Category: Television

Thanks to Rami I currently use Tivo to record all my favorite shows on Showtime. But tonight I past by the Showtime stand at Marina Mall and noticed they now have something similar called Showbox. I tried to find out how close Showbox is to Tivo in features but the salesperson there didn’t know anything. The way she explained it to me was that with Showbox I can watch any show I want any time, meaning if I feel like watching King of Queens now I can just click on King of Queens and watch it live. I think thats bullshit and she really doesn’t know what she is talking about. I got the leaflet on the Showbox from her and I was able to understand a bit more. Basically what I understood is you can pause live TV which is something the Tivo can do of course. With Showbox you could also schedule what you want it to record for you 7 days in advance but say Seinfeld is playing everyday, you have to manually tell it to record each and every episode one by one. Now this is where Tivo kicks Showbox’s ass. With Tivo I can just say record every episode of Seinfeld with one command and it will record every episode of Seinfeld from now until I tell it not to which can be a month from now, a year from now.. whenever I want. I don’t have to manually set it to record each and every episode over and over. Anyway she also said Showbox would cost me KD135 and has an 80GB hard drive inside. Tivo cost me $70 and I have a 120GB drive inside. So far Showbox doesn’t interest me but it might for those of you who don’t have a Tivo. I scanned the leaflet and you can check it out below.

Leaflet
Front Page
Second & Third Page
Fourth Page

I think you can also find more information on showbox.showtimearabia.com but I wasn’t able to connect to it because I am on my slow GPRS connection now.

I have been watching Prison Break for the past few days and I am now up to episode 8 of season 1. So far I find the show very nerve racking. You know how when watching movies where prisoners are trying to escape and you are always on the edge of your seat hoping they wouldn’t get caught? Take that feeling and multiply it by 24 because every episode of Prison Break is like that. I don’t have any nails left since I have been biting them too much. I don’t think the show is anything extraordinary but it does make me want to come back to it just to see whats going to happen. Anyway, Prison Break is now playing on TV Land if anyone is interested.

Other shows I am currently watching:
Curb Your Enthusiasm (Season 1)
Grey’s Anatomy (Season 1)
Lost (Season 2)
24 (Season 5)
Desperate Housewives (Season 2)

Note: From the above mentioned shows only Curb Your Enthusiasm is not showing on TV Land.

I just finished watching episode 5 from season 5 of the show ’24’. It was an amazing episode, there is no other show that is cooler, period. Nothing can come close, ’24’ is unfucking believably good. Jack Bauer is a motherfucker!

I finished watching the mini series Band of Brothers yesterday and I now understand how the hell it got a 9.6 out of 10 on IMDB. Band of Brothers isn’t a TV show, its an epic. Its like Lord of the Rings except they made ten of these not three. The show stars some cool actors the most popular being David Schwimmer (Ross from Friends), Ron Livingston (Office Space) and Donnie Wahlberg (ex New Kids on the Block, Mark Wahlbergs brother).

“Band of Brothers tells the story of Easy Company, 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, U.S. Army. Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as soldiers’ journals and letters, Band of Brothers chronicles the experiences of these young men who knew extraordinary bravery and extraordinary fear.

They were an elite rifle company parachuting into France early on D-Day morning, fighting in the Battle of the Bulge and capturing Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest at Berchtesgaden. They were also a unit that suffered enormous casualties, and whose lives became legend.”

The mini series is made up of ten episodes, each directed by a different director. Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks are also the executive producers. The series is really incredible, everything about it from the great acting, the compelling stories, the amazing directing to the bewildering realism. The quality of this “tv show” can stand up against the best Hollywood blockbusters out there easily. The first episode was the slowest since you are still being introduced to the many many main characters of this series, but after that things really pick up and start moving really fast. The series is visually stunning with beautiful consistent tonality through out. The final episode nearly made me move to Austria, its really beautiful.

But now that I finished watching the show I am having a hard time watching my other shows like Lost and Desperate Housewives… they feel so LAME! It was a good and a educational experience, I loved it. It gets a 5 out of 5. Its only the second time I give a full 5 for something, the first was the Shawerma from Sajj House.

You can buy Band of Brothers on DVD from Amazon

Anyone notice the similarities between the Lost and Band of Brothers posters? Very Strange..

I don’t know how I didn’t notice this before but I just realized something really cool. The airhead lawyer on the show Arrested Development is played by the actor Henry Winkler. He always looked familiar to me and I just realized why. Winkler played Fonzie, the “cool” guy on the old show Happy Days. Whats even cooler is I also just found out that Ron Howard who is the executive producer of the show Arrested Development and other shows and movies like 24, A Beautiful Mind, Cinderella Man, The Doors and Felicity was ALSO on the show Happy Days. I can’t believe I just found all this out now. Better late then never.

A lot of cool TV shows ended this year. I just read on CNN now that Malcolm in the Middle and That 70’s Show will not be coming back next year. Sucks. [Link]

For those of you who watch any of the CSI shows (Las Vegas, Miami, NY) you might have noticed that they play some really cool music on the show. Its mostly drum n bass and downbeat but you also get some other styles. I usually used to recognize most of the good songs they played but now recently they have been playing some really good stuff I had never heard of before. So, I did a bit of googling and I found this website that has the names of songs from each episode. Disappointingly I didn’t find the song I was looking for this time around, its from CSI NY episode 21. But I wasn’t put down by that, they still have hundreds of other songs listed. Check it out [Link]

Just finished watching the first 2 episodes of the show 24 season 5. All I can say is wow! Unfucking believable. There is no show out there that is even close to being as good. Episode 1 of season 5 is just shocking, I can’t say why because it would be a spoiler. I just have to say its amazing. Jack Bauer is really fucking cool!

Now that me and some friends at work have finished watching Desperate Housewives, Lost and Rome, we are trying to find some more shows to watch. We don’t want any of the new shows currently playing since we want to download full seasons and not just a few episodes. So far what we are getting are: Band of Brothers and From the Earth to the Moon. Does anyone have any more recommendations?

If you go to the TV Shows section under the iTunes music store you will now find a lot more shows including Knight Rider, Law & Order, Alfred Hitchcock, Jay Leno, Conan, The Office, Monk, Galactica and more.

The other day I gave out Season 1 of the show Desperate Housewives to some employees at work and it seems everyone is now addicted to it. If you look around the office there are at least two employees quietly watching the show on their powerbooks. Two other employees were watching an episode during the lunch hour while the rest are staying up late at night trying to watch as many episodes as they can. I went to bed at 1:30AM yesterday after watching 4 episodes of the show, and even after I went to bed I wanted to go back to the living room to watch another episode (I got up to episode 20). The funniest part is no one can share the events of the show with another person no matter how big the event was because not everyone has gotten to the same episode yet. Some are ahead of others and spoilers are not allowed. Once everyone is done with Desperate Housewives I will get them Lost, that should keep them up late at night.

Starting early next year AOL is going to start offering old TV shows to watch online for free. They will start with the following TV shows:

Adventures of Brisco County Jr., Alice, Babylon 5, Beetlejuice, Bret, Maverick, Cheyenne, Chico and the Man, Dark Justice, Eight is Enough, FBI, The Falcon Crest, Freakzoid, Freddy’s Nightmares, Fugitive, Growing Pains, Guns of Paradise, Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper, Head of the Class, Histeria, Hunter, Kung Fu, La Femme Nikita, Lois & Clark: The Adventures of Superman, New Adventures of Batman, Perfect Strangers, Pinky and the Brain, Sisters, Spenser: For Hire, Welcome Back Kotter and Wonder Woman.

From all the shows listed the ones I am looking forward to watching again are Spenser: For Hire, Hunter, Kung Fu, Growing Pains, Dark Justice, Perfect Strangers and The Falcon Crest.

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wwiTV is your broadband Portal to watch live TV broadcasts and on demand TV broadcasts on the Internet. wwiTV is only an index to streaming media available on the web and does not host any of the media. They have over 3000 streams listed but they are mostly news channels. [Link]

Its a Cam recording of the most recent Steve Jobs spoof on Saturday Night Live. Its extremely hilarious and anyone who’s ever watched Jobs introduce a new product is gonna love it. I can’t wait for the iPod invisa now! [Link]

Update: here is another spoof for the ipod flea [Link] thank you brian