Fred: It's the pictures in my mind that are getting me. It's like being stuck in a really bad movie with those Clockwork Orange clampy things on my eyeballs. Wesley: Why imagine? Reality's disturbing enough.

'Shells'


Non-Fiction TV: I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own

This thread is for non-fiction TV, including but not limited to reality television (So You Think You Can Dance, Top Chef: Masters, Project Runway), documentaries (The History Channel, The Discovery Channel), and sundry (Expedition Africa, Mythbusters), et al. [NAFDA]


SailAweigh - Jan 14, 2009 8:34:30 am PST #7686 of 23273
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

Crum bum, I can't find Top Gear on my TiVo search. It must be a channel I don't get. Maybe I can find it on YouTube.


Kathy A - Jan 14, 2009 8:35:50 am PST #7687 of 23273
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

It's on BBCAmerica, but it has its own YouTube channel, and you can also access a lot of videos at its website.


Scrappy - Jan 14, 2009 8:36:18 am PST #7688 of 23273
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

It's on BBCAmerica, Sail. Best show EVER.


Kathy A - Jan 14, 2009 8:45:39 am PST #7689 of 23273
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I'm not that much into cars, but I love watching it. Even the test driving of the supercars is interesting, just because the presenters get so geeked out about them (or disappointed, as the case may be).

The show not only does a good job of reviewing cars and entertaining the viewers with interesting and funny challenges, but the cinematography is amazing. They really make the cars look incredible in the most beautiful locations possible.


SailAweigh - Jan 14, 2009 8:47:19 am PST #7690 of 23273
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

That's what I thought, I don't get BBCA. I'll have to check out the YouTube website. If I remember. I always forget, until someone starts talking about it.


Kathy A - Jan 14, 2009 8:58:57 am PST #7691 of 23273
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Here's the video page of their website. If you click over to the "challenges" tab, you'll see lots of great stuff, including Space Robin, where they try and make a space shuttle/car that drive after it lands, Super Mini-Soccer, where they play soccer with subcompact Toyotas, and on page 4, one of my favorites, where the hosts' moms test out various Mom-type cars.


megan walker - Jan 14, 2009 9:31:30 am PST #7692 of 23273
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

I'm guessing I shouldn't be irritated I missed Chopped then?

Unless you want to see Ted Allen channeling The Chairman rather than Alton Brown, I'd say no. It's not that the show is bad, just completely uninteresting.


erikaj - Jan 14, 2009 9:40:14 am PST #7693 of 23273
Always Anti-fascist!

I heart Ted Allen, but maybe not that much.


sumi - Jan 14, 2009 9:43:39 am PST #7694 of 23273
Art Crawl!!!

Oh, I read over at TWOP that Hammond is doing some children's science shows over the TG hiatus and, apparently, Oliver is included.


Scrappy - Jan 14, 2009 9:50:38 am PST #7695 of 23273
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Jamie Oliver? That's a lot of smart, obssessive, British cuteness in one place.