Help me out DU... I've been picked as a Nielsen house....

[Ohio Joe]

For week starting Thursday, November 6th and I really don't watch much TV. Gimme all your suggestions!

Thanks!

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. Any and all Futurama.

[Ohio Joe]

2. I need dates, times, channels/station name

Also, unless it is local to Columbus Ohio, lets keep it to national channels. Please keep in mind I don't actually have a TV or really watch much TV, so I don't know what a lot of shows are or when they are on.

[PittPoliSci]

48. new movie is in stores today. (nov 4)

go buy it! looks incredible. Called "Bender's Game."

I gotta buy it too. Of course, it's nearly 6 AM, I can't sleep because of the election.

[NMDemDist2]

3. MSNBC, especially Keith and Rachel n/t

[Ohio Joe]

4. Do you know what time they are on?

edit to add - and what the full name of the shows are?

[NMDemDist2]

8. Countdown at 8ET and the Rachel Maddow Show at 9ET n/t

[Ohio Joe]

10. Done and done!

Thanks!

[Left Is Write]

5. Keith Olbermann's Countdown, 8pm EST on MSNBC.

Help him continue to defeat Bill O'Reilly in the ratings, which Bill inexplicably thinks is due to ratings "fixing" by Nielsen. :rofl:

The Rachel Maddow Show immediately follows.

[Ohio Joe]

6. Done and done - Olbermann and Maddow are in

Thanks!

[blueraven95]

7. please, please, please watch

Pushing Daisies - it's usually on Wed., at 8:00pm on ABC, but not for the next two weeks.

It is one of the best original shows on tv, and therefore up for cancellation. I don't usually beg for people to watch a show, and you may not totally get it in the middle of the storyline, but it's fantastic, and the actors are all worth turning the tv on for.

:hi:

[Ohio Joe]

9. I can't... but I will

OK, I guess that needs an explanation :)

I lost everything in a fire about two months ago, I don't own a TV right now. When my insurance money finaly gets here and I buy a TV though, I promise to give it a watch. Also, sorry but if it is not on in the week starting 11/6, I can't put it in the rating diary :(

[blueraven95]

12. you should check it out anyway

it's pretty cool in an adult fairytale kind of a way. Very different from all the cop and lawyer stuff on tv now.

[Sequoia]

19. That's a very confusing show.

But the props are very colorful.

[blueraven95]

27. have you watched it from the beginning?

it makes sense if you know what is going on - and it's really not as complicated as lots of other shows out there.

[Sequoia]

28. No, I missed it from last year.

I actually like what I've seen.

[blueraven95]

29. you should check out the first season

It's amazing how good it is.

:hi:

[unpossibles]

11. I don't watch much TV, but here's what I like

Family Guy (Sunday night), Venture Brothers (Adult Swim on Cartoon Network), Daily Show & Colbert Report (Comedy Central), and Life on Mars (Thursday nights at 10) and Pushing Daisies are ok.

I don't actually get to watch the cable shows until the DVD comes out or online.

[Ohio Joe]

13. I will look them up and add them

Except for Pushing Daisies, a previous poster said it is not on the week I am doing.

[unpossibles]

20. right on.

And as everyone else is saying, I love Rachel Maddow! I have not seen her new show, but she's great.

[Symarip]

14. I know I'm going to be alone on this.

But Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job (yes, that's the name) and Aqua Teen Hunger Force on Cartoon Network are the greatest shows I've ever layed eyes on.

[Ohio Joe]

16. Time and day?

Helps a lot since I've never heard of either of them.

[harmonicon]

46. you are not alone

Those shows are awesome, and give us such great lines as "If you don't want me to call you a rapist, then don't rape."

[ghostsofgiants]

15. Definitely watch Countdown, become part of the Nielsen conspiracy against Bill O'Rielly

[Ohio Joe]

17. Already done

I'll watch when I have a TV again.

[Sequoia]

18. Here's my list

The Big Bang (Monday's on CBS at 8pm)

Reruns of Streets of San Francisco 11am weekdays on Channel 20 KOFY (which you may not even get)

My Name is Earl, The Office...both on Thrusdays NBC starting at 8 PM

The Fringe...Tuesday at 9 pm FOX

Star Trek, TVLand 6am during the week

and on edit: SouthPark, 10pm on Wed, Comedy Channel

[Ohio Joe]

22. ummm.. some of those are added

I need to keep an eye on this, I can only do one show per day/time. You have some conflicts, so only the new day/times will be added.

[lizziegrace]

21. House

:)

In town the weekend of the 22nd. You around? We're meeting somewhere Saturday evening.

[Ohio Joe]

24. You know it!

Just let me know where you will be and I'll make it there! annnnnd, I'll go look up House and add it :D

[lizziegrace]

26. PM and email address if you don't mind

I'm letting everyone know details that way.

:)

[yellowcanine]

23. So are you any relation to Fred Nielsen from Columbus Ohio?

Tee Hee. Supposedly one "childhood myths" that some people carry into adulthood is that "Nielsen families" are actually named Nielsen.

[Ohio Joe]

25. Good question

About two months ago, I had a fire and had to move. I have wondered for a long time how Nielsen people were picked, before today I had never even heard of someone that knew someone that was a Nielsen person. It just came in the mail, I have no idea how they picked me but hey... They even included $4 in the envelope!

Where were these guys when Firefly and Farscape were on TV?

[southpaw]

30. Keith and Rachel

MSNBC

Just do it!

[Ohio Joe]

31. Already done - nt

[Initech]

32. Daily Show and Colbert Report

[Ohio Joe]

33. Already done - nt

[Jamastiene]

34. Medium is great.

So is Ghost Whisperer. Jericho is great too, but has had to fight to survive the ratings crunch. Please tell them Jericho is great. If nothing else please do Jericho. :D

[Ohio Joe]

36. Dates, times, channels?

I don't watch TV.

[Jamastiene]

42. They are only letting you do it for 1 week?

I guess Medium is off the radar then...and Jericho. The only one I mentioned that will be on that week is Ghost Whisperer. It is on Fridays on CBS at 8:00 PM

The others have mid season season beginnings (January for Medium)

[TrogL]

35. CSI (and variants), Boston Legal, Dexter, Amazing Race, Cold Case, The Mentalist

[Ohio Joe]

37. dates, times, channels?

I don't have TV.

[6000eliot]

38. Did you get the diary and the dollar?

[Ohio Joe]

40. Four Diaries and four dollars - nt

[Orrex]

39. Filling out their booklet will take more time and effort than you've ever put into filing your taxes

For the four bucks they give you, it's really not worth the effort.

[Ohio Joe]

41. Probably but...

I think it is kind of cool, I've always wondered about how this was done.

[pinniped]

43. Frasier and Streets of San Francisco.

.

[Connonym]

44. Just tell them Battlestar Galactica 24/7

We were a Nielsen family way back in the 70s(?) and I remember that I was embarrassed to admit that I watched the Incredible Hulk so I lied on my diary. I figure if a 10 year old is embarrassed enough to lie then probably the Nielsen ratings don't mean as much as they think they do. Except that's sort of a scary thought because if more people are watching American Idol than say they are? Idiocracy here we come

[harmonicon]

45. If you watch anything other than Doctor Who, you're a traitor

Ok, you're also allowed to watch Star Trek, Star Trek the Next Generation, Buster Keaton movies, and Northern Exposure. ANYTHING else, and you're a traitor.

[quakerboy]

47. Daily And Colbert are obvious

I also third or fourth the Maddow, Olberman, and House.


This is going to be horrible, but I would also add this new animated Star Wars cartoon. I don't know why or how, but it has captured my attention.

The Oblongs, if any come into schedule. Monk. Metalocalypse. NCIS. CSI. Perhaps Robot Chicken. Simpsons. Futurama.

[mwooldri]

49. try some BBC America, if you have it.

• Doctor Who premieres on Saturday at 9pm ET - repeated later at 12am ET and 3am ET.
  
• BBC World News America airs at 7pm and 10pm ET - Monday-Friday (except Friday 10pm is replaced by Newsnight - that's good to watch too). If you're an early bird and like more international news for breakfast then between 6am and 9am ET BBC America relays BBC World's coverage.
  
• Friday is good for Monty Python fans... 8pm and 11pm
  
• Monday is Top Gear night: 8pm, 9pm, 11pm and 12am ET.
  
• And finally Wednesday November 12th (my birthday!) - a special at 9pm ET "BBC America Reveals" - my
  100,000 lovers... a documentary about sex addicts.
  

Enjoy!