What is Your Fave Shows on Premium Cable?
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What do you consider "Premium Cable Channels". Just like HBO/Showtime/Starz etc.? Or does that include AMC, FX, SyFy and other more basic cable outlets? Here is the list of "Cable Network" TV shows that make TV Guides 60 greatest shows of all time. (All others would be on Broadcast networks). In no particular order.
Sopranos
The Wire
Breaking Bad
Mad Men
The Shield
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Sex and the City
The Larry Sanders Show
Battlestar Galactica
I am sure there are many other good ones. Why am I sure...I have watched a lot of them.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer? LMAO.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer? LMAO.
Talk to TV Guide. This was their list. I suspect that there may be quite a few other shows from the broadcast networks they listed that you might laugh at:
http://www.tvguide.com/news/tv-guide-magazine-60-best-series-1074962.aspx
I will say this: they don't include The Beverly Hillbillies or Bonanza on this list which were two of the most popular shows of all time. I guess it is a question of quality, not quantity? (yet I would argue that Bonanza was a better quality show than say contemporary Gunsmoke, which is on the list)
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forgot all about deadwood. have every episode on dvd. what a great cast, most of whom were either on something before or soon after.
the main 'whore' in swearengen's (ian mcshane's cat house played jax's sister's mother on sons of anarchy) and is now playing 'ray donavan's' (great show also) wife. the brother of the head ganster played by steve beuschemi on empire boardwalk is now on hbo's 'true detective' as the preacher. timothy oliphant has been on multiple movies and shows from being the bad guy in die hard iv to being the 'hitman' to playing a jingle jangle hillbilly marshall in 'justified'.
which brings me to homeland. it took me awhile to warm u to it but when i did i thought ti was awesome and then after last season's finale when they blew up langley or whatever it was i haven't watched one scene. the lead actor in that was the lead actor in band of brothers.
walking dead on CABLE is by far my fave, (but to see some retribution this upcoming season for the family 'snow' in the game of thrones might have me judging otherwise). meanwhile half the people on the show are british and the lead actor was best know for a chump role in 'love actually'. and shane now plays the lead in 'la noir' which is also flipping awesome.
just loved the ending of the last mid-season finale in the walking dead when the governor finally got his just does.
too bad the writers of full budget hollywood movies don't have half the creativity of what people write now on PREMIUM CABLE channels.
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Boardwalk Empire, Game of Thrones. Deadwood was great, but I guess it wasn't politically correct and so they killed it without an ending. The Americans (FX) is really good (not premium channel, but a damn good show). True Blood was okay the first couple of episodes, then sucked. Started watching Helix.
Swearingen is the single greatest, series character I have seen... Ian McShane was pitch perfect in the role.
Deadwood was great, but I guess it wasn't politically correct and so they killed it without an ending.
LOL... while one episode did hit 23 on the "Cocksucker Count-o-Meter", of the many. many rumored reasons, e.g., cost, Milch's drug use or his boredom with the subject matter, PC is not on any lists I've seen.
I'd forgotten that Milch was behind HBO's John from Cincinatti which vies with Carnivale for strangest series ever.
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forgot all about deadwood. have every episode on dvd. what a great cast, most of whom were either on something before or soon after.
the main 'whore' in swearengen's (ian mcshane's cat house played jax's sister's mother on sons of anarchy) and is now playing 'ray donavan's' (great show also) wife. the brother of the head ganster played by steve beuschemi on empire boardwalk is now on hbo's 'true detective' as the preacher. timothy oliphant has been on multiple movies and shows from being the bad guy in die hard iv to being the 'hitman' to playing a jingle jangle hillbilly marshall in 'justified'.
which brings me to homeland. it took me awhile to warm u to it but when i did i thought ti was awesome and then after last season's finale when they blew up langley or whatever it was i haven't watched one scene. the lead actor in that was the lead actor in band of brothers.
walking dead on CABLE is by far my fave, (but to see some retribution this upcoming season for the family 'snow' in the game of thrones might have me judging otherwise). meanwhile half the people on the show are british and the lead actor was best know for a chump role in 'love actually'. and shane now plays the lead in 'la noir' which is also flipping awesome.
just loved the ending of the last mid-season finale in the walking dead when the governor finally got his just does.
too bad the writers of full budget hollywood movies don't have half the creativity of what people write now on PREMIUM CABLE channels.
forgot all about deadwood. have every episode on dvd. what a great cast, most of whom were either on something before or soon after.
the main 'whore' in swearengen's (ian mcshane's cat house played jax's sister's mother on sons of anarchy) and is now playing 'ray donavan's' (great show also) wife.
She also plays Katniss Everdeen's mother on the Hunger Games movies....plus she was in Caprica. (the BSG spinoff)
the brother of the head ganster played by steve beuschemi on empire boardwalk is now on hbo's 'true detective' as the preacher. timothy oliphant has been on multiple movies and shows from being the bad guy in die hard iv to being the 'hitman' to playing a jingle jangle hillbilly marshall in 'justified'.
which brings me to homeland. it took me awhile to warm u to it but when i did i thought ti was awesome and then after last season's finale when they blew up langley or whatever it was i haven't watched one scene. the lead actor in that was the lead actor in band of brothers.
walking dead on CABLE is by far my fave, (but to see some retribution this upcoming season for the family 'snow' in the game of thrones might have me judging otherwise). meanwhile half the people on the show are british and the lead actor was best know for a chump role in 'love actually'. and shane now plays the lead in 'la noir' which is also flipping awesome.
You mean Ian McShane? I have liked him ever since he was Lovejoy....the shady antiques dealer. Whoever knew that a show about a fake Napolean's chamberpot could be so much fun.
just loved the ending of the last mid-season finale in the walking dead when the governor finally got his just does.
too bad the writers of full budget hollywood movies don't have half the creativity of what people write now on PREMIUM CABLE channels.
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I have been watching the first season of Revolution on DVD. I know it is a regular broadcast show. And honestly, it is not done very well.
But did anyone notice that the plot started out essentially the same as The Postman....the Kevin Costner distopian movie that didn't go over so well?
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Masters of sex is pretty decent if only for some cheap t and a. Ought to be right up gippers alley
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Wonder if netflix originals ought to count towards this. If so arrested development is still damn good and orange is the new black was entertaining.
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When I said Politically correct, I guess I meant the way they portrayed women the way they really were back then. If you kmow what I mean.
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When I said Politically correct, I guess I meant the way they portrayed women the way they really were back then. If you kmow what I mean.
When I said Politically correct, I guess I meant the way they portrayed women the way they really were back then. If you kmow what I mean.
politically correct or not, women haven't changed a bit.
true detective stepped up a couple of notches tonite. gotta see it.
will be off the chains next sunday.
also the return of the walking dead. hate that friggin kid. get a haircut punk.
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Just binge watched all three seasons of game of thrones whilst preparing for.the fourth. Game of thrones is the shit. Easily my favorite show with walking dead currently second.
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what is considered "Premium Cable" ?
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old school:
Sopranos
Six Feet Under
Mad Men
Breaking Bad
The Shield
The Wire
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My Wife likes those crime shows. She and her best friend worked as investigators with their
aunt's criminal investigator agency way back in the day, in college.
Their aunt was the first woman in Ohio to get her license as such. She also likes
Criminal Intent, and Law and Order, and that's when I often get on the computer...
We both love the NCIS shows, and I remember how I could have gone for months
of training in OSI, cept I didn't want to re-enlist.
Our favorite shows are:
TCM - Turner Classic Movies, the old movies, often in b and w. So many of them had
really terrific plots. I record the old Roy Rogers shows off the Western channel....
NCIS
NCIS, LA
Duck Dynasty
Survivor
Swamp People
American Restoration
Browns football and Nascar
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My favorite show of all time, a movie.... I saw when I was a kid - "The Legend of the Scarecrow", on Disney.
Next favorite all time show, was the old Carol Burnett shows with Tim Conway.
The Scarecrow was the leader of a group of American rebels, during the Revolutionary War, and he wore a scarecrow mask.
It was awesome. They never played it again. I actually asked someone at Disney one time about it,
on a tour of their studios. He went off, and looked it up, and told me that they never plan to run it again.
I imagine it's a copyright issue or something.
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My favorite show of all time, a movie.... I saw when I was a kid - "The Legend of the Scarecrow", on Disney.
Next favorite all time show, was the old Carol Burnett shows with Tim Conway.
The Scarecrow was the leader of a group of American rebels, during the Revolutionary War, and he wore a scarecrow mask.
It was awesome. They never played it again. I actually asked someone at Disney one time about it,
on a tour of their studios. He went off, and looked it up, and told me that they never plan to run it again.
I imagine it's a copyright issue or something.
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YES ! I loved that show. I don't remember the song being so annoying...
but the show was really dramatic. And spooky.
Reminded me of Zorro in a few ways.
I also loved all the Daniel Boone shows.
Also, I forgot about the "Swamp Fox" shows.
Those -were- the Revolutionary War stories.
Loved em both. I was an adventurous kid,
patriotic when I was born.
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Zombo said:
Is this the show you speaketh of?
I believe that the guy that portrayed The Scarecrow was Patrick McGoohan.....he of Secret Agent/Prisoner fame.
He had a much better theme song in this role:
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I get a few months off HBO with the Direct TV installation so I've set it to record true detective. Everybody says it's great, we shall see. Also season 3 of Game of Thrones.
I remember thinking the original the prisoner was pretty damn cool. I wonder if it will stand up to time?
WSS
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