Looking back at some of my favorite shows, I definitely have a cop fetish. From TJ Hooker, Spenser For Hire, Remington Steele (back on PAX this fall!), Hunter, Miami Vice, Mission Impossible, The A-Team, Moonlighting (On Bravo, which I don't get), Hart to Hart, New York Undercover, Silk Stalkings (Chris & Rita), Forever Knight, KnightRider, MacGuyver, Columbo, Murder She Wrote, Twin Peaks, WiseGuy, Homicide: Life in the Streets, Due South (love that wolf!) to the current The Pretender (Can't believe they cancelled it!), Profiler [Kinda downhill after Sam (Ally Walker) left, but still enjoyable], Nash Bridges, JAG, NYPD Blue, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, and The X-Files (In it's last season. boo hoo).

I have to say of all the tv shows I've seen, The X-Files holds a very special place. Besides fulfilling my police drama quota, it had mystery and strong characters. Before the X-Files, there really wasn't any shows that showed a really smart women character who held her own after the demise of the mid-80s shows (Remington Steele, Hunter, Hart To Hart, etc.). The computer era has doubled my obsessions with this show thru fan-fiction. There is a huge repository at Gossamar.org, ecompassing any interests. (Although Remington Steele fan fiction was my first introduction into that guilty pleasure and led to my strident shippy position.) I must say I am a hard-core Shipper (Fans who know the characters should/are in a romantic relationship despite/because what is shown.) and Chris Carter gave us aplenty on Season 7/8.

I think in part to The X-Files, the paranormal series have drawn more of my interests toward sci-fi than my earlier years including the WB's Buffy, Angel, Roswell, Earth: Final Conflict, Highlander and Poltergeist: the Legacy. Other favorites Ally McBeal, Dawson's Creek, Friends, Will & Grace, Dharma & Greg and ER.

Besides primetime, I enjoy the rather inanane antics of Regis & Rosie O'Donnell. Soaps is mostly an ABC marathon. I love all 4 soaps (Port Charles, All My Children, One Life to Live & General Hospital) with infrequent forays to Bold & the Beautiful and Days of Our Lives. Latenight is a channel flipping thru Leno, Letterman, Nightline, Conan, Kilborne & Charlie Rose to find people I want to see. I think Charlie Rose is one of the best interviewers, wish he would interview more movie people. Leno has a funnier opening monologue IMHO.

This season has a derth of good shows compared to past years. Mostly I've just adjusted my schedule to finally watching The West Wing and Will & Grace at their normal time instead of taping them.

I also watch a bit of Cable, when I have it, anyway. I love Le Femme Nikitta and Cover Me. I guess to tells you just what a TV nut I am, one weird thing I like to do is to watch scrambled channels on cable. I'm used to getting bad reception on some channels when I'm using rabbit ears, so maybe that's why I like doing it. What am I talking about? Well I was so mad about not seeing the new shows on HBO and Showtime, that one day on a lark I turned on Showtime. Couldn't really see anything, as the picture was all slanted and squashed, but the sound was clear as day! So I'm watching The Sopranos, Sex and the City, OZ, Queer as Folk and Red Shoe Diaries for free! It's amazing what a little imagination and internet supplements can help fill in all the blanks. I know it's weird, but dang I'm poor college student! The shows are really good, and sometimes it clears up for a sec so I can see - for example, lots of (naked!) gorgous men in QAF - yum. 

Update: Hee, finally got cable (well DirectTV) and am glued to the tube even more! So in the intermin, I've added a slew of HBO shows to the must see list: Six Feet Deep as another too cool show you must watched. Saw the premiere episode while housesitting and was hooked even without access to HBO. Written by Alan Ball (American Beauty) and starring some familiar faces (Michael C. Hall & Peter Krause). Oh and add The Wire, which stars Dominick West who was in Rock Star! He looks way nicer without the 80s hair. If you haven't seen it, you must! Also OZ, Sex and the City & The Sopranos! And Queer as Folk is so much better without the scrambled lines! 

Not that Wahlberg, but Donnie! Last Spring he had Big Apple, coming either this fall, Donnie will be in another police drama called "Boomtown " for NBC on Sundays at 10pm PST/EST.