We're getting rid of our $40/month cable next week :(
What's good, other than Enterprise, West Wing and PBS?
Are you going to satellite, or simplifying by going to antenna only?
If you've got Enterprise, you've got UPN, which means you've got "Veronica Mars" and "Kevin Hill", both of which made it onto my Tivo list.
"Veronica Mars" is a show that they're having a tough time categorizing (which explains why it's having ratings trouble, although it has consistently improved each week). Essentially, think Buffy the Vampire Slayer, only instead of teen-drama-horror/fantasy, it's teen-drama-mystery, with our lead a high-school girl who used to be in the in-crowd but was ostracized after her father (the former sheriff) dared to accuse the richest man in town of murder. Now her father is a private investigator, and Veronica helps him out while using her mad Nancy-Drew-skillz to help her friends on the side. Just got picked up for a full season.
"Kevin Hill" is a very well-written drama (although it's not as serious as it sounds -- more like Ally McBeal before Ally McBeal went over the edge into self-parody) about a cool lawyer who inherits a year-old baby girl when his cousin dies. The show is kind of about him figuring out this whole baby thing while dealing with weekly court cases. Not an action-thriller or vampire-hunting masterpiece, but it's well-written and has good acting. (And here I studiously ignore my wife's enthusiastic helpful comments of "And I could watch Taye Diggs read from a telephone book for a full hour and not get bored!")
I've also heard great things about two comedies, "Scrubs" and "Arrested Development", although I don't watch the former (it's on opposite Veronica Mars, and has always been opposite something I want to watch more) and have just started watching the latter.
We're going to antenna.
Is Lost yet another incarnation of Land of the Lost, or something new?
Chief Technical Officer
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We're going to antenna.
Is Lost yet another incarnation of Land of the Lost, or something new?
Lost is a new show from creator J.J. Abrams (Alias), about a group of people who survive a plane crash on a mysterious island where things are not what they seem. It's on ABC on Wednesday nights.
-Vic.
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Wednesday is West Wing. It's not my usual scifi fare, but it is rather good.
I caught an episode of this Lost show last night and now I'm lost. There seems to be island stuff and hospital stuff.
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Chief Technical Officer
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I caught an episode of this Lost show last night and now I'm lost. There seems to be island stuff and hospital stuff.
The island is the "present" setting. Each episode also has a "flashback" setting that illuminates the pre-crash life of one of the survivors that's prominent in the "present" episode - in the latest episode, the flashback was about the surgeon and his relationship with his father, hence the hopsital. Next episode, the flashback will probably be on a different character in a different setting.
The bad news is that the past week's episode was not a great strating point. The good news is that the first episode of the series is being rerun next week, so if you give it a try, you might be less lost.
-Vic.
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Thanks, though I think I missed it. Last week was knitter's circle.
SO, my hubbey has said several times that he's going to get rid of it, but it's still here. Yay. Maybe it won't go away. I totally love the new Battlestar Galactica, and I'm addicted to SciFi channel.