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im not talking about your quirky brit comedies here, more the 50 minute per episode american series such as scrubs, carnivale, west wing, firefly etc etc. basically what are your all time faves and why?? what would you really advise people to check out if they havent already??

Carnivale - just started watching this, had high expectations and for once wasn't dissapointing. lightly fantasy, pretty dark, pretty entertaining. some really cool characters, an entire carnivale of them in fact!! :D

Firefly - western space comedy drama. like enterprise only good ;) although short lived this series really was great, slow in the first couple of episodes but then takes off like a rocket. great humour, some great characters, some great plots, wonderful setting for the whole thing.

more to come...

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WIthout a doubt tops is:

Babylon 5

Some people would be put off by this cause it is a space sci-fi, but it still is an amazing show. The story arcs that are in it are immense with episodes from one series linking in two series later, and the character development is believable on the most part and top notch. My fave TV series ever.

24
Only just started watching this, about 3 episodes in to season 1, and I am completely hooked already. Great tension all the way so far!!

The X-Files
Despite it losing the plot and going a bit weird in places, it still is a very good TV series.


Ones I've got that I'm still to watch - Dark Angel and Alias.
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Tell me what RAWK means and I'll let you know. I've never heard of that word before.

The only series I watched reliously was "Dawson's Creek". Half because of Katie Holmes I will admit but I still love the show. I used to watch "Star Trek" each week but lost interest in "Enterprise" came. The thing is I don't plan what I'm doing around TV so can very easily miss a weeks episode so don't bother watching any.

I tend to watch most TV by turning it on and seeing what's on now.

I almost forgot I'm a HUGE fan of "Only Fools and Horses" which I'm not sure I'm allowed to mention but am. So put simply ONLY "Dawson's Creek" and "Only Fools and Horses".

Lastly there is far to much American TV on TV, far to bloody much!
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Its an American way of saying "ROCK" ;) (not all Americans say it like that mind).
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yep, it is just an american slang speliing of rock, as in awesome, i thought it was kind of apt given the subject matter being geared towards the US shows ;)

I always avoid seeing series actually on tv if possible, mainly because it annoys me so much that I inevitably mis an episode or two. instead i rely heavily of suggestions and lendings from my friends, and then invest in a couple if they are long, 3+ if they are short a year when they come out on dvd.

exceptions have been scrubs, stargate, las vegas and malcolm in the middle over the past year, all of which i have gone out of my way over the past year to watch as they come on sky tv!

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Oops I missed the word American in your post :D . Like I said I don't watch any any more (now DC has finished). I find over 50% of American shows utter trash.

Buffy and Charmed being two examples.
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I only ever watched Charmed cause there were quite a few sexy women in it!! Saw an episode that had mermaids in it and lots of cleavage and some of the main cast in rather skimpy dresses... top notch show!!!
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I think I saw that epsiode of Charmed with Paige (sp?) as a mermaid.. hubba hubba :P
I've seen some of Charmed, its not bad. Its' a bit like Buffy, no?

Also put in another vote for 24 8) That show is fantastic.
Dead Like Me looks quite funny in the trailers.. any good? Also I have heard good things about The 4400 (repeated on Sky 1 soon).
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I agree Degeneration but that won't last every week for me.
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Here's my quick list:

Babylon 5
Have to agree with Degen about this, a fantastic show and one of my all time favourites, especially after revisiting it most of it recently after getting Season 1 - 4 DVD Boxsets dirt cheap. Great characters and great story arcs and one THE best sci-fi shows ever.

24
Once again, I agree with Degen that this serious just plain rocks. Loads of tension and loads of action, Jack Bauer has to go down as one of the great TV action characters.

Alias
The first two seasons of this were blinding with great character evolution and action. Season Three fell off a bit, but Season Four is making up for it thus far. Plus it regularly has Jennifer Garner dressing in all kinds of sexy outfits which makes it worth watching regardless of plot. 8)

The Shield
This series is absolutely brilliant and makes Training Day look like Play School. All characters are just shades of grey and the series isn't afraid to take it to all kinds of extremes. Brilliant characters and brutal as hell.

Lost
This recent series from America is really damn good and come from Alias creator JJ Abrams. Who would have thought a series about people surviving a plane crash on a desert island could be so good? Excellent characters each with their own back stories fleshed out, and a whole strange cool sci-fi theme underlining the whole series. Plus, it has Kim Yoon-jin from Shiri in it surprisingly.
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If you liked charmed for the ladies then you may as well watch Xena and Relic Hunter!! :D

I didnt like 'dead like me' at first, but im actually getting into to it again now, its very much down the lines of of scrubs in terms of a lesson an episode and often depressing humour, but still, it grows on you!!

avoided 4400 so far, went off 24 in the 2nd series, Lost I havent had the chance to watch yet, the shield ive avoided but is on my list, Alias was fun but daft (never has a show had so many extreme twists from episode to episode).

Babylon 5, now there was a show I loved. I say loved because I havent seen it for years and years. the last episode I ever saw was spoiler ---------> set many thousands of years in the future, i think first 100 years, then a thousand, then some silly number. the bit I remember twas the main characters being brought back as holograms, though they didnt know that they were until garibaldi figured it out and totally kicked ass... :D. I never got into the sequals.

I'm adding 'Oz' to the list, a hard hitting prison drama set in the US (Oz standing for Oswald Penetentiary). Now this is one brutal series, there are no happy endings and much brutality, incredible intensity that keeps you hooked for many hours on end.

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As far as the airing schedule went, that episode you describe is the last, or one of the last, episodes in series 4. Series 5 is good, but not nearly as good as the series that preceeded it.

The episode that was originally filmed as the finale for season 4, was actually made the finale for season 5, because they didn't know for sure whether they were going to get a fifth season. It has Ivanova in it (as she was missing for all of season 5) and is definitely worth watching.
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So far I am mainly enjoying:

Firefly
24
Lost
Desperate Housewives
Smallville
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I keep missing the Lost episodes on TV - will get the DVD instead :)
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