We’re all TV junkies at the B&U. Good TV, bad TV, it doesn’t really matter these days, especially since most people in charge of television programming don’t know the difference between good and bad themselves.

Being a TV junkie with a job and a social life is even more difficult, because good shows are often relegated to pointless time slots, Like Friday Night Light’s second season placement (actually on Friday when we are out drinking).

It’s been months since web-standard TV site tv-links.co.uk was taken down in a late-night raid, so for our internet on-demand television, we’ve been surfing around.

Sites like Sidereel, AllUC, Project Free TV, Bedroom Media and VideoLemon are all well and good if you don’t mind waiting for your episode of House to load off some Japanese server. If you can look past the constant scrolling ads and subtitles so distorted by the flash player that they look like a 3-year-old scribbled on your computer screen.

That’s why the two sites we can actually recommend are Hulu – the newest “official” streaming video site and the newly designed SouthParkStudios.com.

Why these two sites?

They are, in most ways, official. This means there is little loss in quality and limited commercial breaks. Hulu even has a countdown, so you know you have 30-seconds to get more coffee as well as a convenient feature that allows you to resume any episode or movie from where you left off.

SouthParkStudios, on the other hand, is the official site of Matt, Trey and company who scored an awesome deal with Paramount last year, allowing them to distribute their content online as they see fit. They have complete control over licensing.

What does this mean? It means that the day after it airs, you can watch the new South Park online in the most amazing quality. It might not mean much for a show that is animated within days on Maya software, but a great deal of work goes into the character design and that detail gets lost in low-quality broadcasts like previous fan favorite ALLSP.com.

This is especially cool for episodes like last night’s Heavy Metal tribute that involves a lot of detailed rototscoping.

It’s a tenuous time for online streaming media business models, but these two sites do well enough for themselves that we are willing to support them.

If we haven’t sold you yet, take the weekend and watch the entire series of great shows like Firefly or Arrested Development that Fox refused to air in its entirety, but is now up online for free streaming. All the episodes, even the ones that didn’t make it on Fox.

Hulu is still limited, but shows promise, and you don’t have to deal with illegible Asian subtitles…