BTW: My favorite Anne Rice novel was The Witching Hour which was entirely from the point of view of the Talamasca. The secret ancient organization that watches supernatural activities and creatures. I always though of them as the human equivelant or inheritors of the Watcher tradition of ancient Semitic legend.

I havent seen True Blood yet is it worth downloading every season at once? I see from Wikipedia it is set in Louisianna, so is it a little influenced by Anne Rice's version of the vampire mythology? I enjoyed here first few novels, Interview with a vampire, Vampire Lestat, Queen of the Damned... Didn't really care too much for the movie versions though. Well Aaliyah's presence as queen of the damned was pretty awesome and the soundtrack was cool for that one but otherwise none of those films really captured the atmosphere of Anne Rice's incredibly rich text.

I have all of Burn Notice and Homeland downloaded but havent started on them yet as I am still trying to finish Breaking Bad. I'll let ya know what I think as i get to them if I beat you to them.

Other shows you may have missed that I loved:

Chuck [ordinary pc-tech nerd becomes super spy when cia/nsa intelligence program is downloaded to his brain. I totally fell in love with this show!]

Life [the main guy in it also stars in Homeland. He's totally zen and an ex-con and rich and a detective. This show made me want to learn Zen.]

Supernatural [two brother team of ghost/monster hunters. Totally worth it just for the awesome classic rock soundtrack.]

Heroes [super-heroes run amuck.Lots of crazy stuff like one dude can travel through time and goes to ancient Japan and a post-apocalyptic future.]

Jericho [red dawn style post-apocalypse but no reds]
Stakeland [post-apoc humans vs vamps]

No Ordinary Family [A family gets super powers and at first tries to hide their own powers from each other but eventually of course end up having to combine their powers to combat a much greater threat from really bad super villains. Its pretty awesome.]

Reaper [A regular guy working at a hardware store finds out his parents sold his soul to the devil before he was born [first born and all] and ends up having to work for the devil as a 'reaper' meaning he's a bounty hunter for hell. Like a repo-man but instead of cars he has to send escaped sould back to hell. It was a lot of fun to watch.]

Community [A group of students from all ages and walks of life form a study group in the worst community college you can imagine and end up somehow saving the schools ass over and over again in one hilarious totally insane episode after another. Never a boring moment. And it even has Chevy Chase in a starring role. Though by no means is he the best actor in this. His best stuff is waaay behind him.]

Firefly [I'm sure you've seen this one but in case you havent]

Homeland.

RetroRomper wrote:True Blood finished a number of weeks ago, Breaking Bad won't start the last half of this season till the summer of 2013 and Walking Dead isn't currently airing...

Anyone care to offer any highly rated / good television for me to pursue in the meantime?

Burn Notice, I consider it an excellent show. It's also between seasons, but it's doing something similar to what it did before, Michael is dumped in a foreign country after his handler burned him. Only this time, his whole team has been dumped there as well. And now, it's payback time.

True Blood finished a number of weeks ago, Breaking Bad won't start the last half of this season till the summer of 2013 and Walking Dead isn't currently airing...

Anyone care to offer any highly rated / good television for me to pursue in the meantime?