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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Aug 13, 2002
No I didn't, and no I don't.
But at least you've stopped tarring your fellow countrymen with the same brush.
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E G Mel Posted Aug 13, 2002
I find WWF pathetic too, I think it encourages unnecessary violence in children, you should watch them next time they are trying to re-enact some of the moves, I expect my cousins to kill each other all the time 
As for Jerry Springer does everyone know it's staged? It fobs itself off as a real life chat show, at least east enders is a soap opera, it's meant to be mindless drivel, you sit and watch it and say thank god I'm not like them/they don't exist! *or in my case you don't watch it at all!*
BTW if you think eastenders is bad you should see corrie!
Mel 
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Researcher Eagle 1 Posted Aug 13, 2002
The Wrestling thing is almost a subculture in and of itself here in the U.S. The fans of the sport gather together and bond more tightly over the thing than any sport I know of (not that it's a sport, mind you). But I've never understood how anyone could find it interesting at all.
What's Corrie, anyhow?
-Eagle 1
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Aug 13, 2002
http://www.coronationstreet.co.uk/
I was forced to watch it as a child, and I'm 40 now. It's been going on a *long* time, and personally I can't stand it.
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E G Mel Posted Aug 13, 2002
It's a bit like marmite, another very English thing that some English Love and the rest hate, along with most of the non English!
Mel
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E G Mel Posted Aug 13, 2002
Well join me on the hating Corrie side then!
Mel *Who does actually love marmite!*
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E G Mel Posted Aug 14, 2002
So go on then what's the worst non-real-life program in the US?
Mel
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Aug 14, 2002
The Presidential briefings? 
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E G Mel Posted Aug 14, 2002
Well I know they're fairly fictional but I was thinking more soap opera style! 
Mel
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Researcher Eagle 1 Posted Aug 14, 2002
Well, most sitcoms here are IMHO fairly unwatchable. But soap opera-type stuff? Um, there's one here called "Passions" which was so insanely stupid and had such awful acting that I wanted to slam my head against a wall (one of my coworkers insisted on watching it every day during lunch). I couldn't even follow what was going on other than it involved the supernatural.
Beyond that, you can also bet on a majority of the made-for-TV movies to be pretty bad as well. Even the "event" movies (ones with more money and hype) have proven pretty bad in recent years. Look up "Dinotopia," "Asteroid," and "Noah's Ark" for the most recent disasters.
The good TV not involving sports here in the US surrounds our dramas. "Law and Order," "The West Wing," "CSI," and "Nero Wolfe" are a few good examples.
-Eagle 1
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Aug 14, 2002
Never forgiven you (the US, that is ) for cancelling 'Homicide: Life on the Streets', myself.
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E G Mel Posted Aug 14, 2002
Sorry but I really don't find sports on TV interesting either!
Mel
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Researcher Eagle 1 Posted Aug 14, 2002
Hey, other than soap operas, what show lives forever? I remember being really upset when Star Trek: The Next Generation finished its run. 
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Ross Posted Aug 14, 2002
US TV that I love - West Wing, Third Watch, Oz, 24, Homicide Life on the Streets (why o why was it cancelled), Law & Order, CSI, The Simpsons & Malcolm in the Middle, Daria, Soap.
US TV that I hate - Ricky, Jerry Springer, Oprah etc etc etc, soap operas (Dallas, Dynasty and all their spin offs), Docu soaps, anything that reconstructs real life crimes, anything where the title contains the words "The Worlds Best/Worst......", Friends, Sienfeld, Frasier.........
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Aug 14, 2002
Daria... 
US TV at its finest. Deserves a much wider audience. If you've never seen it, imagine a cartoon of the life of "Darlene" from "Roseanne" (the only character worth watching in that show) but with a funny family... 
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E G Mel Posted Aug 14, 2002
Hmmm sounds interesting, a little crsh out midless drivel but then that's what the goggle box is for!
Mel
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Aug 14, 2002
Channel 5 often show it on a Sunday afternoon...
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