What TV shows do you watch religiously? Come on, be honest!

-- Piper (piperdane@yahoo.com), January 24, 2000

Answers

for as long as it stays on, "alley mcbeal" as i knew characters quite similar in real life. it's funny and well done. and the super bowl each year.

-- doug (ionoi@webtv.net), January 24, 2000.

Malcolm in the Middle and the British Comedies (Keeping Up Appearances, Goodnight Sweetheart, and As Time Goes By)

Also, for my 4 year old, Who Wants to be a Millionaire. She loves that show.

-- Bob Beltran (kelly-bob@excite.com), January 24, 2000.

Jack and Jill

-- (lilaclorax@yahoo.com), January 24, 2000.

The Sopranos. Absolutely. I had to go up near Boston last week and got off 128/I95 at the wrong exit and had to hunt for my hotel and then get checked in and my room was on the sixth floor about a gazillion miles from the lobby... so I missed the first half hour of the first episode of the new season but fortunately my son taped it so I was able to watch it before watching episode two. The Sopranos... without a doubt the best program on television... it's worth the price of HBO just for that show.

There is nothing else that I have to watch. I like to watch The Simpsons, that's probably the second best show on tv. I also enjoy Futurama and Family Guy (although I must admit that they are much funnier when my son downloads them from somewhere on the web and we watch them on the computer, they're only half as long, but without commercials they are much funnier) Other than that I mostly just sometimes watch things on weird cable channels like HGTV or cooking channel (like Emerle Live and The Iron Chef)... Some weeks I might watch several hours but usually I doubt that I average more than two or three hours a week... spend much more time on the Internet.

Piper, you mentioned Providence.... you should try it... it is a terrible program, very silly soap opera, but I can imagine watching it with friends at college on a Friday night for fun... I watched several episodes when it was first on because it was set in Rhode Island (where I now live)... Those scenes of Providence are beautiful... and Providence in real life is a beautiful city (of course the program does not show any of the ugly parts of town)

-- Jim (jimsjournal@yahoo.com), January 25, 2000.