TV/Movies Megathread

[The Larch]

Andy Whitfield, the guy that played Spartacus on the Showtime series, died of non-Hodgkin Lymphoma today. 

I thought he was recovering.

It's an extremely disheartening story. He was diagnosed in March 2010, started crash treatment right away and in May 2010 he was declared cancer-free. Then in September 2010 it was found that the cancer had recurred and now one year later he's gone. 

[Syt]

I need a new comedy series to watch - recommednations, please.

Shows I like:
Frasier
Married With Children
Everybody Loves Raymond

Shows I don't like:
Friends
Cheers
Seinfeld
Two And A Half Men

High brow humor is a plus.

[Eddie Teach]

Based on your list I'd say Modern Family. Also I'd recommend The Office(the American version) and Community on general principles.

[Admiral Yi]

You might want to take a look at Scrubs.

[Syt]

You might want to take a look at Scrubs.

I liked the first couple of seasons, but not the later ones.

[Eddie Teach]

Was there a reason in particular you disliked Seinfeld btw? In a lot of ways, it was the forerunner of many of the clever comedies I've loved over the past decade. Yet I didn't *love* it. Mainly because I didn't think any of the main characters were likable.

[Syt]

Based on your list I'd say Modern Family. Also I'd recommend The Office(the American version) and Community on general principles.

I'll check those out; I tried the British version of the Office, but couldn't get into it much (though that might have been due to the accents).

Btw, some BritComs I liked:
My Family
Blackadder
Red Dwarf
IT Crowd
Father Ted (I know it's technically Irish ...)

[Syt]

Was there a reason in particular you disliked Seinfeld btw? In a lot of ways, it was the forerunner of many of the clever comedies I've loved over the past decade. Yet I didn't *love* it. Mainly because I didn't think any of the main characters were likable.

I guess the characters were just terribly annoying to me. Same as in Friends.

[Admiral Yi]

I guess the characters were just terribly annoying to me. Same as in Friends.

Black marketeers, lovers of avant garde art, and seducers of innocent Aryan women, every one of them.

If you didn't like Seinfeld definitely don't bother with the Larry David cable show.  The whole show is about being annoying.

I've got it!  How about that show about the late night talk show?  I'm completely spacing on the name but it was fucking hilarious.  It's pretty old but when I caught one or two episodes recently I thought it was great.

Shazaam!  The Larry Sanders show.

[Grey Fox]

The Big Bang Theory?

How I met your Mother?

[Eddie Teach]

The Big Bang Theory?

How I met your Mother?

Big Bang Theory has a lot of telegraphed jokes like Two and a Half Men and Cheers... and Married with Children and Everybody Loves Raymond. How I Met Your Mother is one I really like, but it is about a group of New Yorkers who resemble the Friends characters in many ways.

Yeah, I think Syt's just gonna have to watch them and decide himself, his tastes don't seem to follow a particular pattern that I can see.

I'll throw out a list of some sitcoms I've really liked:
Fawlty Towers, Soap, Blackadder, Cheers(hasn't aged well), Newsradio, Frasier, Just Shoot Me, Coupling, Scrubs, Arrested Development, Weeds, Entourage, The Office(US only), Community, How I Met Your Mother

[The Larch]

Based on your list I'd say Modern Family. Also I'd recommend The Office(the American version) and Community on general principles.

I'll check those out; I tried the British version of the Office, but couldn't get into it much (though that might have been due to the accents).

Btw, some BritComs I liked:
My Family
Blackadder
Red Dwarf
IT Crowd
Father Ted (I know it's technically Irish ...)

Spaced and Black Books, ASAP. No more discussion required.

[11B4V]

The only sitcoms I watch anymore are Everybody Loves Raymond, The Office, Louie.

[Syt]

I guess the characters were just terribly annoying to me. Same as in Friends.

Black marketeers, lovers of avant garde art, and seducers of innocent Aryan women, every one of them.

At the same time I love Lewis Black, Jon Stewart, Sarah Silverman ( ) and Jerry Stiller on King of Queens, so there.

Thanks for the recommendations, all, I will check them out.

[Admiral Yi]

FYI The Larry Sanders Show features a young and very pert Sarah Silverman.