TV you rush home for! (For me its Skins)

DonDaddyD

Every Thursday I rush home eagerly, despite the fact that Skins starts at 10pm.... :shock:

Today's episode was about as perfect as it could get, JJ taking action with his drug fuelled disfunctional friends and getting laid at the end of the episode awesome! My favourite episdoe still has to be the one about Thomas though.

Does anyone else watch Skins? Do you find yourself rushing home to watch a TV programme?

redddraggon

Neighbours

roger_merriman

none as, i watch almost zero tv, when i was single i didn't have a tv.

Rich158

it used to be Masterchef, i love any food proogramme

My current addiction is Shameless,

My guilty secret was Stricly Come Dancing, I didn't miss it :oops: :oops: :oops: but then I do have a love for reallly crap TV

iain_j

I can sit and watch garbage on the TV for hours but there's nothing I particularly rush home to see.

Except the Tour de France highlights at 7 o'clock during July

il_principe

House
The Wire - when it was on (Greatest TV drama of the last 10 years)
Generation Kill (From the creators of the Wire and equally brilliant)
The Shield
Grand Designs
Top Gear
24
Oz & James
Hairy Bikers
Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares
River Cottage
Anything with Heston Blumenthal
Champions League and all Chelsea games

(Yes I like food and wine TV)

A watch a mix of Sky (HD+ yey) and US Torrents (House, 24 etc) streamed to my Apple TV ) (for stuff like House)

Clever Pun

Rich158 wrote:

it used to be Masterchef, i love any food proogramme

My current addiction is Shameless,

yeah Shameless is great also My name is Earl, American Dad, heroes, lost, generation kill and 24 are all on series link

I've got sky+ so I don't have to rush home, I just watch it when I want.. yey

DonDaddyD

No one watches Skins, no? Try it it is a master piece!

pllb

Grand Designs
Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall
Oz & James
Top Gear
24
Gordon Ramsey Kitchen Nightmares
Countryfile
Free Agents (top swearing!)
The IT Crowd
Anything with Ray Mears
and my new favourite - Monty Halls Great Escape (BBC2)

Clever Pun

DonDaddyD wrote:

No one watches Skins, no? Try it it is a master piece!

not as good with the new characters.. just spoilt it for me... so I sacked it off

lost_in_thought

jashburnham wrote:

Anything with Heston Blumenthal

+1. The guy's incredible.

Mind you, I doubt I'd actually genuinely rush home - sky+ is a great invention!

EDIT: You all watch a lot of telly!

Clever Pun

lost_in_thought wrote:

jashburnham wrote:

Anything with Heston Blumenthal

+1. The guy's incredible.

Mind you, I doubt I'd actually genuinely rush home - sky+ is a great invention!

EDIT: You all watch a lot of telly!

new series soon isn't there...??

I cook some of his stuff at home occasionally...

LIT you went to the fat duck as well didn't you? tasting menu I assume? what win did you go for?

lost_in_thought

Clever Pun wrote:

lost_in_thought wrote:

jashburnham wrote:

Anything with Heston Blumenthal

+1. The guy's incredible.

Mind you, I doubt I'd actually genuinely rush home - sky+ is a great invention!

EDIT: You all watch a lot of telly!

new series soon isn't there...??

I cook some of his stuff at home occasionally...

LIT you went to the fat duck as well didn't you? tasting menu I assume? what win did you go for?

Ooooooh is there? Excellent!

You do his whole recipes? I take bits from the book and mix them in with other things - haven't bothered with a whole one yet but I bet they're amazing if you do!

Yeah, I had the tasting menu - I don't really recall which wine - the bloke I was there with dealt with that! It was fantastic. I'd go back in a heartbeat. Actually maybe I'll book now for my birthday next year...

iain_j

Used to watch Top Gear all the time on Dave but they seem to repeat the same ones regularly. Classic Mid-Engine Italian Super Cars For Less Than £1000 was still funny 2nd, even 3rd time round, but then it starts to wear thin...

il_principe

Clever Pun wrote:

lost_in_thought wrote:

jashburnham wrote:

Anything with Heston Blumenthal

+1. The guy's incredible.

Mind you, I doubt I'd actually genuinely rush home - sky+ is a great invention!

EDIT: You all watch a lot of telly!

new series soon isn't there...??

Started already - Heston's Feast:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/feb/28/heston-blumenthal-feast-charlie-brooker

Totally mad.

lost_in_thought

jashburnham wrote:

Clever Pun wrote:

lost_in_thought wrote:

jashburnham wrote:

Anything with Heston Blumenthal

+1. The guy's incredible.

Mind you, I doubt I'd actually genuinely rush home - sky+ is a great invention!

EDIT: You all watch a lot of telly!

new series soon isn't there...??

Started already - Heston's Feast:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/feb/28/heston-blumenthal-feast-charlie-brooker

Totally mad.

Damn it!

*texts her sky+*

il_principe

lost_in_thought wrote:

Damn it!

*texts her sky+*

I can never get that text thing to work properly dammit.

lost_in_thought

jashburnham wrote:

lost_in_thought wrote:

Damn it!

*texts her sky+*

I can never get that text thing to work properly dammit.

I generally find it works pretty well, I have to say.

Chewy Cheeks

The majority of the time ie unitil about 9pm I have to swerve around the kids viewing - I can juts about cope with Family Guy

Skins and Shameless are my fave raves - but not that bothered about getting home in time what with replays and all.

When the mighty Clarets are on TV thats sacred

I avoid reality TV - try to read instead.

iain_j

Lately I've got hooked on the Police Camera Action type shows on Virgin1.

Watching one last night, from 1995, a bloke I'd say in his 40's, riding a kids bike with his knees up near his ears. Going up a slow-moving, congested road, he's constantly trying to squeeze up the inside of a coach, with virtually no space. He gets about halfway past, realises he can't get through, then holds tight as the coach brushes past his again then tries again. Eventually he gets by in a small gap between the coach and a parked car, and gets promptly doored by the car serves him right.

Followed by a clip of a guy riding along with a huge bucket of scrap metal on the rear carrier (how it stayed there I don't know) and another one on the handlebars, with both arms across the top of it and him leaning around the side of it to see where he's going. He was going fairly quick too, so what he'd do about evasive action I don't know.

DonDaddyD

Don't and won't have Sky. Had it when I was living at my parents consumes far too much of the day. However, Dragon Ball Z ruled the cartoons (on cartoon network back in the day), was a way of life and the last of the great kids cartoons. The amount of Superman vs Goku arguments I've had with other comic book geeks (the other being Unicron vs Galactus) The others great cartoons being being:

Transformers Generation 1
He-man
Turtles

In recent times (circa 2008) the only thing on Sky I watched with any dedication was Star Gate Atlantis (but that wasn't as good as SG1 or other Sci-fi).

Now I watch:
Heroes
Deep Space 9
Star Trek Enterprise
Terminator the Sarah Conner Chronicles
Shameless
Skins (I don't miss Skins, ever is awesome, love the character and the structure)

My girlfriend forces me to watch:
Come Dine with Me
Gordon Ramsey
Heston Blumenthal

(I refuse to watch Eastenders, Corrie and Emmerdale, only occasionally watch Hollyoaks in the hope Nancy is in it because she is fit!)

ednino

90210 8)

Feltup

Hestons Feast was fantastic, only he could go to a sex shop as part of his dessert making process! The only time I would ever want to be a celebrity would be to get invited to one of his feasts.

Other TV I like at the moment:

High Altitude - i.e. Top Gear on snow.
Skins last night was good but I don't rush to see it just if I happen to be in.
My Name is Earl is great as is Family Guy

I used to make an effort to see The Mighty Boosh - gotta love the Boosh!
Didn't get to see any of the TDF highlights last year but did see it live on the Col de la Croix de Fer

http://picasaweb.google.com/GuyDinsdale ... 0955859154

lost_in_thought

Has that Sarah Connor thing got the lady who used to front Garbage (the band) in it?

Or am I confused? I saw a picture in the paper.

I regularly watch House, CSI (Vegas and NY - Miami if bored), top gear, heston (when he's on), and that's about it.

jonginge

lost_in_thought wrote:

Has that Sarah Connor thing got the lady who used to front Garbage (the band) in it?

Or am I confused? I saw a picture in the paper.

I regularly watch House, CSI (Vegas and NY - Miami if bored), top gear, heston (when he's on), and that's about it.

Only seen SCC once so it may have changed but no the friendly 'borg is Summer Glau (from Firefly/Serenity)

prawny

lost_in_thought wrote:

Has that Sarah Connor thing got the lady who used to front Garbage (the band) in it?

Or am I confused? I saw a picture in the paper.

I regularly watch House, CSI (Vegas and NY - Miami if bored), top gear, heston (when he's on), and that's about it.

Indeed it does! She aint the worlds best actress though.

I currently have series linked:

Dessie Wives
The west wing (missed it 1st time)
Sarah Connor Chronicles
CSI (all of them although miami is poop)
90210 (class!)

the wife tapes neighbours and hollyoaks but i cant be bothered with them any more although neighbours is gettin better again

I can't not watch scrubs re-runs and anything involvin cars, bikes or motorbike (yay the sbk seasons started again!)

biondino

Heston yes, Top Gear yes, Family Guy yes, TV Burp and You've Been Framed. New Simpsons (and any that I somehow haven't seen from previous series, but they're few and far between).

Oh, and Victorian Farm!!

lost_in_thought

JonGinge wrote:

lost_in_thought wrote:

Has that Sarah Connor thing got the lady who used to front Garbage (the band) in it?

Or am I confused? I saw a picture in the paper.

I regularly watch House, CSI (Vegas and NY - Miami if bored), top gear, heston (when he's on), and that's about it.

Only seen SCC once so it may have changed but no the friendly 'borg is Summer Glau (from Firefly/Serenity)

Ahhhhhhh google is my friend (unlike my sky+ box that hasn't texted me back yet). She plays Catherine Weaver, it tells me...

il_principe

JonGinge wrote:

lost_in_thought wrote:

Has that Sarah Connor thing got the lady who used to front Garbage (the band) in it?

Or am I confused? I saw a picture in the paper.

I regularly watch House, CSI (Vegas and NY - Miami if bored), top gear, heston (when he's on), and that's about it.

Only seen SCC once so it may have changed but no the friendly 'borg is Summer Glau (from Firefly/Serenity)

Why the fcuk did they cancel Firefly - that was an inspired show. Stupid, short sighted, culturally bankrupt Fox.

jonginge

lost_in_thought wrote:

JonGinge wrote:

lost_in_thought wrote:

Has that Sarah Connor thing got the lady who used to front Garbage (the band) in it?

Or am I confused? I saw a picture in the paper.

I regularly watch House, CSI (Vegas and NY - Miami if bored), top gear, heston (when he's on), and that's about it.

Only seen SCC once so it may have changed but no the friendly 'borg is Summer Glau (from Firefly/Serenity)

Ahhhhhhh google is my friend (unlike my sky+ box that hasn't texted me back yet). She plays Catherine Weaver, it tells me...

Well, there you go. Blimey

prawny

Oh yeah TV burp! Pure gold I love Harry Hill and he's getting better with age!