I think we touched on this partially within one of the bonus questions earlier this month but this is a question I always like to pose within the challenges whenever possible. Provided you could flip through them like a book … Continue reading 30 Day TV Challenge Day 28: The TV World You’d Want To Live In

The “Christmas Episode” of many shows is a common thing that goes back decades and decades with many of my generation remembering things like a Walton Christmas or some of the animated pieces from the day. But there are ones … Continue reading 30 Day TV Challenge Day 27: Your Favorite Christmas Show/Episode

While I don’t actively seek out sports-related shows they always end up in my to-watch list in some form over the years. Sometimes it’s a small component such as growing up with high school-aged themed shows and you’d have baseball … Continue reading 30 Day TV Challenge Day 26: Best Sports Themed Show

The queue is a dangerous thing. When it’s fresh and new it’s easy to fill up with the things you want to watch. But then you start to have multiple queues across different services. And more shows get announced. And … Continue reading 30 Day TV Challenge Day 25: What’s Sat The Longest In Your Queue

We’ve all got that one series where, for various reasons, we’ve watched the bulk of it but we just can’t quite get past that thing that keeps us from finishing it off. Sometimes it’s just timing, such as my inability … Continue reading 30 Day TV Challenge Day 24: That Show You Can’t Quite Finish

One of my favorite late 90s TV shows was Newsradio for a lot of reasons. I was a huge fan of Kids in the Hall so I liked seeing Dave Foley there. I, like many, loved Phil Hartman and getting a weekly … Continue reading 30 Day TV Challenge Day 23: Your Most Frustrating Character

The advantage of streaming was the whole a la carte experience at last that you could never get with cable. You get the stations/channels you want with the app and you don’t have to pay for things you don’t want. … Continue reading 30 Day TV Challenge Day 22: Your Favorite Streaming Service

One of the things I loved about Star Trek: The Next Generation was that it took the property and moved it forward. It didn’t reboot or or remake it in the same way with some tweaks. They moved it forward in … Continue reading 30 Day TV Challenge Day 21: The Show You Want A New Generation Of

The family drama has been with us for a long time but I remember the first one that really made me understand it, to some degree, was Eight Is Enough when that was on. It dealt with its issues and … Continue reading 30 Day TV Challenge Day 20: The Best Family Drama Series

With this day we’re going to cheat just a little. With us spending the day yesterday talking about Star Trek series, for today and our discussion of the best science fiction series, we’re going to make it so that Star Trek is … Continue reading 30 Day TV Challenge Day 19: The Best Science Fiction Series

I should just drop this one in and run, right? Okay, okay. I grew up watching reruns of the original series in the late 70s as both my parents were fans of the show during its original run. We were … Continue reading 30 Day TV Challenge Day 18: The Best Star Trek Series

Growing up as an uncultured suburban youth, I had no interest in musicals for the most part. None had made an impact on me from the few that I had seen and they all felt like this that not even … Continue reading 30 Day TV Challenge Day 17: Your Favorite Musical Moment

LAW AND ORDER on TV is pretty common and there are a lot of legal dramas on out there over the years. Some stem from books, others slide in from film to TV adaptations, but most are original works putting … Continue reading 30 Day TV Challenge Day 16: Your Favorite Legal Series

We’re going to help out a bit here with a look at the first-run list of syndicated US shows here for this one. This was a time when you had things like the Action Pack and PTEN blocks that put … Continue reading 30 Day TV Challenge Day 15: Your Favorite 90s Syndicated Shows

Going into this question was tougher than I thought. Having grown up as a child/teen of the 80s and the heavy exposure to must-see-TV when it came to appointment television and sitcoms, there are so many that I like that … Continue reading 30 Day TV Challenge Day 14: Your Favorite Sitcom

It may be hard to remember your first real obsession because you may not have been aware of it fully in a way, but there is that show that you truly remember as your first obsession. Mine came in my … Continue reading 30 Day TV Challenge Day 13: Your First TV Series Obsession

One of the best and hardest things to do for a lot of series, especially in this day and age of heavy serialized TV, is to stick the landing on the series finale. For a lot of shows, it really … Continue reading 30 Day TV Challenge Day 12: Favorite Series Finale

The way TV has changed over the decades is definitely fascinating as it works a kind of natural evolution at times, from live productions to pre-recorded and then the slow coming seasons and seasonal runs for them, with some being … Continue reading 30 Day TV Challenge Day 11: The Longest-Running Series You Watch

Being born in the early 70s and growing up watching cartoons on Saturday mornings, which was where you usually could only see them on some of the half dozen channels you had access to, was one of those glorious times. … Continue reading 30 Day TV Challenge Day 10: Your Favorite Saturday Morning Cartoon

The miniseries isn’t what it used to be but we do see some coming up from time to time. Also known as a limited series, they’ve been around forever with classics like Roots and Shogun and events like the original V movies that … Continue reading 30 Day TV Challenge Day 9: Your Favorite Miniseries

With the international readership that these questions can have, this one is just awkwardly phrased in order to capture the breadth of things. What we want to know here are your favorite ‘foreign” shows that aren’t native to where you … Continue reading 30 Day TV Challenge Day 8: Your Favorite Non-Native Show