There’s nothing on TV. Your DVR is empty. All your favorite shows are in reruns. Now what? Well, Lost Remote’s readers have suggested a long list of little-known or vintage TV shows (most of which are available to watch online) along with cool video podcasts, promising webisodes and even a video game or two. We hope it’ll help get you through the strike.

TV shows:

- The Closer on TNT (Terry)
- Pants Off, Dance Off on Fuse (Terry)
- The Family Guy on Alluc.org (Jake)
- 30 Days on FX and Hulu (Jeff)
- MI-5 and Jekyll & Hyde on BBC America (Frank)
- Monk and Psych on USA (video), and coming to NBC (Bogopolis)
- Battlestar Galactica if it comes to NBC (Rico)
- Nimrod Nation on Sundance (Jeff V.)
- Arrested Development on Hulu and MSN Video (Andrew)
- Pushing Daisies on ABC and Journeyman on NBC (Ricky)
- Mad Men on AMC (David)
- Tim and Eric Awesome Show on Adult Swim (Sean)
- The Riches on FX and Hulu (discreet_chaos)
- What’s My Line repeats from the 60’s on GSN (Joe G.)
- Nova and Frontline on PBS (Joe G.)
- The Wire on HBO, final season begins 1/6 (PBrown)
- Korean drama Coffee Prince on Veoh (Joe)
- Sci Fi’s Tin Man, also available on Hulu (Anon)
- Firefly, now available on DVD (Frank)
- The Soup on E!, airs fresh every night (Patrick)

Podcasts (all link to their iTunes pages):

- Break a Leg, a sitcom about producing a sitcom (Joe)
- Cerialized, roommates and their breakfast-based discussions, (Joe)
- Crash Test Kitchen, couple gets adventurous in the kitchen (Joe)
- Port City PD, original police drama (Joe)
- Something to be Desired, comedy about DJs at struggling radio station (Joe)
- Galacticast, sci-fin parodies of geekdom (Ryan)
- Diggnation, funny podcast of popular stories on Digg (Cory)
- The Sound of Young America, interesting audio interviews (Mark)
- Jordan Jesse Go, audio podcast of “irreverant talk” (Mark)
- Ask a Ninja, a ninja answers your questions (Hussman)

Webisodes

- The Onion News Network, video satire from The Onion (Cory)
- Mimi and Flo Show, choose your own adventure vlog (Ryan)
- Garden Fork TV, cooking and gardening around the ranch (Ryan)
- ALocalFolkus, documentary about eating locally (Ryan)
- FindingAmerica.TV, couple drives across America (Ryan)
- SOLMI.net – short films, including a fun series called The LOFTS (Ryan)
- Black20.com – Started by TV writers, try The Middle Show (Nick)

Other sites:

- Archive.org – Public domain movies and serials from all over the world (Rob)
- Netflix – Use the “watch instantly” section to catch up on shows like 30 Rock, The Office, Dead Like Me and Lost (Jeremiah)

Video games:

- Rock Band and Bioshock (Doug)
- Call of Duty 4 and Halo 3, of course (Cory)

Have any more ideas, please leave ‘em in comments…

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