Great programs on TV

[Macca]

Life on Mars

Oh yeah - that was a really good show, totally agree. But the follow up Ashes to Ashes sucked - they really didn't understand why LOM was so popular. Painful to see.

[keiths]

Yeah, didn't enjoy A2A at all. Should have finished it after LoM. Classic example of not knowing when to stop.

[Macca]

Watchable current shows IMHO:

Top Gear
The Apprentice
Family Guy
Southpark
Time Team
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Ancient Aliens
Celebrity Ghost Stories
Lead Balloon
Peep Show

Note: No modern drama - because the plots are trite and predictable, dialogue is clunky and unbelieveable and the acting is wooden - that goes for UK and US shows including much vaunted The Wire - I couldn't make it through the first episode

It's late and I am ranting

Message to TV drama producers - watch The Sopranos and see how it is done!

[worthingpagan]

i don't watch tv, it's dross. prefer music, dvd's & drinking copious amounts of alcohol

[Alex_UK]

Hardly watch any TV at all these days. Missus usually has Eastnationdale Street or whatever soaps they are and I sit on here and other dubious websites, or the nipper is watching kids TV (Peppa Pig & Charlie & Lola being her top 2.)

I tend to get sucked into X Factor when its on in the autumn, and the only thing I'm watching at the moment with any regularity is The Apprentice.

Martin mentioned The Rockford Files and I loved that too, think I used to watch it with my Dad on Thursday nights. That was certainly when we watched Blake's 7 which was another good series, but my absolute favourite TV series was Saturday tea time and The Dukes of Hazard - I've got all of them on DVD, and a fair collection of memorabilia including a signed photo of Catherine Bach who was every schoolboy's fantasy back in the early 80s. My wife even allowed our daughter to have Daisy as a middle name!

Yeeeeeee Haaaaaaaaah!

[Macca]

, but my absolute favourite TV series was Saturday tea time and The Dukes of Hazard - I've got all of them on DVD, and a fair collection of memorabilia including a signed photo of Catherine Bach who was every schoolboy's fantasy back in the early 80s. My wife even allowed our daughter to have Daisy as a middle name!

Yeeeeeee Haaaaaaaaah!

Is my memory hazy or was the first season far superior and more 'adult' than the later ones? I'm sure the first season was shown on a Sunday night quite late on, 8 pm?

[slate]

I don't mind paying my license but the summer draught makes me reconsider... 2 months of massive reruns on all channels... as if there isn't enought reruns the rest of the year.
As luck will have it TDF is about to hit the mountains so there will be postcard scenery with added blood, sweat and tears.
It is tradition to watch the drug addicts in the mountains.

In regards to the reality shows I regard them as exploitation and I never watch any of this. I have been forced to watch the singing/dancing shows when visiting friends/family.

It doesn't mean that I can't be sucked in by the drivel...
I used to like the original CSI series, but detested the glossy "CSI Miami" and when they brought on "CSI New York" i quit. It is just to unrealistic. Techs that do ALL the police work.. yeah right
In the later years it has been "House" and "Battlestar Galactica".

In pre-historic times it was things like "Married with children", "X-Files", "Twin Peaks", "Startrek", "Bottom"....
And if I shall mention some Danish tv series that stands out in memory it would be "Riget" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108906/ odd twisted great fun

Nowadays Danish tv series makes my toes curl and thats is why I have not seen "The Killing"

[Macca]

Married With Children was a top show - probably just too American for mainstream British tastes.

Two more US classics that spring to mind:

The Larry Sander's Show
And going way back to the 1950s the incomparable and never bettered Phil Silvers Show AKA 'Sargeant Bilko'

[griffo104]

The Larry Sander's show was excellent but I remember it being tucked away around the midnight slot on BBC2 alongside Seinfeld, which I also enjoy.

As for the Wire, you need to invest time in it. Nothing happens for the first couple of episodes but by the time you've finished all 5 series you will accept you've watched something very special. The whole structure of it is just so different which is partly what makes it so good. Buy the boxset and settle back for some quality TV.

Didn't anyone on here watch the brilliant Shadow Line on Beeb 2 ? It was simply superb.

There is a lack of quality drama on at the moment, just checked by Humax box and I've very little on the drama side on the schedule.

[Macca]

As for the Wire, you need to invest time in it. Nothing happens for the first couple of episodes but by the time you've finished all 5 series you will accept you've watched something very special. The whole structure of it is just so different which is partly what makes it so good. Buy the boxset and settle back for some quality TV.

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I've got the boxset but the first episode is so clunky I just couldn't make it through - You are not the first person to tell me it improves so I will give it another go I think