Your Favourite Tv Shows

Desperate Housewives
ER
24
Twin Peaks
The Lakes
Friends

I've just got Northern Exposure on DVD which I'm about too start watching. Somehow I completely missed it when it was on TV but I've heard many good reviews.
 
Thanks Colin and guys for the info on milk stoute, looking at that Ena character its a wonder she didnt curdle hers.
 
I'm glad someone reminded me of The Lakes, I loved that. Another great programme from years ago was This Life.

I don't watch much telly, it always gets hogged by others in this house but woe betide anybody who stands in the way of Spooks or Lost. I also have a soft spot for Alan Partridge :lol:
 
As I was working shifts for so many years I didn't get into The Sopranos, The West Wing, 24 and others like that. Now I reckon I'd probably have to start from the beginning to get the jist of it all properly. I like

ER (it's brilliant at the moment, even without Noah Wyle!)
Hustle (anyone see it on Friday? Classic!!)
Shameless
The Apprentice
Teachers
Spooks (must be nearly due to return to our screens)

I can't help but watch Friends a lot too - it's easy no-brainer stuff that you can collapse in front of the TV and watch when you get in from work. I know they repeat it a lot on E4 but I often find myself watching it even if I have seen them all several times over.

Got the first two series of Shameless and the 4th series of Teachers coming over in a week or two on DVD too - can't wait! I often watch the old favourites like Sex And The City, Father Ted, Blackadder, Teachers, Friends on DVD too.
 
I like spooks and hustle as well. I still watch the OC even though its getting a bit boring and predictable now. A newer show that i like is Bones on Sky one.
 
What's happened to Teachers? I think the last series was on Autumn 2004. Is that it? No more Teachers?
 
I didn't see This Life.

I agree that Teachers wasn't as good when Andrew Lincoln left but it was still very funny and I don't think the last series was dire. Series 2 was the best.
 
I think part of the appeal of Teachers and This LIfe is that in parts they are true to life.
 
Interesting you say that Paul - my sister who is also a secondary school teacher hated Teachers she says that the programme wholly failed to reflect the hard work necessary - nobody would ever get their marking done if they lived like that !
 
Agreed but there were parts that were true to life. The idea of going to the pub in the week at all, let alone every night is fiction of the highest order!! My most memorable bit was the parents evening which was very similar to my place.
 
I only saw a couple of episodes of Teachers, which was more than enough. It certainly bore no resemblance to life in the Scottish schools in which I've worked.
 
Originally posted by PDJ@Mar 27 2006, 07:34 PM
The idea of going to the pub in the week at all, let alone every night is fiction of the highest order!!
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I could direct you to a pub in Glasgow which is filled with the same teachers every night of the week.
 
Crossroads, Eldorado...

How far back are we going in time and memory? I loved 'Rawhide' when I was a kid: "Ride 'em, rope 'em, brand 'em... " a young 'Rowdy Yates' was pretty lustworthy then, too.

Loads of good series, most of those I prefer are listed. Hustle, Spooks, The Sopranos, Desperate Housewives, Midsomer Murders, Morse, The Blue Planet, Planet Earth; almost any recent series on wild life, landscape, art (remember Sister Wendy?), history, discovery, anything with Louis Theroux, Dan Cruickshank, Attenborough; the World at War (grim, as one would imagine, but full of astounding photography); both the CSIs, The Shield, Law & Order, Hill Street Blues (THE seminally-different cop show on which so many are now based); Miss Marple with Joan Hickson, Poirot with David Suchet; the Antiques Roadshow, Flog It!, and Bargain Hunt with Tim Wonnacott, rather than the increasingly oleaginous and unctuous David Dickinson. Dalziell & Pascoe, Taggart (with or without the late M. McManus)... blimey, this is getting silly... :rolleyes:
 
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