Hate them as a rule, including all the reality doco things like COPS (which the hubby has a weakness for). The three exceptions have been...
The First 48 - this is a US follow-the-cop doco thing that follows homocide detectives on the first 48 hours of their investigations. Actually very well done. Whoever makes it obviously has some talent for story-arc and narrative and creating character from dialogue and setting. Hits my writerly buttons.
So You Think You Can Dance - umm, yeah. There was heaps of things I despised about it (including the fact it was the US one, so immediately got me Bolshi about why it should even be on our tellies, heh), and D & I only came in when it was already down to 10 people or so, but damn if we didn't get sucked in to that thing! It's one of my Beeg Seekrits[tm] that I'm a bit of a dance nerd. Believe it or not. I even have a favourite choreographer, if ya can believe such a thing. :) It appealed to my dance nerdery, but also to the muchly lacking sports appreciation bits of my nerdery, too, because (another beeg seekrit here) I actually consider dance as a sport. Nerd-a-rama! *cackle* Yes, I watch gymnastics, too. ;D
Australia's Strictly Dancing. It's hosted by an ex-flame of mine. Heh. :) See dance-as-sport nerdery above. It's a ballroom dancing competition show where the dancers don't know what they'll be dancing to until the music starts. AND it allows same-sex couples to compete, which gets the big thumbs up from our household. It even has deadpan "sports commentary" of the ballroom technique! What's not to love. ;D It's doing for ballroom dancing what Pot Black did for snooker in the '70s.
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Hate them as a rule, including all the reality doco things like COPS (which the hubby has a weakness for). The three exceptions have been...
The First 48 - this is a US follow-the-cop doco thing that follows homocide detectives on the first 48 hours of their investigations. Actually very well done. Whoever makes it obviously has some talent for story-arc and narrative and creating character from dialogue and setting. Hits my writerly buttons.
So You Think You Can Dance - umm, yeah. There was heaps of things I despised about it (including the fact it was the US one, so immediately got me Bolshi about why it should even be on our tellies, heh), and D & I only came in when it was already down to 10 people or so, but damn if we didn't get sucked in to that thing! It's one of my Beeg Seekrits[tm] that I'm a bit of a dance nerd. Believe it or not. I even have a favourite choreographer, if ya can believe such a thing. :) It appealed to my dance nerdery, but also to the muchly lacking sports appreciation bits of my nerdery, too, because (another beeg seekrit here) I actually consider dance as a sport. Nerd-a-rama! *cackle* Yes, I watch gymnastics, too. ;D
Australia's Strictly Dancing. It's hosted by an ex-flame of mine. Heh. :) See dance-as-sport nerdery above. It's a ballroom dancing competition show where the dancers don't know what they'll be dancing to until the music starts. AND it allows same-sex couples to compete, which gets the big thumbs up from our household. It even has deadpan "sports commentary" of the ballroom technique! What's not to love. ;D It's doing for ballroom dancing what Pot Black did for snooker in the '70s.
Oh! And I like Jamie Oliver shows. Do they count?