Favorite US Cable or Satellite Channel
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Topic: Favorite US Cable or Satellite Channel
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Subject: Favorite US Cable or Satellite Channel
Date Posted: July 10 2010 at 09:24
Choices in no particular order, just off the top of my head. I probably watch too much TV.
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Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: July 10 2010 at 10:23
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I like the Shopping channels. QVC. HSN. ShopNBC. You'll be hard-pressed to find better televised train wrecks. ------------- Can you tell me where we're headin'? Lincoln County Road or Armageddon. |
Posted By: UndercoverBoy
Date Posted: July 10 2010 at 10:36
| I don't own cable, but I voted Cartoon Network if only for Adult Swim. |
Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: July 10 2010 at 10:41
| I don't have cable either, but when I have the chance (and the right shows are on) I prefer Syfy and USA. I guess. |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: July 10 2010 at 11:19
I dunno, when those things are the only things to watch (by the way you'd think there would be better things to watch on the telly late at night) I really feel like slitting my wrists... And of course if you are really into those kind of things QVC and HSN are always there for you 24/7. I have yet to experience the horror that must be ShopNBC. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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jammun wrote:Posted By: CinemaZebra
Date Posted: July 10 2010 at 11:40
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The one with Adult Swim.
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Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: July 10 2010 at 15:14
I ain't being entirely serious of course, but these channels, while sorta related to infomercials (sh*t, they're 24x7 infomercials after all), are live. I'm a guy who'll walk down the street to see a car wreck, a dumpster fire, or the random gang member who managed to shoot himself in the "groin" with a Glock. His friends dropped him off in front of the hospital across the street and then fled. This is the joy of the shopping channels: there is always something just about to go horribly wrong. Realistically, unless there's a good movie on, I just flip through the channels w/ de remote and let it all wash over me. Just passin' through. ------------- Can you tell me where we're headin'? Lincoln County Road or Armageddon. |
Posted By: Tarquin Underspoon
Date Posted: July 11 2010 at 01:32
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Food Network all the way. I could watch that stuff for hours. ------------- "WAAAAAAOOOOOUGH! WAAAAAAAUUUUGGHHHH!! WAAAAAOOOO!!!" -The Great Gig in the Sky |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: July 11 2010 at 04:39
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: July 11 2010 at 06:40
I used to watch C-Span's morning viewer call in shows regularly, but after a while you get tired of listening to the morons that call in. These days I get my TV political jollies from MSNBC's Olberman and Maddow shows. For late night entertainment, Cartoon Network's Adult Swim can't be beat. I think if I count the wife in, that and Food Network probably are the ones we watch together the most. Travel Channel has some really good food related programs. Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations is particularly good. Comedy Central primarily for more political fun: The Daily Show and Colbert Report. I have a bit of a gripe about SyFi and MTV not showing a sufficient quantity of Science Fiction and Music respectively. Did I mention I watch too much TV? ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: July 11 2010 at 07:15
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: July 11 2010 at 08:01
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While we don't get all these channels over here (or perhaps we do - too lazy to check - that remote is just too heavy and too far away and no one is around to fetch it for me and mash the buttons on my behalf), of those that we do I tend to watch Comedy Central and the Food Network the most. Like Brian I would watch SyFy (dumb change of name btw) and MTV more if they were closer to my tastes in SF and Music.
But I prefer the UK's Good Food channel over the Food Network ... dunno, the FN seems to focus too much on fast-food take-away and ridiculously huge burgers etc... and I'll take Dave (now there's a great stupid name for a channel, if you're going to have a dumb name for a TV channel make it completely surreal ...and it also allows the great pun of Dave Ja Vu for the +1 channel) over Comedy Central for most Sitcoms and comedy panel-show re-runs.
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: July 11 2010 at 09:41
Don't get that one here, but the cable here did add another food TV channel.  |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: July 11 2010 at 09:52
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: July 11 2010 at 10:04
By the way, apologies for kidnapping Nigella. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: TheClosing
Date Posted: July 11 2010 at 10:33
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I only watch tv at other people's houses, but there are a few channels I like. Discovery Channel - Overall the best as far as quality programs goes. Cartoon Network - Adult Swim is the best block of programming around. Comedy Central - South Park as well as some stand up. Spike - MMA fights as well as that one gaming show. ESPN - X Games HBO - Curb Your Enthusiasm Also whatever channel plays Seinfeld and The Simpsons reruns is fine by me. Other than that TV is garbage imo. |
Posted By: The Truth
Date Posted: July 11 2010 at 10:51
USA has just about every great show you could ask for. I would've voted for Fox but after 24 ended all they have left is House  ------------- http://blindpoetrecords.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">  
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Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: July 11 2010 at 12:44
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Comedy Central or Cartoon Network. TBS will be interesting once Conan joins it's lineup. Hard to imagine that it came from reruns of the Andy Griffith show,Wrestling and Braves Baseball to be one of the most watched cable channels. |