Here are some television shows that I love.
Roundhouse is the kind of show that makes you laugh, but it also has this amazing ability to make you want to get up and dance like a fool! Considered a comedy variety show, Roundhouse was more of a hip hop musical comedy show from one of the creator's of Fox's In Living Color which featured 12 ensemble cast members who have more energy than a kid at Easter! Each show was like a miniature musical comedy about a topic from the world of kids. It was an
over-the-edge mix of songs, sass, satire and fly dancin'. It has the content of Saturday Night Live for teen-agers and then look of MTV.With a few stops and starts, the inexhaustible troupe of professional triple-threats dances, clowns, and acts its way through acrobatic production numbers and rapid fire sketches that are at once sophisticated and groan-inducing. Roundhouse aims high and low at the same time, and often hits its mark.
Roundhouse opens with all the fanfare of a rock concert: The show's 12 cooly clad cast members dance and sing their way on stage, amid roving searchlights, wafting dry ice, moving sets, and zooming cameras. The action quickly dissolves into a series of short comedy skits about family life, interspersed with more bouncy music-and-dance numbers.
The first episode of Mr. Bean, which aired in 1990, introduced us all to the most embarrasing man on the planet. A man whose personality is a nasty combination of viciousness, innocence and ingenuity. Mr. Bean is played by Rowan Atkinson, the English funnyman who created the award-winning sight gag series for British television and HBO eight years ago. While only 13 episodes were made, Mr. Bean caught on in a big way.
From the television shows Black Adder to Mr. Bean, Rowan Atkinson has created some of the most memorable characters in recent British comedy. He may have studied electrical engineering at Oxford but with one look at him you know he had no other option but to go into comedy. It's as if he were dreamt up by some cartoonist and came to life as a living, breathing caricature complete with slightly exaggerated features and a body that can be every bit as rubbery and expressive as his face.
Rowan Atkinson was one of the writers on the show as well. Not that there are many actual words spoken on this show - it was basically a series of sketches about the life of an endearingly innocent goofball who drives around in his little car and causes chaos wherever he goes. Not that he means to, but he just can't help it.
"ER" is one of the rare television series that enjoy both incredible ratings success and critical acclaim. Best-selling author Michael Crichton created the drama, which centers on young medical professionals in the emergency room of a Chicago hospital. In the series, the overworked and underpaid residents
are the heroes of County General Memorial Hospital as they make life-and-death decisions daily. They include Dr. Mark Greene, a senior attending physician with a promising future whose job cost him his marriage; Dr. Douglas Ross, a charming, womanizing pediatrician; Dr. Peter Benton, an intense, self-assured surgeon; the well-intentioned Dr. John Carter, who has a year under his belt as an M.D.; Carol Hathaway, a compassionate nurse who is still trying to sort out her personal life after
a suicide attempt; HIV positive physician's assistant Jeanie Boulet; and Dr. Kerry Weaver, a tough and determined attending physician who often rubs her colleagues the wrong way. Joining the "ER" team this season are Dr. Anna Del Amico, a pediatrician specializing in emergency medicine, and Dr. Elizabeth Corday, a dedicated surgeon. The stories secondarily deal with the medical problems of patients. "ER" is unlike most other medical dramas in that its emphasis is often on a very fast-paced style of action, typically when a patient or patients are rushed into the emergency room for treatment. It does share some similarities with other medical dramas, however, in that stories in the lives of the main characters are told over the course of many episodes, rather than being self-contained to one episode. "ER" is one of most exciting television dramas on television.
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