WPZN7 or TFG6 or whatever local affiliate. Often Canada actually.

Uploaders names are more familiar to me than network names.

pickarooney

Baskets was fantastic this week. Is anyone watching it?

CastorTroy

Anyone know of any sites with official What if... scenarios?

Like a show creator saying how a series was meant to end if it hadn't been cancelled. Or what direction it was meant to go if an actor hadn't quit or been fired?

The Black Oil

Maureen Ryan's current pinned tweet says Jane the Virgin is as good as Breaking Bad and we need comedy as much as drama now. It's been added to Netflix. Might check it out.

Apart from Supernatural, NCIS, Better Call Saul and The Americans my viewing plate is pretty empty at the moment.

pickarooney

Baskets season finale tomorrow

mailforkev

I just saw that Garry Shandling died

Loved the Larry Sanders Show when it was on.

AMKC

Anyony watching Centenary on RTE 1? What do you make of it so far?
Me I have to say the singers are really good. Seems like their is a story to it too a sad one.

Cantona's Collars

The Island Season 3 started on C4 tonight,it's actually pretty decent.2 teams dropped off on a Pacific Island for a week and see how they survive.By the second morning one had quit and another was stung by a scorpion.

The Talking Bread

Jesus, this Centenary programme has turned into Eurovision! What an awful song!

AMKC

I agree the songs they had at the end were dreadful but there was some really good singing in the programme too. The story was simple but decent. Tells the story of Ireland basically.

The Talking Bread

Has boards just magically changed : o

The Talking Bread

Has boards just magically changed : o

Edward Hopper

Well the random double posts are there, so it hasn't changed that much.