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Tien_Le
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Joined: 22 Sep 2002 Posts: 878 Location: corner of no and where
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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Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 1:34 pm
Last edited by Tien_Le on Fri Dec 17, 2004 1:44 pm; edited 1 time in total
Cortana
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Joined: 25 Sep 2002 Posts: 200 Location: Arlington, VA
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.
Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 1:37 pm
bagsbee
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Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Posts: 417 Location: NYC
Mythbusters. I love that show.
Alton Brown completes me.
Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 1:46 pm
Cortana
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Joined: 25 Sep 2002 Posts: 200 Location: Arlington, VA
bagsbee wrote:
Mythbusters. I love that show.
Don't forget Penn & Teller's Bullsh*t!
and Junkyard Wars (or better, the original british version)
Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 2:02 pm
anaerin
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Joined: 25 Sep 2004 Posts: 391 Location: Regina, SK, CA Posts: 1337
I'd have to add:
Red Dwarf
Futurama
The Simpsons
MST3k
South Park
I'm sure more will come to me
Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 2:05 pm
anaerin
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Cortana wrote:
and Junkyard Wars (or better, the original british version)
Thank-you for reminding me.
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Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 2:06 pm
bagsbee
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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.
Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 2:07 pm
StercusMaximus
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Joined: 19 Nov 2002 Posts: 204 Location: MA
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
SM
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Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 2:23 pm
Dorkmaster
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Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 1328 Location: The People's Republic of Dork
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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Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 8:10 pm
TJ229ER
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SLIDERS!!!!
Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 9:37 pm
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
Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2004 1:06 am
Sin Vraal
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Joined: 28 Nov 2002 Posts: 219 Location: NJ
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)
Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2004 9:16 am
Tien_Le
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Joined: 22 Sep 2002 Posts: 878 Location: corner of no and where
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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Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2004 12:41 pm
DonkeyOatey
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Two words... Twin Peaks
Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2004 4:16 pm
vpisteve
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Joined: 30 Sep 2002 Posts: 2441 Location: 1987
Re: Two words...
DonkeyOatey wrote:
Twin Peaks
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Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2004 4:32 pm
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