Welcome to The Cable Box. I’m Allie Baker, one of the TV addicts behind this blog. I split my time and obsessive tendencies evenly between TV and journalism. I am a senior magazine journalism major at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University (a.k.a the perpetually gray snow tundra). When I’m not writing, interviewing, or freaking out about the prospect of graduating and getting a real life, I can be found glued to my television.
My love affair with TV began with “Buffy” and intensified to frightening levels when I wrote my college application essay about how the slayer has impacted my education. I know; I’m a dork. Since college, I’ve come to own my TV geekiness. In a crowning moment, I announced tearfully to a jam-packed college bar that I forgot to DVR “Battlestar Galactica.”
I think you can tell a lot about a person by the TV shows they watch. And while it may not be nice, fair, or sane, I judge new people by what their DVR is set for. So instead of continuing to blabber on about myself, here’s a list of my 10 favorite shows (the old, the new, and the unjustly canceled). Feel free to judge me now.
1) Buffy the Vampire Slayer
2) Veronica Mars
3) The West Wing (the Sorkin years)
4) The Wire
5) Friday Night Lights
6) Queer as Folk
7) Battlestar Galactica
8) Gilmore Girls
9) Firefly
10) Sex and the City
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Although I have only seen one of your favorite tv shows... can we still be friends?
I know this is not the witty comment/response you hoped for, but us som kids arent as good with words. :)
I would just like to proudly announce that my cousin is a literary comic genius destined to become the next Michael Ausiello (but even better/snarkier). And if anyone has doubts I can verify that that tearful Battlestar Galactica announcement at Chucks did indeed actually happen.
You are, as always, the best of the best! Love your writing style and know you will be famous sometime in the near future. Remember your promise... I want Lauren Graham to play me in your first book made into a TV movie of the week. If she passes, anyone lovely and thin will do. xoxoxoxxoxoxo Love you!
Why are there no Animal Planet programs on your favorite show list?
The Man
I loved your blog, even though it may be taking time away from other activities we've previously discussed. I may not love all of your top 10 choices (where is the reality tv?), but I will continue reading your blog and enjoying every bit of it. As always, I'm so proud of everything you do!!!
xo ox xo ox, your greatest fan
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