Best Show on TV
03-20-03, 10:15 PM
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Best Show on TV
Divide this up: best network show, best show overall.
The best show on network television is Alias. Great writing and scripting, tremendous acting, amazingly hot women and even hotter action sequences. It remains the only show on television that consistently catches me off guard.
The best show period is... Comedy Central's The Daily Show. No other show makes me laugh as easily and consistently. Start with Jon Stewart, the funniest man in show business. Throw in Steven Colbert and Steve Correl, with the most perfect deadpan delivery style. Add in crisp writing and great guest interplay, and presto! The best half hour on TV.
Of course, that's just my opinion... what do you think?
The best show on network television is Alias. Great writing and scripting, tremendous acting, amazingly hot women and even hotter action sequences. It remains the only show on television that consistently catches me off guard.
The best show period is... Comedy Central's The Daily Show. No other show makes me laugh as easily and consistently. Start with Jon Stewart, the funniest man in show business. Throw in Steven Colbert and Steve Correl, with the most perfect deadpan delivery style. Add in crisp writing and great guest interplay, and presto! The best half hour on TV.
Of course, that's just my opinion... what do you think?
03-20-03, 10:36 PM
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The weekly "Best Show on TV" thread ... 
Best Network Show: The West Wing
Best Overall Show: The Shield
The Daily Show does rule though (so does Alias of course). I love Conan and Letterman, but even they aren't as consistently funny as The Daily Show is. I'm amazed at how they can keep such a high level day after day. I miss Beth Littleford and Vance DeGeneres and haven't completely gotten on board with Ed Helms and Rob Cordry just yet, but it's still damn funny. It was funny when Kilborn was hosting, but it's just brilliant now that Stewart is at the helm.
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Best Network Show: The West Wing
Best Overall Show: The Shield
The Daily Show does rule though (so does Alias of course). I love Conan and Letterman, but even they aren't as consistently funny as The Daily Show is. I'm amazed at how they can keep such a high level day after day. I miss Beth Littleford and Vance DeGeneres and haven't completely gotten on board with Ed Helms and Rob Cordry just yet, but it's still damn funny. It was funny when Kilborn was hosting, but it's just brilliant now that Stewart is at the helm.
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03-20-03, 11:20 PM
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Best Network Show: 24
Best Overall Show: Probably 24 as well.
I like The Daily Show (Any show that uses scenes from Ricki-Oh rules.), don't care for Alias - it's way too fluffy and the episodes tend to get uninteresting within the first 10 minutes.... and rarely manage to get it back. Tends to be pretty predictable and overall pretty underwelming.
Still love 24, haven't watched The Shield or any of this season of Six Feet Under.
Best Overall Show: Probably 24 as well.
I like The Daily Show (Any show that uses scenes from Ricki-Oh rules.), don't care for Alias - it's way too fluffy and the episodes tend to get uninteresting within the first 10 minutes.... and rarely manage to get it back. Tends to be pretty predictable and overall pretty underwelming.
Still love 24, haven't watched The Shield or any of this season of Six Feet Under.
03-20-03, 11:47 PM
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Definitely Angel for both. The whole season has been like one continuing story. I don't think I've ever seen that before. I absolutely hate that most TV shows focus on standalone episodes. If I wanted single episode stories, I'd watch a movie or read a novel. I remember Murder One bragged that they were going to spend a whole season on one story, but it never felt that way to me.
Gilmore Girls deserves an honorable mention because I don't think they have ever had a bad episode.
Gilmore Girls deserves an honorable mention because I don't think they have ever had a bad episode.
03-20-03, 11:55 PM
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Another vote for Angel. I've always been a diehard Buffy fan, but this season there's been an almost embarassing gap in quality between the two shows. Honorable mention goes to Alias, 24, and the likely-to-be-cancelled Andy Richter Controls the Universe.
03-21-03, 12:24 AM
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Best show on network: Scrubs
Best show on cable: Clone High USA . (Don't let the fact that it's on MTV fool you. As good as The Simpsons in its prime.)
Best show on PAY cable: Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Best show on cable: Clone High USA . (Don't let the fact that it's on MTV fool you. As good as The Simpsons in its prime.)
Best show on PAY cable: Curb Your Enthusiasm.
03-21-03, 08:23 AM
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Originally posted by bahist17
You are all wrong - the best show on network TV is SCRUBS, w/out a doubt.
You are all wrong - the best show on network TV is SCRUBS, w/out a doubt.
Wish I could include Battlebots in my list, but apparently the network execs at Comedy Central are more interested in listening to their alien overlord masters than to actual viewers...
Originally posted by movielib
In no particular order:
Buffy, Angel, 24, Law & Order, The Sopranos and Penn & Teller: Bull ****.
In no particular order:
Buffy, Angel, 24, Law & Order, The Sopranos and Penn & Teller: Bull ****.
03-21-03, 09:44 AM
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Network: 24
Cable: The Shield
Neither are my #1 favorite show, but they are in in the top 5.
Cable: The Shield
Neither are my #1 favorite show, but they are in in the top 5.
03-21-03, 09:57 AM
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Originally posted by ncmojo
Scrubs is darn good -- every week I find something else to laugh about. And call me crazy, but I still get a kick out of Friends. I am also a huge fan of a show nobody watches... CBS's The Amazing Race
Scrubs is darn good -- every week I find something else to laugh about. And call me crazy, but I still get a kick out of Friends. I am also a huge fan of a show nobody watches... CBS's The Amazing Race
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03-21-03, 02:16 PM
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Boomtown.
Real World : Las Vegas, the season that won't just roll up into a big ball and die.
Oh and I bailed on the shield after the 1st or 2nd episode this season.
Vic's character was just not doing it for me anymore.
Real World : Las Vegas, the season that won't just roll up into a big ball and die.
Oh and I bailed on the shield after the 1st or 2nd episode this season.
Vic's character was just not doing it for me anymore.
Last edited by BDB; 03-21-03 at 02:23 PM.