Shows you are ashamed of... (bad TV not-so-anonymous)
 

That you love to watch, even TIVO/taping.
Breaking Bonnaduchi, train wreck. I know why, it makes me feel MUCH better about who I am and the daily decisions/impulse control that I make/have.
Since it is "real" somewhere in my addled "brain" (still not sure about that since the aliens had at me) I can say I am different than soap-opera divas.

SG1, just good-ol' bad show that I ended-up hooked-on because it was the least of many evils while I was too ill to get-up and get a DVD. It was not my fault. If you were fed crack in bed for two weeks, you would get hookded... DON'T JUDGE ME FUCKER! I'll cut ya'

Battlestar Galactica, just denial, I tell myself it is not bad. I must not go back and re-watch it in a few years, because I will know the plot (not be into it) and see it for the button-pushing, standard formula show, on a larger scale, that it is... nope-nope... not gonna' do it.

"Hello, I'm Rob & I watch bad TV".:redface:

Project Runway and Top Chef on Bravo. Actually, I don't feel so bad about Top Chef. But Project Runway? What was I thinking???

I really love watching Crazy Reverend Gino.

There is never shame in the desire for Star Trek (TOS) I wear my geekdom with pride.

I don't embarrass easily.

I guess I'll fess up to these 2 shows as well, before LJ dimes me out - but keep in mind that he watches them too!! But he wouldn't if I didn't go and buy them on itunes...

I watched a couple of Top Chefs... too many whiny bitches for me. A lot of them would not have cut it in my kitchen. How do they work?

Law&Order:Criminal Intent (I've got the hots for D'onofrio) and SVU (I've the hots for Melloni)

Unwrapped on the food channel (30 min. of how your Cheez-its, Gummy Bears or Lil' Debbies are made and similar)

I Love the 80's on VH-1.

The Simpson's--twice a day on week days--6pm and 7pm. Some people think I should be over it by now.

Ok... I did watch I love the 70's.

Nobody said "Hi Rob":sniff:

Dr. Who -- the Tom Baker years. :love:
Mind of Mencia -- it was on after Colbert, and I just couldn't help watching. Like a road accident.
Nigella Lawson's show -- soft-focus food porn, with a British accent to boot.

I'm not currently watching anything to speak of.... but I used to enjoy Taildaters when it was on MTV. I suppose I'll at least rent the DVDs if they ever put them out. (Worse garbage has made it to DVD, so who knows?)

I have occasionally watched an episode of "Parental Control" on MTV when my husband has control of the remote. What a godawful program, yet I am unable to get up off the couch and leave the room.

Farscape - the lead dude is hot!!

The OC - I know, I know...i'm sooo tragic!!

Grey's Anatomy - mmmm Dr. McDreamy

The Simpsons.

Over and over again...



[edit] BTW, while watching the Batman movie (1966) today, I realized that David Caruso went to the Adam West School of Acting.

Red Dwarf - Cockney culture, bad jokes starting with bathroom humor and descending rapidly, junk science fiction, and cheap-ass special effects.

Babylon Five - Formulaic, but on a scale that makes Battlestar Galactica look like the Power Rangers. (ooh, culture wars:p)

Eureka - Geek heaven.


I have at times watched Desperate Housewives and the O.C., but with a degree of randomness and inattention that I believe gives me political cover.

Why is everyone (except wolf) ashamed to watch science fiction? What's wrong with you all?

Anybody who was born before Star Wars grew up being told SF was crap they shouldn't watch. Stuff that you learn in your early years like that tends to stick, hard.

I have to say, Battle Star Galactica doesn't rank very highly on my list of must watch shows, but hubby sometimes stays up to watch it. I personally think it's probably the worst sci-fi show I've ever seen. What were they thinking when they did the remake???

I'm addicted to The Bold & The Beautiful. I think that takes the cake for 'The Tragic Award'.

Battlestar I kept watching, thinking 'it surely must get better...'


but it didn't. I think I prefer the original - at least it was unpretentious hokum-pokum.

Babylon 5 and Farscape are probally the best TV Sci-Fi shows to-date. Firefly could have been interesting, but the movie 'Serenity' was far, far, better.

as for non-SF shows, for sheer 'my brain needs a rest - popcorn munchin' escapism' I've always liked stuff like 'the sweeney, the professionals, hill st blues' et al

Gilmore Girls.

Witty, well-written, VERY musically hip... but still, its the fucking Gilmore Girls.

Wait, you're fucking the Gilmore Girls?!?!? :eek: :notworthy

(Come on, you know somebody had to say it.)

B5 and Firefly didn't make the list because I'm not ashamed of them. They both effin' rock!

I'm another Project Runway and Top Chef fan. I used to love Isaac (fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi's talk show), but they got rid of the band and Giovanni the barrista this season, so no more. The most embarrassing one was Ice-T's Rap School on VH1.

Firefly, I forgot that one. I'm ashamed of it, because Joss Whedon = the devil.

I'm going to go and watch The Rat Patrol. In Color.

I just got the Season 1 DVD set.

I think that counts for this thread.

Oh yeah, and I loved The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

There is a lot of 60s and 70s TV of questionable artistic merit that I love.

Like Batman and The Green Hornet. Some time last year one of the Encore channels (either Action or Mystery) was running Green Hornet episodes. I think, though, that like The Avengers, these shows have a certain kitschy-ness that makes them okay to like.

The Green Hornet.

I met The Green Hornet AND KATO once and SOME were I have an autograph from them both !!!

I am not ashamed to watch SF... just poorly acted/written SF.

Back in the day - Get Smart. ...and loving it.;)

I love the new Battlestar! I think they've done some really interesting things with it. The choice to make Starbuck a girl, but keep many of the rogueish elements of the character was a good call. I also think it's of a high quality in terms of script writing and acting. What was particularly brave, imo, is that they broke away from the adage that a TV show should be accessible at any point that you come into it. I came into the show about a third of the way through the first series and was totally lost for two episodes. I knew what I was watching was good, that the character interaction was believable and complex......but I was also very confused. I then started to piece it together and eventually downloaded the mini-series and first couple of episodes to fill in the gaps. Most programmes you can come in to any episode in the series and all the pieces fit together within that first viewing.

I am absolutely not ashamed to like Battlstar.....nor am i ashamed to like Sci-fi. I used to have loads of arguments with Judah's dad about sci-fi and its potential worth as an art form. (he is a playwrite). I read and watch all sorts of stuff, from 'high culture' to pulp novels. I don't see that sci-fi is any less valid as an art form than books like Wuthering Heights and the plays of Ibsen. It just operates along different lines and criteria. Some of the finest novels I have ever read have been science fiction, and they dealt with the 'big issues'. Some of the worst novels i have ever read have also been sci-fi, but then again some of the most unreadable and unengaging stuff I've ever read has been so called 'literature'.

I am slightly shamefaced about my love for 'Cadfael' though :P

But then you listed SG1 and Galactica. SG1 is OK, but in no way embarassing, and Galactica is excellent in both writing and acting.

Kato was Bruce Lee, in the TV series. I love it, too

Southpark.

Kung Fu - watched it new, will watch it anytime I run across it, now.

ah, grasshopper....... loved that series. Also 'Monkey' and 'The Water margin'.... now, Monkey was kitsch!

@DanaC - have you been watchng the SCi-Fi Brittannia stuff on Beeb 4? Some good stuff in there.

Yes I have! It's been a brilliant series. And some of the reshowings have been a delight.

I'll watch Jimmy Neutron if it's on. what?

Jimmy rocks.

The angry beavers , (Oliver our boston terrier was almost named DAG )

Most EVERYTHING on Adult swim ,

I have the dvd of the first half of the star wars cartoon ( from cartoon net work )

I used to love watching Seaquest DSV years ago... be nice

We have all of SG1 on DVD now, and are starting to accumulate Atlantis. We're in the seventh season, I think. We borrowed Season One from a friend who had all the box sets that had been released up until '04 Fall, and we just got totally hooked. Very ST feel to it, well written, good characters, a great sense of humor throughout. I'm not ashamed.

I *am* ashamed to say that we live and die with American Idol, though...

The Avengers

Man I love watching those shows! Its just too bad that SG1 got cancelled... but hey there are gonna be 2 straight to dvd movies for SG1 after the show is done and those are supposed to lead into a new series.