*imagines a Hunger Games style gladitorial-style game show where Food Network stars do battle to the death using only kitchen implements and unusual ingredients*

I watch the Food network whenever I'm watching tv at a house with cable! I end up watching both evening reality shows (some of them can be a little too dramatic though for me), and the morning cooking shows (but some I don't care for the host/chef)... More recently, even though it's not on the Food network but feels like it is because it's about food, I watch Man vs. Food when there's cable. Some of the food challenges are a little bit much for me because of the big proportions but the food always looks so good

So recently, I've started watching Doctor Who (which is awesome by the way ) and I'm trying to get all caught up by the time the show returns, but season 6 is not on netflix. Any ideas where I can find those episodes without having to download a bunch of useless stuff?

Welcome to the club, outlier! Do you have a favorite character or episode?

iTunes and Amazon both have series six available. You'll need to download the episodes from iTunes but Amazon has a streaming option that shouldn't require any downloads to watch (like Netflix). Both of these cost money though.

New episodes resume on August 27th!

Good Eats is one show on the Food Network that I really enjoy. Alton Brown reminds me of an eccentric Bill Nye. He makes food fun and interesting.

Does anyone here watch Flashpoint? Becuase I HAVE to post about something/brag from last night's episode.

SPOILERS below

My mom is obsessed with the show and was already 15 or so mins into it when I plopped onto the couch and said "what's going on? is that the girl from that other show?" etc etc, then they showed amid the rubble of what I assumed was a bombed basement a guy holding the hand of a girl who was crying/lying on the ground, and he was comforting her. I immediatly said "is that the bad guy?" Mom was like "nooo...." and I was like "you're sure he's not??" Then I got into the episode. Then they were trying to figure out who bombed the building as well as trying to bring as many civilians trapped in the basement out as possible. The guy who had been comforting the girl gave up his place in the alphabetical order of who got to go out next to another guy. I was like "it's him!! I know it!! He's the guy who I originally thought was the bad guy!!" My mom still wasn't convinced.
Anyways, turned out...big surprise! It was him. I enjoyed doing a war dance of victory around the living room and kept randoming shouting out "I TOLD YOU!!" thorought the rest of the night.

also: someone on the last page mentioned Antiques Roadshow. I enjoy this show...but watching it with my family is a different experience. My Dad and brother like coming up with silly things for the "Experts" to say, like "hmmm um, actually, I don't really know when this is from" or "Great news! This is valued at 0 dollars!" etc. I always imagine them stalling for time while they try to think of something intelligent to say about each item. (even though I'm sure they have it all researched and figured out beforehand).

They have released the first half of Doctor Who's current series on DVD already. You might be able to rent them or get them from your library if you don't want to buy them.

Also, outlier, if your cable or satellite provider has an "On Demand" feature like mine does, all of the good Doctor's series 5 and series 6 to date are available for free - and with minimal commercial interruption.

(I've discovered that On Demand - which at first I thought was the home of just pay-per-view stuff - has thousands of TV episodes for free. It's a great way to catch up on things I've missed).

Thanks for all the tips, I don't have cable, but I requested the DVD at my library. I don't think it's going to come in in time fore 'Let's kill Hitler' but I kinda realized I don't even get BBC America on my tv so I wouldn't even have a way to watch it on Saturday (unless I found it online somewhere)

qwertykate88, there are so many good characters and episodes to choose from!!! I really liked the Rose and tenth doctor duo a lot but enjoyed the episodes from season 3&4 more... Also, I've found from talking with my friends who like Doctor Who (which is just two outside of cyberworld ) that while she's not my all-time favorite companion, I really do like Martha a lot more than most people (meaning my two friends). They say that I get on my Martha box The new series with the eleventh doctor is cool as well, Rory's gotta be my favorite out of the three if I had to pick, but they're still all pretty awesome. As for episodes, if I had to pick an episode/story from each season (not counting the finales) I'd probably pick Empty Child/Doctor Dances, School Reunion, Smith and Jones, the Doctor's Daughter, and Vincent and the Doctor... Looking back at that list I kinda realized that I really like the Tennant episodes where there's more than one companion

I saw Doctor Who for the first time ever this past week. Even though it was the 4th season and a lot of the stuff was confusing without the context of the first 3 seasons it was still incredibly amazing. It is now my new favorite show and I eagerly await to watch the other episodes.
My other favorite TV shows would have to be the 1960s Get Smart, and the old Mission: Impossible show (You know, the one with Peter Graves (he was great))

And I used to enjoy the old Star Trek episodes (Especially Voyager and The Next Generation)(That was before they stopped )

4th season of the Doctor Who reboot, 32nd or so season of Doctor Who in total!

Warrior 4 Jesus, Wow, wait, w-w-WHAT!!! There's 32 season in total? Yes it was the 4th season of the reboot, and I don't suppose it's "necessary" to go back and watch all the old original season to understand the reboot, unless, of course, I become an avid fan, which might happen...

As for episodes, if I had to pick an episode/story from each season (not counting the finales) I'd probably pick...School Reunion...

Nice choices. I especially like "School Reunion" - as a stand-alone episode it may not be among the greatest ("Blink" is an awesome episode, for example), but it features the return of my favorite companion, Sarah Jane Smith, and she has some great banter with Rose. Besides, it also has Anthony Head (Giles from Buffy) in a guest role.

There's 32 season in total?...I don't suppose it's "necessary" to go back and watch all the old original season to understand the reboot...

I don't think it's necessary, either; you'll catch a lot of the backstory just from watching the reboot. But the new series has some nuances, special guests (like Sarah Jane, who was the companion back in the Tom Baker days of the 70s), and salutes to the original that you may enjoy more fully if you're familiar with Classic Who. Still, watching them all would be a massive undertaking.

Still, you might enjoy the pilot episode, "An Unearthly Child," which aired back in 1963. The first part is available on youtube here.

Lastly, watch for the return of the Spare Oom's Doctor Who Special Feature sometime this week, just in time for the new episodes!

I recently finished watching The Pacific, another collaboration between Tom Hanks and Stephen Spielberg. Having been a huge fan of Band of Brothers from 10 years ago (this is considered a "sister" production), I was surprised at how different in tone it was to the former. It's bloodier and far more grittier than Brothers is and covers the 1st US Marine Corps Division's exploits in WW2 at Guadalcanal, Peleliu, and Iwo Jima. It is one thing to read a Marine's chronicles of battle, but when you're faced with it on your TV screen it is entirely another. The raw hatred that US Marines and Japanese soldiers had for one another comes across quite clearly and it was like a shock to the system, and each episode I would bite my nails hoping that no more Marines would die. That perhaps no one would die, period....no one should have to fight in such conditions with so little relief. Interspersed between battles are small vignettes of the soldiers lives, including a long shore leave in Australia (apparently much of the series was filmed there) where they get a heroes welcome, and back Stateside where one of the main protaganists falls in love and gets married shortly before the horror of Iwo Jima. A small snippet in the last episode covers to a small degree the period right after the war and how each coped with the horrors they had seen in the war. My respect for the USMC was already high before I watched this program. Now it's near insurmountable. Semper Fi.

The program is loaded with graphic violence, profanity, and a few instances of immodesty on a surprising scale (which surprised me...Brothers did not have any really to speak of and it certainly didn't add anything to Pacific), but bear in mind this is about soldiers living and dying and in my opinion they could do what they wanted given the places they were fighting and dying. Here is the trailer, if you're interested. Highly recommended if you can stomach the violence and general immodesty.

Shadowlander, I just finished watching The Pacific this afternoon. It was an incredible series but very difficult to watch. I'm glad it showed the true horrors of war, no glamourising violence in this series. The experience was hellish and yet I have more respect and admiration and pity for those who had to experience it all. In some ways the survivors had it worse than the dead. I wish there were more Australians in the series, but I guess it the American story of the war in the Pacific. I don't think I'll watch it again any time soon.
Did you know much of the series was filled in part of Queensland where Dragon Island (VDT) was filmed?

Does anyone else watch America's Next Top Model? I was kind of bummed they aren't bringing in new girls and are just going to use past contestants. I didn't like that they mostly picked the troublemaker girls, too.

My dad rented The Pacific. I didn't get to watch much, but I wanted to. I love war movies/tv shows like that, but he watched it the two days I was going to spend the night at a friend's house. He must have watched it almost non-stop because I gathered it was a longish running series! Lol!

I didn't know that about the VDT connection, W4J. I'm glad you got to watch the program although it is extremely violent at times. I don't know that I could recommend the program to everyone here, probably just a handful. There was a moment there when Eugene Sledge, the good Christian kid from Alabama, was about to break and become something he wasn't supposed to be that had me really concerned. I'm so glad God pulled him back when He did. I read that he never fired a gun again and went into a life of bird watching and became a naturalist. God bless him.

My only major problem (besides the rank immodesty at times) were the opening credits...is it my imagination or did those run close to 5 minutes?