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I'm a bit out of touch with what is any good, having lived in Canada since 2007.....and not owning a TV. A pretty broad question but what's worth watching? We've just finished Peep Show as I didn't realize another series had been released. Doesn't have to be comedy though. Maybe drama (not Downtown Abbey or whatever it's called though!), hell even nature documentaries could be good!
Depends what you last watched, of recent I've enjoyed Sherlock and Dr Who. Utopia from C4 was very good & dark humour, the Tunnel as a Drama (based on other things) and a cold war spy drama called The Game was good when I watched it on a flight.
Have you seen The Fall with Gillian Anderson? (I'm in Oz and miss some British TV too).
London Spy, Happy Valley, Utopia, Humans
Detectorists, Fresh Meat, Toast of London,
Luther
The best thing I've watched in ages is Detectorists.
Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle
Black Mirror is worth a watch
'Misfits'
'Ideal' - it was hidden away on bbc3 but is a rare instance of a uk series that's big enough to do as a propper box set splurge.
For documentary anything made by 'true vision' or 'the garden' production companies
+1 the above.
Line of Duty (BBC2) worth a watch. Season 2 is on iPlayer right now with Season 3 starting late March.
Sky putting out some OK stuff. Fortitude, The Tunnel, Strikeback.
Nothing
Are you being served.
Hi de Hi
Duty Free.
Allo Allo - 'listen very carefully I will say this oonly wance' 😉
Luther
Humans
Line Of Duty
On at the moment or in the last few weeks:
Thirteen
Trapped (Icelandic but on BBC4)
Happy Valley
Duh. Thread title reading fail.
War and Peace was good quality telly.
Raised by Wolves. (Sitcom)
Steve Backshall extreme mountain thing. But not if don't like heights, clostraphobia or massive bugs.
London Spy
I am afraid the poster would appear in a minority based on the thread we had on this series, wouldn't bother.
Some great shouts so far
Ideal
Misfits
Toast of London
The Fades (only 1 series tho)
Utopia
The Shadow Line
Episodes
The Hour
Sherlock
This is England
Red Riding
And if you binge now you can watch the first 2 seasons of Plebs before the third starts in April
Fresh Meat
Toast of London
My fave British comedies of recent years.
This Is England is the only drama that springs to mind, there's something about more mainstream Brit drama that grates on me.
London Spy
I am afraid the poster would appear in a minority based on the thread we had on this series, wouldn't bother.
Not the general opinion I took from the thread? http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/london-spy
It wasn't perfect by any means.
That thread was positive to begin with, by the end most - not all - thought it was pretty rubbish - read the last page one positve, five negative viewpoints.
The Night Manager
Detectorists
And, not exactly British but still ace, Deutschland 83
According to the internet Life on Mars was 2006-2007, so you may have missed that, then the follow up Ashes to Ashes.
Bluestone 42
The 1st series of The Bridge (scandi noir with english subtitles)
Early Doors.
Loads of good suggestions above
Man Down - particularly the first series for an awesome bit of the much missed Rik Mayall.
and of course,
TOP GEAR!
I'm with mrsfry on this one. Although The Cycle Show on ITV was good last summer.
Poirot
Sherlock Holmes
Mrs Maple
Dads Army
Red Dwarf
The Pallisers
Porridge
Thanks peeps. I'm surprised how many of these I've seen over the years. Just finished watching the Detectorists on Netflix. Still plenty to check out. Especially Mrs Marple 😉 She finally got married then!
London Spy, first one or two episodes only. By the end it was dire
OP I too watch hardly any "normal" tv and think most of it is rubbish. I watch mainly news and current affairs and bbc is losing out to online channels/content imo. I think you should get a way to stream to the tv set and search iplayer and similar plus other sources. I watch more oitdoor videos (mtb, ski etc) than tv programmes
IT crowd, painful but essential viewing.
Definitely Plebs.
Marvellous, a one off film that lived up to its title.
If you can find Complicity the film, not a patch on the book but still very entertaining
MrsMC seems to enjoy Happy Valley
There also the BBC store app
Which can be useful on occasion
Channel 4's police drama Babylon is excellent and I think is on Netflix.