For this week's Touchbase, let's look in on TV shows Andrea and I are catching up on.
We're up to season 2 of Leverage and the point where Gina Bellman who plays Sophie Devereaux had to be written out for a few episodes while she was on maternity leave in 2009. Taking her place was Jeri Ryan as Tara Cole as the team's grifter. Tara's more ruthless and less compassionate than Sophie.
We're still plowing through season 2 of Phineas and Ferb. We basically use P&F to cap off an evening's TV entertainment, especially if we just watched something particularly distressing. (Case in point, this week's Star Trek: Starfleet Academy was very depressing and we needed some Phineas and Ferb to decompress from that.)
Don't have time for an entire episode of Phineas and Ferb? Here's the whole thing in just one minute.
We're still catching up on Hudson & Rex. The good ones before the producers fucked over John Reardon and Diesel died.
We're not necessarily watching these in order. Sometimes Charlie Hudson and Sarah Troung are a couple, sometimes their not. To be honest, it's not always each to determine which episodes are which.
Sarah's smiling at Charlie with delight and affection when he said something funny? Nope, not dating. Just friends.
To be honest, whatever Charlie's feelings are for Sarah in any given episode, it's clear his emotional priority is Rex.
There was an episode where Charlie is forced to team up with a French Canadian detective who chastises Charlie with "You would rather work with dogs than with people." And Charlie just stands there sputtering because he WANTS to argue with her but he can't because damn it, she's right.
Oh good! Sarah interrupts the moment to say she loves Charlie.... nope, she has new forensic evidence to share on their latest murder case.
Anyway, we're still having fun with Hudson & Rex for 6 seasons and 2 episodes of season 7.
There's a Season 8 with Rex teamed up with a different guy named Hudson? No, I refuse to acknowlege it exists.
Season 8? Blasphemy, I say! Blasphemy!
This past Christmas, son Dean and friend Jan got me Roku to help manage my various streaming services as well as provide even more options to watch TV.
As if I needed ways to watch even MORE television.
Here's some of what I'm watching on Roku's Live TV option.
Classic Doctor Who is mostly Tom Baker but also Hartnell, Troughton, Pertwee, Davison, Colin Baker & McCoy.
There are other channels with TV dramas that are British or Britsh adjacent such as My Life Is Murder and Ms. Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries. I recently caught up with a 1980's adaption of Hound of the Baskervilles with Tom Baker as Sherlock Holmes.
It's a 24 hour a day party with The Graham Norton Show channel.
The Star Trek channel has the original series 24/7
The Price Is Right - The Bob Barker Years is a peak into pop culture and consumer history. Wanna see people get excited over winning a brand new Ford Pinto? Or one of those new fangled Radar Ranges? Or television sets that are 10% TV and 90% furniture?
Watch Bob Barker ogle the models without fear of reprisal from human resources.
The Joy of Painting allows you to enjoy the calm honeyed tones of Bob Ross as he crafts beautiful landscapes from nothing save the light touch of his paint brush on a blank canvas.
There's an entire channel dedicated to TV series from producer Dean Devlin including The Librarians, Leverage and it's sequel series Leverage: Redemption. Since Andrea and I are only halfway through season 2 of Leverage, I have to be careful not to be spoiled on episodes I haven't watched.
There's an ION channel with more chances to watch Hudson & Rex as well as Bones and look, more chances to watch Leverage.
Don't want to sit through an entire episode of SNL with lame monologues, bad sketches and musical guests you never heard of? The Saturday Night Live channel is a distillation of classic sketches from across the 50 year history of SNL although most are from the past decade or so.
And there are channels with classic sitcoms from the 1980's and '90's such as Just Shoot Me, NewsRadio and Mad About You.
There's are entire channel for just Cheers.
And The Dick Van Dyke Show.
And that is that for this week's Tuesday TV Touchbase.
Until next time, remember to be good to one another and try to keep it down in there, would ya? I'm trying to watch TV over here.
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