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[Jopax]

Might try The Big Bang Theory, a more classical sitcom with quite a hillarius plot, don't know if it was released on DVD yet but the fourth season will be coming out sometime near the end of the year

[Calhoun]

If you do like Sci-Fi, I'd recommend Stargate SG-1. It's my personal favorite Sci-Fi show. 214 episodes and 3 movies (4 if you count the original Stargate)!

[CJ1145]

As a side note, watching the pilot to get an idea of what the series is like tends to be a bad idea. If you watched the pilot to Family Guy or Simpsons and assumed that's what the rest of the run is like, you'd be horribly horribly mistaken.

[Calhoun]

As a side note, watching the pilot to get an idea of what the series is like tends to be a bad idea. If you watched the pilot to Family Guy or Simpsons and assumed that's what the rest of the run is like, you'd be horribly horribly mistaken.

I agree. It's even worse when you are basing the rest of a very long story-focused series on the pilot.

[Kagus]

As a side note, watching the pilot to get an idea of what the series is like tends to be a bad idea. If you watched the pilot to Family Guy or Simpsons and assumed that's what the rest of the run is like, you'd be horribly horribly mistaken.

Which is actually a fairly silly thing, when you think about it.  The whole point behind a pilot is to get people interested, to make sure that you make a mark so that you get viewers tuning in to see how it all goes.

When the pilot does nothing other than make you actively avoid the series in question, something is very wrong.

It's not that we only intended to watch the pilot and get a feeling from there.  We had the whole first season of everything, and we just decided to start from the beginning.  The only reason we stopped at the first episode was because we couldn't bring ourselves to watch the next.

[Jreengus]

Yes I'd say start on the second series of NuWho, I didn't like the original new Doctor. That said if you don't like the second series then just give up on NuWho it obviously isn't for you.

As for other programs, The IT Crowd is good. Can't think of any others of the top of my head.

[CJ1145]

Watch Jersey Shore. Record your reactions. Best Horror-Comedy of the Decade.

[Calhoun]

As for other programs, The IT Crowd is good. Can't think of any others of the top of my head.

On the subject of British comedy, there is Black Books. Hilarious.

[DJ]

Have you tried Red Dwarf yet?

[Agdune]

When the pilot does nothing other than make you actively avoid the series in question, something is very wrong.

Eh, it's sortof a case of the script being solid, but the actors not having had enough time to get used to their roles and give them any life. I find it much more noticable with comedies - I love scrubs, but to me the pilot episode has a completely different, subdued feel, because the actors had all presumably been told "this is a serious comedy. Be serious." Zach Braff hadn't forced his sense of humour on the writers yet (or whatever happened there between the first few episodes and the remainder of the run).

They ran The Pacific here about a week ago, if you haven't watched that, do yourself a favor and do so now.

I loved Band of Brothers, but for me the Pacific just didn't feel quite right. I mean, it was good, but I didn't really like any of the characters (hey, sortof like the OP!) and the whole thing just felt kindof... fragmented. I think BoB had better flow, since it followed an entire company and each episode shifted the main focus onto a different fellow's story - there wasn't enough time to get sick of anyone.

[alway]

Yes I'd say start on the second series of NuWho, I didn't like the original new Doctor. That said if you don't like the second series then just give up on NuWho it obviously isn't for you.

Heh, they're on what, the eleventh doctor? There's bound to be at least one of them any given person finds agreeable.
I personally have only watched episodes from the very first series(I'll work my way through em all eventually), and aside from the insufferably 1960's atmosphere of it and the "Oh god, this episode/storything is twice as long as a movie," it's quite good.

[Jackrabbit]

Didn't series usually consist of one adventure each back in the 60s?

I still remember Origin of the Daleks. Man, aside from the characters freaking out over an immobile giant clam  that was such an awesome origin story.