What type of television do you prefer?

[Rudy]

I know a lot of people on this forum, myself included, watch little or no television. For the sake of the poll, please assume that you are watching television. What kind is it likely to be? If you commonly watch more than one type, please select them all.

Please tell me if I've excluded some important category.

[dragonsscout]

Sci-Fi (Star Trek, BSG, Firefly), Other Fantastic (Lost, Heroes, Buffy), Sitcoms (30 Rock), and Documentary (whatever).

Unfortunately, I forgot about The Daily Show, which could go under Other Comedy or News/Politics, since he's better at delivering it sometimes than news networks. I also forgot about Band of Brothers, which I suppose is Other Drama.

Right now, I watch BSG, Lost, Heroes, and 30 Rock regularly, and The Daily Show on occasion. I mostly watch via Hulu or some other online source to cut down on commercials and to watch whenever I want. Without that, it'd probably go down to just Lost and Heroes right now.

[azelismia]

cartoon sitcom. I tend to watch documentaries and cartoon sitcoms exclusively other than when I watch dvds of reddwarf and that sort of thing.

[Chilifoot]

Where are movies? All sorts of mostly good movies.
How could you forget that? I am disgusted.

[TheLastMohican]

Until about a year ago, I watched Jeopardy! and the evening news every weekday. You missed gameshows!
I might get interested enough to keep watching a fiction show if I started it, but I probably wouldn't start it in the first place. If anything, probably a good sitcom.

I also love the History Channel, but I don't have cable. :(

[Rudy]

You missed gameshows!

Ack! Damnit, my bad.

[rara avis]

Cartoons, should they have their own category?
My favorite show is Venture Bros... I decided they count as "other comedy".

I don't have cable, though, so I watch PBS most often... and for some reason, I also - on a certain week night, not sure which one - occasionally come to my senses only to find myself eating ice cream while staring vaguely at The Biggest Loser. It's not intentional, I don't even know what channel that is. It just keeps working out that way.

Whatever day of the week that is apparently drains an incredible amount of my soul by the time I get home from work. It's a zombie thing; who needs Ambien when you've got a job like mine?

[Rudy]

Cartoons, should they have their own category?
My favorite show is Venture Bros... I decided they count as "other comedy".
They should have, yes. As it is, other comedy is fine, I think. Two in a row, missed. Clearly I'm not cut out for making polls =D

[sagewolf]

Fantastic (If we had a TV I would watch Heroes), Sitcoms (...Well, okay, Scrubs), Sketch comedy (I like Monty Python: yes, all my choices are based on ONE show) and Documentary (specifically, anything related to things that kill people, like plague or other pandemics, or Seconds From Disaster. Also animal-based documentaries.). If I had actually read the thread before voting, I'd have put down Other Comedy as well, for cartoons. ...Although I have to say that FMA (Anime? Should that have been one?) is most definitely NOT comedy (although some anime is comedy).

Unfortunately, we don't have a TV here. So I make do with DVDs.





sagewolf added to this post, 4 minutes and 47 seconds later...

Fantastic (If we had a TV I would watch Heroes), Sitcoms (...Well, okay, Scrubs), Sketch comedy (I like Monty Python: yes, all my choices are based on ONE show) and Documentary (specifically, anything related to things that kill people, like plague or other pandemics, or Seconds From Disaster. Also animal-based documentaries.). If I had actually read the thread before voting, I'd have put down Other Comedy as well, for cartoons. ...Although I have to say that FMA (Anime? Should that have been one?) is most definitely NOT comedy (although some anime is comedy).

Unfortunately, we don't have a TV here. So I make do with DVDs.

[Muumeh]

Mostly documentaries, sometimes comedy shows. The problem with documentaries nowadays is that there's too little real ones and way too many docudramas which makes my head explode in anger. (...and then the HUGE TIDAL WAVE will destroy all these places in this order in this exact way!!1 Be afraid, be very afraid! MWHAHAHAHA)

Did I mention that I gave my TV away about... eight years ago? Instead of being in the mercy of normal TV broadcasts, we tend to sail to the bay to load whatever specific show we're interested in to the ship... if you know what I mean

[callmemigs]

Are anime episodes included? Well then, I have to add them here.

[WaeV]

House and Fringe regularly, occasionally CSI. I put Other Drama, because they're scattered.

[daydreamer]

:( i'm bummed with the current selection of shows. so i find myself mostly renting serials on dvd from netflix, some classic shows or some british things that i haven't seen before. currently catching up on the old mission impossibles, the house of eliot, a miniseries on the life of john adams, and the greatest american hero. i've got moonlighting, rome, the streets of san francisco, the rockford files, and the wild wild west in queue, but it will be a while i think before i get to them. who knows if they stand the test of time but it's fun to look back and sometimes they hit the spot.

current shows right now include jon stewart and stephen colbert. and ramsey's kitchen nightmares, and sometimes you are what you eat.

[Samoan Corleone]

I LOVED The Sopranos (which goes under Crime drama, I guess). I remember a certain sadness watching the last episode in my room, knowing I'd never see Tony and the gang again. But, as the ending left little closure, I was more like "wtf just happened?" than "goodbye." I later worked out what it meant and felt sadder.

I do watch some shows, like Prison Break and CSI, but the fact that they're all lacking something puts me off at times. What are they lacking? Well, all shows catered to adults that don't at all contain the F word and its variants are, in my opinion, unrealistic.

[Henry]

The only thing I can watch are the 80s movies on AMC. Everything else is fail.

[Anumidium]

No cable here, so I'm like Muumeh - sailing the bay is so nice. Or going to consult the green demon. Usually I watch documentaries (ones about nuclear weapons are favourites) and sci-fi shows. X-Files, Stargate, those cheesy old Gerry Anderson shows (though actually Space 1999 has its moments).. I don't know how to classify The Prisoner, for some reason they put it under sci-fi too.

[Broken Mind]

My three favorite shows are House, Monk, and Dexter. Which category would that be? Other comedy?

[axe rive]

If I'm going to watch, it will generally follow this pattern:

Morning - ESPN
Evening - Discovery/History, ESPN, or Comedy Central
Night - Comedy Central

[Rudy]

My three favorite shows are House, Monk, and Dexter. Which category would that be? Other comedy?

House would be Medical Drama, Monk would probably be Crime Drama, and Dexter would be other drama.

In any case, I'll probably try this again in a week or so, with a lot more categories.

[Bobert]

Childrens Programming?

I'm partial to Pingu, The Backyardigans, & Peep and the Big Wide World.

[graciela224]

I love reality TV. It's the epitome of mindless entertainment. I wish PBS still did their reality series (Colonial House, Manor House, etc.) because I would love to do something like that.

[Bobert]

I remember Colonial House! I wish they could have done it with less a "reality tv" flair to it. I would liked to have seen it with general people, not people hand picked for psychological conflict reasons.

[SeaCzar]

Strange combo here. C-SPAN, ESPN, PBS, History and Discovery, the Weather Channel. Also, now that I have DirecTV, there are bunch of channels I have been getting into. NASA TV is one.

[qwerty123]

I don't have the attention span for television. I miss the simple banter between friends the next day, but as with other INTJ's, I don't feel that I miss out on all that much. I'm far more at home with books. Amongst the pages, I don't need TiVo to pause, go back, or fast forward..

A lot of modern television will end with some vague question that seems designed to provoke awe, I usually fail to raise an eyebrow.

[Snowdragon]

90% of the stuff I see on TV is unwatchable. Most of them are all "I'm-15-and-I-don't-care-what-my-momma-says-I'm-gonna-have-a-baby."



The only shows I watch are Superjail, Family Guy, and documentaries on National Geographic.

[Jonathan Brewer]

I like to watch something that I can learn something from. For this reason I chose Documentary. They can be on almost anything as long as it is knowledgeable.

But truth be known, I don't even own a television. Anything I watch I pick up through my computer. And really, if it's not on the internet I don't want it.

[CaseBlue]

Only very rarely will I watch TV. I tried cable for the History Channel, but I find it hard to consider the recurring shows involving UFOs, ghosts, and prophets to be actual history. Instead, I just buy the DVDs and watch them whenever I please. I tend towards Sci-Fi, and there is a documentary series called "Battlefield" which is excellent and surprisingly either error free or accepting of the complexity of history rather than the bland "black and white" tapestries a lot of shows attempt to get people to believe.

[Matty37]

Frontline, Nova, Cyclism Sunday's on Versus, Nightly Business Report, Colbert Report, Daily Show, and Mad Men. I hardly ever find time to watch TV. I'll often stay up all night reading material that is of interest to me or catching up on transcripts from PBS and NPR.