Most poker TV shows drive me crazy. I used to love watching all the tournaments, but I just flip past most of them now. I'm over the reality show style editing and find myself craving some real poker content.
The one show that truly gets it right is High Stakes Poker on GSN. There's a good balance of commentary (Gabe Kaplan is awesome) and player talk. The players are all really interesting and often hilarious. They don't need to rely on editing and commentary to add drama to the show, because players are literally risking hundreds of thousands of dollars of their own money. The best is when they bring in someone who's clueless and watching all the players just feed on them.
I've been so busy lately that I haven't been able to catch up on season 5. I see that it has been legally uploaded to youtube, so I'll be going through those for the next few days.
I saw the promos for 2M2MM, but I don't have the G2 network. It seemed like a really good concept, but I can imagine how they could butcher it up. I like the pimpindonks approach of setting a time input goal rather then a monetary goal, but that would probably make a really boring reality show.
2M2MM is great. go to pokertube.com to watch all of the episodes.
I have my DVR set to record all the new episodes of the WSOP. You catch some interesting hands here and there. I usually fast forward through all the Hellmuth rants though. I like the fact that they televised the 'Ante Up For Africa' tourney this year...lots of celebs...a few celebs made it pretty deep in the ME too.
I used to like the WPT shows, but the commentary has just gotten SO repetitive I can't bare to watch anymore.
2M2MM is a joke of a show. I don't really care that it's not mostly about poker, I just don't think it's good for poker in general. Is this really the image we want the majority public to see online professionals as? A bunch of snot nosed kids with a lot of money, bribing girls out of their panties, and debating on whether or not to spend $2k on a pair of sneakers...