please tell us all about your most favorite tv show

Wow.

Just the mere suggestion that people stop watching the electronic heroin that is television and get real lives has certainly brought out some intense reactions.

Maybe the cultural engineers are correct in keeping people hypnotized by television, it certainly seems to have a pacifying effect. However, the prospect of having it taken away seems to lead to withdrawal symptoms.

I hardly know where to begin...

1. Why does a show being fiction mean it has no value? Historically, works of fiction have been sites for intellectual debate, social commentary, or provocative thought. And even if not high art, fiction/television provide entertainment to the world. That's nothing to scoff at.

2. Isn't it possible for somebody to watch a TV show and have a meaningful, full life away from the screen? After work today, I'm going to go read with my girlfriend, then go to our yoga class. When we get home, we're going to watch an episode of Weeds. Later, I'll sit down and have a debate with my father about our twin loves of politics and electronics. That sounds pretty real to me, and it involves an amount of television. Colour me surprised.

Can't we all just agree that American Idol needs to be killed?!?!?! I'd pay money to watch Simon Cowell eviscerated like William Wallace on national TV!

FOX has been living off of AI and Simpsons (and the torture porn of 24, to an extent) for far too long. Time to scrap it all and start over again, Murdoch...

Love it--I think that is how they should end the series. It opens with Jack Bauer taking a nap. He wakes up, eats a ham sandwich, and reads the paper. He goes out, and chats with his neighbor. He gives the neighbor's dog a vigorous belly rub (Jack Bauer: "Who's a good boy? Who's a good boy? Yes you ARE! Yes you ARRRRRE!"). He goes to a store and buys dental floss (mint waxed). The show ends as he disappears into what is obviously a men's room, with the distinctive CHUNK-chunk, CHUNK-chunk countdown.

Actually, if they did a similar episode in the middle of a season, that might even convince me to start watching it again.

Well, I have a few hopes for Dollhouse. First I noticed that FOX moved Terminator: TSCC to Friday too, hopefully FOX is thinking it'll be a Sci-fi Friday. I'm also hoping that they give Dollhouse some extra chances beyond 3 or 6 episodes since they owe Joss for mucking up Firefly so badly, plus a good show needs at least 9 to 13 episodes for the major plot to really get rolling.

The bad news, I haven't seen one ad for Dollhouse, only the new show "Lie to Me" with Roth.

Does anyone know how many episodes FOX ordered?

please tell everyone about your favorite tv show

...they get sent on secret missions.

Yeah, on TV. In real life, they would get sent to work as whores.

screw these people. i love you!

How can Lost be missing from this article?!

human dolls...in a dollhouse...they get sent on secret missions.

The United States of Tara also sounds interesting. "Tara" is one of the buddhas, but that's probably not what they're talking about.

In the next few months, newspapers will be eviscerated, reduced in content, their staffs will be fired. This is a perfect opportunity for you to stop reading.

Forget what these symbols on the screen mean. You don't need to know what's going on in the world or what other human beings are doing, any more than you need television fiction or news coverage. Especially since you seem to be the kind of person who doesn't give a damn for anything but her internal life anyway. The only thing you need to focus on is your navel.

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ErnestPayne:

I will miss the History Channel, but I can get DVDs of their programs at their website.

Besides, I own the book Holy Blood, Holy Grail, which sums up 90% of their programming (and I bought the book in 1984).

we were talking about Dollhouse...i'm going to need some nachos

Apparently PBS, Discovery, and the History Channel, amongst others, are just too complex for you.

oh it's right here by the mouse...i want to click and see a pretty person. i like to turn off the sound and watch her talk.

the voices make it sound like she is talking to me.

Thanks for providing the chuckle, Mr. Toon--the hater torch has been passed. But in fact, I don't think your Havrilesky critiques were ever as mean spirited––or ad hominem––as Stonecutter's. He offered no concrete reasons for his vicious pronouncements about Havrilesky. We are just to take it from that she bears the mark of the beast, an incarnation of all the kinds of people he finds contemptible, from obese women to women and those horrid tweens to women who work at make up counters (shudder).

Then again, Stonecutter gave me a laugh too, when he wrote back to chide his critics for the negativity of their "wise-ass cynicism." Funny!

what an outmoded way of thinking. unless you have one of those chasing the brass ring jobs where you work 15 hours a day because you are obsessed with money and status and have only a precious few moments at night to spend quality time with your friends and family, you have no excuse to not watch tv right now while it's in its golden age. what a joke.

even keeping up with a number of tv shows a week, i still have hours to spend on reading a book a week, a half dozen magazines, going out to drinks and dinner with friends and my girlfriend, obsessing over sports and going to the gym every day. I even have time to post on message boards like this.

none of which is to say i am anything special. quite the contrary. but where is tv encroaching on the fulfillment of "life" in that schedule? so what's your excuse? what am i missing out on by not watching tv?

(ok working laregely from home helps!)