Okay, this will finish my TV round up. I promise.
Lastly, there's a channel called Super Comedy. Yes, that's really its name. It's a clearing house for, well, everything that comes even close to comedy. I don't know about the "super" part though, that could be a stretch ...
Because you know what starts tonight on Super Comedy? Joey, season two. Seriously. Relive the glory all over again.
Poor Paulo Costanzo.
Also tonight? The fourth season of NewsRadio! Yep, from the fall of 1997. It was the last one with Phil Hartman. I'm psyched.
And new this week is the final season of That 70s Show. Didn't watch it the first time, won't watch it now.
They also have That 80s Show ... all 13 episodes. Nineteen episodes of Watching Ellie (including a young Steve Carell as 'Edgar'). Thirteen episodes of The Comeback. Forty episodes of Good Morning Miami. And Whoopi Goldberg's Whoopi (from 2003, don't worry, I had to IMDb it myself).
Like I said, a clearing house.
More stanard fare - Will and Grace, Seinfeld, Reno 911, Drew Carey, Two and A Half Men, The War at Home, Jeff Foxworthy, Freddie (!!), Babes in the Wood (from BBC), George Lopez, Kids in the Hall, Just Deal (yes Alexis, that one's for you!) and the current Ellen DeGeneres talk show.
Random.
Oh, I should also mention that we get The Cartoon Network. Well, not the Cartoon Network, sadly it too is part-US and part-Europe hybrid. And we don't get the Adult Swim cartoons at night. No Sealab, No Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law, no Boondocks.
But we get the standards, Powerpuff Girls, Samurai Jack, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi, Dexter's Lab, Camp Lazlo, and at 1:50 every day my ol' favorite Time Squad.
Oh, and they play the rest of that Cartoon Network crap - I Am Weasel, Cow & Chicken, Codename - Kids Next Door, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Mike, Lug & Og, Sheep in the Big City and Ed, Edd n Eddy.
For other channels, we have Boomerang, Animal Planet, History Channel, CNBC, TCM, BBC Prime and sadly in Arabic, Disney Channel.
So no My Name Is Earl. Probably too "ethnic" (that is, if 'redneck' is an ethnicity ...)
And no American version of The Office - I think the British one is around somewhere, maybe the BBC?
Somehow I bet 24 is a little too racy for this part of the world, too, eh?
As for new American shows this fall, it looks like I won't be checking out Studio 60 on The Sunset Strip or Jericho any time soon. Unless our buddy Steve gets his Slingbox up and running ... |
