TV

biggest part of Big Media

shows I have loved, or at least enjoyed enough to schedule in DVR (Product Review): Community, 30Rock, Dr House, Mentalist, Lie to Me, Boston Legal, Good Eats (won't get me Cooking, but helps me enjoy Eating), Sopranos (at least early seasons), West Wing (early seasons), Psych, Eureka, The Neighbors.

• Bill Maher/Daily Show/Colbert Report (actually don't watch those often, too many to keep up).... (actually/actually I'm totally over Bill Maher as of 2022)
• more recent: Stranger Things, BBC Sherlock, Black Mirror, Resident Alien, True Detective, Umbrella Academy

Reality Tv

http://ch131.com/

http://www.alluc.org/tv-shows.html

Kids Tv more recent than below: Adventure Time, Chowder, Gumball, Phineas and Ferb

Kids Tv: grouped by age-range: if no note, then I rather like it. Note these are from 2000-2007, so most are gone now.

• 1-3
  • Sesame Street
  • Backyardigans: awesome music (Douglas Wieselman and Evan Lurie (brother of John Lurie; co-founders of the Lounge Lizards)), fun imagination games
    • favorite episodes: Surfs Up (funk), Harbor Patrol (soul revue), Ping Pong Bandit (indian), Sinbad (mambo)
  • WonderPets
  • Thomas The Tank Engine: tedious messages ("be really useful, don't cause confusion and delay"), but kids love it, and ties in with toys they spend hours playing with
  • Barney: have never let it be seen
• 4-6: NickToons
  • Spongebob Squarepants
  • RugRats: music by Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo and lots of movies.
  • Rocket Power
  • FairlyOddParents: by Butch Hartman, not related to Phil Hartman (?!?!)
  • Avatar
  • Wild Thornberries
• 7-10
  • PokeMon, Blue Dragon: oh lordy these are so horrible
  • Educational Tv: Civil War Journal, Nova, Good Eats, Top Chef, So You Think You Can Dance: ok maybe The Boys are atypical....

old/weird TV

• Ernie Kovacs - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_Kovacs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Show
• Benny Hill
• Monty Python