Identify this late 70's-early 80's British TV show starring a drunk guy! [more inside]
posted by chambers on Dec 17, 2009 - 6 answers

How does Gourmet: Diary of a Foodie get funded? Is it just like a non-commercial commercial for Gourmet magazine and its advertisers and then given away to public radio stations?
posted by parmanparman on Sep 19, 2009 - 6 answers

For what reason would one buy an LCD TV? [more inside]
posted by Alaska Jack on Sep 10, 2009 - 36 answers

[Australia] Which television should I buy for AU$2500? [more inside]
posted by turgid dahlia on Aug 30, 2009 - 10 answers

Trying to identify a British television program about a doctor that used to be broadcast on PBS. [more inside]
posted by Riki tiki on Aug 22, 2009 - 2 answers

Toronto cable tv frustration: should I dump Rogers for Bell? [more inside]
posted by maudlin on Aug 17, 2009 - 6 answers

Help me find video clips that capture athleticism at its most poetic. [more inside]
posted by woodway on Aug 13, 2009 - 38 answers

Television recommendation just for running a Wii? [more inside]
posted by scruss on Aug 1, 2009 - 19 answers

Help me entertain my father! I need TV-on-DVD recommendations, preferably built around solving things - crime, mysteries, puzzles, world crises, etc. [more inside]
posted by julen on Jul 16, 2009 - 32 answers

Is XBMC on an XBox still the best solution for playing home network media on my TV? [more inside]
posted by Billegible on Jul 13, 2009 - 32 answers

Dish Network, DirecTV or uVerse? [more inside]
posted by tippiedog on Jun 30, 2009 - 16 answers

Does anyone remember an animated cartoon from the early 1970s (late 1960s?) that featured a boy drawn as a bouncing yellow ball with arms and face?
posted by cCranium on Jun 29, 2009 - 4 answers

A boy buys an earring at an old junk shop, either he can't afford both or the guy sells it to him for a great price because there's no pair for it. Once he start wearing it though, trash becomes attracted to him. He ends up taking refuge (I think) in a phone booth and the trash falls away when he takes out the earring. My question, what show was this? [more inside]
posted by abitha! on Jun 25, 2009 - 5 answers

Please suggest movies, TV shows and books that feature unrepentant, amoral characters [more inside]
posted by reenum on Jun 10, 2009 - 71 answers

[TVMoviesFilter] Trying to remember an old, cheap-looking movie from a single rememberance: in a room full of rich people, a magician/healer slides a woman's neck tumor/lump through to her finger, at which point he cuts it off with a knife. [more inside]
posted by XiBe on May 14, 2009 - 5 answers

Help identifying a very old cartoon? [more inside]
posted by branparsons on May 14, 2009 - 4 answers

How am I going to be able to watch Eurovision at the weekend w/out a television? [more inside]
posted by gonzo_ID on May 11, 2009 - 3 answers

New place has a lovely attic, finished but no AC up there. We're planning on having the windows open with fans in them to keep the air moving and bearable. Would it be a bad idea to have a TV (plasma) up there in the humid southeastern Missouri summer? [more inside]
posted by luftmensch on Apr 23, 2009 - 14 answers

Song on "Chuck" episode tonight (Monday 4/6/09) [more inside]
posted by chesty_a_arthur on Apr 6, 2009 - 5 answers

My TV remote control has ceased functioning. In order to reset it, I tried the most logical solution: unplugging the TV and plugging it back in. Well, that made things worse. [more inside]
posted by BitterOldPunk on Mar 30, 2009 - 19 answers

Help me compile a list of TV shows which continued in theatrical films (continued, not adapted...i.e. Star Trek counts, The Simpsons counts, but Brady Bunch which had a new cast, or Starsky and Hutch, do not count). [more inside]
posted by arniec on Mar 24, 2009 - 42 answers

Identify this (probably really awful) movie! [more inside]
posted by phunniemee on Mar 2, 2009 - 8 answers

What, if anything, does the oft-used-on-TV license plate 2FAN321 reference? [more inside]
posted by chudmonkey on Feb 21, 2009 - 5 answers

Top Chef (this week's episode, the semi-final): At the judges table, Gail Simmons had a multisyllabic outburst of profanity that was bleeped. What did she say?
posted by imposster on Feb 20, 2009 - 10 answers

How do I force PS3 games to play at their optimum resolution? [more inside]
posted by Who_Am_I on Feb 6, 2009 - 11 answers

Where can I watch German television while in TX... or even better, from the internet? [more inside]
posted by Seeba on Feb 3, 2009 - 6 answers

Help me make a list of must see costume dramas/period films/tv. I love costume dramas and period films/tv and I'd like to see more of them. Recommendations please? [more inside]
posted by katyggls on Feb 3, 2009 - 50 answers

Recommendations for British television dramas. [more inside]
posted by Secret Life of Gravy on Jan 12, 2009 - 55 answers

My mom has a memory of a TV show or movie she saw in the early 60s and she cannot figure out where it came from. It involves a boy going on a picnic and then there being a car accident where everyone but the boy and the dog died; he responds to a picture of a dog while in therapy and then he gets reunited with the dog. Her full description after the jump. [more inside]
posted by NoraReed on Dec 29, 2008 - 3 answers

I love me some arcs. Please share your favorite TV shows that offer really good story arcs. Leaning towards mystery and sci-fi. I'd prefer shows that feature "factual accuracy" within the context of the show. [more inside]
posted by Deathalicious on Dec 28, 2008 - 75 answers

What is this French show or film that I only watched fifteen or twenty minutes of, last night in a hotel room? [more inside]
posted by padraigin on Dec 7, 2008 - 2 answers

A question about digital TV antennas in SE Portland. [more inside]
posted by concrete on Nov 17, 2008 - 8 answers

What is the name of this science TV program where you are continually zooming out farther and farther from the Earth, and then zooming in to the microscopic level in someone's skin cell, while a man narrates? [more inside]
posted by kosmonaut on Nov 10, 2008 - 10 answers

I'm in the US and want to follow the Canadian parliamentary election returns. Will any US TV station, cable or otherwise, have election coverage?
posted by Kattullus on Oct 13, 2008 - 7 answers

Can I do picture in picture from two different inputs on any TVs? [more inside]
posted by Grither on Jul 28, 2008 - 9 answers

Television show, movie, cartoon, what was it that featured a character saying, "pour vous," in this particular way? [more inside]
posted by phunniemee on Jul 2, 2008 - 9 answers

My 11-year old niece is a TV addict - help us help her break the addiction! [more inside]
posted by parilous on Jan 10, 2008 - 44 answers

Fifteen years ago, I saw a sketch on Comedy Central about depression-era fish farmers, in which one farmer stabbed the other with a fish stick, while screaming "Die by trout-stick!" What show was this? [more inside]
posted by mumkin on Dec 12, 2007 - 5 answers

What the heck is wrong with the colour on my TV? [more inside]
posted by loiseau on Nov 12, 2007 - 16 answers

I'm trying to find out the name of a British comedy show I saw on PBS once, but I only have a few details about it. [more inside]
posted by phaded on Jun 28, 2007 - 6 answers

A friend of mine has requested me to track down a television show she has a dim memory of seeing as a child. She thought it might be a Night Gallery episode, but the ep guides that I've looked at haven't yielded anything that sounds promising. [more inside]
posted by bibliowench on Apr 5, 2005 - 6 answers