What's on TV?
 

:twisted: Well? :shrug:




Supernatural blasted back onto our UK screens on ITV2 on Sunday, and it was literally a Dean Out Of Hell moment.

In brief, the Winchester brothers are monster hunters.
They travel from place to place hunting and dispatching demons.
Although many episodes work well as stand alone stories, there is often a sub plot weaving it's way through the series.
At the end of series 3, Dean had been dragged to hell.
Now he's back, but you'll have to watch to see how he got out.

Luckilly for me, a pal of mine has errrrrrm, borrowed most of the current series off the internet :bleh: so i've watched most of the series over the last two nights.

Supernatural is great TV.
The supernatural is a difficult thing to get just right.
It can come over as too OTT, or just plain silly.
It's hard to find the right balance to give the viewer a chill.
That said, Supernatural is always good for at least one funny episode per season where the plot twists and laughs come hard and fast, but no matter how bizzare a plot seems to be, all ties in nicely by the end of the episode.
It helps that the stories are sound, and that both Winchester brothers are played by actors who play their characters skillfully though quite naturally.

Jensen Ackles in particular continues to give a stunning performance as Dean.
As the more flippant brother Dean is often funny, but like the clown crying on the inside, there are much more revealing moments throughout the series, and these trully are well played and believable.

So far i've seen 11 of the 15 episodes to this season, and I must say my favourite was episode 8.
The comedy episode quite often is.
All that i'll say about it is that that Teddy Bear redefines the word AWESOME.


Catch Supernatural every Sunday.
9:00pm
ITV2

Sounds great Neil. I'll see if it's on the ITV player online as we only have the old fashioned channels where i live.
Have been watching Demons which is ok....wouldn't be half as good without Philip Glennister of course. It's a bit of a curates egg. Good bits...and not so good.
Also excellent were Hunter, a new detective series with Hugh Bonneville and Janet McTeer, Wallander and Hustle. Oh and 2 Lynda La Plante series the names of which elude me at the mo.

started watching supernatural when it came out, but after 2,3 episodes it got way too confusing and stupid for me.

a series which is quite watchable lately is "Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles", check that one out.

i did start to watch supernatural but then missed a few,i enjoyed what i watched but do find if you miss some it can get confusing in places,i like anything out of the ordinary or a bit weird though (( bit like me really...lol ))

totally agree Barb....and there's more Red Dwarf! 2009 is looking nicer already.

I enjoy watching Fringe and Leverage and a new reality/documentary type show called Treasure Quest has started, very interesting.

Pud :twisted:

What was the last TV show you saw?
 

I don't think this thread exists, got to be honest I haven't bothered searching, there's one for films, but there's a lot of good TV shows out there too.

Famous, Rich & Homeless - good programme using celebrities to highlight the homeless struggle on the streets. I always thought they were a bunch of lazy shits, but most of them have had terrible pasts and the homeless have heartfelt stories too.

are there really?
If so I havent been able to track them down yet.

There's probably not a lot of good ones in Germany :))

Not counting the shit that's on in the background. The last decent one that's worth watching is Krod Mandoon And The Flaming Sword Of Fire. A Blackadder for the 21st century! Deserves to be a classic after 3 episodes!

it probably is a good thing this is 'what was the last TV show you saw?' and not, what was the last decent tv show... as the last thing I watched (other than the news) was about 20 minutes of America's Got Talent, which was crazy.

topgear
supernatural
james may moon thingy

I have to take my hat off to you...we lasted about 5 minutes or so...lol...and even that because there was nothing else on TV...but better nothing than THAT...

Hey, how come you get our talent crap but we don't get yours???

And back on topic - News...

Sons of anarchy, a great but violent series. If you like The Shield you'll like this

Wimbledon - the only sport I watch on a regular basis

(and yes - annually is a regular basis!)

I'm watching a Michael Jackson tribute while i'm waiting for Big Brother to come on!!

Yeah I like watching that, I'm a bit pissed Shield has finished.

Top Gear and K9 Cops.

You are lucky! You wouldn't want it - ours is not particularly saner than yours!

My 20 minutes was for the same reason - nothing else on ... and a strange magnetism to watching some of the insanity. It's nice to know that not all of the world's crazy people are restricted to these forums or to telephoning me at work ;-)

And in 10 minutes time, the last TV show I saw will be "Wife Swap" where wife-does-nothing swapped with wife-does-everything (obviously!) and wife-does-nothing has just murdered PDBTDBL in karaoke... in a strange link back to the meaty world!

Blimey it seems like I don't half watch a load of crap!

I always like watching the Wife Swap episodes when they put a lazy fat dirty slob in with a fitness neat freak family, yeah work that fat ass lady :lmao:

Wife Swap US is better than UK because you have the religious extremists in America who are nucking futs over Jesus :nuts:

Sounds like the episode that aired last week. The fat dirty slob this time was such a lazy woman, didn't work, had a lovely 18 month daughter she didn't care for properly (gave her crisps and coke to eat and drink), didn't clean at all, wakes up at 1pm in the afternoon, smokes like chimney. ~~~~ing disgrace. :roll:

:twisted: Isn't that illegal in 48 states? :bleh:

Murder most horrid

We have this stupid show, too, and yes it's ususally a lazy, preferably fat and unemployed woman swapped with a hardworking, neat one. :nuts: I think these shows are scripted. In one case, the woman who was the bone-idle one used to say "I don't know how to cook and do the laundry because that's all done by my husband". A few months later you could see the same family in another show and suddenly it was the wife who was busy keeping the apartment clean, constantly complaining about her lazy husband.

The last show I watched I actually did not want to watch at first because I don't like the host. I was about to change channels when I realized that it was about the village I grew up in. Brought back some memories.

coupling on dvd

Cheers :D

yes i dont act my age

M*A*S*H with the episode currently on Paramount called Major Ego

was it about you? :p

no it was dedicated to DT in the credits though

I was just watching Dog the bounty hunter last night. That is one of my favorites over here. This is a neat question because I would like to know what you do watch over there that might be more interesting than what we get. :lurk:

The last full programme I watched was the final episode of Krod Mandoon ... hope this gets another series commissioned.

*blush* Jeremy Kyle...

Ha ha i love Jeremy Kyle!!

Mock the Week so glad its back i was watching re-runs of the re-runs lol!!

Torchwood

I'm gonna have a Torchwoodfest on Sunday lol!!

lol... That's what I'm watching at the moment... re-runs of the re-runs of the re-runs... and that's after I watched the re-runs of the re-runs of the re-runs of QI that I have on DVD, lol...

coronation street!!!

The Katie Price interview with Piers Morgan :shock:

It was very sad wasn't it? I watched 3 episodes of Eastenders tonight and the Bionic Woman so i've nearly caught up lol!!

Yep was'nt expecting that. You've had a busy night!

Oh yes this is my hobby at the moment catching up and trying to free up more than 6% on the Sky+ lol!!

same here Angelica

Two and A Half Men ... very very funny ... the lines fed to Charlie Sheen and his delivery make me laugh out loud ...

tis funny alright, i watched the one last night where he spoke with Alan's ex wife's women's support group...really good.

Everybody loves raymond

My favourite episode is where Charlie's ex has a sex change!! Poker mate lol!!

The Politically Incorrect Parenting Show. It's a Kiwi programme with clynical psychologist Nigel Latta. Basically he's saying that modern day parents are raising their kids to be a bunch over overprotected namby-pamby's. Can't wait for the next episode.

New Tricks. Always enjoyable.

family guy

(im guilty of buying the 22 disc set of seasons 1 to 7)

Komissar Rex

or as it was called in UK:

Rex: A Cop's Best Friend

I love the show even it's re-run... Rex is so smart.. :D

loved that one as a kid! was always looking looking forward to next thursday to watch the new episode with my parents.

That 70's show. love it!!! :D

not a movie, but I've watched way too much of my new 22 disc family guy complete box last night...

Just to confuse Brits...

Top Chef Masters

family guy

Probably another confusion...

Boston Legal

Loved watching Boston Legal, shame it had to finish, thought it had legs for another couple of seasons.

I'm now on to the final season of The West Wing.

:twisted: I'm now half way through the box set of Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 3.

Blame Jo, she got me watching it :oops:

suuuuuure

robot chicken ahoy!

seth green rocks!

Just some noise in the background :lol:

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Ah the miracle of DVR's

X-files Season 3 (DVD)

Family Guy

You Got Mail ... with Tom Hanks :-)

I've got GMTV on at the moment.

Blackadder Back And Forth. It's all fine and dandy, but there's a couple of major problems: For the first half Rowan Atkinson seems to be playing Inspector Fowler instead of Blackadder, and they forgot to put any jokes in it. :roll:

Family Guy

NCAA basketball game Duke and SJU

An ad at the moment, during Law & Order ...

Jeremy Kyle (although it won't be on for much longer as I'm going to find something else to watch)

Happy Wednesday, meat peeps !
 

Three Christmas figurines ... ;) ... lol ...

American Idol. I have a secret crush on Steve Tyler!

Still nothing but the figurines and perhaps a bit of dust... lol ...