Annika Posted December 27, 2005 Share Posted December 27, 2005 Looking at eztv I'd say.... nothing? :thinking: Wow, never seen that site empty before :o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest c4evap Posted December 28, 2005 Share Posted December 28, 2005 What's on TV in the US this week? Same garbage as always! c4 :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arktis Posted December 28, 2005 Share Posted December 28, 2005 I am proud to say that I don't watch television. Though there has been the odd occaision, I've kept away from TV for the past 3 years. For my news, I rely on the internet and talk radio (NPR w/BBC feeds). I've found that I usually know about important events before they hit mainstream. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyran Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 house i hope this idea of the yanks to rest a series half way thru is a stupid onw and greys anatomy ought to be back too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mav Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 well, let's count Friday as part of this coming "week": Friday we had the returning from mid season Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis and Battlestar Galactica. (all three were great as usual, in my opinion). Sunday, while not new, we have a nice recurring recape of Deadwood s2 and Sopranos s5 (both of which start there new seasons in the coming months) Monday has a new Surface if I recall right. Tuesday has a new Gilmore Girls (ok, my guilty pleasure) and Supernatural Wednesday see's the return of new Lost and Invasion. Not sure if there's a new Smallville on Thursday, I'll google it later. And we meet back on Friday with yet another new night of "sci fi friday" ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quosego Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 Eztv probably went on vacation.... but it looks like they're back and a lot of new shows have arrived :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vektram Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 Well, this isn't US-TV, but we finally have Futurama on Free-to-air TV here in Australia :D I don't watch TV very much so this may be old news, but I'm happy :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annika Posted January 8, 2006 Author Share Posted January 8, 2006 well' date=' let's count Friday as part of this coming "week"[/quote'] Except this week wasn't what I was talking about when I posted it ofcourse ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brummy7175 Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 I usually use calendar for tv. Its not always perfect but gives a general picture. You can program it at the bottom of the page (set filters) for your favourite tv programs. http://www.pogdesign.co.uk/cat/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theaveng Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 this idea of the yanks to rest a series half way thru is a stupid onw No it isn't. If shows ran straight through, there'd be nothing to watch after February. All reruns. That's why American networks developed the current schedule of repeating episodes, so they could stretch out the season to Memorial Day (may). troy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostShadow Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 Its sunday so there will be new eps of 'Family guy' and 'Simpsions' and 'King of the hill' SO i have my night planed out, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mav Posted January 9, 2006 Share Posted January 9, 2006 this idea of the yanks to rest a series half way thru is a stupid onw No it isn't. If shows ran straight through, there'd be nothing to watch after February. All reruns. That's why American networks developed the current schedule of repeating episodes, so they could stretch out the season to Memorial Day (may). troy Well he has a point, the American system is fubar. Not cause they stretch out it to make it last longer, but because there is so little of it. The average hour long show runs between 20-24 episodes a season. If you ran new episodes each week (at 24 a season) then you'd have a full 6 months worth of content. But production time, shooting time, post preduction etc takes forever for some shows. They stretch them out to not only make it appear to last longer, but give themselves time to shoot it. If they just hit us up with 6 months of new episodes back to back they'd be in a rush to film the next season. What erks me is not so much the rerun schedule, but when it goes into effect. Most shows went into reruns Thanksgiving Week, a week when most Americans are at home with family where tv watching is at one of it's highest points..Then we got a week, maybe two if we were lucky, of new episodes leading into December. But then we went three weeks, sometimes the entire month in December (depending apon which show) without new episodes. The entire month of the christmas season, reruns. Most grade/junior/high school kids get a week too two weeks off for christmas, as do most college kids so boom right there is a large demographic they could air too...A great christmas present would have been new sci fi stuff between christmas eve and the day after christmas with there was nothing on tv except reruns of holiday movies.. Oh and the only real mid season breaks, are the Sci Fi channel's shows. You look at Lost, it took a three week break, Stargate(s) and BSG were in reruns for literally, three months..... Maybe if they didn't start their new season in ya know, early July..we could kind of stretch those new episodes a little more :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theaveng Posted January 9, 2006 Share Posted January 9, 2006 You are mistaken. The reason TV networks *don't* show new episodes during holidays is because most people are NOT home. Just check the Nielsen ratings.... # of viewers plummets during Thanksgiving & Christmas. It makes no sense to air new shows while people are visiting Grandma & Grandpa and/or getting drunk at the club. Better to wait until January/February when there's literally nothing to do except sit in front of the TV. BTW, if you study OLD shows (like Star Trek TOS or Mash) you'll notice they did do 26 episodes per year. 26 weeks of new & 26 weeks of repeats with the repeats sprinkled throughout the year. But the networks cut back to 20 because, like you said, it's become terribly expensive to create new product. They can no longer afford to do 26. As for Sci-Fi Channel, well it's cable, and cable can't go head-to-head with over-the-antenna networks. It would be suicide. So they schedule new shows during the summer when networks are showing reruns. Cable's schedule is more-or-less opposite what NBC/CBS/ABC do, so as to avoid direct competing. troy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil Enigma Posted January 9, 2006 Share Posted January 9, 2006 US television sucks. They repeat everything about a billion times, before they get anything new. Friday is like the only good night for T.V. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theaveng Posted January 9, 2006 Share Posted January 9, 2006 US television sucks. They repeat everything about a billion times' date=' before they get anything new. Friday is like the only good night for T.V. [/quote'] Heh. You ought to try watching Canadian, British, or German TV sometime. I have, and it's even worse. Either (a) the original programming is so bad, it's painful, or (b) the original programming is good, but there's only 1 show per year worth watching which is just pathetic, or © they are showing reruns of U.S. tv I already saw many, many years ago. Foreign TV makes u.s. tv look like pure gold. I feel very fortunate to have U.S. TV with its ~100 channels of programming, ~15 of which are producing ~100 shows * 20 episodes = 2000 new episodes every year. Even if you watched 4 hours of TV a day, it would still take you 500 days to keep up with all those shows! U.S. TV doesn't suck. It's fantastic! Yep.... we here in the U.S. are fortunate to have so much entertainment to choose from. ASIDE: Some of you will probably dispute my "about 15 channels producing new episodes" claim, so here's a quick list: ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, WB, UPN, FX, USA, ABCfamily, SCIFI, HBO, TNT, Nick, Disney, History/TLC/Discovery/Animal Planet, and probably a few others I've forgotten (hence the phrase "about 15"). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theaveng Posted January 9, 2006 Share Posted January 9, 2006 P.S. If Ye think non-u.s. tv is superior, please share with us all the great non-u.s. shows we should be downloading? AND NO RERUNS. I'm talking about actual live shows that are brand-new. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil Enigma Posted January 9, 2006 Share Posted January 9, 2006 I don't think any T.V. anywhere is superior US or otherwise. Different countries have certain shows I like watching. U.S. Battlestar Galactica U.K. Doctor Who Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S0V13T Posted January 9, 2006 Share Posted January 9, 2006 I'd highly reccomend Trailer Park Boys for anyone interested in a comedy series that revolves around Canadian street crime, from the criminals perspective. Definatelly an aquired taste. Troy would hate it, but anyone down with hard drinking, some occasional recreational drug use, loaded hand guns, so much profanity that it looses all meaning after a season, and looking for examples / tips on how to beat the fuzz would like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiggy Posted January 9, 2006 Share Posted January 9, 2006 Ha Ha we've heard of Trailer Park Boys here in the UK. I found it sad that people in Canada are so stupid. These people should of been put to sleep long ago. We should have a series like that in the UK.......The Pikee Boys.........based around Irish jippos robbing houses, garden ornaments and visiting leisure centres to have a wash. our trailer park boys also have guns so you wouldnt be missing out on that. Throw in a few Irish folk songs for the theme.........great show concept. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest c4evap Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 I'd highly reccomend Trailer Park Boys for anyone interested in a comedy series that revolves around Canadian street crime' date=' from the criminals perspective. Definatelly an aquired taste. Troy would hate it, but anyone down with hard drinking, some occasional recreational drug use, loaded hand guns, so much profanity that it looses all meaning after a season, and looking for examples / tips on how to beat the fuzz would like it.[/quote'] Wow. That sounds like it's right up my alley. Torrents anyone? Here and here. c4 B) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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