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Tien_Le
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Geek TV

The subject came up in chat that it would be nice to have a TV channel just for geeks (and others who are sick to death of things like all the good genre tv being programmed opposite other genre tv and consigned to one night a week).

Post here to list the tv shows you'd like to see this new channel program. And this new channel would not have in-content (animated) advertising messing up the shows.

Okay, there's like the obvious stuff like Star Trek that Spike TV is butchering with it's in-content ads and heavy-handed editing.

Stargate
24
Alias
The Pretender
Max Headroom
VR5

Shows that were brilliant but cancelled like:
Firefly
Jake 2.0

What do you want to see added to this dream programming guide?
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Cortana
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Well, Alton Brown's Good Eats might be a good idea. He's great with the science part of cooking and is very geeky.

I'm a big fan of the new Battlestar Galactica. That would be a shoo-in.

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Mythbusters. I love that show.

Alton Brown completes me.

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Cortana
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bagsbee wrote:
Mythbusters. I love that show.


Don't forget Penn & Teller's Bullsh*t!

and Junkyard Wars (or better, the original british version)

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anaerin
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I'd have to add:

  • Red Dwarf
  • Futurama
  • The Simpsons
  • MST3k
  • South Park
I'm sure more will come to me

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Cortana wrote:
and Junkyard Wars (or better, the original british version)


Thank-you for reminding me.

Scrapheap Challenge (UK title)

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Cortana wrote:
Don't forget Penn & Teller's Bullsh*t!

I thought about that, but it's not real high on the geek factor, is it? Great show though.

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StercusMaximus
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Well, we've gotta have Freaks & Geeks....

and Spaced...a UK comedy which is very geek friendly...all sorts of sci-fi/video game/comic allusions...plus its wicked funny

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Hell, if we're getting our druthers, I'd host a video-game reviews show (and before you say it, it would totally be better and without lame-o jokes like X-Play... it would be straight-forward and to the point, and probably be like a round-table discussion of the games (maybe 5 people, one from the industry (read: suit/exec), an official game-tester, a high-school kid, a college kid, and me), and everyone but me would be a new voice every week or day or whatever they'd give me on this so-called Geek-TV... But the point would be that with the differing opinions, you'd really get the views of the type of gamer you are, without an advertising feel. yeah... So that's my choice. And I totally second, third and fourth Myster Science Theatre 3000... That show was the coolest and I would watch it any and every day.
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SLIDERS!!!!

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anaerin
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Oh, a few more that came to me (With the help of the GF):

Babylon 5
Invader Zim
CSI
Law & Order

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Sin Vraal
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hmmm

Every Star Trek known to mankind (steal them back from Spike TV)

How could anyone forget to add Quantum Leap (INTERROBANG)

Time Trax (I don't know why, but I liked that show)

Seven Days (geeky, tho it was cheesy)

Dr. Who

The original Lost in Space and Land of the Lost

The Prisoner (mmmm)

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Tien_Le
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geek tv

I suppose we'd need anything and everything from the Buffyverse.

But puh-leeze no Law and Order or CSI. The airwaves are so heavily populated with these franchises they almost comprise their own channel. 7 shows with first and reruns on network tv, and 3 of them in second run on cable, there's scarecly room for other programming.
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DonkeyOatey
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Two words...

Twin Peaks

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Re: Two words...

DonkeyOatey wrote:
Twin Peaks


Shocked

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