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Newbie TIVO'r looking for Good Shows
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Posted by: terminaldawn

Hi All.

Just wondering what shows you guys dig and what you reccomend to Tivo???

Currently on my Season Pass is:

"That 70's Show"
"MythBusters"
"Smallville"

Thanks for any recomendations!!!!

Posted by: windracer

Some of my SPs include:

- "The Shield" on FX (though the new season started a few weeks ago, so it might be hard to pick up on if you've never seen it before)

- new season of "Nip/Tuck" starts soon on FX as well

- "Mythbusters" is on there, along with the requisite "Trading Spaces" and "Trading Spaces: Family" for the wife and "American Chopper" for me

- "Good Eats" on Food TV, my personal favorite cooking show

Posted by: LifeIsABeach

If you liked Seinfeld and have HBO try Curb Your Enthusiam. The guy who created Seinfeld (Larry David) is the writer and star of this show. Some people here love it and some hate it, so I can't make any guarantees. They are on hiatus now, but you can usually catch reruns here and there.

Posted by: ckelly5

kinda a bad time, what with the end of the tv season.

for this summer, I plan on recording:

CSI (Las Vegas) - didn't get around to it over the season with my move to a directivo from a standalone.

Nip/ Tuck on FX

Coupling Series 4 on BBC America (starts June 6th, it appears)

Dead Like Me on Showtime.

Curb your enthusiasm on HBO

my family has been raving about "Family Plots" on A&E. it's about a family that runs a mortuary.

and I am thinking about recording the mid to late seasons of Buffy on FX (2 a day, I believe), need my Whedon fix now that Angel is gone.

Posted by: rtype

quote:
Originally posted by terminaldawn
Hi All.

Just wondering what shows you guys dig and what you reccomend to Tivo???

Currently on my Season Pass is:

"That 70's Show"
"MythBusters"
"Smallville"

Thanks for any recomendations!!!!

If you like Mythbusters, you should also check out Penn & Teller Bull* on Showtime if you have it.

There really aren't any other shows too similar to Smallville or That 70s Show right now. For comedies, you might want to check out Malcolm in the Middle if you haven't (the other big Fox comedy besides That 70s Show). Keep a look at for Global Frequency in early 2005 for the next big sci-fi drama based on a comic series. If you're into superhero stuff in general, look for Justice League Unlimited later this summer and Teen Titans which I believe is currently showing reruns (animated stuff).

Posted by: kitsap

quote:
Originally posted by LifeIsABeach
If you liked Seinfeld and have HBO try Curb Your Enthusiam. The guy who created Seinfeld (Larry David) is the writer and star of this show. Some people here love it and some hate it, so I can't make any guarantees. They are on hiatus now, but you can usually catch reruns here and there.

Actually, if you have HBO Comedy, they're running through the first three seasons, one episode per night. The sequence starts up again with the first episode next Monday (5/24). (Season Four reruns are also scattered around regular HBO.)

Posted by: spelcheker

Arrested Development seems to be really popular here, and I certainly enjoy it.

Posted by: IndyJones1023

Ummm, I would record all the shows you used to watch before you had a Tivo.

:)

Posted by: terminaldawn

quote:
Originally posted by IndyJones1023
Ummm, I would record all the shows you used to watch before you had a Tivo.

:)

I hated TV before TIVO, So I really didnt watch anything, accept during the 80's when i was a kid and Different Strokes and Family Ties were on.

Posted by: jschuur

quote:
Originally posted by terminaldawn
I hated TV before TIVO, So I really didn't watch anything, accept during the 80's when i was a kid and Different Strokes and Family Ties were on.

Curious response. So what lead you to buy a TiVo? Did you find it too much of a hassle to watch TV before? What advantages of time-shifting devices sold you on them?

I find it interesting that people buy DVRs not to better manage their TV viewing habits, but to actually _start_ watching TV again! Not trying to be judgmental here BTW, simply making an observation.

To throw in a suggestion... Monk is an funny show, easy to get into mid-way and the new season starts June 18th on USA.

Posted by: rtype

I was seriously in the same boat as this guy until last summer. I never could stand the idea of having to be home at a set time just to watch TV. For a while, I did it for Simpsons and X-Files which luckily was Sunday night anyway (I live in Dallas--everything here closes on Sunday night and there's usually not something better to do). Then for two years I didn't have any cable or dss and couldn't even receive Fox well enough to watch the Simpsons, so I basically went DVD-only for a while. So, when I finally came back, I didn't really know what I wanted to watch which is why I started cruising this forum. It's really not so far fetched, ya know?

Posted by: MacThor

Yep. I never wanted to be home either. Pre-Tivo, I had a VCR with commercialskip, and 7 tapes labeled Sunday-Saturday. I was a time-shifting early adopter!

Once I got the DTivo, and conflicts were resolved, my TV watching spiked way up. I had to really work to reign it in.

Posted by: terminaldawn

quote:
Originally posted by jschuur
Curious response. So what lead you to buy a TiVo? Did you find it too much of a hassle to watch TV before? What advantages of time-shifting devices sold you on them?

I find it interesting that people buy DVRs not to better manage their TV viewing habits, but to actually _start_ watching TV again! Not trying to be judgmental here BTW, simply making an observation.

To throw in a suggestion... Monk is an funny show, easy to get into mid-way and the new season starts June 18th on USA.

I bought the TIVO because I am never home to watch cool shows, such as Smallville, etc... I stopped watching TV alltogether in the past becuase I would watch a show and not know what was going on, etc... PLUS COMMERCIALS ARE THE WORST!!!

Posted by: jwjody

Dead Zone
Shield
Monk
Coupling on BBCA

I have many more than that but those are a few gems you might want to check out.

J

Posted by: Marco

Futurama
Family Guy
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

Posted by: dedwards

The Shield
Touching Evil
South Park

Posted by: ckelly5

quote:
Originally posted by kitsap
Actually, if you have HBO Comedy, they're running through the first three seasons, one episode per night. The sequence starts up again with the first episode next Monday (5/24). (Season Four reruns are also scattered around regular HBO.)

Ahhh! No HBO comedy on Directv! nooo!

Posted by: classicsat

I'd got most of the "garage" shows on Speed, and their likenesses on other channels, Colonial house (and 1900 house, they are re-running those). I Have M*A*S*H* and Star Trek TOS. I should probably put Punk'd and Osbournes on there (although they ran a marathon of that last week). Next week, they are going to begin running the first Trading Spaces.

Posted by: tgr131

Wild West Tech
Coupling on BBCA
Tons of Nat'l Geographic/Discovery Channel stuff
Ebert and Roeper Movie Reviews

Posted by: zync

I'll second "Good Eats". If you enjoy cooking, this show is a must-have. Yes, there are sock puppets - but how else are you going to illustrate the act of burping CO2?

Posted by: windracer

quote:
I'll second "Good Eats".

Since there's at least one other Good Eats fan reading the thread, I have to post this.

I got to meet AB in person the other week when his cooking tour came to a local mall. I waited in line and got him to sign my copy of "I'm Just Here for the Food." He's a really nice guy in person ... just like the show.

Posted by: murgatroyd

No one has mentioned music shows:

Austin City Limits
Crossroads
Soundstage
Jubilee

etc.

Posted by: Smackfu

Cook's Tour on Food Network is good.

Posted by: Wilhite

Go into the Tivo Suggestions list every few days and see what Tivo has for you. Don't turn on the auto-record of suggestions though - just review what it has picked and see if anything interests you.

After a while, you'll start to see a common thread in the suggestions based on what you find in the list that was of interest.

I've found some pretty good programs that I would have normally missed by doing this - mostly documentaries and the such. However, I haven't really found anything that I would "Season Pass".

Posted by: mt1

Dead Like Me - Showtime
Oblivious - Spike TV
Big Brother 5 - CBS (starts July 6th)

Posted by: Incognito

I cant beliave know one has mentioned

Amazing Race
or
Joe Shmoe 2