I thought about buying the two seasons of White Collar when coming home from work (Wal-Mart) today, but held off; might find them cheaper on Amazon. I've only seen a handful of episodes, but i liked most of what i've seen.

A lot of TV shows out there sound interesting, but with my uneven TV schedule and lack of DVR, i think i'm probably just going to have to do stuff like find it on-line or buy the DVDs. I think i like that idea better in any case, since i can turn on things like captions then.

One show i'm definitely going to try to keep up with is Leverage.

@Warrior 4 Jesus: That's exactly how I feel about Terra Nova.

Persons of Interest: Really enjoy this show! Love Jim Caviezel and Michael Emerson together!
I read in an interview that episode nine is supposed to have a story that will have some importance to the rest of the season, so I'm really looking forward to that episode.

Once Upon A Time: I agree with Bookwyrm, the first episode was campy, but I did enjoy episode two more then the first, looking forward to watching more.
@stargazer: LOL! I grew up watching the 60's Batman TV series with my Dad!
Very campy, but always fun!

Grimm:
An interesting Idea for a show, It's fun to guess what story the episode evolves around.

Once Upon A Time: Loved the pilot and the second episode, and didn't mind the campiness. I agree with stargazer, it seemed like they were using it emphasize the difference between the worlds, and I thought it worked. Can't wait for the third episode tonight!

Grimm: Hmm .... I saw the trailer for this one, but haven't gotten around to watching it yet. I'm not big on cop shows, but the fantasy aspect might draw me in .... we'll see.

I've been watching Once Upon A Time, and I think it keeps getting better, especially after last night's episode.

The pilot was a little...lacking I'll say. It was just a little slow, and I was rather disappointed, being a big fan of the fantasy genre, but it had potential, so I tuned in for the second episode. The second episode was a little on par with the pilot, but if the show had hit strike three, I was not going to watch it anymore.

However, last night, I enjoyed episode three much better. It felt very fast paced, but was very interesting. I am starting to enjoy Mary Margaret Blanchard and Henry Mills as characters the most. I do hope that I will soon like the character of Emma Swan better, as she is the main protagonist of the show.

I think the concept of the show is very good, and I sure do hope that it will get people interested in fairy tales again.

I found the 3rd episode of Once Upon A Time interesting as well. The parallel story lines

is very reminiscent of the storytelling device used in LOST (parallel development in flashbacks and present time). That's reasonable, as it's touted as being "By the writers of LOST."

And I rather liked the twist that

Agreed stargazer. Snow White (and Sleeping Beauty while I'm at it) has always been my least favorite Disney Princess because they really don't do that much to save the day and whatnot. I'm not sure about the original versions of the story, but it was nice to see Snow more independent

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Been attempting to catch up on Terra Nova online. The bad news is I missed the second half of the first episode. Been good so far though.

I tried a little of Once but it seemed fairly cheesy...Grimm, on the other hand kept my interest longer but it still wasn't a show that reallyreally intriqued me. I'll probably catch an episode here or there.

The two shows I'm really into this season though are New Girl (the one with Zooey Deschanel). I kinda have mixed feelings about this, since for one it's pretty obvious they just thought "let's have a show about Zooey Deschanel being quirky and funny!" and sort of expected everything else to fall into place. Yes, she's quirky and funny, she does that well, but I feel like they may need to start meating up the actual plot soon before I get bored.
The other show I'm into is Pan Am (the one considere dto be Mad Men in the air). Again, I have some negetives about it...the script isn't terribly exciting, and especially the first few episodes I wasn't really into. By the fifth episode (or is it sixth?) I'm more invested in the characters, and I actually get interested in each episode, but it's still kind of cheesy. It's trying to be Mad Men but it just haven't gotten off the ground (haha pun!) yet.

An interesting historical broadcast took place in Germany this past Friday. It concerns an Original Star Trek episode that aired in the USA some 43 years ago.

Below is a link to the story in the Jerusalem Post which has the title:

Star Trek's 'Nazi episode' aired for first time in Germany

http://www.jpost.com/Features/InThespot ... ?id=244732

Finally finished the Grimm pilot. I really enjoyed it. It does seem very Buffy/Angel to me, but I like the idea of transforming fairy tales into murder mysteries. And the Bludbat/werewolf type character was fun. Also, nice twist at the end.

I've watched the first two Grimm episodes and agree with you, Booky, that it's quite Buffy-like. It's a fascinating twist on fairy tales. It does seem somewhat darker than this season's other fairy tale-inspired show (Once Upon a Time) but that in itself is not a criticism per se.

I caught a recent episode of the Charlie's Angels reboot (hey, I was curious!), and noticed a familiar face...John Terry (Christian Shephard from LOST) plays one of the star's imprisoned father.

The other show I'm into is Pan Am (the one considere dto be Mad Men in the air).

I've been following Pan Am as well. I've heard that comparison somewhere else before so, I started watching Mad Men the other day but I can't really see any similarities between the two beyond both being set in the 60's.

Granted, I did start from the very beginning of Mad Men so it might take awhile for the show to grow on me but so far, I can't find a single character to be like-able. It seems unbalanced to have so many flawed characters at once; it's hard to relate to any of them or be invested in their stories. I was invested in Pan Am's characters from the get-go though, especially Kate with her double job as a stewardess and a CIA courier. Her relationship with Yugoslavian diplomat Niko Lonza (Goran Višnjić of ER fame, who is actually Yugoslavian) was particularly intriguing and last week's episode had me in tears.

I also had the opportunity to watch the miniseries The Kennedys this past week. It was the subject of much controversy, when it was first announced, over the accuracy in which the characters were portrayed. However, I found it to be quite interesting; it gave insight into how extremely difficult life was for the Kennedys (JFK, Jackie, Bobby). I can't say much without treading on politics but I do think it's worth watching. Barry Pepper's performance as Bobby Kennedy was superb and the 60's era reproductions (costumes, sets, make-up) are fantastic.

A while back (perhaps in chat) we had a discussion about the Discovery Channel's excellent series When We Left Earth: the NASA Missions.

I love that series. They had it on Netflix and I began watching it not certain of what to expect, but was thoroughly enthralled by it.

Just wanted to drop by this thread briefly and say thank you to Gazer and SL for introducing me to this excellent series and informing me it was available via Netflix. My husband and I watched all of it (except for what appear to be some special outtakes on certain missions that are only available through DVD) and parts of it twice. There were so many things I had never ever seen or heard of before. The Gemini missions were particularly interesting to me. Gemini VI and VII flying together through space only feet apart. Gemini VIII getting a thruster stuck on and spinning wildly through space before Neil Armstrong could get it under control. My husband and I were like "How have we never heard of this stuff before????" I imagine that it paled in comparison to Apollo 13 so nobody remembered to talk about it. Anyways, thanks guys! I really enjoyed it.

Well my sister-in-law introduced me to a new TV show this year called The Sing-Off. It's not terribly well know, certainly not like American Idol, The X-Factor, or The Voice, but it rapidly rose to the top of my favorites list. For people who have never heard of it before, the competitors are a cappella groups, and going in, every single one of them has more musical talent in one vocal cord than I do in my whole body. There are no William Hungs to sit around and waste my time (which is why when I occasionally watched American Idol in the past, I didn't even bother with the first few shows). The music is just unbelievable.
The second thing I loved about it where the judges. I'm not a big fan of the 'bad British guy' types that seem to frequent all of the other reality singing shows. The judges are all incredibly supportive and give excellent feedback to the contestants. At any rate, they announced the winner this past Monday, but they're having a Sing-Off Christmas music special this Monday which I'll be definitely be watching.
Thumbs up from me for this little-known TV show.
http://www.nbc.com/sing-off/
http://www.hulu.com/the-sing-off

Just wanted to drop by this thread briefly and say thank you to Gazer and SL for introducing me to this excellent series... My husband and I watched all of it (except for what appear to be some special outtakes on certain missions that are only available through DVD) and parts of it twice.

Glad you liked it!

(Incidentally, I was a little disappointed in those DVD extras, especially after the series itself set such a high standard. Many were interesting video clips of launches and other events, but the soundtrack was musical only. I would far rather have the original audio of those events).

Glad you enjoyed those, FK! I was rather fond of the Gemini portion of the show myself, especially the spacewalk and the side by side flying the two Gemini capsules were doing in orbit. Apollo steals all the thunder, so I'd never seen a lot of that before. It was right cool.

I've been watching Once Upon a Time and really enjoying it. A footnote for Lost fans, Henry (the little boy who is a central character of the series thus far) and Dr. Hopper are in the cave in this past episode and Henry hands the latter an Apollo bar, the signature candy bar from the Lost universe. I have to wonder if this show perhaps takes place in the same universe inhabited by the characters of Lost.