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[premiere]

Coronation Street
Neighbours
Home and Away
Any Victorian Tulipe
Anything with Ricky Gervais
Strictly Come Ice Dancing Factor Idol
Hannah Montana (my kids watch this)
Suite Life of Zack and Cody (my kids watch this)
Wizards of Waverley Place (my kids watch this and its is actually quite good)

[Spacecadet]

Excellent show.

Pity it ended on a rather curious note.

Supposedly to fit the rewritten arc of the new films.

It seemed to be finished off in a hurry. Everyone killed off and the main character (john) sent off to the future away from sarah (the title role)

IMO they started writing season 2 expecting a season 3 and then quickly had to finish everything off in the last 5 episodes when then they found out that they weren't getting renewed.
That being said, the middle part of season 2 was a bit boring but the final few were brilliant and made is worthwhile sitting through the entire series.

[cailin maith]

For intellectual stimulation, you can't beat "Bottom"

My absolute fave!! I love it - Have seen it live 3 times too!

[NotAllThere]

I quite like it. It's like a throwback to the good old days before sitcoms had standards.

Miranda is by no means a "must see", but it has its genuinely funny moments.

Never seen a single episode, however, his accent can't be that bad, or the Americans wouldn't have warmed to it so.

I know a few Americans who were very surprised to find the Hugh Laurie is a) British and b) a comedian.

Most programming is watchable. I think you lot expect too much. I've been watching Flight of the Concords. For intellectual stimulation, you can't beat "Bottom"

[thunderlizard]

They use Visual Basic!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU

When you absolutely, positively, gotta create a GUI interface to track an IP address, accept no substitute.

[PRC1964]

A CSI clip for you

They use Visual Basic!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU

[EternalOptimist]

Lost.

Only in Lost can you fall out of the sky then get on the beach to top up on your tan

[Bagpuss]

Heroes or anything where sci fi meets Hollyoaks

[stingman123]

Loads of dodgy tulip on Sky at the mo'

Xena - Warrior Princess, Hercules, Stargate, Lost,CSI, Gilmore Girls, Bionic Woman etc....

All pap, and I know I might be letting myself down here but I rather liked The Sarah Connor Chronicles

[HairyArsedBloke]

The 'Miami' in that show is from the mirror universe.

[cailin maith]

CSI - where the lab technicians carry guns, interview suspects and solve all cases and the detectives seem to be just decorative add-ons.

CSI Miami is weird - the lead, 'Horatio', seems to have had acting lessons from David Carradine of Kung Fu fame. After any major event he comes up with some pseudo-philosophical bull and then looks out to the horizon and the camera then fades away.

I quite like CSI but only the Las Vegas and NY ones. It's super far-fetched though.

Miami as you quite rightly say is weird - bordering on being a complete bag of tulipe.

[Naaarwich]

I always thought TV comedy hit its nadir with Birds of a Feather. I would have reserved that opinion if I'd had a peek into the future and seen bilge like 2 Pints of Lager.

An estate agent from Chigwell told me that he and all his colleagues hate Birds of a Feather because it reinforced the view that Chigwell is just full of chavs and second hand car salesmen. So Birds of a Feather is funny and pisses of estate agents - brilliant.

[wurzel]

I always thought TV comedy hit its nadir with Birds of a Feather. I would have reserved that opinion if I'd had a peek into the future and seen bilge like 2 Pints of Lager.

[Naaarwich]

CSI - where the lab technicians carry guns, interview suspects and solve all cases and the detectives seem to be just decorative add-ons.

CSI Miami is weird - the lead, 'Horatio', seems to have had acting lessons from David Carradine of Kung Fu fame. After any major event he comes up with some pseudo-philosophical bull and then looks out to the horizon and the camera then fades away.

[Clippy]

House - I dont know what's worse - Americans doing really bad English accents or British actors doing 'American' accents. Story always the same - grumpy doctor with bad accent diagnoses an obscure illness.

I may be in the minority here, but I actually like House. Same basic episode structure, but lots of background plots throughout the seasons.

Ha - I love it! Well, first four-and-a-half seasons.

Then they tried to get all serious, and it's crap now.

I love House too. Some of the lines he comes out with are classic.

The Most Watched TV Show in the World at the moment, apparently.