Comments on: My Very Own Television Network http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2009/11/07/my-very-own-television-network/ Responses to Media and Culture Fri, 12 Feb 2016 19:35:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.5 By: Erin Copple Smith http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2009/11/07/my-very-own-television-network/comment-page-1/#comment-37 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:35:42 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=143#comment-37 Oh man. Now I *have* to catch up, Annie! Amulets?! Sounds awesome. I’m going to get on that ASAP.

]]> By: Annie Petersen http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2009/11/07/my-very-own-television-network/comment-page-1/#comment-28 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:07:33 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=143#comment-28 Vampire Diaries is the best straight up primetime melodrama I’ve seen in years. Lots of intertextuality (one of the vampires reads Twilight!), anguish, good and bad vampire brothers, witches, amulets, Civil War flashbacks! What more could you ask for?

]]> By: Erin Copple Smith http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2009/11/07/my-very-own-television-network/comment-page-1/#comment-20 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:31:22 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=143#comment-20 We *really* want to watch Vampire Diaries at our house, but that hour on Thursdays is so packed that we weren’t able to add it to the DVR at the beginning of the season. Now that the CW is airing repeats, we’ve been recording those, but need to catch up with the eps online. *sigh*

]]> By: Jonathan Gray http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2009/11/07/my-very-own-television-network/comment-page-1/#comment-18 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:01:02 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=143#comment-18 I cry when I watch Grey’s too, but for different reasons 🙂
How about Vampire Diaries for melodrama? Mind you, I did comment to someone recently that I think TV’s remarkably underserved in the good, decent melodrama dept of late (Buffy, where art thou?)

]]> By: kglass http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2009/11/07/my-very-own-television-network/comment-page-1/#comment-16 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:56:29 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=143#comment-16 I have to add on to the call for Big Bang Theory, not tv for the ages but pairs well as the cotton candy to go with the more substantial HIMYM. As a hopeless addict I vote for replacing a reality show already on there, maybe Survivor, with Top Chef. And just personally, perhaps uniquely, I need one soapy good cry a week, so if it was my schedule I’d have to switch up one of my less favorite shows above for one of the following (Grey’s Anatomy, Mercy, Three Rivers). Don’t ask me why but in a whole week of viewing I need a little melodrama.

]]> By: Lindsay H. Garrison http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2009/11/07/my-very-own-television-network/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:48:52 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=143#comment-13 I’ll take California Dreams…

]]> By: Nick Marx http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2009/11/07/my-very-own-television-network/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:55:22 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=143#comment-12 Oh Lord. We could make this like a fantasy draft, with everyone assembling a dream-team from the entirety of TV history. Slots could range from “1999-2009 HBO dramas,” “live anthology dramas,” and “Peter Engel productions.” Saved by the Bell would be a first-round pick, for sure, but I like Hang Time as a late-round sleeper.

]]> By: Jonathan Gray http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2009/11/07/my-very-own-television-network/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:41:22 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=143#comment-11 Bones was a last min. removal, in place of Primeval, since the Brit show needed some love, and though I like Bones, I never seem to watch it. Ditto with New Adventures

]]> By: Erin Copple Smith http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2009/11/07/my-very-own-television-network/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:38:04 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=143#comment-10 I always feel weird commenting on posts like this, because I don’t like suggesting that what I like to watch is somehow better than what other folks like to watch. I also suffer from insecurity about not watching all the “cool kids” faves. Ha!

But–some shows I love that aren’t represented on Jonathan’s list…

For my own schedule, I would revise the proposed Friday schedule to: 7pm Bones, 8pm Castle, 9pm Fringe. Bones and Castle are two of the most consistently entertaining procedurals currently airing, IMO.

I have to agree with Matt–Big Bang is definitely on my own weekly schedule. I’d make one of these days half-hour-sitcom night and schedule: 7pm HIMYM, 7:30pm Big Bang, 8pm New Adventures of Old Christine, 8:30pm Modern Family, 9pm The Office, 9:30pm 30 Rock.

And, one last note–I’ve given up on ANTM, and there has to be room for my beloved So You Think You Can Dance.

Fun exercise, Jonathan!

]]> By: Jonathan Gray http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2009/11/07/my-very-own-television-network/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:27:02 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=143#comment-9 Matt:
– Haven’t yet seen Breaking Bad, Venture Bros, Michael and Michael Have Issues, hence non-inclusion
– Sarah Silverman, of course. Let’s replace Californication
– FNL never stuck, though I didn’t watch much either
– Big Bang, Community, Gary Unmarried all meh
– Eastwick really bad
– Haven’t seen Curb in long enough (no HBO) for me to feel I can’t include it, though otherwise it’d be on there
– Frontline and Bill Moyers: news, really? who watches news? 😉 Maybe I’m hoping they can fill the 6-7 slot?

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