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5 TV shows I have stopped watching (for now)

Kate — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:45:41 +0000

Gossip Girl – I can’t make up my mind whether I can care enough to start watching this again. I am thinking not. The characters are pretty irritating, after all.
One Tree Hill – I don’t really understand why they didn’t just end the series at the end of season 7 – it seemed a perfect end. As it is, I am not interested in watching Tree Hill life without Leyton. Who’d have thought I would mourn the loss of Chad Michael Murray? Weird.
Smallville – I guess I may well watch this again at some point but I am not going to any particular effort at the moment, despite the muc-awaited Lois/Clark smoochies.
Supernatural – LOVE this show but I still have to watch the rest of season 4 and I have all of Season 5 lined up on series link. Need to find some friggin’ Dean time.
NCIS – so blah. Fed up of waiting for any Tony and Ziva action. Bored now.

Filed under: Screen Tagged: 5things, Gossip Girl, Hunks o' man, NCIS, One Tree Hill, Smallville, Supernatural

Apologies

Kate — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:10:03 +0000

to the person who is constantly searching for

michael weatherly girlfriend

on Google only to end up on my blog. I have to assume that this is the same person searching over and over (and clicking fruitlessly through to my blog, desperate to find out some juicy tidbit) since it seems such a random search item. I am afraid I have no idea who he is dating. He was engaged to Jessica Alba once, that’s as much as I know. Sorry. Here’s a picture to make up for it.

Also, to save you some time, here are all the references to Michael on my blog:

Let’s start with the culprit that brought you here in the first place. BTW I was talking about his girlfriend on the show.

Or perhaps I can interest you in a very vague refrence to Michael Weatherly being cute (but not cute enough to win an award).

Another brief mention of Weatherly being a cutie.

That’s it. Now be on your way and think about what you have done. Or try Who’s Dated Who. Your call.

Posted in Screen Tagged: Dark Angel, Michael Weatherly girlfirend, NCIS

21 reasons why going out is overrated

Kate — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:00:58 +0000

So I think now most of the networks in America have announced their new fall line-up. You can see the full list over here. I have shown below the shows I actually watch/care about:

ABC

RENEWED

Pushing Daisies – superb! I love Anna Friel in this and her chemistry with Lee Pace is just lovely.
Desperate Housewives – cool!
Dirty Sexy Money – ACES!

Lost – of course.
Ugly Betty – still not seen the new season. Where has it gone, E4?
Scrubs (ooh moved from NBC) – Season 7 starts on Thursday! EEK!

CANCELED

Men in trees – was to be expected and frankly, I am not too disappointed. I am looking forward to watching the last of the last season when it finally shows over here but I think it had run its course.

October Road – again, not surprised but I am very disappointed. This show had loads more potential. Plus, I loved seeing Bryan Greenberg regularly. According to IMDB and his blog, he is not going to be stuck for things to do though, which is cool.

CBS

RENEWED

NCIS – I am going to start watching the new series although, cute as Michael Weatherly is, his character, Tony, really got on my nerves. So did his girlfriend.

CANCELED

Moonlight – oh man. I liked this show. I am actually quite surprised – I thought the fans’ blood donation drive might have had an impact!

NBC

RENEWED

Chuck – Love this so, yay!
Heroes – still have to watch this from mid-season 1 onwards but glad it’s renewing. I just know I will love it when I finally get round to watching it.

The Office – do I need to say it? Oh ok. YAY!
ER – hanging on for the farewell season. I will be glad when it’s over because I have to watch it and sometimes it gets too much on a Thursday night!

NEW

The Office [spinoff] – oooh, can’t wait to hear more news on this.
Kath & Kim – do not see how this will translate to the US. I know I said that for The Office, but it is even more specific, this time to Australian humour and context. I am prepared to see how it goes though…

FOX

RENEWED

Simpsons – of course
Family Guy – how superb that this show was cancelled, revived thanks to awesome DVD sales and now is being renewed again!
American Idol – of course
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

Bones – superb!!!

RENEWED

Gossip Girl – Love it. Glad it’s coming back.

One Tree Hill – am eager to see the current season (yet to be shown here) – this is the ultimate in guilty pleasure TV – so stupid but fantastic at the same time.
Smallville – how is this show still going? It has gone so weird. I love me some Tom Welling and all, but come on… Maybe I ought to give it another try. I am not even sure it E4 are still airing it. All I see are ITV2 repeats from ages ago.

I am assuming the 24 is coming back since they have started making the new season that got ditched due to writers’ strike/Keifer’s ‘holiday’. In any case, there is a buttload of TV to watch.

Life without Lost

Kate — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:46:26 +0000

As Lost is on haitus, I have had to find some new shows to enjoy. This is a quick run down of what I am into:

Gossip Girl

I was waiting for this to cross the pond and I am enjoying it so far. I love the glamour and the young people and New York so I am thinking I will be definitely watching this for the foeseeable future. I really hope Chuck gets beat up properly soon. He’s a douche.

Moonlight

I resisted this as I was not sure about the whole rip-off of Angel thing but, inevitably I suppose, it sucked me in and now I wish I had watched from the beginning! Vampires, sexual tension, steamy LA – what’s not to like?

The Office

As I mentioned in my last post, I have started watching this hilarious show on Paramount (having missed it the first time around) and I am hooked. It is the thing I am excited to get home to watch in the evening. We are at season 2 and the JAM tension is awesome and Michael is tragic yet painfully dumb. Dwight is just precious. Angela is anal and superb. Kevin is adorable. Jim is more adorable. Pam is cute. I love it. LOVE IT.

American Idol

So far, noone I love has gone. There are still people in it who are annoying as hell though (I am mainly talking to you Kristy Lee Cook although you are singing right now and I don’t hate it. Don’t like it, but don’t hate it.) I heart Jason Castro and Carly Smithson and Michael John with David Cook as my new favourite. I used to like Michael the best but David’s voice is just ace. Tonight he is singing like ass though. So he may have already gone home. I hope not. I refuse to look online and spoil it.

Bones

Is back tonight! EEK!

Desperate Housewives

This is pure fluff and I love it. It has silly stories but the women are likeable even when they are not liked and there is Mike.

Chuck

First episode taped and not yet watched – seems like a Jake 2.0 (without the cute-as-hell Christoper Gorham). Expectations – reserved.

October Road

I know this looks like it is going to get canceled but I hope it isn’t – it’s warm, funny, charming, cute, emotional and set in a beautiful location.

Dirty Sexy Money

Love this show. Donald Sutherland is a god.

Kovac has gone – can I hang on to watch the last of the series? The jury is out on this.

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

This is getting mixed reviews but I like it. I am unhindered by being obsessed with the films (I like the third one for goodness sake!) so maybe that’s why. I love the fembot. I like John. I like Lena Heady as Sarah. It even has the cop brother from Rescue Me! Ooh when is that coming back I wonder…

Dark Angel

This is being repeated but I am really just whoozing through it. Logan is hot.

Home and Away

Watching it on YouTube as I have caught up to the Aussies. Sam is dead. Shh don’t tell anyone in the UK.

One Tree Hill

This is almost over (season 4 is being shown here) so I am not sure when Season 5 will be aired. I love this dramatic piece of teen nonsense. Looking forward to the fast forward – so glad they did not go the college route. This is much better and the actors can actually play characters closer to their real ages. If October Road is cancelled I wonder if Jake will return!?!?

Pushing Daisies

Premieres on Saturday night so will see how I like it.

NCIS

Season 5 starts again in May. Tony has one more chance not to suck.

Phew. Good job Lost isn’t on really.

Round up

Kate — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:40:05 +0000

Discovering and really liking:

Looking forward to watching every week:

Still watching avidly:

Still enjoying very much indeed even though it’s been cancelled:

Still not 100% sure about:

Persevering with even though it is past it’s best mainly because Tom Welling is hot:

Given up on:

Watching for the gagillionth time:

Looking forward to contining to watch for the gazillionth time:

Going to try to watch the whole series this time:

Waiting for the DVDs back before starting the whole series again:

Waiting for the DVDs to be returned so I can watch the good seasons again:

Trying find time to watch Season 5 again as I have the DVDs:

Planning to watch very soon:

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Wishing I had Seasons 4, 5, 6 and 7:

And finally, eagerly anticpating the return…:

Being sucked in

Kate — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 22:03:41 +0000

I stumbled across an episode of Dawson’s Creek on Five US on Sunday when I was stuck inside on my own. Despite the fact that this was season 2 (and therefore Dawson and Joey are together which makes me want to vomit), I could feel the icy cold grasp of this show dragging me in. I am fighting the urge to watch it through from the beginning (again). I have Buffy in my DVD right now and was planning on starting that over from the first episode but I have been distracted by Pacey. I must be strong.

I caught up on some TV this evening: Dirt is still quite promising as a show that will never have me hooked but is diverting and entertaining. NCIS is in a similar vain but less shocking and more relaxing to watch.

I also watched the first episode of season 6 of Smallville which has finally come to E4. I have seen some episodes/parts of episodes on YouTube so I will definitely give this season a go despite me losing interest for season 5. I feel that it should be wrong to think that Tom Welling is hot…how old is that boy? (OK so he is older than my husband and only one year younger than me! In that case he definitely is hot!). I so have a super hero complex.

Fonejacker is a show I am loving right now – basically you have one guy who makes crank calls in all different characters and that coupled with the humorous images that go with the audio make for FUNNEEEE tv. The character Terry Tibbs is my favourite:

I have finished Angel season 2 now and I really enjoyed it after all. I forgot quite how much happened in that season. Dark Angel (the moody man, not the kick ass show) was a bit of a bore but it did mean he boned Darla which was interesting (in that he kept his soul) if a little gross (in that it will produce Connor – the worst thing to happen to AtS).

I have not yet watched last night’s Dexter which I am really looking forward to along with catching up on Big Brother (although I am losing interest the longer that stupid cow Charley is in the house – I really cannot stand to watch her anymore). Tomorrow night will bring another episode of What About Brian (still digging this Thirtysomething for the Noughtys) and NCIS (season 4). There are just not enough hours in the day.

Oh and wish me luck with that Dawson’s thing… I must be strong. I must resist.

Weekend Tee Vee

Kate — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:21:53 +0000

Big Brother‘s fake eviction on Friday was a big disappointment. Charley was meant to be completely humiliated but instead, her ego was massaged and she was completely untouched by the attempt at a rude awkening to her abhorrent behaviour.

I am looking forward to her real eviction because she is not going to win. That is 100% certain.

I have been watching the first few epidoses of Angel Season 2 following my recent purchase of the DVDs. I forgot how much I really love this series. Buffy will always be my favourite of the two (in fact, Buffy could be my favouite series full stop) but Angel is a worthy spin-off. Season 2 is also the season I have seen the least so it is nice watching it not quite remembering what happens next. Wes is really coming into his own, Cordelia is becoming a real champion in her own right and Angel is, of course, brooding and sexy and nobel and a little flawed and all that good stuff that makes him pretty cool. Gunn is not my favourite character – I never really warmed to him even at the end but at least he has gotten over himslf even to be tolerable.

I am still digging:

What About Brian – a guilty pleasure
Dexter – it was cracking again last night – I am still very much a fan of this show albeit only two episodes in.
Scrubs – Season 6 has just started on E4 so we are watching that – it is weird that Turk is a dad and JD will be one but I still love the show.
My Name is Earl – We had stopped watching My Name is Earl but now the third season is back on E4, we watched a couple of episodes over the weekend – it makes perfect filler – light and funny with likeable characters.

Things ready to watch:

NCIS (episodes from Season 1 and 4)
Dirt – I have the first episode to watch and the second is tonight – not sure if I will like this or not.
The Simpsons – random episodes

We watched You, Me and Dupree which was enjoyable and funny. And had Owen Wilson (although he is definitely not on my list – I made the right call there). We also watched Aeon Flux which was much better than expected. I had fairly low expectations since it did not get great reviews but I really liked it. I am a bit of a sucker for a film that looks beautiful. Plus I have pretty low standards when it comes to films. I liked Doom.

Mutant Enemy

Kate — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 12:34:21 +0000

It’s been a while, I know, but I am thinking I will start writing on this blog again. My love for TV has never wavered, you will be pleased to learn and I have been watching plenty so should have lots to talk about.

I recently discovered Dark Angel (why do I always get really into these programmes AFTER they have been cancelled!?). The SciFi Channel has just finished showing the whole series. There are flaws in it, to be sure, but I am a sucker for a sci-fi heroine and the show had a good mix of romance and action. HOWEVER. Why on earth did they continue with the whole ‘Max can’t touch Logan without killing him’ thing? I can only assume they were hoping for a thrid series to sort it all out. Or that they are cynical and loveless fools. I really am a hopeless romantic so I like it when the lead girl and the lead boy actually GET IT ON at some point.

I have also got myself a new crush – fairly inevitable when I watch a TV show with a good looking man – Michael Weatherly. He played Logan in Dark Angel and now stars in NCIS. Naturally, this means I have started watching this. In fact, I am watching two different seasons since it is being shown on FX and Five. You gotta love Sky +! I really like me a detective type show and this one is pretty cool. The investigations are quirky, the characters’ chemistry really works and, well, Michael Weatherly is in it, like I said. His character, Tony Dinozzo, is either a loveable rogue or complete misogynist. Since MW is so cute, I am going with loveable rogue. Because I have no shame.

I have also just purchased Angel Season 2 boxset and the Firefly series. I am totally in love with Joss Whedon. I have never really watched Firefly – I gave it a shot a while back but after watching (and liking) Serenity, I am looking forward to seeing the whole series.

In other Whedon news, I am just about to watch the final episode of Buffy for the gagillionth time. I have also subscribed to the new Buffy Season 8 comic, written by Joss, which makes me officially a bone fide Buffy-nerd. The comic is fantastic – great art work and and dialogue. The Whedon touch makes it very authentic. The comic is a ‘what happened next’ for all the die-hard fans who have suffered a great loss since the series finished: Dawn’s a giant! Xander’s a Watcher! Amy is evil! Warren is ‘alive’ (sans skin)!

Another new programme I have discovered is What About Brian. I watched an episode mid-season and noticed that Jabrams (JJ Abrams of Alias and Lost fame) is the executive producer. I was not disappointed. Perfect light entertainment.

I was starting to worry I wasn’t going to have anything to watch after the season finales of ER, Ugly Betty, Lost, and 24 but what with all this viewing and Big Brother 8 (I know, I know but I can’t help it), it looks like I will survive after all!