Summary - U.S. Marshall Jack Carter becomes the sheriff of a small town inhabited by geniuses. The highly classified town, Eureka is continually threatened with annihilation by a science experiment gone awry or a rogue scientist with a bone to pick with Global Dynamics. Imagine if the smartest person you know was 10 times smarter and lived in the pacific northwest with other smarties.
This light-hearted science show is nice break from the dark and scary world of science that we've come to expect from TV shows. Sheriff Jack Carter, while not the sharpest tool in the shed in a ton full of razors, is just a regular schlub we can all relate to.
Sci-FI - The show is on a mid-season break right now.
SciFi.com - Watch the past five episodes
Hulu - All of season one and half of season three
iTunes - Seasons 1-3 are available for download
Summary - After a 40 year truce with the Cylons, the Twelve Colonies were obliterated by the Cylons. These aren't your father's Cylons, they've taken human form and they chase the Battlestar Galactica and its rag tag group of ships across the universe as they humans search for a new home. With enough plot twists to keep you begging for more, you'll never look at your toaster the same way again.
It's not very often that a reboot of a series is better than the original. After a successful mini-series, Battlestar Galactica hit the Sci-Fi channel and entered nerd hearts everywhere. Starbuck's a girl and Apollo is her on again, off again love interest. So some stuff has changed from the original. This is the last season of BSG and we can't to see what happens.
Sci-Fi - Friday 10pm
SciFi.com - Past five episodes
Hulu - Past four episodes
iTunes - Seasons 1-4 plus the mini-series are available for download
Summary - As the head writer of the hit show TGS wth Tracey Jordan, Liz Lemon has to deal with a group of sarcastic writers, the insane antics of star Tracey Jordan and falling star Jenna Maroney. In addition to the cast and crew, Liz must contend with Jack Donaghy, the "Head of East Coast Television and Microwave Oven Programming" at General Electric. All the while Liz looks for love and acceptance. Even going so far as to date a beeper salesman.
30 Rock is bar none the funniest show on TV. Not only is this show hilarious, it's choke full of geek references. Liz shows up to jury duty as Princess Leia, and the show popularized the "uncanny valley." The theory that as non-human entities begin to appear more and more human, the creepier they become. A good example is the film "Polar Express." Oh, and let's not forget Tina Fey's geek chic.
Where to watch:
NBC - Thursday 9:30pm
Hulu - Last five episodes
Netflix - Seasons one and two are available for instant watch
iTunes - Season 1-3 are available for download
Summary - New Zealand's fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo a capella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo, Flight of the Conchords consists of Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement. The duo hope to make it big in New York under the misguided direction of their manager Murray. Each episode contains a hilarious song.
The Flight of the Conchords have a song entitled "Humans are Dead." It takes place in the distant the future, the year 2000. Can you get any geekier then that?
Where to watch:
HBO - Sunday 10pm
iTunes - Season one is available for download
Summary - Ever wonder how your accordion was made? How It's Made will show you. The Science Channel, a subsidiary of the Discovery Channel, wants you to know how everyday items are created. It's the answer to a mystery you never knew you wanted solved.
Watching How It's Made is a geek zen experience. Who knew that pencils were so damn interesting. The show sucks you in and fills you full of worthless information.
Where to watch:
The Science Channel -
iTunes - How It's Made Vol. 1-6 are available for download
Did we miss your favorite geek show? Drop your favorite show in the comments below.
atalay22
May 15, 2009 at 2:56pm
zukum Thank you
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imajoebob
April 13, 2009 at 9:41pm
And also would have known that part of the Dr. Who lore os the occasional "rebirth" of the Doctor as a different person. I gotta agree that this blurs sci-fi and geek. Galactica is a great show, but not geeky. The lack of techno-gobbledygook makes it almost anti-geek.
My biggest disappointment is NUMB3RS. It started out a serious geek show. With a background in higher-level maths I really loved the first season. Schroedinger's Cat was probably the least esoteric reference they made. I knew it was getting problematic when they fumbled using the "Prisoner's Dilemma" in the second year. Now it's just (good) cops and robbers, while Charlie babbles about different theories he can use to solve crime, while Don just does it through standard police work.
And I'm getting tired of waiting for Eureka! We were promised a February return, but now they say mid-summer. It better be damn good if we've waited that long.
jdbaum
March 18, 2009 at 7:50pm
Vegas, of course.
-Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable, let's prepare to
grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after
all.
JasperDyne
March 17, 2009 at 9:05am
A true Geek's laugh riot.Look Around You on The Cartoon Network's Adult Swim takes those science and futurism shows of the 70's and 80's, like Beyond 2000 and turns them on their heads.The shows all have that retro look from the faded video, to the clothes, to the cheesy computer titles and effects. It's all taken very seriously by the hosts and announcers even when they get their science horribly wrong.It is laugh-out-loud funny.
privateice
March 16, 2009 at 8:16pm
Who writes this stuff anyway? I see a lot of conspiracy theory, sci fi nonsense and not much real science. Don't you have to love, y'know, actual science to be a geek anymore? For the best geek shows, my money is on:
1) Bones (Fox): There's some actual science on this who-done-it based on the Temperance Brennan novels by Kathy Reich. Lots of bells and whistles--an artist who programs complex computer simulations, puh-lease--but it's better than the fantasy that is science presented by most of the shows on this list. David Boreanaz taking his shirt off on a regular basis is a special plus for girl-geeks.
2) Good Eats (Food Channel): If you're a food science geek, or just a cooking geek, there is nothing remotely close to the kind of sound basic information you get from the venerable Good Eats. And no, the new pretender Food Detectives really doesn't measure up. Good Eats tells you why the process of making a particular food works and how it works as well as that it works. What could be more geeky?
3) Okay, okay, I'll spot you Mythbusters. They blow shit up. What more could a geek ask? Okay, okay, we could demand decent science. Mythbusters science is not always spot on, but they're entertaining.
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TBone19
March 14, 2009 at 12:16pm
I have to agree with the above comment that "Chuck" should definately be on the list. Great show.
ilikeimac
March 12, 2009 at 1:01pm
Maybe you didn't care for it or just forgot, but The Big Bang Theory (Mondays on CBS) is hilarious. The title was off-putting to me but it's really just a sitcom about the culture clash between 4 nerds and the blond waitress/wanna-be-actress that lives across the hall from two of them. Diatribes about how Superman cleans his uniform and debugging a "friendship algorithm" make this show priceless.
P.S. You failed to convince me that 30 Rock is geeky. Funny, yeah; geeky, no.
BigLebowski
March 12, 2009 at 7:34am
I think it's inaccurate to call Dr. Who a reboot. Nothing about the basic premise of the show has been changed...the show was originally canceled by the BBC in 1989 and revived in 2003. While BBC had sought independent production companies to take over making the show, they were unsuccessful.
