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bomberesque wrote: Buffy the vampire slayer

My mate once spent 2 hours in the pub talking with a new work colleague about their mutual love of all things scifi and (decent) fantasy before one of them broached the subject of "errrm, so do you like Buffy then?" Another boxed set that I "bought for the wife" worth every minute of the 4 months it took us to get through the whole thing. Joss Whedon for President

You. Utter. Twat.

/watching buffy

deject wrote:Burn Notice
Spy Michael Westen gets "burned" by the U.S. Government and all his assets are frozen. Using his spy knowledge, he gets by doing odd jobs and finding out who burned him, and why. Awesome show so far, it's got some detective work, some action, and a dose of MacGyver. Also, motherfucking Bruce Campbell.

Started watching this last night, finished about 10 this morning. Very slick spy guff, also very tongue in cheek. Hints at him being an utter badassed bastard, yet we see him helping old grannies for pennies, and he's still dodging bullets etc. I like this, good acting, the annoying oirish accent and the original pilot 'mother of...' had disappeared by episode one, the plans are slightly A-team, but it's very believable at the same time.

You got the time? Sweep it, enjoy it, maybe forget it.

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:You. Utter. twat.

for getting you to watch Buffy again?

if so

on the way through Farscape at the moment

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:
Red Dwarf

I usually end up watching the whole lot and all extras etc. twice a year.

I do that with Firefly. Need to sweep Red Draf all over again, Buffy too I suppose.

Can't believe I forgot to do this one yet.

ReGenesis
Best way I can describe it is like kinda like House, but with Viruses, and less funny.

Mostly awesome, onto its 4th season now.

MrGreen wrote:Band of Brothers

Bloody excellent WW2 mini series, probably the highest rating I've seen on IMDB, even has a small role from Simon Pegg

You can find it on Teleport TV or on DVD

so fucking hard.

owned the dvds for years now, just found it in 720p.

How did I miss that?

I reckon Band of Brothers is the best boxed set I own. Every episode is brilliant, and all based (roughly) on true accounts of the men they're portraying. I can't recommend it enough.

Chickenz wrote:I do that with Firefly. Need to sweep Red Draf all over again, Buffy too I suppose.

Also do it with Dworf and Angel too.

Jericho
America gets nuclear bummed. Small town trying to survive. Much win

Reaper
The devils hitman for escaped souls, so far Gary Glitter has not shown up. Utter trash. Great

Don't know if this one has cropped up yet, I couldn't find it anywhere so I thought I would mention it

Six Feet Under

Set in a funeral home, not sure how to define it really. It has elements of drama so I will stick with that for now, with quite a lot of dark humour and based around a family funeral business. It started back in 2001 I think and ran for 5 seasons. Thoroughly recommended if only for the random daydreams they all have

Porridge

Very clever, funny even after thirty years. I think there are three series out on DVD, probably quite cheaply.

fabyak wrote:Don't know if this one has cropped up yet, I couldn't find it anywhere so I thought I would mention it

Six Feet Under

Set in a funeral home, not sure how to define it really. It has elements of drama so I will stick with that for now, with quite a lot of dark humour and based around a family funeral business. It started back in 2001 I think and ran for 5 seasons. Thoroughly recommended if only for the random daydreams they all have

Yes...quite good...especially all the random daydreams. And, one of the best endings to a series.

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:ReGenesis

<s>It's not sweepable, well 1x?? isn't...

If anyone sees it appear, throw something at me</s>

Oooo, I've found DVDs, I don't normally sweep them, but they'll do...

all but 1x01 and 1x02 seem to be up in the usual place

the ones that are listed as french are ogms with 2 audio tracks - french and english

Newshosting only has a 100 ish day retention policy, so I suspect it falls out of that, as that is what Newzbin is set to. I'll have another looksey.

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:all but 1x01 and 1x02 seem to be up in the usual place

the ones that are listed as french are ogms with 2 audio tracks - french and english

This is what I grabbed and watched. Not bad.

Anery wrote: Reaper
The devils hitman for escaped souls, so far Gary Glitter has not shown up. Utter trash. Great

100% of trash, but somehow entertaining.

The Fixer

ITV thing, some guy gets released from prison to become a hitman (think Nikita, but less french)

Not sure about it yet, only 2 eps have aired. worth a look probably.

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:(think Nikita, but less french)

le madness

The Big Bang Theory

Only saw this for the first time a few nights ago, thought it was awesome. Two apartment sharing geeks (they put most 5punkers to shame) have the extremely tasty Kaley Cuoco aka Penny move into the apartment across the hall. She then shows them how little they actually know about real life. One of the funniest Merkin shows I've liked since Scrubs.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGT71Zv2tGU[/media]

I watched the first episode of that and I absolutely hated it. The lines weren't funny to me at all and the acting was shit, even for a sitcom.