Quality TV Shows

Just watched the frisbee in the park scene on Youtube Wongo2010-09-28 07:50:25

Nice item on TV3 nightline just now about a Kosta Rican fisherman and his crocodile chum (he had a pet dog but the croc ate it).

Nice auto change!

Just tried to click on the nightline link and got this


(Der der der der der Kosta Barbarouses)

Californication ended :(

Sad ending too :(

The subway fred got me on to Mrs Merton (ooh err).

Here's a nice one featuring Jimmy Hill.

(Does anyone remember seeing a football match - not sure if it was English or and International - and there was a big sign with the words: "I hate Jimmy Hill. He's a p@@f"?)

It's a Scotland supporters song:

"We hate Jimmy Hil, he's a poof, he's a poof!"

There was a website that had the phrase translated into about 100 languages

7 days, is absolute quality.

What happened to 'The Daily Show' & 'The Colbert Report' on Comedy...

I need my Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert fix.

What use are you now Comedy Central!!

Just saw an ad on Prime for Ultimate Force (with Woss Kemp - more pwopa nawty than Danny Dyer), coming soon.

I know they're all repeats but does anyone else watch Balls of Steel?  Militant Black Guy is brilliant.

This.

They have replaced them with complete crap: The Gruen Transfer and Tosh.0 FML

Getting my fix of Spooks series 8  on UK tv  Tuesdays 9.30pm.

Sharpe back on tonight.

Has anyone been watching NZ Top Model? I haven't watched a lot of this series (did watch quite a bit of last season) but find it hilarious. Just wondering cause I watched the 2nd to last episode on C4 last night, and decided that I don't want anyone to win. Talent pool is thin this time round!

Yeah. I'm picking either Elsa or Danielle to win.

Has anyone else been watching Sons of Anarchy? Its like The Soprano's on motorbikes.

Social calendar dilemma:

Jag2010-11-12 13:11:29

Which Sharpe is it J82 ?

This from xtra: Junior822010-11-12 14:10:04

Oh yes, Rachel Smalley - cougar

Anyone watching the Walking Dead?  based around the comics that I've never read.  Tis quality

Sharpe - quality.

the Wire - I may have fallen in love
even the intro tune is a bad MF'er

I like the look of PArks and REcreation onC4 at 7.30pm tonight

Just found out on Wikipedia that Shooting Stars had a new series from 2008-2010.

Anyone seen it and is it any good (there is no George Dawes apparently so that's quite a downer)?

Want to see when TV3 are showing 'An Idiot Abroad'. I have watched all the additional content off itunes waiting to see the actual program, plus I've been listening to Ricky, Karl and Steve for years on the Ricky Gervas Show. Which I want to see what they've done with the audio and created a cartoon.

Karl Pilkington is a genius and Ricky Gervais has stolen heaps of his material.

Thanks. Thought it would be quite hard to recreate the feel of the first series.

No George Dawes and Mark Lamarr - big gaps!

I doubt Matt Lucas would have the time to do George Dawes anymore but would be funny if he did.

Ulrekakakaka!

well I have finished the Wire and by gum if you have not seen this series you are seriously missing out. high quality story

next on the list is Carnival (some supernatural circus thing) and as listed above Walking Dead.

Have you watched Generation Kill? Same writers as Wired. GK is quality viewing. I've not seen anything of Wired, brief run-down please?

thanks for the tip
the cop show is the Wire
not Wired.

there is 5 series of the Wire, the stories or angles inter-connect

I suppose it is Drama but I reckon at least half of it is real life.
it is not a children show, pretty rough
sometimes it seems cynical
but other times it is pretty funny

there are some Cops but it is more than an investigation, maybe more an expose of political influence, management negligence, the corruption inherent in capitalism and general badassedness.

it also has drugs, profanity, Steve Earl, and an amazing scene involving the purchase of a nail gun which might be the most out there piece of TV I have seen in ages

no I not look at GK
it'll have to wait until general anger at US invasion has ceased. 
currently I need no stories on that , just those in charge tried and incarcerated.
I will check it out for sure, ignore my bluster.

Will look forward to that one!

just for old times sake

Watched the last � of a doc on Prime last night called �The Thriller In Manila�, fight between Ali & Joe Fraser, which Fraser won. But by all accounts, Ali was a total smart-ass t**ser & sore loser!! I knew he was cocky. Ali called Fraser an �Uncle Tom� (didn�t catch why), which is the biggest insult a black man can give to another. The morning after the bout, Ali went round to Fraser�s hotel & shouted obscenities at Fraser from the street & fired a hand gun up at his hotel room!! Throughout the doc Ali kept on claiming that �I am the greatest boxer the world has ever seen!� This has changed my opinion of Ali now.Wongo2011-02-08 16:03:07