Tv Dramas

I quit watching Singapore tv channels long ago, they are basically lack of substance or poor acting skills. Variety shows are direct and lousy ripoffs from taiwan/korea. I was never into american dramas, having come from a chinese school and borne into a chinese speaking family, listening to 98.7 and watching american dramas just wasnt registered into me when i was in mommy's womb.

Even when ER, CSI, ALF, Friends, Baywatch was out, i never once thought of viewing them.

It all started with watching Prison Break which led me to other tv series on NBC, ABC, FOX, etc. As comparison to Singapore dramas, American dramas have better looking people with better acting skills, complicated plots, much higher production budget etc which allows you to have a cinematic experience even watching Tv. To compare american drama to singapore serials, its like comparing shark fins soup to fish soup. of course it wouldnt be fair as the singapore tv industry is still slowly growing and there are many red tapes that govern and restrict how the production can be made.

Prob many of us will even have problems naming one tv drama we watched for the past 3 years on channel 5/8/U. These are the tv series that i have been chasing

American Idol

The inital first few episodes will be interestign as the team goes around america for auditions. You get to see how different the various states in america is and the weirdest kind of people that get through. Sometimes, there would different people, weird, abnormal, funny that does things to send a message through. The later part of this reality tv show gets a bit boring as all the singers were generally good and one by one they get eliminated due to lack of votes. Excitment builds up as more and more get eliminated. I was rooting for brooke and archuleta in this season

America's Got Talent

Another Reality Tv Show which i caught lately, well this is different from American idol because its a talent contest instead of just a singing contest. People of all ages and different animals entered the contest, only to be judge by 3 judges and the 4th judge- the audience. With the regular buzzers in talent contests, the audience served as the 4th judge, given the rights to cheer or boo the guy off the stage. The winner gets to win $100 million dollars and a chance to perform in Vegas.

Prison Break

Well if you have nto caught this, or if you have not heard of this, where have you been?? This show led me to the string of tv serials. Every episode is like watching a short movie. 4th season running and is shown on every monday night at FOX. Basically, to sum it all, michael scoffield went to jail on purpose just to get his brother who was framed, out of prison. Many things happen in between, they escaped with some fellow prisoners who tagged along and it led to a wild goose chase. They got into trouble and got send into Panama prison which was a totally different prison to FOX RIVER. Season 4 talks about them, having escaped from Panama, doing things for this FBI agent for this company. You really got to watch it if you hadnt.

Heroes

3rd season just premiered few days ago, which left our dear tai in dilemia to whether to catch prison break or heroes. Basically, Heroes is about a group of people that do not know each other, having different special abilities such as 1. able toteleport through time 2. able to hear what people are thinking in their minds 3. a dual personality 4. melting metals 5. able to paint out the near future 6. able to communicate with machines 7. able to go through solids 8. able to self heal etc etc.

save the cheerleader, save the world

So you think you can dance SYTYCD

dancing reality show which shows a wide or super variety genre of dances. Imagine hiphop dancer doing jazz, or contemporary dancer doing the krump.
Season just ended

My Name is Earl

This show is super funny. Talk about this guy who won the lottery but yet got hit by a car accident, watched a tv programmer which talks about karma, which is you will be blessed when you do good and cursed when you done something wrong. Used to be an ang mo ah beng who likes to sabo and make people's life jialut, he came up with a list to make it up for them and strikes them off the list after he has done so.
he lives in a motel with a slower than slow brother and his friends are some trailer park white trash. Good to watch for a good laugh!
Out of running as for now, coming back real soon

Survivor

being a boy scout has left me marvelled over how the managed to survive and strategy and lose weight in this reality tv show. Coming back real soon and will be shot in africa.

Kid Nation

This is also a super nice show which stopped running after first season due to some problems. 40 children are left to take charge a cow-boy town in the middle of a desert and left to rule and maintain it for 40 whole days. every 2-3 days, someone can get to volunteer himself out of the game and the "senators" of the 40 can elect one kid to receive a gold star which is $20000. Funny to see how kids between 7 to 15 work together. They played interesting challenges which classify them into merchants, working class, chefs and servants which are the roles they have to embrace for the next 3 days.


Pimp My Ride

in short: lousy car zhng to ridiculously zhnged car
imagine cotton candy machine in car boot, skateboard ramp, touch sensor doors, lcd screen everywhere in the car, fish skin seats etc