What's the best thing on television at the moment?
(any 'goldfish bowl and a lamp' type replies will be punished by repeated kicking in the face with hobnailed boots)
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:30, 92 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Legend of the Seeker on the sci fi channel is good
almost entirely because of the main woman in it, who is gorgeous, and wears medieval type dresses with a lot of cleavage.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:32, Reply)

I just googled...
looks shit.
(PsychoChomp, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:35, Reply)

it is fucking awful*
but strangely engaging, due to the cleavage aspect.


*I can't really stress enough how awful.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:36, Reply)

That's was the best thing about chuck.
It was also a fairly inoffensive geeky show.
(PsychoChomp, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:37, Reply)

legend of the seeker is the same
good costumes and effects, and the fighting is quite good, but the acting is dire, and it is based on a series of books that I've read, but hugely watered down with a blatant moral message.

Basically, it's like something from the 80s
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:39, Reply)

look preeeety
images.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/20081204/293Chuck.Strahovski.levi.lc.120408.jpg
(PsychoChomp, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:43, Reply)

see also
mynethome.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/los2.jpg
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:48, Reply)

I'd be distracted from her looks by my overwhelming urge to punch that guy in the face.

(PsychoChomp, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:49, Reply)

he does look a lot like a rodent
and an annoying one at that, but her cleavage is pretty in-your-face.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:50, Reply)

*narrows eyes*
I seeeee.....Sci-Fi Channel, you say....
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:35, Reply)

in my house
it would be dust.

*awaits kick in face*
(Purpledoris I've got afeckin' job, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:32, Reply)

*takes huge run-up*

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:37, Reply)

*tries to run away and trips over pile of shite by desk*

(Purpledoris I've got afeckin' job, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:44, Reply)

WTF?
You seem to be in my house...be a love and do the washing up please?
( snee held his breath since, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:03, Reply)

okay
but only if I can do it naked. best click the heating on.
(Purpledoris I've got afeckin' job, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:10, Reply)

Glee
Obviously. And Popstar to Opera Star and Dancing on Ice and American Idol and I am aware I am a sad bastard.

And the Vampire Diaries start soon.

Also BBC4 Thursdays are very good with a programe about the beginnings of Chemistry, a bit of ranty Brooker then a Biology programme.
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:32, Reply)

I like Brooker
I feel he is a kindred spirit.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:38, Reply)

Newswipe cracked me up the other day.
I was left wondering if it was a one-off or a series though.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:52, Reply)

but really
I haven't switched mine on in about 3 weeks so I can't really say but I think "Being Human" looks promising......
(Purpledoris I've got afeckin' job, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:33, Reply)

New series of 24 is on.
THEY'RE STILL NOT LETTING JACK DO HIS JOB!
(PsychoChomp, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:34, Reply)

oh shit
I am supposed to have buggered off out of MK....but you won't find me, I'm not scared.......
(Purpledoris I've got afeckin' job, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:35, Reply)

I could find you if I wanted, how often do I have to prove that to you people?

(PsychoChomp, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:37, Reply)

some people just can't handle the truth

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:37, Reply)

oh no you couldn't....
all you know is that I am in MK somewhere and the town in which I live.....I challenge you to find me!

Just try not to show your disappointment if you do, I'm a wee bit fragile at the mo!
(Purpledoris I've got afeckin' job, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:43, Reply)

That's just what you've told me it's not what I know,
and no, I'm not going to stalk you over the internet, I've got work to do.
(PsychoChomp, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:45, Reply)

Ha
or what you think you know my dear..........
(Purpledoris I've got afeckin' job, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:10, Reply)

if you want to solicit PsychoChomp as a stalker you should probably include pictures of your breasts.

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:06, Reply)

I would need
a wide angle lens for that as they rather impressive.......but thanks for the tip, we shall see if it works!
(Purpledoris I've got afeckin' job, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:09, Reply)

HOLY SHIT! YOU HAVE BREASTS, etc.

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:11, Reply)

sorry , yes I do
I thought you had to have breasts to be a proper b3tan?
(Purpledoris I've got afeckin' job, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:13, Reply)

No, you have to be funny.

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:14, Reply)

**gets coat**

(Purpledoris I've got afeckin' job, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:15, Reply)

Newswipe
A new series started last night. I know he has his detractors, but Charlie Brooker consistently names and shames the fuckwits and lovingly points out the idiotic and manipulating methods of the UK's TV industry.

Refreshing
9/10
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:37, Reply)

Charlie Brooker detractors have no place here.

(PsychoChomp, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:38, Reply)

Man, he sold out with that quiz show bollix.
That was bad. That made me weep for the voice of satire that he was.

Screenwipe and Newswipe are fortunately good.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:55, Reply)

Yeah, the quiz show was a bit iffy
but hell, he has a few lives, built up by all the other good stuff he's done. I can forgive him. Dead Set was rather good as well.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:58, Reply)

If you praise Charlie Brooker on /links
then loads of /links people get bolshy and yap about him being overrated and crap. I put this down to them having a much lower threshold of entertainment value since they all spend most of their time on YouTube.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:00, Reply)

see above
I think he is GRATE.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:39, Reply)

I think another half point should
be awarded for Brookers manic giggle
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:39, Reply)

Bizarrely
I emailed him the other day after i had read that he used to write for the short lived, Viz style comic, Oink. It must have been out circa 1986/7, and I vividly remember a section of fake TV listings, very similar to the brilliant TVGoHome. The Oink listings have stayed in my mind all that time, so when i read about his Oink work I put 2 and 2 together and wanted clarification. So I emailed him and shortly thereafter he mailed me back to confirm it was in fact him who wrote the Oink listings.

Just wish I could find them online somewhere...
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:46, Reply)

I still have the Oink annual somewhere
and most of the orignal comics :0)
( SpikeyPickle wishes he was mabazaritchie, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:25, Reply)

Good man.
Have a check through for any TV listings, take a mobile phone pic and gaz me them, for lifelong gratitude.!

In the intervening years, and with TvGoHome to compare them to, they will probably be a bit rubbish.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:27, Reply)

Bellamy's People

( M o D, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:37, Reply)

It was better on the radio,
The imagination painted the charactors, rather than Paul Whithouse in a fat suit.

Otherwise it was good.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:46, Reply)

Ooops I assumed this was somerthing about David Bellamy so I didn't watch

stupid lack of infomation
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:57, Reply)

erm...
Chuck, bones, house,Lie to me.
All ofc watched on the PC but its what is shown on TV ^^.

Edited: Newswipe I just saw that after posting, I agree it is win. :)
(Just Me being probed by aliens since, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:38, Reply)

Hmm.
The Big Bang Theory is excellent. I also like Being Human.

Mock the Week has turned to right shit though. Probably the Patrick Kielty influence.
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:39, Reply)

Kielty must die.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:40, Reply)

Monty, will it ruin our chances
if I say I quite like him?
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:41, Reply)

You are fucking joking me.
Are you ill?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:43, Reply)

I used to find him an annoying cunt
but yesterday, and it may have been as I was drunk, I founf him quite funny.

I wasn't drunk enough to find Andy Parsons funny though. But Drunk enough to almost die laughing at Milton's crazy floating in the last round
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:02, Reply)

There is not a drink on this earth that can make Parsons funny.
I find the very manner in which he speaks so irksome that the actual content is irrelevant.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 15:11, Reply)

Very much so.
Writhing in agony. Somewhere ghastly. Like Manchester.
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:48, Reply)

The Big Bang Theory is indeed excellent

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:46, Reply)

This is becasue you are stoned

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:50, Reply)

usually not stoned when I watch that
and How I met your mother.

It had a song about suits in it the other day. What's not to like?
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:51, Reply)

I've seen bits and pieces
it looks like a cliched prime time Merkin sitcom to me, I find myself laughing out loud more to radio comedy than tv these days
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:55, Reply)

they are both better than the usual
they don't explain every punchline, and it is weird enough to appeal to my british sense of humour
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:56, Reply)

Has anyone said YM yet?
if not.... YM
( Peej, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:39, Reply)

.
Glee (I've only seen the first couple of episodes, and already think it's ace)
Bones (Love it, and was the only one of my friends to correctly guess who was helping the Gormagon)
Family Guy (It gets better every series)
The Cleveland Show (Painfully funny)
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:44, Reply)

I've watched the whole first series of Glee
it gets funnier. The cheerleading coach is evil and hilarious
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:47, Reply)

I love family guy and agree its got better with age
but the Cleveland Show just doesn't do it for me.
( Peej, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:50, Reply)

Bones is AMAZING

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:55, Reply)

My Name Is Cleveland Brown
and I am here to say...

I'm enjoying this. Not a patch on Family Guy but still fairly entertaining.
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:07, Reply)

I enjoyed the ridiculous flash forward
and the new and last series of Lost is out soon!!!

Also good and by good I mean fucking horrendous is My Super Sweet Sixteen, be warned though it will make you sob for humanity
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:49, Reply)

can't wait for Lost
I'm convinced the last series is going to be spectacular and they won't let the loyal viewers down.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:50, Reply)

ha ha, there was an interview with the producers
summary: Nah, we're not going to answer any questions in the last series.
(PsychoChomp, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:52, Reply)

I'm going to club them and eat their bones

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:53, Reply)

I'm going to get really excited and probably be massively disappointed by a lack of answers
again
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:53, Reply)

Chevron

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:03, Reply)

Glee.
Anything on the Hallmark channel (it's usually Law and Order: SVU. I love Law and Order: SVU. I only started watching it over Christmas and now it's like an old friend. Also, I can never remeber the seuence of the "S", "V" and "U" so have to refer to it as "SUV", which makes it more like the American Sports Utility Vehicle equivalent of a Honda Accord).

And also Gilmore Girls. I started watching it in half-horrified fascination and now I get upset if I miss an episode. It's like wearing a cosy cardigan and drinking milky coffee by a warm stove, which is exactly how I watch it.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 11:57, Reply)

I can't say enought wonderful things about Gilmore Girls
People kept telling me I'd like it but I'd see trailers and thing "Nah".
In actual fact it is amazing and they could get away with murder as far as schmaltz goes because the vibe was just right.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:11, Reply)

It is strangely compelling and as mother-daughter combos go..

(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:15, Reply)

Lorelai is way hotter than Rory.

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:15, Reply)

arguing this point is a no win

(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:21, Reply)

They don't understand, Roota,
they don't understand.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:15, Reply)

I wish I was Lorelai
I really do. When my uncle compared me to Rory I felt like kicking his head in.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:42, Reply)

Steven Seagal: Lawman
He makes a living in the movies but for the last twenty years, he's been a deputy sheriff. Sheriff Steven Seagal. That's right, Steven Seagal.

He plays the blues, he trains his dogs to attack intruders, he shoots bullet holes into spaces the size of a bullet hole and he gives up his time to visit dying children.

Every time he arrests someone, they say, "holy shit, it's Steven Seagal!"

The community where he works is dirt poor middle America where all the criminals are black and all the police are white.

It's comic and tragic and hugely entertaining.

rafter
baz
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:01, Reply)

I just realised...
The last thing I watched on TV was some snooker a week or so ago...
( snee held his breath since, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:05, Reply)

I've just converted my television
into an aquarium. With a light in it.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:11, Reply)

that's difficult to do
with an LCD.
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:13, Reply)

That's the beauty of CRT sets though.

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:18, Reply)

we have been duped!
Damned advertisers!
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:20, Reply)

Really?
How will you watch Doctor Who now?! HAVE YOU EVEN THOUGHT THIS THROUGH/!!??!!?
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:14, Reply)

I just get the fish to act out scenes for me.
It's not easy wrapping a scarf around a fishes' neck though. They don't have necks, for a start.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:17, Reply)

Nothing
Oh no, wait that Kevin McCloud Slumming It thing was quite good. But that was on last week and is finished so it's not technically on now.

But fuck the rest.
(beanojam isn't really Ricardo Flange, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:16, Reply)

Glee
I'm also looking forward to Rock & Chips.
I suspect that it will be phenomenally shit, but it will bring me closer to John Sullivan and the Trotters. I've missed them.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:22, Reply)

Could anything be shitter
than the Green Green Grass, though?
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:29, Reply)

They could televise Lisa Tarbuck suffering with the Nora
virus
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:37, Reply)

Well it was cack
But now when they show repeats on GOLD and I watch it with my folks, I actually enjoy it. Such is my pang for SOMETHING related to Only Fools and Horses.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:44, Reply)

Better Off Ted
Watched on the PC. Better than HIMYM and I like HIMYM.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 13:31, Reply)

well, you're all wrong.
It is clearly 'Dog The Bounty Hunter'.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 15:12, Reply)