Non-Japanese TV Shows (broadcast, cable, etc.)

IkematsuSosuke wrote:The location of the finale for American Idol..I was just there! Should've stayed a little longer, I could've met Jennifer Love Hewitt!

Yea she's hawt!! :hehe:

IkematsuSosuke wrote:The location of the finale for American Idol..I was just there! Should've stayed a little longer, I could've met Jennifer Love Hewitt!

She got big racks for a small person like her..then again..she's lovely :)

IkematsuSosuke wrote:The location of the finale for American Idol..I was just there! Should've stayed a little longer, I could've met Jennifer Love Hewitt!

is she a guest? or one of the judges?

I didn't really watch the American Idol finale..I think she was just an announcer.

IkematsuSosuke wrote:I didn't really watch the American Idol finale..I think she was just an announcer.

Yep, yep, she was an announcer for the pre-show for the finale. I thought it was really funny that American Idol is going the "Oscar trend" with the pre-show and the red carpet and the interview with stars as they arrive thing :nut: I'm also really glad that Fantasia won cuz even tho Diana does have pipes like KouSeiya-san said, she just doesn't know how to use them well :beaten: (She was obviously off-key in the last part of her last song on Tuesday's show :shakehead:)

Jeanxi wrote:

Yep, yep, she was an announcer for the pre-show for the finale. I thought it was really funny that American Idol is going the "Oscar trend" with the pre-show and the red carpet and the interview with stars as they arrive thing :nut: I'm also really glad that Fantasia won cuz even tho Diana does have pipes like KouSeiya-san said, she doesn't know how to use them well :beaten: (She was obviously off-key in the last part of her last song on Tuesday's show :shakehead:)

I'd better clear this up before people mix me up here :hehe: According to my own statements: Jasmine has pipes (needs more work on song choices and training), Camille has potential (needs more confidence and help with picking her damn songs), Jennifer Hudson has some damn PIIIIPES. Same for Latoya London!! I think Diana's got a great voice too. Especially since she's so young, she's done great!

I don't mean that I didn't think Diana could use those pipes of hers. I would say tonight, she nailed her songs (but of course the pressure was off cuz the decision was made). Tuesday she blew one song, because the previous week she did it flawlessly. It's hard to beat your own standard once it's like that and you have even more pressure. She tried to bring out the big guns but her nerves got the better of her. What I don't like about Diana is that bubbly attitude. It is a little annoying :rolleyes: I was rooting for her tonight though...but I knew Fantasia would win because she's a wide favorite. I kinda had to root for who I liked more out of who was left, LOL.

I thought Fantasia's version of "All My Life" was horrible :sweat: It doesn't really matter who would have won tonight, all that are good will get deals. :mrgreen: I wasn't not rooting for Fantasia because I don't like HER, I just don't like her singing style and her voice. She can sing, but I just don't like her voice :beaten: She reminds me a bit of Macy Gray, whose voice irritates me even more than Fantasia's (sorry...imo). Maybe that's it...I dunno. :nut:

Btw, I still think Tamyra shoulda won the first one ;) I'm not a fan of Guarini and Kelly Clarkson AT ALL. And I still like Clay's stuff more than Ruben's. :hehe:

i don't know if this topic had existed

Oh.. what the heck!!!

here's my list almost never missed this shows:

1) CSI
--- "Assume nothing"

2) Just Shoot Me
---- "In this office we don't do sex w/ Finch"

3) WWE Raw
--- Go Benoit!!!

4) NBA
--- Go Timberwolves beat the hell out of the Lakers!!!!

5) David Blaine
--- magic!!!

6) Fear Factor
--- *swallow a worm* :ill:

7) Max-X
--- the show that makes fun of peoples stupidity

CRAP!!! my boss is coming gotta go!!!

it may depend on the mods to lock or not, but there are 2 threads that are quite similar:

What doramas do you enjoy from your own country?

and

jdrama vs. american drama.

niko2x wrote:it may depend on the mods to lock or not, but there are 2 threads that are quite similar:

What doramas do you enjoy from your own country?

and

jdrama vs. american drama.

I was thinking the same, Niko. People never seem to check berfore posting. Guh. :(

bmwracer wrote:I was thinking the same, Niko. People never seem to check berfore posting. Guh. :(

Ha! Great minds think alike. ;)

niko2x wrote:Ha! Great minds think alike. ;)

Absolutely. More so here than anywhere else for some odd reason... :)

Some of the things she listed like WWE and NBA aren't dramas though so I guess a new thread isn't a bad idea ;) . The american shows I watch are some VH1 shows like I Love The 80s and things like that, Talk Sex With Sue, Girls Behaving Badly, some Food Network shows, and sometimes Oprah.

zchendevlemh wrote:i don't know if this topic had existed

Oh.. what the heck!!!

here's my list almost never missed this shows:

1) CSI
--- "Assume nothing"

2) Just Shoot Me
---- "In this office we don't do sex w/ Finch"

3) WWE Raw
--- Go Benoit!!!

4) NBA
--- Go Timberwolves beat the hell out of the Lakers!!!!

5) David Blaine
--- magic!!!

6) Fear Factor
--- *swallow a worm* :ill:

7) Max-X
--- the show that makes fun of peoples stupidity

CRAP!!! my boss is coming gotta go!!!

I said it once before, I'll say it again,

The Sopranos (http://www.hbo.com/sopranos/)

beats any TV drama (regardless of where that TV drama is from) out there right now.


-- "There's an old Italian saying; 'you f&%k up once, you lose two teeth.'" Tony Soprano

-- "Federal marshals so far up my @$$ I can taste BrylCream." Uncle Jr.

-- "Bacala" Baccalieri: "The world really went downhill, since 9/11. You know, Quasimodo predicted all of this."
Tony Soprano: "Who did what?"
"Bacala" Baccalieri: "You know, The Middle East. The end of the world.
Tony Soprano: "Nostradamus. Quasimodo is the Hunchback of Notre Dame."
"Bacala" Baccalieri: "Oh, right. Notredamus."
Tony Soprano: "Nostradamus and Notre Dame, that's two things."
"Bacala" Baccalieri: "It's interesting that they'd be so similar, though. You know, I always thought 'Ok, you got the hunchback of Notre Dame. But you also got your quarterback and your headback of Notre Dame.'"
Tony Soprano: "Notre Dame's a f*&cking cathedral!"

-- "I've eaten more queens than Lancelot." "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero, while playing cards.

-- "In the old days, the ones that came over, that started this thing, they didn't get mad. They just smiled and nodded and made sure you got it later. That's the whole beautiful point." Tony Soprano

-- "Vito! Where the f#$% is my Tupperware?" Paulie Walnuts

-- "When we were kids in the Navy, he had such a bad case of crabs, we used to call him the governor of Maryland." Hugh

-- "I'd love to be at your jubilee, but the Federal government says I can't leave the house, and my family keeps me sedated." Uncle Junior


I, for one, would love to see it, but, can't see that in any J- (though the current Taiga drama has enough sharp, inventive dialogue to make me think Koki Mitani's must've seen some The Sopranos episodes) or K- or any other U.S. TV drama.

Hey!Hey!Hey! (or Downtown now?)
Utaban
Mechaike...hope thats still showing
anything to due with cars/bikes on Spike TV

Well if it isn't J-Ent or Asian-ent related then maybe sports games? Oh and maybe Friends also, I used to watch that a lot until they kept showing re-runs :hehe:

The West Wing
Law & Order
Alias
Everwood
The George Lopez Show(just recently :) )
Just about anything on PBS
Auto racing (NO stock cars! Bleah!)

bmwracer wrote:The West Wing
Law & Order
Alias
Everwood
The George Lopez Show(just recently :) )
Just about anything on PBS
Auto racing (NO stock cars! Bleah!)

Hey, BMWRacer, did you get to see that Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire show last night on PBS? Decent, decent. Helped The Man better understand the whole Ieyasu, Hidetori thing. No Musashi mentioned for some reason.

The Man wrote:Hey, BMWRacer, did you get to see that Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire show last night on PBS? Decent, decent. Helped The Man better understand the whole Ieyasu, Hidetori thing. No Musashi mentioned for some reason.

Hey. Didn't even know it was on until near the end... What a drag...

I mentioned it to a friend and he told me that it was available on DVD...Hmmm... I also tried to see if PBS was showing it again in the near future, but apparently not. :( What's a Japan-o-phile going to do???

bmwracer wrote:
Hey. Didn't even know it was on until near the end... What a drag...

I mentioned it to a friend and he told me that it was available on DVD...Hmmm... I also tried to see if PBS was showing it again in the near future, but apparently not. :( What's a Japan-o-phile going to do???

Uh, I'd seen and taped this show ... It was great !!!!!!!!

Betsy Hayashi wrote:Uh, I'd seen and taped this show ... It was great !!!!!!!!

From what I saw, it looked pretty good....

Here's the PBS link: http://www.pbs.org/empires/japan/ :D