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You probably get AMC on channel 59, but I know you don't have EXACTLY the same channels I do. I've seen bits of Hustle, and it looks pretty good. It's not quite enough for me to remember or go out of my way to see, but it looks to be well-made.

Wow! you watch too much TV. Patti and I watch Lost, CSI and House. I add Alias (or I did) and an occasional My name is Earl, Office and Scrubs. I just rented the 1st 2 dvds of Battlestar Galactica season 1 and loved it. Have they sustained it through the second season. i may have to invest in the discs since the video store hasn't picked them up.

My guess is you'd like House. The character is great, if a bit one dimensional. They have spent a significant amount of time late in season two developing him as well as the other characters.

My wife and I watch smalleville together (she likes the hunkiness of tom welling). We also watch House too. We like it a lot. I watch CSI, and watched a few episodes of Numbers but the timeslot is not good for me (Friday at 10pm).

I've got to rent Battlestar Galactica... I've seen an episode or two and it was intriguing enough that I want to see more.

Thanks, Julie. It's possible that my love of details about confidence schemes might put it over the top for me. "The Grifters" "The Sting" and similar.

B.O.B.: Yes, Galactica was very good in the second season. There were one or two mediocre eps, but they weren't afraid to go bold with it.

I very well may watch too much TV. But I get bored on the treadmill and I spend almost an hour exercising nearly every day lately. An hour TV show is 40 minutes, which is just about right.

To justify the extra viewing hours, I may have to take up strength exercises, or core exercises or something. If I look really good the next time you see me, attribute it to TV. ;)

I have decided to rent the first season of "House" on DVD. Because: why the heck not?

If you watched an ep of Battlestar Galactica and were intrigued, you'll probably like the whole thing. It's some really well done TV. Which frankly shocked me coming from the SciFi Channel.

Lately I have caught some episodes of the new Dr. Who on SciFi, and because I have the TV on while websurfing, I end up seeing some of the Stargate shows. Not a big fan of those, but they make for OK background noise.

Yeah, James is the opposite of a couch potato. He's a treadmill potato or something. He tapes all that stuff and watches it while he runs. I personally can't bear the treadmill and love to run outside. When I am stuck running on the TM, the TV that engages me there is completely different from the TV that engages me normally. (My friends will attest, I'm almost never fully engaged by TV anyway.) On the TM, I need lots of action and preferably somebody very buff to watch (as inspiration, gender unimportant). I *can* watch HGTV, but there are so many commercials, it's difficult.

We just watched the first two episodes of Deadwood Season 2 (it's so annoying that the DVDs contain only 2 episodes each!). Love it. We also watch Six Feet Under on DVD. The first season was excellent; we're somewhere in the second or third now.

The next couple of CDs have 3 episodes on them, and then the 5th CD has only 2.

The 6th one only has extra material, so keep that in mind if you aren't interested in extras.

I love House, but it's very formulaic. Fortunately, I like the formula, and Hugh Laurie really makes the show (as do many of the guests).

I absolutely agree Julie. The House formula is very basic (although I think toward the end of this season the tried to change that a bit, not so successfully I think). The show is most definately a character not a plot driven show. Fortunatelty I never get tired of House's character. He treats peopel the way I wish I could. I think they've done a better job with the otehr characters in the second season.

In the 1st season it's all about House. Also James as you watch the 1st few episodes the one thing I took away is that the writers thought that every sick person had to have a seizure (or two or three) at some point in their disease progression. Yes they are more dramatic than someone sayingtheir tummy hurts but geeze.

Oh and some of my favorite scenes are the ones where House is forced to work in the clinic.

That's where you really get to see what a bastard he can be.

The best is when he surprises the young daughter whose mother doesn't speak English, so she translates into Mandarin for her. What she doesn't know is that House understands and speaks Mandarin.

Hah!

So, Alias is gone? I missed the last season and a half. Did they do a decent wrap-up of the whole thing?

Yeah - I thought it came to a decent end. When they decided to wrap it up, it suddenly became good again. (IMHO)

So the last half-season was better than the previous season's worth of episodes.

I agree, Alias got better toward the end. I liked it all along but the last 10 episodes or so were much more focused where it tended to be all over the place prior to that for a few seasons. They rapped up most of the loose ends and left themselves some openings in case they want to do anything in the future (movie maybe?). It would seem like a perfect show to make the transition to the big screen. Of course i thought the same was true of Buffy and nothing's happened there either.