We see a lot of talk about the very popular shows, but what other shows are you watching now? I started watching "Resurrection" this fall and really like it. It's a little bit like "LOST" in that you don't really know what's going on or why, so it keeps me watching. (I confess I only started watching because I like the actress who played Catelyn Stark on "Game of Thrones" and she started on this show this season...)
Does anyone else watch "Resurrection"? I heard the ratings aren't that good, and I unfortunately am cursed with the shows I start watching getting cancelled...

I love "Chicago P.D." way better than "Chicago Fire", Dick Wolf the man behind this & the "Law & Order" franchise is a genius.

I saw 3 episodes of "Resurrection" didn't want to see anymore.


I'm now getting into 2 other shows "Robot Chicken" which i LMAO every episode & "Girl Meets World" the spinoff from "Boy Meets World"

I haven't seen season 1 of "Resurrection" - it wasn't a show I wanted to watch until I happened to see a commercial (two episodes in!) to season two and saw Michelle Fairley was in it...

How is "Girl Meets World"? I used to watch the original series when it was on and was toying with the idea of watching this one, too. But like I said, I happen to have bad luck in watching shows and try not to get attached!

It's ok the only people from original series that are in it is Cory & Topanga.

Cory is a Teacher who teaches his daughter's class

Topanga is Lawyer & they have 2 kids

I have been/am watching the fifth series of Spiral (or Engrenages en francais) which is being shown here on BBC4. I gather that earlier series are available in North America via Netflix or PBS as well as in some other countries. Like some of the Scandinavian dramas, such as The Killing or The Bridge, Spiral was initially picked up by the BBC as a trial run to see if crime drama from countries with another judicial code and in another language, albeit with subtitles, would work. In fact Spiral was the first of these shows and it worked very well; there was such strong demand for a second series that the BBC helped finance it. And presumably helped sell it elsewhere.

Anyway, Spiral is French. There's no hiding that, it has everything we think of when we think of French crime, police, and the darker side of Paris. It's gritty, it's almost film noir (okay, almost film sepia), and it makes little pretence to glamour. This is not Paris for young lovers with roses, perfume, and fancy restaurants, this is a Paris where they pull bodies out of the river and aren't shy about language, violence, or the effects of crime. There are strong male and female roles, the characters are all interwoven with each other (another translation of Engrenages is "mesh"), the 'good' guys aren't always very good, the bad guys can be really awful, and people sometimes don't comb their hair for days. And like many European shows, they kill good guys as well as bad guys and there isn't always a happy ending.

If you like watching crime dramas, police dramas, or even criminal police dramas, I thoroughly recommend this one. The bad news is you may have to hunt around a bit for the earlier series, the good news is that the BBC has confirmed there will be a sixth series, maybe next year. And of course, if you have access to iPlayer, series five episodes are currently available there. You do need to switch your brain on though - this is not television for the faint-hearted.

National Geographic and Oasis are my favourite channels on tv, but NatGeo has a fun one. It's called "Brain Games" (it's in its 4th season now I think). Sort of interactive. Has a whole bunch of "how the brain works" (mostly how your own brain fools you lol) science. Entertaining and informative. Love the magician dude.

I love Justified based on the short story by the late great Elmore Leonard. Raylin Givins is a truly great American character.

I feel a bit embarrassed to admit it but I've been re-watching an old eighties sitcom, and have been so enjoying it that I feel a little bereft now I've watched the final episode.

It stars Judi Dench opposite her real life husband Michael Williams. They play a pair of awkward 40somethings who might or might not want a relationship with each other. It is called "A Fine Romance" and if you know the song, it sums up their relationship very well.

It is not full of belly laughs, rather it is charming and quirky, quite slow paced; in some ways it is more like a play in 19 acts than a TV comedy. I expect it won't tickle everyone but I remember liking it at the time and I like it even more the second time around. Someone has kindly uploaded all three series onto YouTube.

Here is the link,( which moderators should remove if links aren't allowed! Sorry).

https://youtu.be/C6FQxwOPC6Y

No need to be embarrassed, it was a great show. Touching, moving, and hilarious all at the same time.

Thanks for the link, now I can also watch it again.

Passios The soap opera.

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Chavs - I love Judi Dench. I'm going to have to see that one now...

On my cable channels I've been watching "Peter Gunn", "Mr. Lucky", "Death Valley Days", "Make Room for Daddy" and "Wanted: Dead or Alive" with Steve McQueen (I really love that "Mare's Laig" sawed-off rifle of his and the holster for it!)

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It's weird but I love "Bad Judge" with Kate Walsh. It's already cancelled but the few episodes aired are so funny and quirky.

I binge-watched "Orphan Black" for the first two seasons, and apparently the third is going on now. Got them off Amazon Prime, very unique show, and glad I finally got into it.

I'm currently watching Sabotage which is the latest Nordic Noir series on British TV, this time Norwegian, set during WWII and telling the story of how the Resistance stopped the transfer of heavy water to the Reich's nuclear weapons programme. So far so good, it's following nicely in the steps of the Danish/Swedish shows that have gone before but there is one weird thing. Set largely in Norway, it's mostly broadcast in Norwegian with subtitles and the bits showing Heisenberg and his German nuclear bomb team are in German, also with subtitles. But because the Norwegian resistance worked in collaboration with the British, whenever they switch to London they speak in English with no subtitles... I'm so taken aback by not having the subtitles I find myself having to catch up!

I'm not sure TV gets more obscure than "True Detective." Season 1 was SO good! Season 2 was SO weird and convoluted and confusing and then sort of all tied up in a semi-neat but slightly-messy little plot package in the final episode.

I have finished watching the second season of 'Hemlock Grove' on Netflix.
It is based on the Gothic like novel by American author Brian McGreevy.
A twisted version on the werewolf and vampire genre, I found it to be very
engaging and am looking forward to the 3rd and final season.

I wish I could still watch a series that involved a husband and wife trying to live off the land who were next door to a pair of snobs. It might have been called "Neighbours" or something like that. Anyway, I miss it.

I've gotten into Black Sails, a sort of pre Treasure Island, mixed with real life pirates. Only the History Channel in the UK picked it up, but there are behind on what has already been released on DVD.

I've also gotten into Vikings as well. This also a semi fictionalised series, taking in some real events, showing how the Vikings first raided the UK.

Jakeroo, I think the series you mean was the BBC's "The Good Life" - there are some clips and indeed some whole episodes on YouTube.

Have you watched "The Last Kingdom" mcsurfie? The BBC's latest historial drama, sometimes billed as "the next Game of Thrones" - though as I haven't seen the first game I don't know if that's true. It's available on iPlayer if you missed the first two episodes. Lots of Vikings and no doubt, now that the action has moved to Wessex, quite a few Anglo-Saxons too. King Alfred but no cakes in sight.

Ah yes, flopsy, that's the one! THank you very much. (sadly though, it's not on here in reruns, sigh)

I liked it, too...Oh well!

I wish they'd put Rumpole of the Bailey back on the air on PBS here.