Hey guys,
In the last round of polls we saw Once Upon A Time stake a strong claim for its chances at doing well in the competition, smashing Person of Interest with 63.41% of a vote many expected would be stronger. Also Friends easily disposed of Stargate SG-1 and made it through to the next round.
Today sees two of the most popular network sitcoms of the current time, How I Met Your Mother and Community do battle in a poll that would be tough to call. HIMYM has bigger ratings numbers, yet Community possesses a large online fan base that should give both shows something to think about.
Also today we have one of the most iconic shows of the new millennium, 24, challenging one of the most successful and popular remakes of the last few years in Battlestar Galactica. It's another poll which is tough to call...
If you want to see the draw for the rest of the competition, and see which show will take on which other show then head HERE for a look. Let the voting begin!
How I Met Your Mother vs. Community
Channel: CBS
Series Run: 2005 - present
Major Emmy Wins: N/A
Major Emmy Nominations: Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series - 2011. Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series - 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007. Outstanding Comedy Series - 2009
Channel: NBC
Series Run: 2009 - present
Major Emmy Wins: N/A
Major Emmy Nominations: N/A
24 vs. Battlestar Galactica
Channel: FOX
Series Run: 2001 - 2010
Major Emmy Wins: Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series - 2009. Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series - 2006. Outstanding Drama Series - 2006. Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series - 2006. Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series - 2002.
Major Emmy Nominations: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series - 2007, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002. Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series - 2006. Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series - 2006. Outstanding Drama Series - 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002. Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series - 2003, 2002.
Channel: Sci-Fi
Series Run: 2004 - 2009.
Major Emmy Wins: N/A
Major Emmy Nominations: Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series - 2009, 2007. Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series - 2008, 2007.
All posts for the competition will be under the label "2012 Series Competition" for easy finding, and can be found in the "features" tab on the main menu bar from the homepage.
You can also keep up to date with the competition by following me on twitter @AdDHarris
I've created a # for the show on twitter, which is #STVSeriesComp so add that to your tweets!
For now, get your vote in, spread the word on Twitter and Facebook, then comment below with who you want to see win! Remember to come back tomorrow as we have Doctor Who vs. The Vampire Diaries as well as Alias vs. Six Feet Under. You don't want to miss that!
Competition Bracket and Shows Left Standing
(bold indicates show is through to next round)
24
Alias
Arrested Development
Battlestar Galactica
Breaking Bad
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Castle
Charmed
Community
Criminal Minds
Desperate Housewives
Dexter
Doctor Who
Firefly
Friday Night Lights
Friends
Fringe
Game of Thrones
Gilmore Girls
Grey's Anatomy
Hawaii 5-0
Heroes
Homeland
House MD
How I Met Your Mother
LOST
Moonlight
NCIS
Nikita
Once Upon a Time
Prison Break
Pushing Daisies
Sherlock
Six Feet Under
Smallville
Supernatural
The Mentalist
The OC
The Sopranos
The Vampire Diaries
The X-Files
Veronica Mars
Good Luck,
Adam
Community and 24 for me today!
ReplyDeleteHIMYM for me!
ReplyDeleteHow I met your mother and of-course 24 "Damn it!!" lol
ReplyDeletethe second poll 24 but i also like battle the first i dont watch any but by popularity i choose how i meet your mother.
ReplyDeleteCommunity & what else 24!
ReplyDeleteI didn't see you here,hiding again are you,lol....
ReplyDeleteWhat the frack? Where's the BSG love people?
ReplyDeleteHIMYM and 24 for me today
ReplyDeleteAhh I am like Ninja! Lol
ReplyDeleteSent from the Yobbit
I tried watching HIMYIM cuz I luv Aly Hannigan, but turns out it's just not a very good show - characters almost as shallow and annoying as "Friends". Community, on the other hand is occasionally flawed but frequently amazing,
ReplyDeleteI am currently watching S2 of 24 on netflix, only 3 episodes left, but probably won't watch further seasons - plot convolutions are just too much and characters ultimately not at all believable. I'm old enuff to remember the original BSG show and how miserable that was - never expected the remake to amount to much of anything, but it is one of the most amazing things I've ever seen.
I was very similar - I tried to get into 24, but it just didn't hit me as something I wanted to watch every week. BSG on the other hand has this reputation with people who don't know the show, to be "just another space show", but it's so much more than that. Aside from it's space setting, it's one of the most human shows I've ever seen. It's in my top 5 favorite shows of all-time for a good reason.
ReplyDeleteCommunity and BSG!
ReplyDeleteHIMYM and Battlestar Galactica for me today!
ReplyDeleteEasily community on the first poll!
ReplyDeleteAnd of course BSG on the second!! But it had to be against 24? :(
speaking of comedies, where the heck is The Office and Modern Family?
ReplyDeleteJust Battlestar Galactica for me today,which is in my Top 5 of favorite shows!I hadn't even heard about the original when I started watching,so I didn't know anything about it.
ReplyDeleteMind blowing series with amazing cast!
Couldn't agree more!! :D
ReplyDeleteCommunity. Easily one of the best comedies on tv. I wish more people knew about its hilarious awesomeness!!!
ReplyDeleteDon't watch either in the other poll but my dad likes 24 so I voted for that one
I loved BSG,but it just can't compare to 24. 24 have at least 5 great seasons,where as BSG wasn't consistently great,imo anyway. Its too bad they are running against each other.
ReplyDeleteI voted for Community over How I Met your Mother. The other two are shows I really ought to get on DVD, because they are both well-loved here, but as I haven't seen them yet, didn't vote.
ReplyDeleteHIMYM and 24! :)
ReplyDeleteI love HIMYM, but had to vote for Community.
ReplyDeleteAt one point it would have been HIMYM over Community but Community is just so awesome and creative, whereas HIMYM has gone stale.
ReplyDeleteBattlestar Galactica. The casting in that show was complete genius.
ReplyDeleteI went with HIMYM (or How Barney and Robin finally got together as I refer to it lately), even though I love Community the first three seasons of HIMYM was amazing and love the little mysteries and great debates, it's a show that really engages fans (for better or worse). Community is just something cool to watch, IMHO. And hands down BSG. I love sci-fi and this is the show that started it all for me. Re-runs on a Saturday afternoon, who could ask for more.
ReplyDeleteCommunity and Battlestar Galactica!
ReplyDeleteCommunity is a really smart, strange, and engaging comedy, and while it's not perfect, I do prefer it to HIMYM, even if I think that show is pretty great as well.
BSG is one of my favorite dramas now...A defining science fiction television show not only in the late 70s but also the epic remake in 2004 - its influence on science fiction is evident in a lot of other series/films/games that I enjoy as well. Lots of mystery, great acting, and all the fraks you'll ever need...
Totally! I'd avoided it for a while because I thought it was going to be another weird Star Trek-space station show and I was so wrong and so glad I finally broke down and watched it. One of my favorite shows.
ReplyDelete24 and HIMYM
ReplyDeleteI love HIMYM... but for me it still does not reach the sheer awesomeness of Community, which has taken the spot as my favorite comedy ever.
ReplyDeleteThen 24 as it is in my top 5 favorite tv shows. Jack Bauer trumps Chuck Norris in my book.
Interesting choices today...
ReplyDeleteI never really could get into Community so HIMYM by default.
I liked 24, but I always thought it was predictable and formulaic. A good entertaining series, but I did grow tired of people (mostly Jack) saying they were "fine" when they were near dead, just shot, revived or wounded.... Just saying.
BSG was ground breaking in many ways and it was science Fiction at its best. Not about the newest VFX on the market, but about the humanity of its chracters. Brilliant stuff.
How I met Your Mother
Battlestar Galactica
looks like both of mine are losing, I voted for Community and 24
ReplyDeleteCommunity and BSG for me. I only watched the first season of 24, and while I really liked it, it seemed a bit too long and repetitive for me to continue enjoying it going forward. BSG, despite a very rough end of Season 2/few episodes throughout Season 3, was just great throughout, and the mystery and thematic aspects of the show just really appealed to me in a way that I know the rest of 24 wouldn't have.
ReplyDeleteAs for the comedies, I had a really hard time deciding between them. HIMYM easily has the better emotional episodes, but Community easily has the better creative episodes (even though HIMYM has some great creative episodes of their own, and Community isn't totally without emotional episodes). Both shows have written most of their main characters in ways that have hurt them rather than helped them, and I'm not sure which set of main characters I prefer overall. HIMYM's seasons are all in the "okay" to "pretty great" range, while Community's seasons range from "disappointing with a few really good episodes" to "really awesome". So with all of this back and forth I just decided to vote for the show that was currently losing. :P
I voted for BSG. It was a wonderful and rivetting series. One of a kind; of a kind that few shows have been able to repeat in quality and tension.
ReplyDeleteThe only little quibble I have is the ending which I didn't like, but what's one episode against all the pleasure the others gave leading up to it!
24 was intersting for the first seasons and then it became a bit too repetitive
HIMYM of course!
ReplyDeleteFriends wasn't annoying! If you think so, then there is something wrong with your sense of humor.
ReplyDeleteCommunity and 24.
ReplyDeleteHIMYM just isn't as good since episode 4.06 (yep, the altar scene was the very moment the show started to have more bad moments than good ones, imo) and while I love BSG and I'm grateful for what this show has done to science-fiction series (although except Caprica I can't find any successor right now), it did have its bad moments especially in the middle of both seasons 2 and 3.
Plus I'm just a sucker for 24. I don't care if Jack is "fine" after nearly being killed, I don't care if it's not "believable" or "realistic" (just because it's in pretend real time doesn't mean it has be like real life, we're talking about a show revolving around terrorist plots, it's not a family drama). Yes, at some point it felt repetitive (like in season 6) but overall it's just entertainment at its best, filled with suspense and action, and ambitious enough to take advantage of the serial format like never before.
I said it on a previous post - but I just couldn't get into 24. BSG I wanted to watch the next episode as soon as one ended because it felt so human - so real. No offense intended to 24 in any way of course.
ReplyDeleteCommunity by far for me in the first one although I do enjoy HIMYM reruns. For the other, I voted against 24. I started out liking that show but it got progressively worse for me. From what I've seen of BSG it is definitely intriguing. It's on my summer watch list so I can see more than bits and pieces.
ReplyDeleteI would say that Friends could certainly could get annoying at times although overall I really liked it. Still there is nothing wrong with anyone's sense of humor if they didn't. Just like everything in a poll, an opinion is just an opinion - none better than the rest.
ReplyDeleteI voted HIMYM and 24 in this round
ReplyDeleteFirst pairing was pretty easy - HIMYM is a good show, but it's fairly formulaic and I've only watched it sporadically and now it feels that they're really dragging out the mother story so much that I don't really care about that anymore, and Community is definitely far more creative and just different so it gets my vote. Really tough call for the second pair for 2 shows I really love... but in the end, I narrowly voted 24 ahead...
ReplyDeleteWow,i can't believe how close 24 & BSG is!
ReplyDeleteSecond poll was cruel. I can't bring myself to vote against either. 24 was an addiction for several years. It had some weaker seasons but it was groundbreaking and changed TV. I recently caught up with BG and was instantly hooked. I watched the whole series through twice within a month. The final season and the ending were weaker, but it's still a great TV show. So I haven't voted for either.
ReplyDeleteDidn't vote in the first one either because I don't watch Community and the other never pulled me in.
Less than a point. It could go either way.
ReplyDeleteI watch/ed all of these. Easily, going with Community. HIMYM can be great. But it can be not great too. Community makes me laugh more consistently and I just think it's so clever and fun.
ReplyDeleteLOVE both 24 and BSG. In the end I went 24 because it's an exciting thrill ride. BSG is more cerebral and that is a perfectly fine thing to be. I twas close for me. Ask me again tomorrow and I might change my mind, you know?
HIMYM but I do love Community and 24!!
ReplyDeleteNow that was close!
ReplyDeleteYes, at least BSG pulled through narrowly.
ReplyDeleteSo Say We All (glad BSG advanced)
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