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What I'm Watching

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23/Apr/2006

I don't watch much TV these days - a few comedies and films, and sometimes the shopping channels on freeview to see what kind of horrible tat they're selling. There are a few programmes I regularly watch:

Everybody hates Chris
Much funnier than Everybody Loves Raymond. Narrated by Chris Rock, this is like some kind of anti-Cosby Show about a hard working but poor black family growing up in New York.

Doctor Who
The second series of the new and improved return of Dr Who. The BBC have given it the budget it deserves so at last it has decent special effects. It's a pity that so many of the stories are Earth-based but what we've had so far has been good.

Invasion
A very strange programme. After a hurricane, strange things started to happen in a small Florida town. People who went missing during the storm were found later, physically unharmed but somehow 'changed'.

My Name is Earl
One of the most original comedies currently on tv. About a petty criminal who lived a crappy life til he found out about Karma. He figured that this was why bad things kept happening to him so he made a list of all the things he'd done and tries to make amends.

House
Hugh Lawrie as an american doctor. Now into it's second series. The stories follow a few familiar patterns, usually: patient is admitted, doctors think they know what's wrong, start treating patient, patient gets worse, doctors realise some odd combination of ailments was giving misleading symptoms.

The second series of Lost is starting soon so that's another one I'll be watching. Most of these programmes are American - British tv seems to be going through a bad phase at the moment. One of the few watchable British comedies at the moment is My Family but that has a writing team based on the american way of writing sit-coms. And even that isn't as funny as it used to be.