It would be easier for me to get involved in sustained discussions about HBO/SHO shows in a dedicated thread. I don't know if I would have that much more to say. That is, I would have more to say, because I do find myself not posting about Deadwood in Natter to avoid interrupting some other ongoing discussion, and having the discussion in Movies just confuses me (I mostly stay out of Movies to avoid getting spoiled for stuff I haven't seen, since I rarely actually make it out to a theater in anything like a timely fashion). But that's not really a problem that requires a new thread as a solution, more of a rearrangement of my own approach to existing threads.

Claro!

Where do we talk about The Wire?, Weeds?, Brotherhood?

They are all premium things, on the 'nets Allyson mentions in the proposal.

I think we would talk about them in there, Gus. At least till we gotta ditch the phones again.

I do find myself not posting about Deadwood in Natter to avoid interrupting some other ongoing discussion

If no one interrupted other ongoing discussions in Natter, it wouldn't Natter. It'd be...Catter.

That was an obvious ploy for COMM. OBVIOUS.

IT'S THE GOD'S HONEST TRUTH. YOU CAN'T DENY IT.

erikaj, I was all up for agreeing with you, then I got confuzzled about where "there" meant, and it got all loud in here. People shouting. It spooks us meek types.

If there is, so to speak, a Hamsterdam for talking about cable, The Wire fits in. You know, taking our stuff to the free zone and shit. Now I want the new thread so I can name it Cable Hamsterdam.

Cable Hamsterdam

That rocks so hard. Damn, that rocks hard.

I dont know where Rescue Me and the like came from.

I floated it to see whether people wanted to stick to a tight thread definition or a broader one.

I'm specifically talking about HBO/Showtime. That is all the proposal covers and I'm not expanding on that at all.

Ultimately this comes to compromises between the impulse to not proliferate and the urge to have focused chatter.

Pushing the HBO/Showtime shows together is one clear, bright line grouping of TV shows. It doesn't include all the shows that people are interested in, but it does include several shows which potentially could support sustained interest.

So, reverse engineering the way things have worked around here, I'd say What We Have Done is to (a) give separate threads to shows (or movies, cf. LoTR) which generate heavy volume that disrupts Natter (from this we've given VM and Lost their own separate threads); (b) created a space for Tim's projects; (c) created a group thread for sf/fantasy TV shows. I'd say we'd probably also create a thread for any Jossiverse project that came back to TV without too much dissension. (Also a Spoilers thread on said topic.)

So we don't hand out individual TV threads that are separate from the Jossverse or Tim projects. But like Jefferson, who built the paths after people had worn them in, we have made allowances for shows which have generated high volume. And we have created a group space for genre shows.

So it does seem logical (at least within our culture) to make a space for this grouping of shows.

Potentially, you could also make group threads for Reality Shows or Adult Swim. TAR and Project Runway seem to generate enough interest to sustain a Reality show thread. And I could always huddle with Teppy, bon, Scola, Tommyrot and Theo about new Venture Brothers.

But I'm not proposing those. Just using them as examples.