TV: Shows: A list for the meantime

TV Fare these days:

I found a long list on a website, mytvrss - air dates for your favorite TV shows; then I cut it down by at least half, but included a few programs I thawt I may have watched once or twice, altho I'm not sure (I put a question mark behind these items on the list). Here's the result, my working list:

Favourites:

Criminal Minds - the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit based out of Quantico, Virginia, engage in deployments across the Continent, especially where serial killers are on a binge. The elite squad of men and women are excellent sociologists, psychologists, demographers, profilers who suffer the stresses of grizzly scenes and the predators who manufacture them ... the personal traumas of the profilers slowly emerge over the course of many episodes

Las Vegas -- starring Josh Duhamel, four lovely Montecito gambling palace ladies, Ed Caine. Duhamel plays his character so laid back usually, that one begins to regard him as essentially dumb, and not only so in front of the cameras, but in real life too.

The Closer - a police detective series with an excellent female lead, sporting a thick Southern accent in South California I imagine

Main List:

Andromeda - Captain Dylan Hunt leads his intrepid crew thru-out the Far Universe on many a scifi adventure

Bones - a fine detective show set in an anthroplogists lair

Boston Legal - a sometimes fine show, some times a fatuous bore, mucho leftwing soporifics that do become cloying, but if you can get past the sermons in drool, it can be a great entertainment. The character, Danny Crane, as played by whathisname of Star Trek fame often is excessive in his egomania, sexual preoccupations, and courtroom outbursts. He has a special thing for "little people" (midgets of the opposite sex).

CSI -- the set is the city of Las Vegas and its surrounds, the original CSI show ... er, Crime Scene Investigation

CSI: Miami (a CSI perennial, starring a red-headed cop with dark-haired assistants in the largely Hispanic precincts of Miami, Florida)

CSI: New York (stars Gary Sinese, strong supporting actors)

Damages - a lawfirm headed by Glenn Close spirals in many directions seething with power, and more speciically law (of course), politics, and revenge

Desperate Housewives - it's shutting down soon, with a whopper of a finale, hope I don't miss it because there will be no new episodes, as I understand

Doctor Who - uneven, see my report on UK review

Dexter - former serial killer, still a youngish man but now a detective who hunts down serial killers for a living, as a cop, and f+ts off flashes and impulses to revert to his previous obsessions

Family Guy - a ferocious comedy

Flashforward ?

Flashpoint ?

Fringe ?

House - the only hospital/medical show I watch anymore, and now this one only occasionally, but it can still deliver in large part thru the star who is painkiller addict and a cynic of the first order, who does cure, or kill

Human Target

Jersey Shore ?

Law & Order - is being closed down by network

Law & Order: Criminal Intent - mixed feelings about Vincent D'Onofrio

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - set in New York. I find myself steering away from it in recent monthss despite actomg; it's drenched in sex crimes, and I tend to fill up my quota of those watching a current fave, Criminal Minds

Lie to Me - centered on criminologists who study facial express and other body language to penetrate the psyches of liars unaware they're giving their criminal misdeeds and predelictions away to these specialist sleuths; it's still fresh to my tastes

Medium - a detective flick featuring a mother and now her eldest dawter who thru dreams mostly gets the clues that help reveal "real-life" crimes)

NCIS - Naval Crime Investigation ...? set in Washington DC and Quantico Marine Base

NCIS: Los Angeles - tuff guys go after Bad Guys, often themselves tuff enuff

Numb3rs - I'm not sure this is still being produced season to season, but there are often replays around, and I liked it for a good long time

Private Practice - principals of a lawfirm

Rules of Engagement ?

Smallville - I've grown tired of this, rather; but sometimes revert nostalically

South Park - a ferocious cartoon comedy

Star Trek - especially Deep Space Nine

Supernatural - two young blokes have esoteric experiences, discover exoteric powers, and contend with demons galore

The Cleveland Show - another ferocious cartoon comedy, spinoff from The Family Guy

The Colbert Report - political satire

The Daily Show - political satire of John Daly, a most repulsive man with a rather repulsive mind

The Dog Whisperer - I love dogs, well discipolined dogs, and thats what we see in formation here

The Good Wife - a lawyer, woman lawyer, and her errant lawyer husband

The Hills - a fine but non-ferocious comedy

The Pacific ?

Two and a Half Men - yeah, one of the stars has proved himself to be an incorrigible prick, but amusingly so sometimes on this show - Sheen the Younger, Charlie he be

Weeds - a comedy around a housewife who retails marijuana to her suburban neiborhood

White Collar ?