Shows I Wish I Was Watching

The year in review stuff continues...

This time, let's talk about the show's I wish I was watching.

2008 saw the wrap up for two shows I never had a chance to get invested in - THE WIRE and THE SHIELD.

I never, not once, not ever watch a single episode of THE SHIELD. In trying to figure out why, it may have come down to content issues when the show launched. See, back then there were teenagers in my house. A lot of the TV choices that were made in my household at that time took their tastes into account.

I was still working in TV at the time, so there was a lot of monitoring going on - and with a single tuner TiVo, not much opportunity to invest in hit or miss programming.

As for THE WIRE, I do recall watching the pilot and not caring much for it. I do intend to give the entire series another go on DVD.

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA - I was against the reboot on this one. Saw a bit of the first episode, but didn't find it compelling. Now that the series has apparently got the fanboys all tied up in knots, the DVDs are on their way from Netflix.

BIG BANG THEORY - Watched my first episode this week. It's clever and young and on the wrong network.

HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER - Didn't feel like I could just jump into the middle fo this one. I've started watching from the beginning courtesy of a nifty little website WatchTVSitcoms.com. Not sure how this exists, but I'm glad it does. Like BIG BANG THEORY, MOTHER is too young and way too hip to be on CBS.