Flight of the Conchords- I only heard New Zealands fourth most popular folk-comedy combo for the first time about a month ago and suddenly they're everywhere, live albums successful HBO sitcom and a soon to be released movie. I've dl'd their HBO sitcom so far and I'm loving it. Fish out of water insanity following the lads trying to break/survive america, integrating the best of  their music skits.  It's a bit like a NZ/yank peep show with music. Can't wait for more from the rhymenoceros and the hiphopapotamus.


John from Cincinnatti - I've seen all 10 episodes and I still don't have clue one what this series was actually about... or why I liked it. I mean if  God was gonna send  his son back wouldnt he send a son that could speak the language instead of the mildly retarded son he keeps in the attic? And if it was aliens wouldnt they be a bit more hi tech?  Still whatever the fuck it was supposed to be about it made for some interesting and entertaining viewing. think i might watch it again

Pilots - The best thing about the wonderful world of bittorrents is that you can pick up new tv shows that have been leaked by the networks.  so far this year i've watched:
Reaper-  Twenty something slacker finds out his parents sold his soul to the devil and has to work as a bounty hunter for hell.  I keep getting told the concepts been done before but i liked it anyway. Has the potential to be a great comedy action series, or a disasterous monster of the week shambles, but it should be interesting finding out which.
The Bionic Woman - this reimagining of a cheesy seventies series could have been great, it's not.  the dialogue is stilted, the characters monodimensional (is that a real word?) and eastender Zoe Slater looks uncomfortable in every scene and sounds like she took accent lessons of that godawful ginger that played michelle fowlers daughter.
Sarah Connor Chronicles - Terminator TV!!!! throw out the continuity from T3 and enjoy this alternate sequel to T2.  It picks up a couple of years after T2 with John and Sarah living on the run, and rapidly includes all the major hallmark terminator moments, terminators speaking with the voices of others, metal showing below cut skin, cut aways to computerish heads up display POV's, Sarah C.. Paranoid... but probably right, "come with me if you want to live" and time travel= naked.  The last of these having the added benefit of involving the uberhot Lena Heady and Summer "River Tam" Glau. Not sure how this will develop as a series but as a one off the pilot is a fun ride,  they'll probably end up scrapping the guns in school scene though.
Chuck-  twenty something slacker geek (sorry nerd) ends up with a cia/nsa computer in his head.  Interesting.  Adam baldwin is his usual deadpan brilliant self, female leads are hot, male leads are nervous and geeky, this has potential to be a favourite.  unfortunately unless they find a way to make me not care that the info in chucks head will be out of date next week, or find a way to update said info regularly, the plots are gonna start stretching suspension of disbelief very rapidly.  Admittedly this could be fixed by announcing they were gonna give him a daily bombardment of "encoded images" and using the logic of the pilot i'd have to accept that but they should really have thought of that themselves.
Pushing Daisies - Probably the best pilot i've watched... ever.  twentysomething pie maker has lifelong power to revive the dead, for a minute, or else someone else dies, his second touch kills them again, all of which he discovers by accidentally causing the deaths of his mum and the father of his childhood sweeetheart. his special power gets accidentally seen by a private eye chasing a bad guy.  What we end up with is a strange partnership/friendship where they solve murders by asking the victim whodunnit.   All this is explained in the most fun five minute dayglo montage narrated in fairy tale style, if this was british the narrator would be either tom baker or derek griffiths, not sure who it actually is but it works.  then things get complicated when the childhood sweetheart turns up murdered.  I love this show.  Which given my track record of loving US shows probably means it'll be axed by episode 6. "bitch, I was in proximity" is stll making me smile. So is the fact that they don't feel any need to explain why ned can do what he can do.   and the "flying dog". and chuckzilla vs the playdoh people. and "those must be some emotional monkeys". and the list could go on.

whoah that was long.