Just finished "Life on Mars"

[Creeping Death]

And I can only recommend it... Just keep watching it till the end. It ran on BBC and the second season ended sometime in April this year. It consisted of 2 seasons, 8 episodes each, an hour a piece. It's about a police officer/detective inspector who gets hit by a car and goes back in time. Well you can't be sure if he's "mad, back in time, or in a coma". Sounded pretty damn lame to me before I started watching it but I have to say I thought it was pretty good, like I said you just have to watch it.

Anyone else seen it and what did you think?

Anyway, now I'm looking for something else to watch, any recommendations? And please don't start with prison break or lost. Those two were alright to begin with but what is it with American tv shows being draaaagged out if they do well in the ratings?

Cheers!

[4play]

wire in the blood is almost meant to be pretty good.

[ArchStanton]

I love the British seventies police shows it took it's inspiration from but I didn't really enjoy Life on Mars, I thought it was stupid but not in a good way. I will probably give the spin off show a miss.

[Creeping Death]

@4play: almost pretty good... I'll most certainly give it a try :)

@ArchStanton: Did you watch the whole show? And can you maybe recommend any british 70's police shows?

Cheers!

[ArchStanton]

@ArchStanton: Did you watch the whole show? And can you maybe recommend any british 70's police shows?

Cheers!

Yeah I watched both seasons.

I would recommend The Sweeney, I loved that show and I have all four seasons on DVD. Just thinking about it makes me want to start quoting my favourite lines but I will resist the temptation. Life on Mars was reminiscent of The Sweeney but obviously more tongue in cheek which I found quite irritating to be honest.

If you enjoy The Sweeney then you might also enjoy The Professionals.

[Busyman™]

And I can only recommend it... Just keep watching it till the end. It ran on BBC and the second season ended sometime in April this year. It consisted of 2 seasons, 8 episodes each, an hour a piece. It's about a police officer/detective inspector who gets hit by a car and goes back in time. Well you can't be sure if he's "mad, back in time, or in a coma". Sounded pretty damn lame to me before I started watching it but I have to say I thought it was pretty good, like I said you just have to watch it.

Anyone else seen it and what did you think?

Anyway, now I'm looking for something else to watch, any recommendations? And please don't start with prison break or lost. Those two were alright to begin with but what is it with American tv shows being draaaagged out if they do well in the ratings?

Cheers!

Babylon 5 (5 seasons + the movies)/Crusade
Firefly/Serenity

If they do well in the ratings they aren't being dragged out, obveeusmeant.:ermm:

So there should have been just 2 seasons of X-Files?
The one season of Firefly was enough?
How about Babylon 5? Maybe the writer should have just did 2 seasons, for just cuz' sake?

American TV shows have a huge market. If I was an executive I would've canceled Firefly too. It was out at the wrong time.

Now I would be working my ass off to bring the show back.

I happen to think Lost has been pretty good this season. I haven't seen Prison Break though. I'll wait for the DVD. I missed too many episodes near the beginning and I don't watch shit outta order.

[Colt Seevers]

Ahh the good old days!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWhV2etALVg&NR=1

My own personal pref would be The Comic Strips pisstake on the genre: The Bullshitters:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL6_CWkmGg4&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIIAP_-Siz4
SHATTUUP!


:whistling

[Creeping Death]

And I can only recommend it... Just keep watching it till the end. It ran on BBC and the second season ended sometime in April this year. It consisted of 2 seasons, 8 episodes each, an hour a piece. It's about a police officer/detective inspector who gets hit by a car and goes back in time. Well you can't be sure if he's "mad, back in time, or in a coma". Sounded pretty damn lame to me before I started watching it but I have to say I thought it was pretty good, like I said you just have to watch it.

Anyone else seen it and what did you think?

Anyway, now I'm looking for something else to watch, any recommendations? And please don't start with prison break or lost. Those two were alright to begin with but what is it with American tv shows being draaaagged out if they do well in the ratings?

Cheers!

Babylon 5 (5 seasons + the movies)/Crusade
Firefly/Serenity

If they do well in the ratings they aren't being dragged out, obveeusmeant.:ermm:

So there should have been just 2 seasons of X-Files?
The one season of Firefly was enough?
How about Babylon 5? Maybe the writer should have just did 2 seasons, for just cuz' sake?

American TV shows have a huge market. If I was an executive I would've canceled Firefly too. It was out at the wrong time.

Now I would be working my ass off to bring the show back.

I happen to think Lost has been pretty good this season. I haven't seen Prison Break though. I'll wait for the DVD. I missed too many episodes near the beginning and I don't watch shit outta order.

I wasn't saying that everything should be limited to 2 seasons. I was simply saying that certain shows shouldn't be stretched over 10 seasons. Especially those where you're watching to find something out at the end and it's more about the plot that runs throughout the show than the plot of every individual episode. And I'm sorry but I stand by what I said, Lost seems really really dragged out. And Prison Break, I mean I'm not gonna ruin it for you by telling you what happens, but when I saw the last episode of season 2 I just laughed. They should've just left it at them getting out of prison. I still enjoyed it but it somehow ruined those two shows for me. Lost is going to go on until 2010. In my opinion we should've just found out the secret behind the island or whatever after 2 seasons. I just prefer it when they specify how many episodes/seasons they're gonna make, and then when it's done it's done, no matter how many people were watching or how good it was.

EDIT: "If they do well in the ratings they aren't being dragged out, obveeusmeant.:ermm:"
huh? I wouldn't necessarily agree with that... I think that perhaps you underestimate the average tv viewer's IQ(a lot of people do stop watching, but enough keep watching to make it worthwhile)...And obveeusmeant? Is that an attempt at french? :p

EDIT2: @Colt Seevers: Loved that last video.

[Creeping Death]

Just started watching the first season of the Sweeney.

All I can say is it looks very promising.

[Busyman™]

Babylon 5 (5 seasons + the movies)/Crusade
Firefly/Serenity

If they do well in the ratings they aren't being dragged out, obveeusmeant.:ermm:

So there should have been just 2 seasons of X-Files?
The one season of Firefly was enough?
How about Babylon 5? Maybe the writer should have just did 2 seasons, for just cuz' sake?

American TV shows have a huge market. If I was an executive I would've canceled Firefly too. It was out at the wrong time.

Now I would be working my ass off to bring the show back.

I happen to think Lost has been pretty good this season. I haven't seen Prison Break though. I'll wait for the DVD. I missed too many episodes near the beginning and I don't watch shit outta order.

I wasn't saying that everything should be limited to 2 seasons. I was simply saying that certain shows shouldn't be stretched over 10 seasons. Especially those where you're watching to find something out at the end and it's more about the plot that runs throughout the show than the plot of every individual episode. And I'm sorry but I stand by what I said, Lost seems really really dragged out. And Prison Break, I mean I'm not gonna ruin it for you by telling you what happens, but when I saw the last episode of season 2 I just laughed. They should've just left it at them getting out of prison. I still enjoyed it but it somehow ruined those two shows for me. Lost is going to go on until 2010. In my opinion we should've just found out the secret behind the island or whatever after 2 seasons. I just prefer it when they specify how many episodes/seasons they're gonna make, and then when it's done it's done, no matter how many people were watching or how good it was.

EDIT: "If they do well in the ratings they aren't being dragged out, obveeusmeant.:ermm:"
huh? I wouldn't necessarily agree with that... I think that perhaps you underestimate the average tv viewer's IQ(a lot of people do stop watching, but enough keep watching to make it worthwhile)...And obveeusmeant? Is that an attempt at french? :p

EDIT2: @Colt Seevers: Loved that last video.

TV execs over here are quite fickle. A show will get canceled in a heartbeat. I can't comment on Prison Break season 2 but it does seem weird that it's not a prison break per se, anymore.

Mediocre TV shows don't last 10 (let's say even 5 or 6) seasons in primetime slots on network TV. The market shakes out.

X-Files was a great show but it dragged out a little bit when you kept getting Scully staying with her "unbeliever" status after alllllllll the shit she'd seen. The wraparound story was the low part of the show imo yet the show went on for 8 (or 9) seasons. I liked the show best when it was just them investigating individual happenings. The Black Oil was ok but again, the wraparound story was weak.

I still like Lost. I think many think the show's being dragged out due to all the question not being answered. I happen to like the mystery. I like how this season opened with Ben and company running outside of houses and seeing the plane crash. I like how you find out Ben isn't even an Other but the son of a Dharma worker. I like..........you get the point.

If you like shows with a start and end then watch Babylon 5. It's written like a book. Even the 5th and last season was nice and the main saga was kinda over. It's transitions well to Crusade although that show wasn't as good (not by a longshot). Crusade also has Jin from Lost.

As far as understimating viewer IQ....we have a number of shitty shows on TV that people still. American TV offers so many choices that it's ridiculous....Jerry Springer to Discovery Channel shows to Animal Planet to Food Network (now in HD:ermm:) to blahblahblah.

[Creeping Death]

haha I love the idea of "Food Network" in HD.

And yeah it was great when you saw Ben and company living in houses etc, Jack throwing around a football, having a blast. It just seems like a lot of time is wasted...

Off to sleep now, I shall take a look at babylon 5 in the morning.

Cheers!

EDIT: oh yeah, The Sweeney is absolute class as it turns out. Well a lot of fun to watch in any case, check it out if you can get your hands on it. I'm about halfway through season 1 and loving it

[Cheese]

Life on Mars rawked huge amounts.


Those two were alright to begin with but what is it with American tv shows being draaaagged out if they do well in the ratings?Agreed. There are noticeable dips in quality in these "epic" shows. Lost has gotten better with season 3 though season 2 sucked. 24 had a disappointing last season (something even admitted by the makers) and I don't know anyone who still watches Prison Break . . .

Check out Dexter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter_%28TV_series%29)if you haven't already. It only weighs in at 12 episodes so it won't leave you with that bloated feeling but it is easily the best of recent 'merkin TV.

[Busyman™]

I have to agree with Cheese although I don't think season 2 sucked. I liked how it introduced the Tailies (only 2 left now).

24 was ok until it went "trade nuke tech for Audrey" mode. That dampened this season.

I've watched 2 episodes of Prison Break this season and they were the first 2. I can't judge for that reason. Many people have it their favorite show.:idunno:

Dexter is the shit. It's like CSI + Silence Of The Lambs. It's very closely based on Jeff Lindsey's book, Darkly Dreaming Dexter. There are some notable changes that even affect the ending. Hopefully season 2 will go along with Dearly Devoted Dexter. Season 2 is set for Oct. 7 (which coincides around the time of season 1's premiere)

I don't know why I haven't watched LOM. It's probably a good time to watch it now that it's summertime. There aren't that many shows at this time. Kids are outta school and Americans tend to vacation a lot and not watch TV as much.

Also CSI (Vegas) was damn good this season. That's one of those ++season shows that is verrrry high in ratings. They mix it up a bit with a new member that has "problems".

[Cheese]

With regards to season 2 of Dexter they say they are not basing it around the second novel. To my mind that can only be a good thing because the novel wasn't very good.

[Busyman™]

With regards to season 2 of Dexter they say they are not basing it around the second novel. To my mind that can only be a good thing because the novel wasn't very good.

I heard it had a killer that doesn't kill you but rather muitilates you so bad that you howl like a dog.

I guess they couldn't base it so much around the novel since there is one major character from the first that died.

I understand that his brother survives too.

Are you going to read Dexter In The Dark?

[Creeping Death]

Check out Dexter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter_%28TV_series%29)if you haven't already. It only weighs in at 12 episodes so it won't leave you with that bloated feeling but it is easily the best of recent 'merkin TV.

I saw Dexter mentioned in the "favourite tv show" thread(or similar) and I just remember thinking "what, the guy with the lab? Who the hell on here still watches Cartoon Network". hahaha

Well I'll most definitely be checking this out as well, another good one by the looks of it.

I certainly won't be wanting for tv shows to watch in the near future. Not even done with the Sweeney yet, waiting on Babylon 5, and about to get my hands on Dexter. Once I get it I'll watch the first episode and get back to you though.

Cheers!

[ArchStanton]

EDIT: oh yeah, The Sweeney is absolute class as it turns out. Well a lot of fun to watch in any case, check it out if you can get your hands on it. I'm about halfway through season 1 and loving it

I love the hard bitten characters and cynical humour, I am really glad you are enjoying it.