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What’s been your favourite TV series?
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Had many Michael Schofield's at your place of work?AddickUpNorth said:Prison Break
The Shield0 -
I used to love watching Sky History documentaries
Ice Road Truckers
Deadliest Roads0 -
Might start The Sopranos based on this thread. It's probably very dated now though.
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All that have been mentioned are good, but for a bit of nostalgia anybody remember:
I Claudius?
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The Singing Detective?3 -
Ah yes I Claudius, forgot that one, Dereck Jacobi, great series, needs repeatingseth plum said:All that have been mentioned are good, but for a bit of nostalgia anybody remember:
I Claudius?
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The Singing Detective?0 -
Sopranos would be very high for me.1
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Really enjoyed The Singing Detective..seth plum said:All that have been mentioned are good, but for a bit of nostalgia anybody remember:
I Claudius?
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The Singing Detective?0 -
Breaking bad for me.
Chernobyl? Saw 1 episode and couldn’t get into it at all.0 -
Tough
1. The Wire
2. The Sopranos
3. Breaking Bad (but Better call Saul is a great follow up and pushes it hard)
others I’ve watched and enjoyed are Sons of Anarchy, Boardwalk Empire, Lost, Peaky Blinders, GoT
never finished the walking dead but enjoyed up until about season 9 or 100 -
So much stuff that could be on here
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Smiley's People
Wolf Hall....
and I know I shouldn't say this but a kids TV series Bear behaving Badly was superb.0 - Sponsored links:
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The wire
six feet under
game of thrones
sons of anarchy
us office0 -
Some great series here. Big Little Lies hasn’t been mentioned. That’s a good one.
Interesting that Bob included When The Boat Comes In. Really enjoyed that too (going back a bit😀)0 -
If comedy series are included I'll addhoof_it_up_to_benty said:This is England
The Virtues
Boys from the Blackstuff
Last Chance U(sports documentary series)
A lot of British stuff doesn't get enough credit.
This Country
Detectorists
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Dazzler21 said:
Had many Michael Schofield's at your place of work?AddickUpNorth said:Prison Break
The Shield
Not once. If anyone did manage to get out I’d say ‘fair play, enjoy your freedom’.1 -
Hill Street Blues
M*A*S*H1 -
In no particular order:
Band of Brothers
Breaking Bad
Sopranos
Homeland
Prison Break
The Looming Tower
The Wire
Succession
This is England
Chernobyl
Peaky Blinders
Line of Duty
The Street (90’s gritty British drama)
You
Mad Dogs
The Following
Comedy
OFAH
The Office
Peep Show
Alan Partridge
The Royal Family
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Minder
The Sweeney0 -
24 was lots of fun, but some of it was waaaaay too far fetched (I vaguely recall some nonsense with a nuclear bomb at some point). I’m willing to suspend disbelief but some of 24 was almost science fiction!AFKABartram said:
That’s fair. I think they got hamstrung by their USP of it being over 24 hours. It meant over the 8 series and bits there was well over 200 hours, crazy to sustain if you compare a film being 2-3hrs. After say 3 series they should have reassessed and changed it 12. But I think a lot of of producers and tv execs learnt a lot from what 24 brought.Jints said:
The first series was extraordinary and truly ground-breaking but I think I got bored part way through the third - did you think it was good all the way through? Any particular good seasons?AFKABartram said:24 seems to have fallen off a lot of peoples radars but to me was pretty revolutionary and a big influencer in the switch from films to TV.
It got a bit repetitive in places and a little predictable once you got used to the format, but I still though it was great and Jack Bauer was an amazing lead character.1 -
As an adult
The Prisoner
Danger Man
Dr Who with Eccleston and Tennant
As a child
Thunderbirds
How
Fireball XL5
Space Patrol
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jonseventyfive said:Sopranos would be very high for me.
I'm not sure if this is a joke, but it's a good one if it is7 - Sponsored links:
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I've just started watching The Sopranos for the first time. It is excellent but oddly I don't find it bingeworthy. Maybe it changes but unlike Breaking Bad, for example, there's little continuity between the episodes. Maybe this changes as it develops.
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There's loads of continuity once you get into Season 2. The first few episodes of season 1 are really scene setting.Bangkokaddick said:I've just started watching The Sopranos for the first time. It is excellent but oddly I don't find it bingeworthy. Maybe it changes but unlike Breaking Bad, for example, there's little continuity between the episodes. Maybe this changes as it develops.
Stick it with it and you'll love it.0 -
My Brilliant Friend. It was adapted from the book of the same name by Elena Ferrante.My only regret is that I wish I had read the book first.
Brassic is excellent as well.Very funny.
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Is The Sopranos only available on Sky box sets ?0
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Surprised nobody has mentioned Ray Donovan, great show.
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Just downloaded the first 10 episodes to give it a try.Horsfield9 said:Is The Sopranos only available on Sky box sets ?
Only another 76 to go!0 -
I must be the only one that doesn't get the Sopranos, massively overrated imo. Not saying it's bad, just not on the same level as shows like The Wire or Breaking Bad.
All very samey, storylines dragged out with no change. Carmela has the same guilt ridden storyline for 5/6 seasons, Paulie & Chris cock up, Tony fixes, rinse & repeat. Tony with his therapy, we all knew he wasn't going to change, don't keep it up for so long. The show doesn't evolve the characters enough for such a long run.0 -
Boys from the black stuff. A work of pure genius which was so relevant and of its time. Shake hands.
the singing detective
the monocled mutineer
anything Stephen Poliakoff, especially friends and crocodiles and perfect strangers
GBH
Underbelly Aussie crime drama
The Killing
Ozark
Breaking Bad
Sopranos
The Wire (number 1 in my book ). It’s all in the game y’all’
The Sinner. Bill pullmans the don in this
True Detective
Legion (utter madness)
the end of the fucking world 1st series
Utopia
you will note from all of this that ITV have never made anything worth a wank EVER.
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Wasn't Baywatch on ITV?Greenhithe said:Boys from the black stuff. A work of pure genius which was so relevant and of its time. Shake hands.
the singing detective
the monocled mutineer
anything Stephen Poliakoff, especially friends and crocodiles and perfect strangers
GBH
Underbelly Aussie crime drama
The Killing
Ozark
Breaking Bad
Sopranos
The Wire (number 1 in my book ). It’s all in the game y’all’
The Sinner. Bill pullmans the don in this
True Detective
Legion (utter madness)
the end of the fucking world 1st series
Utopia
you will note from all of this that ITV have never made anything worth a wank EVER.3 -
The Sweeney1
