Lovely lovely television

[slemslempike]

I watched an episode of Ruby and the Rockits because it keeps being advertised during Make It Or Break It, and they had a father-daughter dance. Is that something that actually happens in America?? It was INCREDIBLY creepy. It wasn't just a school dance where girls brought their fathers, but a dance where the girls took it in turns to dance soppy formal dances ONE AT A TIME with their fathers in a sort of spotlight while everyone else watched. It was not a good show.

Better Off Ted finished, and I am sad - I love Portia di Rossi, and her management through hairstyle and slapping people and being generally awesome. Ted is less dull than he was, and I love the two scientist guys too. Veridian is so very creepy. Make it or Break it is also finished up (though I have not yet seen the final episode PLEASE DON'T SPOIL ME) and it is some of the most awesome television I've ever seen. I like the relationships between all the girls, it would be nice if they stopped trying to make us like the boys, but whatever happens most of the time there is some brilliant gymnastics going on in the background. Someone's concerned about their personal life, and behind them WHOOSH round the bars and FLIP on the beam and shiny glittery leotards everywhere.

I missed Psych resuming over the summer and now I'm catching up on that, and liking it all even more for the break. They should just leave the whole Shaun/Juliet thing, because it has always been dull and now it is irritating. Lassiter's great, and Cary Elwes was in the first episode! Dread Pirate Roberts is a suave art thief. I am also catching up with Nurse Jackie which I missed the final episodes for. Unfortunately I can't find 7 and 8 for download at the moment so I'm had to skip some. I think Zoe is lovely, with her panda earrings and her childish tops.

I am looking forward to the return of 30 Rock, The Big Bang Theory and The New Adventures of Old Christine. I am also really interested in the Seinfeld cast on Curb Your Enthusiasm, though I've not watched the last few series of that. I am less excited about How I Met Your Mother because I think the last two series have had a serious drop in quality, but I'll probably still watch it. A show needs to be very poor indeed before I stop watching it.

I watch Spicks and Specks even though it still infuriates me that they buzz in first and THEN think of the answer. Also The Librarians from Australia, about a weird power-hungry librarian and her long-suffering (and also weird) staff at the library. Jen has been making a list of people from Home and Away and Neighbours who show up in Prisoner [Cell Block H], and Cody showed up in an epsiode of The Librarians! CODY! Mysteriously not dead of an unlikely drive-by drug dealer shooting in a cul-de-sac, but just her same face and voice.

I watched the first episode of The Byrne Ultimatum, a panel quiz show, even though I am not overly enamoured with Jason Byrne. I really liked it! This is despite really rather disliking John Bishop and never having heard of the other panellists, but the silliness of the rounds and the fact that Jason Byrne was in charge and thus not having to desperately interrupt everyone else in order to draw attention to himself more than made up for it. The Panel is coming back too, mysteriously not cancelled after all, though the last series was really not great and suffered from a hignfyish over-reliance on youtube clips.

Peep Show is back. I wasn't overly impressed with the first episode of this series (though it was pleasantly free of jokes about having raped a teenage boy), And In the Thick of It starts again quite soon, so I must watch the specials before that happens. I liked In the Loop an awful lot, and in the next series of ITTOT one of my friends' names will be used on the phone, apparently. I sort of quite like Off the Hook mostly because Jay-from-the-Inbetweeners is not playing the same character which I had imagined he would. I sometimes quite like Rob Brydon on Would I Lie to You and sometimes he is very wearing, but David Mitchell and Lee Mack are good together. Something called Trinity starts tonight and I think it might be just my kind of trash.

What else is going to be coming back? What's new that I don't know about especially in the US? What's oldish that I should find and see?

Comments

[the_antichris.livejournal.com]

I looooove Make it or Break it. So far it's more or less Stick It in long form, which is exactly what I want to watch.

Glee is pretty fun.

OH TELEVISION

[nerdcakes.livejournal.com]

I am quite excited about Curb Your Enthusiasm. I am excited despite the fact that I haven't watched it in a few years and despite the fact that pretty much all of the Seinfeld cast are COMPLETELY UNBEARABLE when they're being themselves and I am just embracing the fact that it makes me happy whenever Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld are standing near each other in the preview-y bits I've seen.

I LOVE ZOE SO MUCH. I love it when Thor and Mo-Mo look after her and I love how much she adores Jackie and I love her rabbit scrubs. OH.

MOSTLY I love Portia de Rossi. I love that she stole Linda's hair and I love it when she was stressed and shot the pillow and I love that she fell in love with a magician. I am sad to hear that Psych still hasn't gotten over Shaun/Juliet. I should really catch up with Psych at some point.

I think I should watch the old episodes of HIMYM at some point. I have always avoided it because Willow, but I don't think it's fair to avoid an entire show that people love just because of the presence of Willow. On the other hand, Willow.

[orionnebula.livejournal.com]

I don't watch Ruby, so I have no context for the episode, but was it possibly a debutante kind of dance? Where the fathers present their daughters to society? While still weird, at least that's a more familiar concept.

I enjoyed Make It or Break It more than I thought I would. I was always a gymnastics fan as a kid, so it's fun to watch all of the drama.

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

I very much want to see the new series of The Big Bang Theory, though that's partly because I get about 55% of the geek jokes and partly because of an unholy desire to lick the back of Jim Parsons' neck.

Also, I am kind of delighted that somewhere along the way Kaley Cuoco has developed a sense of comedy - she was bloody awful in Charmed but there she is every week on BBT with a nifty sense of timing, doing actual acting and being funny and stuff.

I am on the fence about Lunch Monkeys. Either it'll be the new The IT Crowd or it'll just turn quite vexing and hopeless. I am also quite confused by Home Time, which has lots of actresses in and loops past the Bechdel test approximately every three minutes, but is also quite slow and can't decide whether it's going for surrealism or not.

[stellanova.livejournal.com]

I hate Jason Byrne and think he is an annoying little shouter, but the same night on RTE saw the launch of an excellent new comedy show called Maeve Higgins: Fancy Vittles, which is hilarious and also basically the first time I have seen any ladies on Irish TV whose style and manner seem to resemble me and people I know at all. Anyway, it's very funny, and definitely worth checking out if you can access RTE stuff online.

[gair.livejournal.com]

I really like Spicks and Specks! I watched it when I was in Australia this summer/southern winter, and it was on on Wednesday nights, where there was just like an hour and a half of telly programmes in a row about how great people are and how much fun they might have if they all hung out being nice to each other, not competing or being bitchy/cruel, and making jokes which were not about rape, race/racism, homophobia, ableism, etc. It made me very happy. And also! A girl team captain just as if it was normal for girls to know things about music! I never saw that on Never Mind the Buzzcocks (not that I watched it after the first couple of seasons, mind, and at that time I was going out with a muso boy who had SPECIAL BOY POWERS OF MUSIC KNOWLEDGE - the second in a row, I was really crap at choosing boy partners, hence my eventual fleeing into the Republic of Lesbitania - so he may have tainted it for me rather.)

[irrtum.livejournal.com]

I was a bit disappointed by the first episode of Peep Show too. I even minimised the window to look at facebook because I was so bored. I must get around to watching the Big Bang Theory.