Topic: Top 10 Favourite TV Shows?

[Elmo!]

Don't think I could put it in order apart from number 1, but off the top of my head.

1) The Thick Of It
The Sopranos
Better Call Saul
Curb Your Enthusiasm
The Wire
Arrested Development
Spaced
Rick and Morty
Blackadder
The Day Today

[Crosby Nick]

It was like the Kevin and Perry sketches x2 x half hour x 4 seasons but still pretty funny, immature nonsense.

Yeah, I still laugh at them if I see them repeated anywhere. Struck a chord with most non cool kids growing up everywhere I think. Obviously immature but plenty of bits you can relate too…well I could anyway.

Will GOT drop down people’s lists from when this thread started in 2014? Do those who get offended by the last series or two still have affection for what went before?

Always find these lists hard and end up with too much comedy when there must be tons of great dramas I’ve not seen or forgotten about.

[Hazell]

Same, my list would mainly (if not all) sitcoms. Probably because they're the ones I watch over and over and over again. Unlike dramas, even the best ones, which I don't tend to watch again nearly as much.

[RedSince86]

Straight off top of me head so may come back and edit

1. Mr Inbetween

Better Call Saul
Operation Good Guys
Father Ted
I'm Alan Partridge
Monkey Dust
Game of Thrones (early seasons)
Tales of the Unexpected
Blackadder II/III
Fawlty Towers

The Fast Show, Inside No 9, Narcos, Mindhunter, OZ and The Knick narrowly missing out

Oh fuck i forgot about Mr Inbetween.

[Buck Pete]

Oh fuck i forgot about Mr Inbetween.

Another show i would have totally missed if it wasn't for RAWK

It is genuinely my number 1 of all time.  Some of the classic British (and Irish) sitcoms come close like Ted, Partridge, Blackadder etc but Mr Inbetween is 100% the best drama I've ever seen

[RedSince86]

Another show i would have totally missed if it wasn't for RAWK

It is genuinely my number 1 of all time.  Some of the classic British (and Irish) sitcoms come close like Ted, Partridge, Blackadder etc but Mr Inbetween is 100% the best drama I've ever seen

Yeah same, i binged season 1 in the garden one afternoon in the sun with my laptop and a few beers.

Also it seems a lot of people discovered the show during the Lockdowns as well according to the Mr Inbetween Reddit page.

Cult classic it seems.

[Flaccido Dongingo]

In no order,

The Shield
The Wire
The Sopranos
Millennium
X-Files
Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett)
American Gothic (hugely underrated show)
Father Ted
Dexter
The Killing (Danish)

[jillcwhomever]

Yeah, I still laugh at them if I see them repeated anywhere. Struck a chord with most non cool kids growing up everywhere I think. Obviously immature but plenty of bits you can relate too…well I could anyway.

Will GOT drop down people’s lists from when this thread started in 2014? Do those who get offended by the last series or two still have affection for what went before?

Always find these lists hard and end up with too much comedy when there must be tons of great dramas I’ve not seen or forgotten about.

GOT has not made my list this time. I know some people have put the first four series or something like that, but for me if it doesn't end well there is no way I am watching it again. All the shows in my list are ones I'd watch again without exception.

[Hazell]

I love Whose Line, but was never a massive fan of that version. On average it was probably funnier than the original, but for me thats because it was less risky, they stuck with the safest games, and some games were far too short.

The original was extremely hit and miss, which I preferred because it felt more genuinely improvised, of which dying on your arse is a huge part. Also Clive Anderson was extremely underrated.

The original also had more of a rotation of players so it did have more variety, even if it didn't always land. Colin and Ryan were still the best though.

[Tobelius]

In no order,

The Shield
The Wire
The Sopranos
Millennium
X-Files
Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett)
American Gothic (hugely underrated show)
Father Ted
Dexter
The Killing (Danish)

Can't believe i forgot about X-Files,was a bit like Miami Vice of that time,highlight of the week.

[duvva 💅]

Better Call Saul
The Office (UK)
This Is England 86-90
Doctor Who
Fawlty Towers
Breaking Bad
Bottom
Naked Eye
Big Train
The Box of Delights

[leinad]

GOT has not made my list this time. I know some people have put the first four series or something like that, but for me if it doesn't end well there is no way I am watching it again. All the shows in my list are ones I'd watch again without exception.

I think for me personally I can look past how it ended just because of how big a part of my life it was, it basically spanned my 20s. It's the only show I can remember being that big, the ultimate water cooler show, every Monday & Tuesday everyone in work would be talking about it. I used to jump in a discord call with a load of friends and we'd have a few drinks and all watch it together.

Everyone on social media and forums would be talking about that weeks episode and speculating about what's going to happen next week. I think that's a 'problem' with the binge model that shows tend to have now, people will watch a show the first weekend/week it comes out and then it just gets forgotten about all together.

[Macphisto80]

In no order...

The Sopranos
The X-Files
Firefly
The Expanse
BSG
Breaking Bad
Twin Peaks
Band of Brothers
Father Ted
The Boys

Game of Thrones would have made it in there, but for the last series of it. Deserves an honourable mention for being as good as anything I've ever watched up until a certain point and probably no other show, bar Breaking Bad and the X-Files, being as big as a pop cultural phenomenon as it as when it was in its stride.

[amir87]

So do people think we’ll still get a defender and midfielder before the end of the transfer window?

[smicer07]

So do people think we’ll still get a defender and midfielder before the end of the transfer window?

Is that a new series?

[Trada]

Battlestar Galactica new version
Doctor Who
His Dark Materials
I claudius
mr Robot
play for today
the Black Stuff
MASH
monty Python
the West Wing

 and that's just off the top of my head there is tons more

[jillcwhomever]

In no particular order

The Last Kingdom
Sherlock
His Dark Materials
The Tudors
Fleabag
Peaky Blinders
Merlin
GBH
Poldark
Doctor Who

[Trada]

Yes GBH was a great show

[jillcwhomever]

Yes GBH was a great show

I agree, one of Alan Bleasdale's best in my opinion, for some reason it often goes under the radar.

[Trada]

I agree, one of Alan Bleasdale's best in my opinion, for some reason it often goes under the radar.

Its strange I was only watching some clips from it a few weeks ago like  Michael Palins speech about socialism and to me, it shows how far right the Labour party has gone since then at that time to be left wing was near enough seen as militant left and the right of the party believed in Jeremy Corbyn type policies and leadership

How times have changed indeed

[Red Ol]

Hard to pick out 10 but over the years these have been standouts for me …

I Claudius
The Wire
Fringe
The World at War
The Ascent of Man
Game of Thrones
Cosmos
Boys from The Blackstuff
Morse
Star Trek

[red mongoose]

I would almost have to do sitcoms as a separate list from dramas, but combining them, maybe something like ...

1. Gomorra
2. Deadwood
3. Lost
4. Boardwalk Empire
5. Northern Exposure
6. Spiral (Engrenages)
7. NYPD Blue
8. Seinfeld
9. Battlestar Galactica (original)
10. Toast of London

I think you almost have to separate anime into its own category, but if it were included my list would start:

1. One Piece
2. Battle of the Planets

[Baby Huey]

I would almost have to do sitcoms as a separate list from dramas, but combining them, maybe something like ...

1. Gomorra
2. Deadwood
3. Lost
4. Boardwalk Empire
5. Northern Exposure
6. Spiral (Engrenages)
7. NYPD Blue
8. Seinfeld
9. Battlestar Galactica (original)
10. Toast of London

I think you almost have to separate anime into its own category, but if it were included my list would start:

1. One Piece
2. Battle of the Planets

Some bad wool choices here lad. The bolded though...an absolute gem of a series. Massively underappreciated.One of those shows that grows on you as it becomes a part of your life, something that you missed when it finished. I know I did.