{"id":3311,"date":"2010-04-29T06:45:52","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T10:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=3311"},"modified":"2010-04-29T02:03:39","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T06:03:39","slug":"tv-shows-worth-watching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/29\/tv-shows-worth-watching\/","title":{"rendered":"TV Shows Worth Watching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"TV for Geeks!\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/tv-geek.gif\" alt=\"TV for Geeks!\" width=\"520\" height=\"564\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Just a quick post today on some TV shows that I&#8217;m currently enjoying.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t watch much television nowadays, but when I do these are what I&#8217;m watching&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><em><strong><a title=\"Doctor Who\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/doctorwho\/dw\" target=\"_blank\">Doctor Who<\/a><\/strong><\/em> &#8211; Really enjoying the new season so far.\u00a0 Matt Smith has far exceeded my expectations.\u00a0 &#8220;Time of Angels&#8221; was fantastic!\u00a0 Looking forward to the new adventure\/video games!<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Chuck\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/chuck\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Chuck<\/strong><\/em><\/a> &#8211; The new season has had high and low points.\u00a0 Looking forward to what comes next.\u00a0 Check out the NBC website, it&#8217;s got some really fun stuff like &#8220;Casey Facts&#8221; (think Chuck Norris jokes, but with Casey instead).<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Stargate Universe\" href=\"http:\/\/www.syfy.com\/universe\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Stargate Universe<\/strong><\/em><\/a> &#8211; Great new series.\u00a0 Very unlike previous Stargate shows.\u00a0 More like BSG, but with less religious nonsense.\u00a0 Compelling.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"V\" href=\"http:\/\/abc.go.com\/shows\/v\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\"><em><strong>V<\/strong><\/em><\/a> &#8211; Very good re-imagining.\u00a0 It&#8217;s debatable whether this series is better than the original mini-series.\u00a0 Certainly better than &#8220;The Final Battle&#8221; and the subsequent TV series.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Eureka\" href=\"http:\/\/www.syfy.com\/eureka\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Eureka<\/strong><\/em><\/a> &#8211; Love this show!\u00a0 It&#8217;s fun and the characters are fantastic! A great sci-fi gateway drug for non-geeks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These aren&#8217;t current, but my kids have been watching old episodes of <em>BraveStarr<\/em> and <em>TaleSpin<\/em> (Disney&#8217;s <em>Jungle Book<\/em> meets <em>Tales of the Gold Monkey<\/em>) and loving them!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What shows are you enjoying?\u00a0 Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Tell the world about ONCE UPON A GEEK:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-3311\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/29\/tv-shows-worth-watching\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li 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