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

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

I never actually use my TV to watch TV shows. I sometimes use it to watch DVDs (or, even more rarely, VHS tapes). The rest of the time, I watch on my computer.

[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.

[thisbluespirit]

Heh, glad you're having fun out of your TV breaking. You're being all Chestertonian! ("An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered..." ;-D)

Are you enjoying Downton? (Well, presumably if you sent for the next disc you didn't hate it, but I can imagine a person would look at it more sceptically post-hype, rather than when it was all new and took us by surprise. Still, Maggie Smith is never not awesome, :lol:)

[pitry.livejournal.com]

The A-Team! Huh. Oh, the joys of things on the internet :D