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Mickey wrote:What about the West Wing.

tree_ wrote:where my ally mcbeal heads at

doug rr wrote:one of my good friends was a bartender at a place i used to frequent in denver..whatever night ally mcbeal was on they would crank the tv sound up and everyone had to shut up while it was on..

epilogue wrote:I think we should do this tournament. My suggestion is to take 64 shows and put them into four conferences of 16 teams each. Then we run each a tournament for each conference until we have a winner. But the final four from each conference will face off against each other for the Championship Title.

As an example I took 64 shows (I included some top min-series but I did not include anything that is typically listened as "comedy") and broke them into North, South, East, and West Conferences. The conferences as listed below are not seeded.

Spoiler: show

NORTH
Dark
Fargo
Downton Abbey
Sherlock
The Bear
Battlestar Galactica
Star Trek: The Next Generation
The Fall
Babylon 5
Rome
Dr. Who
E.R.
The Twilight Zone
The Pacific
Band of Brothers
Chernobyl

SOUTH
Breaking Bad
Better Call Saul
Justified
Ozark
True Detective
Dexter
Stranger Things
Narcos
Half and Catch Fire
Friday Night Lights
Atlanta
The Leftovers
Gunsmoke
The Walking Dead
The Queen’s Gambit
Roots

EAST
The Wire
The Sopranos
The Americans
Mad Men
Orange is the New Black
Handmaid’s Tale
Boardwalk Empire
Severance
Homicide: Life on the Streets
Succession
Mr. Robot
The West Wing
My So-Called LIfe
Oz
Homeland
Angels in America

WEST
Deadwood
Game of Thrones
The Shield
Sons of Anarchy
Yellowstone
The X-Files
LOST
Twin Peaks
Six Feet Under
Columbo
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Watchmen
Lonesome Dove
American Crime Story: The People v OJ Simpson
Barry
GLOW

What do you think?

daft twat wrote:

epilogue wrote:I think we should do this tournament. My suggestion is to take 64 shows and put them into four conferences of 16 teams each. Then we run each a tournament for each conference until we have a winner. But the final four from each conference will face off against each other for the Championship Title.

As an example I took 64 shows (I included some top min-series but I did not include anything that is typically listened as "comedy") and broke them into North, South, East, and West Conferences. The conferences as listed below are not seeded.

Spoiler: show

NORTH
Dark
Fargo
Downton Abbey
Sherlock
The Bear
Battlestar Galactica
Star Trek: The Next Generation
The Fall
Babylon 5
Rome
Dr. Who
E.R.
The Twilight Zone
The Pacific
Band of Brothers
Chernobyl

SOUTH
Breaking Bad
Better Call Saul
Justified
Ozark
True Detective
Dexter
Stranger Things
Narcos
Half and Catch Fire
Friday Night Lights
Atlanta
The Leftovers
Gunsmoke
The Walking Dead
The Queen’s Gambit
Roots

EAST
The Wire
The Sopranos
The Americans
Mad Men
Orange is the New Black
Handmaid’s Tale
Boardwalk Empire
Severance
Homicide: Life on the Streets
Succession
Mr. Robot
The West Wing
My So-Called LIfe
Oz
Homeland
Angels in America

WEST
Deadwood
Game of Thrones
The Shield
Sons of Anarchy
Yellowstone
The X-Files
LOST
Twin Peaks
Six Feet Under
Columbo
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Watchmen
Lonesome Dove
American Crime Story: The People v OJ Simpson
Barry
GLOW

What do you think?

Yes

epilogue wrote:

daft twat wrote:

epilogue wrote:I think we should do this tournament. My suggestion is to take 64 shows and put them into four conferences of 16 teams each. Then we run each a tournament for each conference until we have a winner. But the final four from each conference will face off against each other for the Championship Title.

As an example I took 64 shows (I included some top min-series but I did not include anything that is typically listened as "comedy") and broke them into North, South, East, and West Conferences. The conferences as listed below are not seeded.

Spoiler: show

NORTH
Dark
Fargo
Downton Abbey
Sherlock
The Bear
Battlestar Galactica
Star Trek: The Next Generation
The Fall
Babylon 5
Rome
Dr. Who
E.R.
The Twilight Zone
The Pacific
Band of Brothers
Chernobyl

SOUTH
Breaking Bad
Better Call Saul
Justified
Ozark
True Detective
Dexter
Stranger Things
Narcos
Half and Catch Fire
Friday Night Lights
Atlanta
The Leftovers
Gunsmoke
The Walking Dead
The Queen’s Gambit
Roots

EAST
The Wire
The Sopranos
The Americans
Mad Men
Orange is the New Black
Handmaid’s Tale
Boardwalk Empire
Severance
Homicide: Life on the Streets
Succession
Mr. Robot
The West Wing
My So-Called LIfe
Oz
Homeland
Angels in America

WEST
Deadwood
Game of Thrones
The Shield
Sons of Anarchy
Yellowstone
The X-Files
LOST
Twin Peaks
Six Feet Under
Columbo
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Watchmen
Lonesome Dove
American Crime Story: The People v OJ Simpson
Barry
GLOW

What do you think?

Yes

Sweet!

If you have any thoughts about how to divide up the conferences, I'm all ears.

I'm going to be out of town next week. If you want to set this up and getting it going, by all means, have at it. Otherwise, I'll set it up after next week when I get back.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

epilogue wrote:I was going to suggest that the series have at least three seasons of not a mini-series. Therefore, something like Severance would be out. But we could do it your way.

Why are the two miniseries you mentioned problematic but not the others I included in the example?

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.