internet TV

[dbskyler]

My television is broken at the moment, so to make up for this lack, I have been searching out television programming on the internet. And what a bounty I have found! Free, legal bounty! Tonight I watched an old episode of The A-Team at NBC.com and was amused to recognize none other than Marc Alaimo, who played Gul Dukat on Deep Space Nine! It was a lot of fun to see him doing scenes with Murdock, played by Dwight Schultz, and imagining that this was actually some weird time-traveling meeting between Dukat and Schultz' TNG character, Reginald Barclay. Then I discovered the original Battlestar Galactica, with Galactica 1980 mislabeled as "season two." LOL! But it's not all decades-old TV classics on the internet. There are new episodes, too. CBS.com has Big Bang Theory. Comedy Central has The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. Syfy.com has Being Human. CWtv.com has Ringer. And PBS.org has Downton Abbey, but unfortunately only season two, and I'm still on season one (but the next DVD is in my Netflix queue!)

I really ought to hurry up and get the TV fixed, but I find that I am surprisingly in no particular hurry. Of course, new Doctor Who won't be on for a long time. ; )

Comments

[ghost2.livejournal.com]

I ought to look up some classic shows on the Internet. I freely admit, I would die without "regular" television (I watch a ton of it and much prefer the experience of "live" viewing on a TV to watching on my computer), but there's so much more I'd like to see that is not currently available on the channels I get.

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

I was surprised at how much classic TV is just sitting out there, freely and legally accessible on the internet.

I do want to get my TV fixed -- I'm not one of those people who's willing to do without it and switch to the internet completely -- but this has been an eye-opening experience.