The Walking Dead and The Killing are both pretty fantastic.

Dead like me was also pretty great, although it trailed off toward the end (hence the cancellation). But then, any series that starts with a girl being incinerated by a toilet seat falling from a decommissioned space station gets my vote.

Psych is an excellent "nerdy" comedy... took me a few episodes to suspend disbelief (as they portray everybody that isn't the main character as an oblivious fool), but once you get hooked in it's a fun ride.
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I keep looking at that show but never watch it... is it like "lie to me", that show was good the first two episode but it just turned into the same episode different characters, same with the show numbers, always the same story, just different people.
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The first 3 seasons were all very clever: after that it started trying a little too hard. The writing is far more interesting than Lie to Me, with wonderful and very obscure Late 80's \ Early 90's references. ("What have you been doing out here?" "Just learning the lyrics to Informer.")

The Office
Heroes (First season was amazing, even my wife was enthralled, at least watch the first season)
Mad Men
Jersey Shore

I'm about to finish SGU... both those shows seem real similar and I really liked them... disappointed SGU was cancelled.

Blast! Why do they have to cancel every good show. :/

If you don't mind watching older shows, The 4400 was quite good.

Big Bang Theory
2 & half men
Friends
Scrubs
Chuck

I started watching Mad Men and was enjoying it. I got about half-way into the second season, and then realized... "This is a soap opera. There is no difference between this and a soap opera. I'm wasting my life."

So, my advice is to shut off the TV and do something productive But if you just want to watch a decent show, Mad Men is pretty good.

I must be on the wrong forum. A board full of geeks and no-one mentions firefly?

More mainstream, I've also really enjoyed West Wing and the Sopranos (although I've only watch a few episodes of each as I want to watch them from the start).

BTW OP, I'm currently re-watched BSG again. The first 2 and a half seasons are so good it's actually depressing me to think of how much the completely ruined it in the end.

I must be on the wrong forum. A board full of geeks and no-one mentions firefly?

More mainstream, I've also really enjoyed West Wing and the Sopranos (although I've only watch a few episodes of each as I want to watch them from the start).

BTW OP, I'm currently re-watched BSG again. The first 2 and a half seasons are so good it's actually depressing me to think of how much the completely ruined it in the end.

Firefly didn't last more than one season, so it didn't fit the OP's criteria.

I agree with BSG (I'm most of the way through season 4, and haven't been able to motivate myself to watch the rest yet). I wish that American shows that want to do big story arcs would pick a set number of seasons they wanted and then write a story that would be told start to finish in that time. Stringing the story along for as long as the show is profitable enough in a company's eyes just leads to endless plot stretching and irrelevant situations, inconsistency and retrocons, and then a jumbled rush to tie up loose ends. Unless they want to someday go for a movie, in which case they'll leave a few strands dangling. Greedy bastards.

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I must be on the wrong forum. A board full of geeks and no-one mentions firefly?

More mainstream, I've also really enjoyed West Wing and the Sopranos (although I've only watch a few episodes of each as I want to watch them from the start).

BTW OP, I'm currently re-watched BSG again. The first 2 and a half seasons are so good it's actually depressing me to think of how much the completely ruined it in the end.

Firefly didn't last more than one season, so it didn't fit the OP's criteria.

I agree with BSG (I'm most of the way through season 4, and haven't been able to motivate myself to watch the rest yet). I wish that American shows that want to do big story arcs would pick a set number of seasons they wanted and then write a story that would be told start to finish in that time. Stringing the story along for as long as the show is profitable enough in a company's eyes just leads to endless plot stretching and irrelevant situations, inconsistency and retrocons, and then a jumbled rush to tie up loose ends. Unless they want to someday go for a movie, in which case they'll leave a few strands dangling. Greedy bastards.
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That's not really what happened to BSG, though. They were planning for "the end", they knew exactly how long it would be. But they didn't plan on a writer's strike that would cut many, many episodes out of the series. It was rushed and messy because they had to rush it.

That said, I wish they had said "writers strike? Fine, we'll add another half-season so we can finish it right" instead of just rushing it out the door.