Monday 8 July 2013

My Favorite Television Show All Time

FRIENDS (1994 - 2004)
Rachel Green flees her wedding day and seeks out childhood friend Monica Geller, a New York City chef. They become roommates, and Rachel joins Monica's social circle of single people in their mid-20s: struggling actor Joey Tribbiani, business professional Chandler Bing, masseuse and musician Phoebe Buffay, and newly divorced paleontologistRoss Geller, Monica's older brother. To support herself, Rachel becomes a waitress at Central Perk, a Manhattan coffeehouse where the group often hangs out; when not there, the six are usually at Monica and Rachel's nearby West Village apartment, or Joey and Chandler's across the hall.

DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES (2004 - 2012)
The "normal" suburban life for a group of close-knit housewives takes a dark turn when one of their closest friends mysteriously commits suicide. Now while trying to deal with their own hectic problems and romantic lives, each year brings on a new mystery and more dark and twisted events to come. Life behind closed doors is about to be revealed as suburban life takes a funny and dark turn.

2 BROKE GIRLS (2011 - 2015)
Sassy, streetwise Max works two jobs just to get by, one of which is waiting tables during the night shift at the retro-hip Williamsburg Diner. Sophisticated Caroline is an uptown trust fund princess who's having a run of bad luck that forces her to reluctantly give waitressing a shot. When Caroline discovers Max's knack for baking amazing cupcakes, she sees a lucrative future for them, but they first need to raise the start-up money.

SEX AND THE CITY (1998 - 2004)
Set and filmed in New York City, follows the lives of a group of four women—three in their mid-thirties and one in her forties-who, throughout their different natures and ever-changing sex lives, remain inseparable and confide in each other.  The quirky series had multiple continuing storylines that tackled relevant and modern social issues such as sexuality, sexually transmitted diseases, safe sex, promiscuity, and femininity while exploring the difference between friendships and romantic relationships.

THE BIG BANG THEORY (2007 – PRESENT)
The show is about Leonard Hofstadter and Sheldon Cooper are both brilliant physicists working at Caltech in Pasadena, California. Also friends with colleague’s mechanical engineer Howard Wolowitz and astrophysicist Rajesh Koothrappali.  They are self-professed nerds, all have little or no luck with popular women. When Penny, a pretty woman and an aspiring actress originally from Omaha, moves into the apartment across the hall from Leonard and Sheldon's, Leonard has another aspiration in life, namely to get Penny to be his girlfriend.

iCARLY (2007 – 2012)

When Carly and her sassy best friend Sam act funny at a school talent show audition, tech-savvy Freddie tapes it and posts it online without telling them. After seeing the girls' strong chemistry and banter, the online audience clamors for more and the iCarly webcast is born. While grappling with typical issues of adolescence, Carly, Sam, and Freddie find out that they have also become online celebrities as their show – which features talent contests, recipes, problem-solving, and random dancing – garners international accolades.

CHUCK (2007 - 2012)
Since geeky Chuck accidentally became the mental host of the Intersect, an unprecedentedly powerful computer mind containing all information available to the US government, he's a primordial national security asset and risk. So CIA and NSA each appoint a top agent to guard Chuck, and often get involved with him in spy adventures. Meanwhile his identity must be kept secret from Chuck's sister, her perfect partner Devon, both surgeons, and Chuck's goofy colleagues in Buy More, the Burbank electronics store where he works as a cover.  

MY NAME IS EARL (2005 - 2009)
Earl is a low-life who buys a winning lottery ticket, only to get hit by a car, losing the ticket in the process. He then realizes in the hospital that his bad luck is the result of karma in which fate punishes him for all the rotten things he's ever done in his life; therefore, he then decides to dedicate his life to making amends to all the people he has hurt in his life.  

GLEE (2009 - 2015)
When a High School Spanish teacher, Will Schuester, becomes the director of the school's failing Glee club, New Directions, he hopes to be able to rejuvenate it. The club competes in the choir competition circuit. It's been called "a High School Musical for adults", the series follows the club and its mixture of oddball members as they try and restore it to its former glory. It is not only about compete to win the Nationals, but also have to deal with the tough and cruel realities of their school, McKinley High.

ONCE UPON A TIME (2011 - PRESENT)
The series takes place in the fictional seaside town of Storybrooke, Maine, in which the residents are actually characters from various fairy tales that were transported to the "real world" town and robbed of their real memories by the Evil Queen Regina, using a powerful curse obtained from Rumplestiltskin.  The residents of Storybrooke have lived an unchanging existence for 28 years, unaware of their own lack of aging. The town's only hope lies with a bail bondsperson named Emma Swan, the daughter of Snow White  and Prince Charming . who was transported from the fairy tale world before she could be cursed.  

GOSSIP GIRLS (2007 - 2012)
 The series begins with the return of Upper East Side "it girl," Serena van der Woodsen  from a mysterious stay at a boarding school in Cornwall, Connecticut.  Blair Waldorf whom creators describe as the queen at the center of their chess game, is a longtime friend and occasional rival of Serena's, and the queen bee of Constance Billard School's social scene. The story also follows Chuck Bass, the bad boy of the Upper East Side; "golden boy" Nate Archibald, Chuck's best friend and Blair's boyfriend for many years. However, their relationship had been rocky ever since Serena left for boarding school.

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