I’ve recently been viewing Monty Python’s Flying Circus. I’ve watched three episodes so far and it’s great - my favourite one is the one with the Mouse Problem. ;D
The Sweeney
The Professionals
The Sandbaggers
The Hanged man
Callan
Bonanza
Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett)
Tales of the unexpected
Thriller
Twin peaks
Rumpole of the Baily
Yes Minister & Yes Prime Minister
I am currently love love LOVING Game of Thrones. Done a season-and-a-half in about four days. It’s fantastic telly, can’t recommend it highly enough.
Great isn’t it. The last few years there has been TV shows than films!
After having recently finished Twin Peaks, I think it may be my favorite. I’m already eager to watch it again (waiting on the upcoming bluray) and have a feeling it will retain unusually high rewatch value. The show works on so many levels of enjoyment, can’t think of anything that matches up.
I’m not that enthusiastic about Game of Thrones. Yes it’s not easy to stop watching it once you have started (and for that I’m keen to go on), but it is less good and less satisfying than other series, which are more complex, more intelligent and similar addictive.
Yes. It’s strange; I’m constantly bemoaning the lack of anything decent on the poxy telly and yet this is an absolutely golden age of quality TV drama we’re living in, much of it from the US but with a good few European shows chipping in too. We seem to be obsessed in the UK with cheaply produced reality shows complete with accompanying extortionate phone-vote options. And yet when a broadcaster dares to spend money on quality writing, quality production values etc. their investment is usually returned manifold; Hell, we even got in on the act a little bit with Broadchurch and a LOT with Downton Abbey (not my thing but it’s grabbed the imaginations of a lot of viewers worldwide) but STILL we want Bastard Simon “Trousers” Cowell to produce more cynical, smug, utterly worthless sh*t for us to zombie out to every Saturday.
Of course, having had my rant at the dearth of current programming on my gogglebox, I am somewhat hypcritically inundated with things to watch. This year I watched The Wire and Breaking Bad in their entirety. Never seen either of them before. I have watched the first two seasons of The Sopranos, and then suspended my Sopranos odyssey to get stuck into Game of Thrones. I gave Sons of Anarchy, Revolution, Boss and Under the Dome a go but they didn’t take with me (that’s not to say they’re no good; maybe I’ll go back to them). After GoT and The Sopranos, I shall be reacquainting myself with The Walking Dead, a show I haven’t seen past the first season. I’ve got the first season of Boardwalk Empire and the first season of Hannibal sat on my shelves, as yet unwatched. Sooner or later I suppose I’ll have to take in the last season of Dexter although that’s become a slog now; it used to be riveting. I’ve got the first season of Hell on Wheels tucked away on my PC awaiting a watch thanks to the views from this very board. At some point, I’d like to watch Battlestar Galactica in it’s entirety, and Homeland as far as it’s gone. And that’s just dramas! I only just this year became acquainted with (and watched every episode of) The Big Bang Theory and Arrested Development. I still want to watch Parks and Recreation, 30 Rock and The (US) Office (from season three onwards). Tons of stuff there, and tons I haven’t mentioned. Yet tonight at prime time, we’ve got Strictly Come Dancing and The X-Factor. D’Oh!
Yeah, it’s an absolute diamond, Twin Peaks. Well ahead of the curve.
BEND THE KNEE, SER STANTON! Pledge fealty to House Caress, or I shall have my imp “milk his eel” into your turtle stew!
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Wait until you see my dragons
My top three: Original Star Trek, Johnny Staccato, Justice League Unlimited. Also the original Twilight Zone.
Top 3 all time:
- Seinfeld
- Married… With Children
- Workaholics
I like Workaholics but its a bit too cartoony for me at times.
The League is a great current comedy series which I would never have expected to like so much since I don’t care anything for sports. Another good FX comedy series is Legit with Jim Jefferies, which hasn’t aired past its first season yet.
Recently watched all of Spaced and would say that’s one of the best comedy shows ever. I also really like The IT Crowd
American Horror Story is entertaining but the writing is terribly average.
Totally loving The Walking Dead.
Was totally loving Breaking Bad and would rate among my top shows of all time.
Still 1.5 seasons behind on Dexter which I also like a good bit but last seasons are not quite up to par.
Top 3 All Time:
- Fawlty Towers
- Murder One
- Have Gun, Will Travel
Recent Years:
- Downton Abbey
- Rizzoli & Isles
- Danni Lowinsky (Flemish version)
[quote=“Bad Lieutenant, post:130, topic:1822”]Top 3 all time:
- Seinfeld
- Married… With Children
- Workaholics[/quote]
I adore Seinfeld and Married… With Children. Without a doubt two of the best sitcoms that have ever been. Both were fairly shabbily treated in the UK; Seinfeld was purchased by the BBC and placed very late into the night, and at ever-changing times/dates. Sometimes it would be on on Monday at 11.40pm. Next week - Wednesday at 12.30am. It literally wasn’t worth staying up for, because you couldn’t get into a rhythm with it. The (almost) equally magnificent The Larry Sanders Show was treated just as poorly IIRC by the BBC, and although I think Married…With Children was given a more regular slot by its station, ITV, it was still a very late show. I think that both - certainly Seinfeld, and Larry Sanders for that matter - found better luck when they were picked up as repeats by satellite station The Paramount Channel (later known as The Paramount Comedy Channel and, later still, Comedy Central).
Never heard of Workaholics.
[quote=“autephex, post:131, topic:1822”]Recently watched all of Spaced and would say that’s one of the best comedy shows ever. I also really like The IT Crowd
Was totally loving Breaking Bad and would rate among my top shows of all time.
Still 1.5 seasons behind on Dexter which I also like a good bit but last seasons are not quite up to par.[/quote]
Spaced is superb, one of Britain’s very finest. If you like The IT Crowd you might want to give a look to Father Ted if you haven’t already, (co)written by the same guy, Graham Linehan. Breaking Bad is IMO the best show that has ever aired, but Game of Thrones is already pushing it hard for that title. Dexter was an all-time great up to season four, but season five was dreadful and season seven unintentionally hilarious in its absurdity at times. I liked season six (the Colin Hanks and James Edward Olmos season) but it wasn’t a very popular season as I understand it. I haven’t gotten around to the final season; I will, eventually. All the momentum in wanting to watch it has gone, though.
[quote=“scherpschutter, post:132, topic:1822”]Recent Years:
- Rizzoli & Isles[/quote]
Really? Nothing better than that?
Either you don’t watch too much TV, or I’ll start to question all your reviews on SWDB (which I enjoy reading). 
Recently watched (and I watch too much …):
Top of the Lake (by Jane Campion) (a 6 hours in 6 parts mini series) 8,5/10
The Walking Dead (2nd season) 8,5/10 (better than the 1st season, but too long)
The Hour (2nd and last season) 9/10
Breaking Bad (5.1 season) 9,5/10
Skipped:
Hannibal (after 5 episodes) 6,5/10
American Horror Story (after 4 episodes of the 2nd season, but I hadn’t watched the 1st season, which is not necessary as both have no narrative connections) 5/10
Under the Dome (after the first season) 5/10 (it started interesting, but became more and more conventional with every episode)
Still watching:
House of Cards (first season, btw first 2 episodes directed by David Fincher) 8/10
Spartacus, Blood and Sex … erhh … Sand 7/10
Following (first season) 6/10 (don’t know why I’m still watching it, it’s not bad, but I surely won’t watch a 2nd season)
Downtown Abbey
@ Rizzoli & Isles
Really? Nothing better than that? Either you don't watch too much TV, or I'll start to question all your reviews on SWDB (which I enjoy reading). :)
I don’t watch too much TV, so I don’t know if there’s anything better. Guess so, but the three series I mentioned, including Rizzoli & Isles, are series I enjoyed or still enjoy.
I haven’t seen any of the series mentioned by Stanton (see previous post), with the exception of Downtown Abbey (which I like) and Spartacus (which I don’t like).
The Walking Dead is about zombies, and I’m allergic to zombies and vampires (unless Hammer created them). The Hour sounds interesting.
I am currently watching Falling Skies, which is watchable, but not great; I’ll probably finish series one, but won’t start watching series two.
I’m also watching the Canadian TV-series Bomb Girls, which is very enjoyable;
I usually don’t have interest (or time) for long-running, never-ending type of series, I’m more BBC mini-series kind of guy (with exception for comedy genre, which I’ll watch for couple of seasons).
Regarding Rizzoli & Isles, it may not be that bad, but after couple of minutes I’ve discarded it as just another series where they talk a lot about superficial stuff, that looks just like any other US half soap, half crime TV show (yes, I mean Bones, Numbers etc.). Maybe I was wrong, but I’ll still take Inspector George Gently over it anytime.
Regarding [b]Rizzoli & Isles[/b], it may not be that bad, but after couple of minutes I've discarded it as just another series where they talk a lot about superficial stuff, that looks just like any other US half soap, half crime TV show (yes, I mean Bones, Numbers etc.). Maybe I was wrong, but I'll still take Inspector George Gently over it anytime.
Yes, it’s a half soap. I watch it with the wife, she watches it for the soap, I for the other half (mainly the girls)
Other series I watched with the wife (and in the past also the daughter) are Grey’s Anatomy, ER, Scott & Bailey, Blue Murder
I’m not interested in series like Bones, Numbers, CSI this or that; don’t like the editing style (not the pseudo-intellectual gibberish that is spoken)
Try The Hills, scherpschutter 
The reason why I’m still watching The Following, a series about a sect of serial killers, is (apart from it being light entertainment) is this scene from the end of the 2nd episode:
The music is from Massive Attack, but it is a cover version by Whocares. The directing of that scene is excellent and the use of music is simple yet very effective. This scene is a good example how strong these kind of series is able to be, even if, as an example it is taken from a series which is otherwise less inspired. But others like Mad Men, The Sopranos, Deadwood or Breaking Bad are filled with stuff like that, and better.