Daily Show, Colbert Report, The Ultimate Fighter, Batman: The Brave and the Bold, The Closer...
Breaking Bad - pretty nice season finale. Got picked up for S3... be interesting to see where it goes.
Burn Notice - season premiere and the second ep of the season. Rockford Files + MacGyver, as usual. Way fun. Bruce Campbell continues to rock, as always.
Rick Steves PBS travel show - Northern Ireland, Athens, Peloponessia, Wales, Iran. Greece looks awesome.
Grill It with Bobby Flay - Beef Burgers, BBQ with Bobby Flay - Season 1, Iron Chef America - Wild Boar... The Food Network has some great shows. Totally the wrong ones to watch while you're still dieting.
Watched a whole bunch of Derren Brown specials that I hadn't seen - Russian Roulette, Lecture, Seance, The Gathering, Evening of Wonders and The System. Man, I dig on Derren Brown. Proof positive that people, and by people, I mean me, don't really understand why we make the decisions we do, and all the rationalization, justification and projection we put on things. Fascinating magic/psychology/coolness. Reminded me how cool his book was too.
Bunch of MMA - UFC Countdown, UFC 99, Strikeforce - Lawler Vs Shields, WEC 41... all really good shows. Have to say of all the fights I was probably most impressed with Nick Diaz Vs Scott Smith at Strikeforce. Diaz has just become a fantastically effective striker.
Pharmacratic Inquisition - Great documentary on the astronomical and pharmacalogical explanations for religion and Christianity. A lot of themes and ideas I've read elsewhere succintly summarised and well presented. Plus a few things I'd never heard before - like the belt of Orion as the the Three Wise Men and the aminita muscaria mushroom as the probable genesis of the easter eggs tradition, plus the amanatira growth cycle explaining the Adam & Eve myth. Really fascinating stuff.
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