What non SFF shows do you watch?

[Rippers]

What else do you watch along with your SFF? Cop shows, medical dramas, soap operas etc?

I like quite a mixture, and I'm sure you'll all hate at least one of these;

• Big fan of cookery and food programs. I find them kind of mesmerising to watch. Very relaxing.
• QVC. I know, I'm sort of ashamed. For the same reason as the cookery, but I buy stuff too.
• Stuff about tribes. And people in the Amazon and places like that. I'd love to go and ask them loads of questions about their lives and beliefs.
• The most embarrassing of them all- reality TV. Yes, the shame. This is the first year I haven't been glued to Big Brother. Usually, I can't keep away from it. I'm sorry.

At the moment, I'm liking Lie to Me, The Mentalist, Breaking Bad, Dragons Den.

So, what's your guilty viewing secret?

[J-Sun]

I was watching The Office but, while not exactly getting bad, the spark seems to have gone out. I watched Life but they moved it around and cancelled it.

If it wasn't for (NFL) football, I'd probably get rid of my TV but, since I've got one, I'll probably watch Dollhouse next season, though that's genre.

[Werewoman]

1. Law and Order
2. Law and Order: Special Victims Unit
3. Law and Order: Criminal Intent
4. NCIS
5. Nascar/anything related to racing period
6. Anything on the History channel
7. Law and Order: Criminal Intent
8. Wednesday night shooting shows on the Outdoor channel
9. Law and Order
10. Law and Order: Special Victims Unit

[Teresa Edgerton]

Originally Posted by Werewoman

1. Law and Order
2. Law and Order: Special Victims Unit
3. Law and Order: Criminal Intent

Those are some of my favorites, too. And I wouldn't call them guilty viewing secrets. I think they are very good shows.

I also like Monk during its two (very) short seasons a year. I'll watch Masterpiece when they're running a nice costume drama that appeals to me.

I do feel a little sheepish about liking Hell's Kitchen and Project Runway.

[Werewoman]

I like Monk, too. Tony Shaloub is one of my favorite actors. There's just not enough episodes and I think I've seen them all.

I just can't make myself watch reality shows. Probably the closest I get is American Chopper. I know it makes me seem like a snob. LOL!

[BookStop]

I watch Bones, Dexter, and How I Met Your Mother.

[Culhwch]

I'm hooked on Friday Night Lights at the moment, which I'm not even actually watching on TV (was never shown here free to air, so I'm watching it on my iPod on the way to and from work). Other than that I don't watch a lot of television. Mostly docos and things like Mythbusters and the like.

[Rippers]

Originally Posted by Teresa Edgerton

I do feel a little sheepish about liking Hell's Kitchen and Project Runway.

Oh yes, me too! I also like that really trash channel- E!. They have some really bad fly on the wall shows, my fave is Kimora. I can spend hours watching that and my partner just tuts and walks away.

[Jev]

Sign me up for Hell's Kitchen as well (as terrible as everyone knows it is). Can't get in to Project Runway, but I do like Top Chef, when I remember to catch it. I will watch some Food Network, but everyone but Alton Brown, the Ace of Cakes guy, and Anthony Bourdain tend to irritate me, especially Sandra Lee and Rachel Ray. Go away from my television yesterday, please.

I will watch a lot of the mystery shows but not Law and Order, usually (although as it airs 500 times a day, it's hard to avoid). From my childhood, I miss Due South, Brisco County Jr. (despite it having SFF elements, it still came to mind as non-SFF), and Square One TV.

All the educational and pseudo-educational shows, the most intelligent of which is probably Nova. Yesterday, I watched something on POWs of the American Revolution which I had recorded off of the History Channel and found it fascinating.

What is the one TV show/genre that your brain refuses to let me watch? For me, it's TMZ/Access Hollywood/Inside Edition, all those celebrity gossip shows. I can even watch Flavor of Love before I watch those shows. I think it's a defensive measure.

[Urien]

The only shows I actually make sure I watch are

Mitchell and Webb
Psychoville
Big Bang Theory
Dexter
Have I got News for You
Mock the Week

Hmm I didn't know it was so few... and the Big Bang and Dexter seasons are over.

[Rodders]

River Cottage, Gordon Ramsey's Kitchen Knightmares, Top Gear, The Big Bang Theory, The IT Crowd (got to love those geeks ), The Mighty Boosh, Mitchell and Webb.

There will be more. (Now you ask, i cannot remember what i do watch.)

[Rippers]

Originally Posted by Rodders

The Mighty Boosh

Hell yes.

[Rippers]

Originally Posted by Jev

Sign me up for Hell's Kitchen as well (as terrible as everyone knows it is). Can't get in to Project Runway, but I do like Top Chef, when I remember to catch it. I will watch some Food Network, but everyone but Alton Brown, the Ace of Cakes guy, and Anthony Bourdain tend to irritate me, especially Sandra Lee and Rachel Ray. Go away from my television yesterday, please.

I LOVE Anthony Bordain, but he's practically unheard of here. I was surprised to see his name really. Love his attitude.

[ktabic]

There are shows that aren't SFF?

[Jev]

Originally Posted by Rippers

I LOVE Anthony Bordain, but he's practically unheard of here. I was surprised to see his name really. Love his attitude.

Got a giant set of brass... er, taste buds, doesn't he? I like his attitude towards food too, and anyone with an adventurous palate is my friend. I'm a firm believer in eating like the locals wherever I go, and anyone with the... taste buds to adhere to that philosophy is my friend.

Do you guys get Sandra Lee on the east side of the Pond, assuming you're British? That is one woman that must be seen to be believed. She cooks like the Royle Family eats, with ensuing 'classy' decorations (think papier-mache Nascar sculptures for a NASCAR party) and a philosophy of 'Homemade grilled cheese: shove two Ritz crackers into mouth, grab can of Cheese Whiz, and press hard.' It's such a trainwreck. Plus, Kocktail Tyme: She makes a themed cocktail for every show, and even Clint Eastwood would have trouble choking those things down.