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Shows you watched and got into VERY quickly
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Not spamming (as this is the last new thread I do in TV for this week)
To flip my last thread on it's head now. What TV shows did you watch and REALLY get into almost instantly?
Doctor Who (2005) - I never watched the original series but the trailer for the new one back 2005 caught my eye and within about 15 minutes into the episode I was petty much hooked and knew this was going to be a good show.
Fairly Odd Parents - I used to watch Nicktoons in my teens but after a long time hiatus (or my attempted growing up period) I came to find that Rocko's Modern Life and Real Monsters were repeated on the nicktoons channel at 9pm each night and started to record them. This followed and one night I just left it on, within 5 minutes I was loving it, such an out of the box concept and such a cool animation style.
Danny Phantom - Sister show to above so I checked it out about 5 or 6 months being into the above. Wasn't 'that' sure after 5 minutes but by the time it got to the end I'd been reeled into it. So watched them all, still love it.
Spongebob Squarepants - Mate told me to watch it (as it's better than odd parents he said) I did and whilst I disagreed about it being better. It's again so out of the box and very entertaining so stuck with it and have watched a lot of the episodes several times now.
Bewitched - Don’t know why it appealed to me but it used to come on after watching the big breakfast and it was like a fantasy twist on some of the home life I could relate to. Still took me a while until I'd seen them all though.
Futurama - Almost an instant grabber this one. 3 minutes in and I was loving it.
Powerpuff Girls - Because everyone in the FOP fan base consider it the inspiration for that show. I checked it out and first episode was iffy but I liked the second and ploughed on with it. (Although I still have only watched season 1&2 properly in order - and lots of the others in a random jumbled order - I will get round to watching them all properly at some point).
Grim Adventures Of Billy & Mandy - My mate (who loves Pokemon and Airbender) was round my place when I was watching the PPG and this came on after it and he said it was pretty good and the premise rather shocked me for a children's show but it was out of the box enough and the 3 characters were different and bounced off each other pretty well. As above still only watched season 1 in order and lots of others in a jumbled order at present.
Life on Mars - The trailer caught my eye, was sucked into Sam Tyler's bizzare situlation very quickly wanted to see where it was leading to.
To flip my last thread on it's head now. What TV shows did you watch and REALLY get into almost instantly?
Doctor Who (2005) - I never watched the original series but the trailer for the new one back 2005 caught my eye and within about 15 minutes into the episode I was petty much hooked and knew this was going to be a good show.
Fairly Odd Parents - I used to watch Nicktoons in my teens but after a long time hiatus (or my attempted growing up period) I came to find that Rocko's Modern Life and Real Monsters were repeated on the nicktoons channel at 9pm each night and started to record them. This followed and one night I just left it on, within 5 minutes I was loving it, such an out of the box concept and such a cool animation style.
Danny Phantom - Sister show to above so I checked it out about 5 or 6 months being into the above. Wasn't 'that' sure after 5 minutes but by the time it got to the end I'd been reeled into it. So watched them all, still love it.
Spongebob Squarepants - Mate told me to watch it (as it's better than odd parents he said) I did and whilst I disagreed about it being better. It's again so out of the box and very entertaining so stuck with it and have watched a lot of the episodes several times now.
Bewitched - Don’t know why it appealed to me but it used to come on after watching the big breakfast and it was like a fantasy twist on some of the home life I could relate to. Still took me a while until I'd seen them all though.
Futurama - Almost an instant grabber this one. 3 minutes in and I was loving it.
Powerpuff Girls - Because everyone in the FOP fan base consider it the inspiration for that show. I checked it out and first episode was iffy but I liked the second and ploughed on with it. (Although I still have only watched season 1&2 properly in order - and lots of the others in a random jumbled order - I will get round to watching them all properly at some point).
Grim Adventures Of Billy & Mandy - My mate (who loves Pokemon and Airbender) was round my place when I was watching the PPG and this came on after it and he said it was pretty good and the premise rather shocked me for a children's show but it was out of the box enough and the 3 characters were different and bounced off each other pretty well. As above still only watched season 1 in order and lots of others in a jumbled order at present.
Life on Mars - The trailer caught my eye, was sucked into Sam Tyler's bizzare situlation very quickly wanted to see where it was leading to.
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Dark Angel. From the pilot onwards you could not move me from the TV set with a bomb every Wednesday (season one)/Monday (season two) night when Sky ran this. I admit it did have more than a little to do with one Jessica Alba...
Ghost Whisperer. I'm ashamed to say that I've managed to stay with this more than Medium (thanks to its more coherent scheduling in the UK) - it may have changed its brief somewhat from the televisual comfort food of season one to the darker aspect of its later ones, but I still keep watching.
Usually it takes me a good 5/6 episodes to really get into a show (not including spin-offs).
and also Law and Order UK I got hooked on that the moment I put the DVD in
Alan Partridge
Life On Mars/Ashes
Black Books
Torchwood
Watched Caprica for a few episodes, then dropped it.
With Fringe i was a little tentative about in the pilot but by the end of the 1 season i was engrossed.
Law and Order, all of it's iterations. Easy to watch yet consistently good for the most part.
Burn Notice - the voice over just clicked with me.
Lie To Me - as soon as Tim Roth appear on the screen is had me.
Pushing Daisies - had me with the Jim Dale narration
On reflection it seems that most of the shows I'm following I got into them within a few seconds, any show that needed a few eps to get on the to-watch list, well they aren't there for long. So rather than list the 30+odd other shows I'm following, Ima gonna stop right now
The IT Crowd
Snuffbox
Doctor Who (2005 relaunch)
CSI:Vegas
Charlie Brooker's Screen/Newswipe (as soon as each episode ended, I wanted more..it's like an addiction)
Nathan Barley
Torchwood
Nighty Night
Gavin and Stacey
Scrubs
Glee
Huge
LOST
Grey's Anatomy
Desperate Housewives
A man of taste :cool:
Loved Persons Unknown, Louie, Caprica and Lie To Me from the first thirty seconds onwards. In fact I loved Lie To Me the moment I saw the credits
Lost - by the end of the pilot
Veronica Mars - saw the intro to the pilot on US TV while flicking through channels when stuck in a hotel. Was instantly hooked.
Pushing Daisies. Spent all of the pilot sitting with a huge grin on my face
One Foot In The Grave
The Royle Family
The Office
Gavin & Stacey
Outnumbered
The Big Bang Theory
Two and a Half Men
How I Met Your Mother
House
Scrubs
Friends
Not sure if these count as they are panel game shows:
QI
Would I Lie To You?
Gossip Girl - I just adored it from the first minute I saw of it. Heavenly escapism... lots of beautiful wealthy people in gorgeous clothes living the kind of life I wish I was living! I love it and I'm not ashamed!
Afterlife
Primeval ( mainly due to Lucy Brown )
Life on Mars
Apparitions
Pushing Daisies
Sopranos