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21 Oct 2013, 3:55 pm

Green Acres is the place to be!

And Petticoat Junction.



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22 Oct 2013, 8:40 am

Anarbaculardrop wrote:
Here are the american tv shows I usually watch:

-Daily Show
-Colbert Report
-Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman
-Jimmy Fallon

I use to watch Monk and Pysch, but I can't get the new episodes of Pysch, and Monk ended. :cry:

Another good show is Myth-busters.

Sometimes I watch Star Trek on Netflix, but that probably doesn't count.

Are these shows good or bad?


Sounds like a well balanced nutritious diet of TV to me!



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23 Oct 2013, 3:30 am

Australian commercial TV is worse. Just watch shows you like and turn off the ones you hate. I watch ABC 95% of the time (Australian Broadcasting Commission, the government broadcasting station like the Aus version of the BBC. Actually we get lots of BBC shows on it), and the other 5% is trash on "7Mate" which is a station aimed at men but has good documentaries on it sometimes.

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23 Oct 2013, 3:49 am

Cant say an general oppinion about US-TV, but CNN has become pretty bad in my eyes. (Were on wedding holidays, and the only non-french channel our french hotel offered was CNN.)

So maybe before noon (we watched in the evening, but there is the timeshift) is a bad time for watching CNN and they have better stuff later, but while I remember CNN to be rather informational, it now has become something like reality TV. Artifical "interviews" and "discussions", in which it is easy to understand, that they want to get their customers in the end a certain oppinion, artificially "action involved" news...

I remember it being a good news-channel 10 years ago, but at least the before noon programm, has become more of an gameshow. O_o



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23 Oct 2013, 4:15 am

Agreed. I do like Food Network shows, though.



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23 Oct 2013, 4:15 am

Schneekugel wrote:
Cant say an general oppinion about US-TV, but CNN has become pretty bad in my eyes. (Were on wedding holidays, and the only non-french channel our french hotel offered was CNN.)

So maybe before noon (we watched in the evening, but there is the timeshift) is a bad time for watching CNN and they have better stuff later, but while I remember CNN to be rather informational, it now has become something like reality TV. Artifical "interviews" and "discussions", in which it is easy to understand, that they want to get their customers in the end a certain oppinion, artificially "action involved" news...

I remember it being a good news-channel 10 years ago, but at least the before noon programm, has become more of an gameshow. O_o


We had a parody show of CNN over here called CNNNN, quite funny.

Our non-ABC news shows are the opposite of that, e.g. someone in Melbourne busked in a funny costume


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