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Of Burn Notice that is. Any other fans of the show?

Don't much care for medical dramas and never watched primetime soaps. I tend to watch the L&O shows and some of the other police dramas/CSI type shows on occasion and of course I am always willing to give the latest ΨΦ series a try.

But for some reason I have always been a fan of the slick "man's man" cool private eye show going back to Magnum, still the standard, and Rockford before it, which of course featured a couple of appearances by Lance White.

Now the USA show Burn Notice has become the newest "must see" TV in my household. The spy angle has only managed to make it that much more interesting. It is one of the few current shows I really look forward to, enough so that I crank up the Tivo about 17 minutes past the hour so that I can watch it in near real time and still not be bothered with the commercials. Not many shows on now that are like that for me.

Perhaps what is more amazing is that it is a show I like that so far hasn't gotten a quick hook by the suits at the network (ala Journeyman for example). The addition of Bruce Campbell in the cast is a plus for me as well.

Also got hooked on Dexter during it's recent strike run this past winter but not enough so to get the next seasons on DVD (not much of a DVD collector) or to want to pay the extra to get Showtime. Will have to do without that one I guess.

So is it too early to speculate on the likely new shows that one should consider tuning in for in the upcoming fall season? Keep seeing the occasional ad for the new J.J. Abrahms series Fringe. Other than that not sure what the new season might have to offer.

tanstaafl2 wrote:Of Burn Notice that is. Any other fans of the show?

Don't much care for medical dramas and never watched primetime soaps. I tend to watch the L&O shows and some of the other police dramas/CSI type shows on occasion and of course I am always willing to give the latest ΨΦ series a try.

But for some reason I have always been a fan of the slick "man's man" cool private eye show going back to Magnum, still the standard, and Rockford before it, which of course featured a couple of appearances by Lance White.

Now the USA show Burn Notice has become the newest "must see" TV in my household. The spy angle has only managed to make it that much more interesting. It is one of the few current shows I really look forward to, enough so that I crank up the Tivo about 17 minutes past the hour so that I can watch it in near real time and still not be bothered with the commercials. Not many shows on now that are like that for me.

Perhaps what is more amazing is that it is a show I like that so far hasn't gotten a quick hook by the suits at the network (ala Journeyman for example). The addition of Bruce Campbell in the cast is a plus for me as well.

Also got hooked on Dexter during it's recent strike run this past winter but not enough so to get the next seasons on DVD (not much of a DVD collector) or to want to pay the extra to get Showtime. Will have to do without that one I guess.

So is it too early to speculate on the likely new shows that one should consider tuning in for in the upcoming fall season? Keep seeing the occasional ad for the new J.J. Abrahms series Fringe. Other than that not sure what the new season might have to offer.

I watched last season and will this year as well. I have not gotten to it yet in the piles of tapes. It is scheduled into my DVR thingie.

I love his relationship with the girlfriend and the friend. I think he is a hoot.

Oh - what's her name from Cagney and Lacey as his mom is hilarious as well.

So far the second season has been as enjoyable as the first for me.

But I must say Number Six musta been rode hard and put up wet at the end of Battlestar Galactica. She hardly looks the same as a new addition to the cast of Burn Notice. Perhaps it is the lack of the rather severe bleach job that is throwing me off!

tanstaafl2 wrote: The addition of Bruce Campbell in the cast is a plus for me as well.

I was going to start watching the show because of Bruce Campbell, he's one of my favorite actors. I am going to Tivo it right now.

tanstaafl2 wrote:Perhaps what is more amazing is that it is a show I like that so far hasn't gotten a quick hook by the suits at the network (ala Journeyman for example). The addition of Bruce Campbell in the cast is a plus for me as well.

Also got hooked on Dexter during it's recent strike run this past winter but not enough so to get the next seasons on DVD (not much of a DVD collector) or to want to pay the extra to get Showtime. Will have to do without that one I guess.

Bruce Campbell (my second favourite Bruce, btw) just joined the show? I watched one episode what seems like a long time ago and he was in it. Or is he just now a regular?

I'm kind of surprised I don't watch it, since I like Ash....I mean, Bruce and Jeffrey Donovan. But I was way pissed when they took off Touching Evil, so I think that anything I watch with JD will be cancelled.

Also, I think it's on USA and that isn't in the group of channels that I usually page back and forth between on the on screen guide. No, I don't have a DVR (gasp!).

I ended up getting rid of all my extra fancy channels a few months ago but I kept Showtime because I wanted to finish watching the Tudors and, since Dexter was starting back up again in a few months, I didn't cancel it after that. I love that show, it's like an Oz old home week. Although I'm still pissed that they killed off Moses Deyell.

Oh - what's her name from Cagney and Lacey as his mom is hilarious as well.[/quote] Sharon Gless.

tanstaafl2 wrote:Also got hooked on Dexter during it's recent strike run this past winter but not enough so to get the next seasons on DVD (not much of a DVD collector) or to want to pay the extra to get Showtime. Will have to do without that one I guess.

So is it too early to speculate on the likely new shows that one should consider tuning in for in the upcoming fall season? Keep seeing the occasional ad for the new J.J. Abrahms series Fringe. Other than that not sure what the new season might have to offer.

I just realized that you said you got hooked on it during the strike run, which means you must have watched it on CBS. If that's the case, then you have definitely not seen the real Dexter! I tried to watch it once, but it was completely unwatchable since I had seen the original, uncut version.

I don't have either of the sets at the moment (since they ran them incessantly on the various Showtimes, I didn't feel the need right then) but if I had them I would borrow them to you for the cost of postage. Which means that you should know somebody sufficiently twisted that has them and could give you a loan so you'll see what you missed.

Here's Fanny! wrote:
I'm kind of surprised I don't watch it, since I like Ash....I mean, Bruce and Jeffrey Donovan.

Fanny have you seen Bubba Ho-Tep, it's one of my favorite Bruce movies.

We have both Jack of All Trades and The Advertures of Brisco County, Jr on DVD. The girls watched all of the episodes of the former, but just couldn't appreciate the latter series. I guess they just wrap their heads around the idea of an all-powerful orb.

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:

Here's Fanny! wrote:
I'm kind of surprised I don't watch it, since I like Ash....I mean, Bruce and Jeffrey Donovan.

Fanny have you seen Bubba Ho-Tep, it's one of my favorite Bruce movies.

We have both Jack of All Trades and The Advertures of Brisco County, Jr on DVD. The girls watched all of the episodes of the former, but just couldn't appreciate the latter series. I guess they just wrap their heads around the idea of an all-powerful orb.

No, I have not. That's the Elvis/mummy thing, right? I've looked for it occasionally, but they never seem to show that on tv.

I grew to love BC when he was Atolycus on Xena. Was Jack of All Trades that show that alternated with Cleopatra 20/20? THey cancelled that way too soon, I enjoyed it. They don't have enough syndicated camp these days. Everybody's too busy trying to be arch and ironic and too cool for the room.

Here's Fanny! wrote:

I grew to love BC when he was Atolycus on Xena. Was Jack of All Trades that show that alternated with Cleopatra 20/20? THey cancelled that way too soon, I enjoyed it. They don't have enough syndicated camp these days. Everybody's too busy trying to be arch and ironic and too cool for the room.

I never watched Xena. One of these days I will rent the Bruce Episodes of Xena.

Here's Fanny! wrote:
No, I have not. That's the Elvis/mummy thing, right?

Yes!

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:

Here's Fanny! wrote:

I grew to love BC when he was Atolycus on Xena. Was Jack of All Trades that show that alternated with Cleopatra 20/20? THey cancelled that way too soon, I enjoyed it. They don't have enough syndicated camp these days. Everybody's too busy trying to be arch and ironic and too cool for the room.

I never watched Xena. One of these days I will rent the Bruce Episodes of Xena.

It all got to be a little much around the time Xena has died and come back to life for about the fourth time and somehow had become a shamaness in Siberia or wherever.

By that time the only thing that kept me going were the Ares and Atolycus episodes. Oh, and Callisto. Because she was bad ass.

Like anything else, the early seasons are the best, once they got past the first few and figured out what they wanted to do with it.

Atolycus was the King of Thieves and so full of himself and equal parts debonair and dorky. He was great.

Yes, I watched the watered down CBS version so I know I did not get the full glorious gory details of Dexter. I just never have been willing to spend the cash for the HBO/Showtime type channels.

And speaking of Xena (we were, right?), She made her own guest appearance on Burn Notice last season. Alas she met an abrupt end.

Campbell has been a regular right from the start of the show. I really didn't know him from his schlock horror flick days but liked him since Brisco County in the early '90s.

And it appears to be a tight knit bunch. Xena was on both Burn Notice and Battlestar, Campbell was on Xena and now Helfer joins the show fresh from Battlestar. And of course Anwar spent some time on The Tudors over there on Showtime. Ok, so that one is kind of a loose connection.

Here's Fanny! wrote:
Bruce Campbell (my second favourite Bruce, btw) just joined the show?

As if anything else could be possible!