I thought numbers 1 and 2 were a lot funnier than that. In fact, I didn’t see where the humour was in that clip at all.

Requires context.

Studio 60 is pure genius though, get the pilot to that.

Indeed…..Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip is really rather good out in the states in September and who knows when here but it’s the new show from Aaron Sorkin (of West Wing fame).

Having seen the pilot, it’s not as jaw droppingly good as the opening to West Wing, but it’s slightly better than Sports Night and when you get to see Matthew Perry you actually don’t care that he used to be Chandler, which is, a Good Thing.

oo, and talking of great lines, here’s one from series 2 of the West Wing

Josh runs almost falling into Toby’s office

“Toby Toby, come quick, Sam’s getting his ass kicked by a girl”

Toby leaps out of his chair rushes through the door and catches in time to say

“Ginger, get the popcorn”

Genius I say.

You assign LEVELS to TV programmes? You are a bigger geek than I had realised.

And no, not that funny but yes, context is everything.

Will keep an eye out for Studio 60, although currently enjoying Huff, House and West Wing (for the first time!)

I’m confused about how you can assign The West Wing lvl 1 status without having seen it.

I mean, it is a lvl 1 program, but your whole leveling system would have to readjust itself after watching the West Wing, as it is so awesome. Your lvl 2’s would become 3’s and 3’s become 4’s, just to make room for TWW’s greatness.

They’re playing the entire series from episode 1 on E4, perhaps now it the time to start collecting it?

I think you should refer to them as tiers rather than levels. If you’re going to be that anal, you should go all the way.

And, even in context, this still isn’t that amusing. Maybe you had to be there.

But you’ll watch a Tier 2.5 show like Eureka? Isn’t that a really shitty cost/benefit analysis? You’re like, spending equal time for less payback.

I’m going to stick up for Adrian here and agree; I do something similar.

WW, House, Lost, Rescue Me and CSI Original are tier 1’s.

Then there’s the tier of things I’ve already seen but they’ve released DVD sets of them so I’m a sucker for, like ER, NYPD Blue, Space A&B and then there’s the stuff I haven’t watched yet but got the first seasons of because they came highly recommended like Deadwood and Entourage. Basically if the first season (not episode) sucks then I won’t ever watch it again.

D likes Space Above & Beyond! That show is such an under-rated gem. Just doesn’t get the praise (and didn’t get the budget) it deserves.

Just finished watching the complete season set of Firefly last night. Now there’s a tier 1 show if I ever saw one.

And Adrian, 24 season 4 is great, but season 5 is awesome. I’d call it… ‘tier 0’. :-)

SAAB was pretty awesome, although I never saw the concluding episodes which is a real pain.

I am on my like, sixth watching of the Firefly boxed set. It’s even better than the last five times!

I thought S4 was sort-of weak comparatively (although still addictive like crack). Can anything ever live up to S2? Jack died! How do you top that?

House is totally sweet (if a little repetitive when you watch them in a row).

I did Firefly/Serenity in one weekend. It had ridiculous potential but was cut down in its prime, just like Space A&B and Farscape. How we’re cheated of the best TV and instead made to endure drivel like Charmed and Stargate.

I got American Gothic on a recent trip to the US but have been afraid to watch it again… can it possibly still be as good as I thought it was at the time?

AMERICAN GOTHIC!!! What I wouldn’t give to be able to watch that again. I don’t think it ever did end - probably just got cancelled. I’m sure there were more than a dozen eps though…

WW I give a Tier 4; possibly 5. Admittedly, I’ve never watched it, but I feel it in my water. It’s like Law & Order - watch it when your only other choice is Dr. Phil repeats.

American Gothic was good, but I didn’t see the whole series, and never caught up with it on any repeats.

Farscape was probably my second-favourite sci-fi seres ever, after Babylon 5. Both of them are definitely ‘tier 0’.

I still haven’t seen a single episode of Battlestar Galactica. :-(

Matt, you have to get the BSG Seasons One boxed set right away! It’s the last good show. It’s totally awesome.

I concur. Start with the mini-series then series one. You won’t be sorry.

SAAB wasn’t bad but didn’t have the same pathos as BSG.

Dark Skies was a series that started off really poorly then, suddenly, in the last three episodes, got really damn good.

That quote from House? Now that’s funny. Even out of context.

Yeah but Adrian, you watch Stargate. Watch the movie; save yourself eleven seasons of shite.

American Gothic, now available on DVD as a complete season, including the four episodes I never saw cause Channel Four gave up before the end of the season, I just remember it as being the best thing to watch at the time, everyone else was watching Friends season one.

Babylon 5 seasons 1 through 4 are as good as TV sci-fi gets. Season 5 is an exercise in pointlessness, but then JMS did wrap everything up nicely in his season 4 finale, what a way to end a show only to have it revived for nothing.

I’ll have to watch and see…