JFF: So, What Are You Watching These Days?

Updated on July 17, 2012
H.W. asks from Portland, OR
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So, Kane's question about the Teen Mom show got a lot of comments...

I think we should tell her *our* guilty viewing pleasures... or not so guilty.

I'll start:
*Hell's Kitchen and MasterChef (love the cooking, and Joe B is a big meanie, but oh well... they're all adults--oh, and I love Christine.)
*So You Think You Can Dance (usually just the first hour, but those kids are crazy talented)
*Doc Martin
sometimes Masterpiece Mystery/NOVA/Nature...PBS is our default station to check first.
*Bones
*Burn Notice (this is our 'date night' show.. we <3 Bruce Campbell.)

We don't have cable/broadband, or I'd add The Daily Show and The Colbert Report to this. And during the regular season, add 30 Rock, Parks and Rec and The Office/Community to that list.

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So What Happened?

So now you've got me thinking:
Sara B. --loved Sherlock! Will be hungry for more, but after the last installment....will there be more? I'm convinced that once I get the time to watch Downton Abbey, I will be hooked...

Yeah, Dawn, I am stoopid about Burn Notice. In our area, they show reruns, two episodes back to back... wonderful husband just brought home the requisite chocolate croissant for tonight's viewing. There are so many funny lines in that show, we try not to wake Kiddo up laughing. And I agree, *not* having to watch Booth and Bones getting it on... pretty refreshing.

Sunshine: Fraiser was great. I still miss that show. Martin's song "She's such groovy lady"... I can still sing that off the top of my head!

Thanks to all who have responded. :)

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T.N.

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We like Top Gear UK.

The Man likes Pawn Stars and American Pickers.

I'm a Food Network/Cooking Chanel/Travel Channel/HGTV junkie. But can't stand any reality or game show style show even if it's about food.

I like news, too, but it usually bums me out.

:)

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T.M.

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As a family, all 6 of us watch America's Got Talent (each summer), Seinfeld, Everybody Loves Raymond, King of Queens (all reruns), lots of food network shows and Good Luck Charlie (the teens and mom and dad like that as much as the little ones...lol!)

I used to love Desperate Housewives. I like The Chew when i am not working. I also like Say Yes to the Dress and some fun ones like that.

I am addicted to my kindle fire, which is good, the hubs is a tv hog! He is watching Storage Wars right now. I have to admit it is kind of neat! I just hate that he copies the guy on there and yells "yeeep!" Ugh!

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A.G.

answers from Dallas on

Right now I'm not watching much.

I love The Newsroom!

Louis (comedian Louis CK)

Lots of The Family Feud. :)

I'm waiting for The Walking Dead to come back on.

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D.T.

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I just finished Far Scape. Husband and I are working through Burn Notice.

We loved Leverage, Doctor Who and Psych but hated cable/dish prices.

We use Hulu and Netflix now. My most recent shows are Grimm and Supernatural.

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S.B.

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I do watch Hell's Kitchen, it's the only reality show I watch, because it's a cooking show and I love Gordon Ramsay! I got addicted to him when I was on maternity leave and BBC America was showing a ton of his shows all the time. I feel like I watched his kids grow up. :-)

I'm eagerly waiting for Psych and Doctor Who to start up again, and the hubs and I like watching Walking Dead.

Community is our favorite during the regular season, we also watch Castle, Modern Family, New Girl and How I met Your Mother. Our guilty pleasure show is 2 Broke Girls, which as terrible writing but we watch because I love Kat Dennings.

I've been watching a lot of Superhero movies lately. My husband rolls his eyes everytime he comes upstairs and I'm watching Iron Man or Thor. Tonight a girlfriend and I are watching the Dark Knight, we watched Batman Begins on Monday. We're thinking about taking up Downton Abbey, since we both love Sherlock and it was advertised a lot during that and looked pretty good.

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I like Burn Notice too (I think I've told you that before...was it you?) But I seem to only watch the re-runs. Indeed, I'm not sure what is new and what's a rerun, except for NCIS, which is also one of my shows!

I like Top Chef and Chopped, I do watch Bones once in a while but haven't seen most of the last couple of years of it (what they did turning that little guy into a killer ruined the show for me, though I like the way they let Bones get pregnant without them flaunting Bones having sex with David Boreanez.) I like Storage Wars, Barry being my favorite, except when he's throwing the furniture that the married couple would LOVE to have (HE doesn't care about it!), Tabatha Salon Takeover (she has a GOOD business head - if they would all listen to her, they'd not only save their businesses but make a ton of money). I like Pregnant in Heels, but feel sorry for the gal because she waited far too late in life to address her speech impediment. However, she is a great example that you CAN be successful even WITH a speech impediment if you are really good at what you do. I sometimes can't believe the clients she has, though - did they even know what a baby was before they decided to get pregnant??

I like to watch Cake Boss once in a blue moon (the shows are too much alike to keep my interest full time). I do feel really sorry for the family to have suffered through Buddy's brother-in-law being a pedophile. And his wife was pregnant too...so awful!

I like Criminal Minds once in a while and Without a Trace - are those just reruns? (Probably). And Royal Pains and The Mentalist.

I like The Daily Show too, H., Colbert Report ,Bill Maher and Rachel Maddow. Especially Rachel - she is brilliant and has a great personality!!!

Thing is, I don't really watch much TV at all. I'll turn it on and if one of the shows is on, I'll watch it. I never seem to know when anything is actually playing!!

I haven't watched TV all week - now you got me wanting to turn on the TV!!

Dawn

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L.S.

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True Blood, Big Bang Theory, So You Think You Can Dance and America's Got Talent lately.

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L.A.

answers from Austin on

Big Bang Theory
Eureka
True Blood
Modern Family
Downton Abby
The Glee Project
The Walking Dead
Mad Men
Teen Wolf
Suits
Phsyc
Necessary Roughness
Supernatural
Game of Thorns
Doc Martin
Foyles War
Dr. Who

So many great shows.. We are trying to catch up on lots of these because for 4 years our daughter has not been able to keep up because of college.

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E.D.

answers from Seattle on

Tee hee. I just finished all six seasons of Bones. It was such a guilty pleasure.

Right now I'm watching a (cheesy) show called "Medium." I'm so into it, it's ridiculous.

Oh, just a thought! You can (or used to be able to) watch the daily show on Hulu (hulu.com)...and the Colbert report. I haven't watched it in a while, so you might not be able to anymore...maybe worth a try?

I really like "Community" and "Modern Family". Those are the sitcoms I keep up on.

Oh dear, you'll love this (ha ha). Gossip girl was my FAVORITE guilty pleasure when it was in it's first seasons. I'd forgotten that one (probably on purpose)!.

Hah! Back in the day I used to watch, "Girls Next Door", about Hugh Hefner and "his girlfriends". Mmmmmm, SUCH an empty show. Unfortunately, the girlfriends that I liked moved out of the playboy mansion, and the show isn't entertaining any longer.

I absolutely loved watching Stepen Hawkings, the Universe explained. So great. Watched it over and again and then would lay in bed to excited to sleep. I have such a crush on the cosmos. TedTalks too...Hadn't known about them until a MP mama referenced them in a post. I like picking one at random. It's rare that I watch one that I'm not interested in.

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K.I.

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True Blood

And I just found 'Archer'..man why did no one tell me about this one?

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J.S.

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OK, I guess we have NO life after the kiddos go to bed, because we watch WAY too much tv and too many movies. HA! Here is our list:

Favorites:
True Blood, Nurse Jackie, Game Of Thrones, The Big C, (we Used to Love "The United States Of Tara" but it got cancelled), Whale wars, MY FAVORITE was House MD, but again, cancelled :(, American Chopper, Toop Gear (UK), Deadliest Catch, Big Bang Theory, American Pickers, Survivor (when it's on), American Restoration, The Mentalist, Storage Wars (mostly the hubby), Pawn Stars (again mostly the hubby), 2 Broke Girls, Anger Management, and my husband and 19 yr old daughter have gotten me hooked on The Walking Dead. (I tried to resist, but they won out) :)

We don't watch all of these shows every week, but this is a list of the shows we do watch. Some of them I NEVER miss, like True Blood and Nurse Jackie and The Big C. Those are MY shows. I loved reading all of the answers.................

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K.P.

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My husband and I are still waiting for the fall line up to come back, cant wait!

How I Met Your Mother
Walking Dead
Broke Girls
Grey's Anatomy

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L.B.

answers from Biloxi on

Oh, Doc Martin is fab - I caught it on Netflix.
I do a lot of Netflix - it alone is my guilty pleasure - I will veg and watch hours of TV that way.
We just did Jericho (with Gerald McRaney), and I did another end of the world BBC series called Survivor.
We do watch the Walking Dead when it is in season on AMC
and we are currently catching Falling Skies on Sunday nights.

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K.B.

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hell's kitchen, master chef, can't wait for gordon ramsey's new show about the hotels. looking forward for the fall's once upon a time!
bones and american pickers and pawn stars.
restaurant impossible for a night when nothing else is on!!

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S.E.

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family guy is my number one obsession.. old episodes of 2&1/2 men are great the new ones with ashton kutcher suck in my opinion, anything on investigation discovery, any of the animal copsshows, its always sunny in philadelphia, deadliest catch and that new show where they catch the sharks i cant remember what its called shark wranglers mayb?

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S.G.

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My all time favourite shows have been The X Files, Lost and The Walking Dead. I PVR House, CSI, Law and Order, Bones, Criminal Minds and a few others. I haven't watched any TV for the last couple of months. I HATE reality tv!

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A.C.

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I don't watch a lot of TV and I don't have cable so Netflix it is. I tend to just let my daughter pick and in the process I've gotten hooked on Sherlock, Supernatural and Dr. Who. when I did have cable I was hooked on NCIS and Castle. And I know it's not the popular opinion, but I can't stand reality shows so zero of them for me!

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S.R.

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Guilty pleasure- Dance Moms. I love the kids performances and the truly kookoo moms. Can't get enough!
As a family we are really enjoying Americas Got Talent this year. Its the first show we actually have in common with one of our kids (age 5)... though I was secretly very fond of Yo Gabba Gabba when my 2 y/o was in that phase if you count that.

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M.P.

answers from Pittsburgh on

My faves are:
True Blood
Modern Family
RHOC, RHOBH
Boardwalk Empire
Downton Abbey
Madmen
Survivor
Used to like Office and 30 rock but both have jumped shark for me
Dr Oz

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K.L.

answers from Des Moines on

Well...I have to answer this one now! I just hope no one jumps down my throat for what I choose to watch! :) And what's funny...I have maybe seem 3 episodes of Teen Mom...it sucks!

Leverage
Psych
Top Gear
Grey's Anatomy
All the Real Housewives(the drama of these 40 year old women just crack me up)
I really miss Friday Night Lights!

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S.T.

answers from Washington DC on

totally addicted to the food contest shows. i'm livid that netflix only has one season of top chef (and it's not even the 1st one!)
love chopped and food network star and sweet genius and cupcake wars.
and america's next top model.
don't judge me!
desperate for the next season of game of thrones. DESPERATE!
also love all things jon stewart, doc martin, william and mary, mad men, raising hope, nurse jackie and as time goes by. never watch the series on tv, though, only on netflix. hate the commercials!
:) khairete
S.

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A.F.

answers from Fargo on

Parks and Rec is my favorite reg. season show. Right now I am watching Frasier on Netflix but am only on season 5 out of 11.

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D.S.

answers from Columbus on

I love Masterpiece classic, House Hunters, USA shows (Royal Pains, Fairly legal) and I also enjoy Modern Family, Drop Dead Diva, NCIS and of course, The Daily Show and The Colber Report.
I forgot Merlin, love it!!!

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K.H.

answers from Detroit on

Let's see...Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Caillou, Good Luck Charlie - lol!

Actually, I don't watch too much tv at night (it makes me fall asleep) but if I manage to stay awake, I like reruns of the Simpsons, Family Guy, 30 Rock, Big Bang Theory. I also like Design Star, House Hunters, Tosh.0. I think the only series I watch regularly is Shameless. My husband got me hooked on it!

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C.O.

answers from Minneapolis on

America's Got Talent is the only summer show I'm watching.

On Netflix:
Charmed and movies

On DVD:
Dark Angel S2
Supernatural S5

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N.N.

answers from Detroit on

I caught rerun episodes of Shameless a few weeks back and I am hooked.

Noone else is into this show?

The Big Bang Theory, Sons of Anarchy and Grey's.

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