What TV shows do you watch?

[Yellow_Belle]

From the US:
NCIS
House
Cold Case
Criminal Minds

From Canada:
Murdoch Mysteries

From UK
New Tricks
Judge John Deed (only for Martin Shaw, really )
Taggart
Morse

Need I say that I’m quite fond of mysteries/police procedurals/forensic science?

On the lighter entertainment side( but sadly, mostly only in re-runs)

Vicar of Dibley
Blackadder (all series, though 1 and 4 are my favourites)
Father Ted
Have I got news for you.

 

[ohioszo]

From the US:
From Canada:
From UK:

Memories: The Campbells, Wind at My Back, Ballykissangel; more … All Creatures Great and Small, Poirot, Miss Marple, Foyle’s War; other … Midsomer Murders, Inspector Morse, Maigret, Rumpole of the Bailey, etc. Before EWTN and, before Dish and RFDTV. I saw EWTN first, with JPII’s visit to America, on Canadian TV from Windsor, Ontario with Time Warner. Then, I wrote a letter to Time Warner to request EWTN on the lineup. Now, Time Warner offers EWTN only on a higher tier. We had switched to Dish, so, we still get it on 261. (RFDTV is 231.) We still have PBS … Lawrence Welk mainly! Am I ever tired of the old films! Bob Hope … Lucille Ball? Sweet stuff, though!

I lived without TV throughout college and for a few years after college. Just had Sunday Paper and NPR radio. Now, we have Dish, Online, Two (act. 3) newspapers … 2 local and 1 metro, Catholic Chronicle and Digest, Reader’s Digest … Maybe people should list the paper media they still receive! In the past: Liguorian and The Catholic World (Paulist.)

 

[mdzialo]

EWTN. Love it. Top favorite right now: G. K. Chesterton.

 

[Yellow_Belle]

Memories: The Campbells, Wind at My Back, Ballykissangel; more … All Creatures Great and Small, Poirot, Miss Marple, Foyle’s War; other … Midsomer Murders, Inspector Morse, Maigret, Rumpole of the Bailey, etc.

Ah, yes, Ballykissangel. Should have included that in my list, but only the episodes as far as Fr Peter’s departure. Never really took to his successors. Joan Hickson as Miss Marple and David Suchet as Poirot… And the late, great Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole - should have been on my list, too, but cannot find re-runs at present. All Creatures Great and Small for its wonderful evocation of pre- and post-WW2 Yorkshire - difficult to beat the Beeb for this kind of thing.

 

[Gottle_of_Geer]

Millions fall into this category. For all of us that watch tv on a daily basis, if we’re being honest with ourselves, I don’t think we could quit television cold turkey. I know I couldn’t. I don’t think watching television in of itself is a bad thing though…It just depends on what you’re watching.

TV in the UK is pretty dire - I think it is, anyway - so it would be easy to give it up. There is just enough worth watching, to justify watching more ​

 

[Vanny]

Stargate Atlantis and Monk.
I’m really dissapointed SGA was canceled, I also like SG-1. I agree with the above poster that I’m afraid Universe may not be as good.
I also love Monk- dh and I are big Monk fans- but that is going to be in it’s last season this summer as well.! I like Psych, but Monk is my favorite.
CSI Miami -sometimes when I’m up to watch it.
For Religeous TV I like the Journey Home.

 

[Joe_5859]

Millions fall into this category. For all of us that watch tv on a daily basis, if we’re being honest with ourselves, I don’t think we could quit television cold turkey. I know I couldn’t. I don’t think watching television in of itself is a bad thing though…It just depends on what you’re watching.

Through high school and early college, I watched a lot of TV. I watched several primetime shows each night of the week (and usually was taping one while watching another). On average, I think I watched about 3-5 hours a day (which doesn’t include the hours and hours of video game play in addition to that ).

Then, halfway through college, I decided to give up TV cold turkey for three weeks as a sacrifice for those who were about to go on a retreat (with the stipulation that I would not record anything to watch later, either, as that would sort of defeat the purpose). For three weeks, every hour I normally spent watching TV, I spent in prayer in front of the Eucharist (yes, I was in the chapel a lot!).

It was really during this time that my faith was awakened from dormancy. God gave me answers to many of the questions that had plagued me for so long regarding Jesus, the Church, and the Bible. I did a lot of spiritual reading and said a lot of rosaries.

At the time, I thought it would kill me. There were some shows that, previously, I had never missed an episode for the five, six, even nine seasons the shows were on the air. Before, I felt almost like a slave who was “obligated” to watch these shows for as long as they aired. (Once I started watching a show, I found it hard to stop). But after 3 weeks with no TV, I felt completely free. After that time, I no longer cared so much about the shows, and I continued not watching TV for the most part. I did keep watching “The Simpsons” (and it was years before I ever caught those three episodes I missed), but after a couple years, I dropped that show as well.

Of course, five years later, I started dating my wife, and got back to watching TV again. But my mindset is a little different now. I don’t feel quite the same “compulsion” as I used to.

Anyway, this is a long answer to the question of whether or not a TV addict can quit “cold turkey”. My answer is “Yes, they can”.

 

[Sailor_Kenshin]

Just curious what tv shows people in here watch on a consistent basis. I watch a bunch of different shows from 24 to King of the Hill as well as religious programming such as The One True Faith with Michael Voris. How about the rest of you?

Apart from EWTN programming? Just about nothing on ‘regular’ TV, except cartoons: Spongebob Squarepants, Teenage Robot, Phineas and Ferb, Johnny Test, Secret Saturdays, plus Wolverine and the X-Men (good character design but they’re not referring to Nightcrawler’s Catholicism at all, which disappoints).

That, and watching Jacques Pepin cook, is pretty much it.

 

[Trick]

On EWTN I most like " Coming Home" and “Life on the Rock”.

I watch entirely to many news and commentary shows.
I usually watch FOX, then MSNBC until it makes me so mad, I switch back to FOX.

We watch American Idol as a family, it’s fun:thumbsup:.

Trick

 

[Brigadoon]

Jacques Pepin- Fast Food My Way – I try not to miss it!
The Biggest Loser (US & Australian versions)

 

[Katie1723]

Currently I indulge in “24” and “Survivor”. Am awaiting “Rescue Me” to start soon.
Kathy

 

[kimaz]

The only currently running TV show I watch regularly is CSI:NY…occasionally FoxNews or EWTN (usually their seasonal specials, like around Christmas).

On DVD is a different story…if it weren’t for news and sports the family would probably dump Direct in a second and just stick to the DVDs (we watch sports all year round though so it’d be really hard.)

Shows I watch on DVD:
Mystery Science Theater 3000 (I am totally addicted to this show, watched it when I was a littel kid and when I found it on DVD I literally jumped for joy.)
Get Smart
Combat!
Cheers
The Andy Griffith Show
That one show with Rob and Laura who’s title always gets edited on here.
And I really, really want to get Monty Python’s Flying Circus on DVD eventually.

 

[RascalJones]

Quick List:

Heroes
Lost
Big Bang Theory
How I Met Your Mother (although, I’m really losing interest, only really watch it out of habit with my wife.)
Amazing Race

And, that’s about all I “make time for”. Eagerly awaiting the start of baseball season so I can start watching the Cleveland Indians roll to a AL Central Division title!

Actually, I really like “Life on Mars” too, but just can’t seem to get it in my schedule.

 

[ohioszo]

On DVD is a different story…if it weren’t for news and sports the family would probably dump Direct in a second and just stick to the DVDs (we watch sports all year round though so it’d be really hard.)

Dish has a “Family Package” which is perfect (for my family,) but for the fact that you cannot order that and have STO, the Cleveland Indians Channel. So, we are actually paying quite a lot just to get the Indians Games: $28/month for 12 months (not just the season.) There are other channels that we can take or leave … the SOAP channel is handy, for the days that Mom "has club."http://www.dishnetwork.com/packages/detail.aspx?pack=DISHFamily

The caveat is that RFDTV is in the inexpensive Family Dish and it doesn’t appear again until the 200 channel level.

 

[gene4jesus]

It is hard to change, now I am a new creation whatever I do has to glorify God. I had to asked myself how many of these popular shows give glorify God, for me they don’t. I have now cut off my cable, I do miss EWTN but I can listen on line. I spend more time one on one with my family.
All for the Glory of God!

 

[KC91]

Al Jazeera and the History Channel

 

[mojob]

The only show I watch is “House”. I am addicted and now my husband is too. We love it!!!

 

[Ghoti]

Current on-air “don’t miss”: NCIS, The Mentalist
Try not to miss: Rick Mercer Report, Corner Gas, CSI
Like to watch if I can (odd hours or can’t find): Mythbusters, History Bites, Murdoch Mysteries
Watch if I’m bored: Jeopardy!, Daily Show
Wish these would come back: *Doctor Who, Jessie Stone, WKRP in Cincinnati, Barney Miller, Andy Griffith, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Babylon 5, The Twilight Zone, Combat!, Playhouse 90
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Used to like, but now fairly fed up with: House, Law & Order (all), CSI: Miami & New York, Heroes

Sick to death of: Lost, Seinfeld, Survivor, almost all reality shows, Oprah, The View, most anything on E!

Producers should be taken out behind the shed: Toddlers and Tiaras

 

[gene4jesus]

Average Joe you are so right! Do we love Jesus or do we love TV?

Just like the readings for Mass yesterday, …He said, ‘Oh no, father Abraham, but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.’
Then Abraham said, ‘If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets,
neither will they be persuaded if someone should rise from the dead.’"
Lk 16:19-31

And Jesus did just that! We should be praying our lips off!

 

[MarysGirls]

Used to love watching BBA’s version of Robin Hood, but they don’t play it anymore.
I also like *Touched by an Angel *and The Waltons.