What is your favourite tv programme?

I thought Press was really good too.

I have enjoyed all the Line of Duty series, Unforgotten, The Cry, Dr Foster, etc. I would like to see the return of Last Tango in Halifax, Scott & Bailey and Happy Valley.

I too have given up on soaps - Eastenders several years ago and Coronation Street quite recently. I do like Holby City though and I suppose that's a sort of soap.

I enjoy Vera, Endeavour and Shetland.

I like current events programmes like Dispatches, Panorama, etc., and comedy programmes like Have I got new for you, Room 101 and Would I lie to you.

(I think winter programmes are generally much better than summer ones).

I only have freeview otherwise I would watch the crown - it is nice when on the rare occasion there is something that makes you laugh.

I am watching Simon Reeve - Meditteranean - I really admire his reporting, he finds something different, is unbiased and empathic. Also House of Assad. If Outlander is coming back I may watch it - saw the most recent two series, but was getting a bit fed up with the perfect couple and find them a bit unbelievable. I quite like Gogglebox. Just looked at next week’s programmes and saw nothing I wanted to watch but luckily have lots of stuff recorded (including The Cry) so will work through it - some of it is more than a year old!
Have been reading instead today - ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ a sort of Chinese Pride and Prejudice. I only put it down because my kindle needed recharging. It is funny in places but also upsetting to see how the rich ( of any culture) spend their money. I know it is fiction but I doubt if there’s anything in the book that doesn’t happen in real life. I will probably watch the film when it comes on tv.

I’ve watched The Crown so far on free offers from Netflix. Trying to work out how to do that when Olivia Colman takes over from Claire Foy (can she be as good?).

If you have Amazon Prime there are three series of Outlander based on the Diana Gabaldon books. They are historical, gritty, Romance, adventures with a time slip theme. I have read all the books and enjoy the series as much. Can’t wait for series 4 which starts 5 November.

We stick to 2 hours of watching per day recording most things to skip the adds. No soaps , no any kind of competition whether dancing talent or baking. Antique Roadshow os a must Vera when it is on really enjoyed the night manager and press and waiting for the last episode of Strangers . We watched them in two week lots . If I could bring back any programme it would be Blockbusters I used to love it . Any of the old Miss Marples films were great with Joad Hickson . She was the best Jane Marples ever.

Likes
Murders/Drama/Factual/History/Scienc/Documentaries/
Natural History/Comedy/Lifestyle/X Factor
Loved Downton, Versailles,Game of Thrones/Lord of the Rings/ Field and Track/Olympics
Never watch
Soaps/Game Shows/shopping channels/Alternative Comedy/Strictly/Antique Road Show/football etc mainly group sports

Never thought about it before but a mixed bag
We have such a huge amount of choice with On Demand and Netflix, it seems we need to be entertained all the time.

I don't watch any soaps so I don't have anything ongoing to keep up with, it's really a question of whatever is good at the moment. Any superior drama, particularly with a cliffhanger in the vein of "The Bodyguard/Line of Duty/The Unforgotten/Killing Eve/Keeping Faith" I'm hoping the new drama tonight "Little Drummer Girl" will be worth watching. I'm also enjoying Simon Reeve's Mediterranean travel programme. Enjoyable regulars would be "HIGNFY/Would I Lie to You/Bake Off" Gone off Strictly, have it on in the background, it's a habit though. I like period dramas thought the recent "Vanity Fair" was very well done. On Netflix I enjoyed "The Good Wife" and "The Crown" which is definitely more than a little bit special, also some of the superior Scandi and French dramas that come our way from time to time, but only their really good stuff.

My guilty secret is "Four in a Bed"

brilliant marmight
do you know when it will be starting?

Brenda. There is one more series of Versailles I believe and then that's it.

I have watched UC for years and now Only Connect as well. I have enjoyed Upstart Crow and like various 'cop' programmes like Vera and Rebus. One series I very much enjoyed but can't remember what it was called , was about how detectives solve crimes. And of course Strictly,

I don't watch any soaps or reality programmes. I like a good juicy murder/thriller, dramas like Downton, Versailles & Poldark, documentaries and for a little light relief, Antique Road show, Something for Nothing and Location x3. I watch most of these on the iPad on catch up. I'm just catching up on Killing Eve. (from behind a cushion ?)

did anybody watch Versailles ? when it was on really enjoyed it wish they would make another series.

The Last Leg
Strictly

University Challenge and Only Connect, to exercise the little grey cells
Super vet - Noel Fitzpatrick is irresistible.
Strictly - it has become a habit!

Housey programmes , Salvage Hunters and First Dates .

I would like to thank everybody who has replied to my thread.it makes me feel that I am not alone I have SKY and sky cinema.watched some really good films This includes black panther and Deadpool. Although it is quite expensive there over 1000 films to watch. That is if I had more time.

I've gone off soaps too. Maybe an age thing.
I enjoy house programmes like grand design and Phil and Kirsty.
Countryfile, have I got news fy, some quizzes, coast, timewatch, most history progs, who do you think you are, that house programme along the same lines, bake off, throw down, sewing bake off, one off dramas.
Downtown Abbey, late night arts progs.
We don't have Netflix but often go to the cinema.

Ours is very rarely on. But HOYS. Not sure what Netflix is either really. I do enjoy a trip to the cinema though and meeting friends there.

Haven't watched any of the soaps for about 15 years.

Love Strictly, Bake off and most of the cookery related shows.

Like quizzes Husband and I are quite competitive especially with University Challenge.

I loved The Crown on Netflix, I do not like anything with unnecessary or gratuitous violence in.

Husband loves Game of Thrones and War related/Historical documentaries.

I watch BBC breakfast for an hour or so then telly goes off until around 8 in the evening. Then it goes onto Sky, although nice to have Only Connect back this week so will watch that.
I watch the Aussie version of Masterchef, much better than UK one which I never watch these days. A couple of US series I like, Criminal Minds, Instinct.
Sports - Superbikes and some Golf, Tennis.

OH likes things on Quest/Discovery such as Gold Hunters (I think it's called) etc but he watches that in his room.

Hate things like Strictly/X Factor and so called Reality shows. All the Antique things and house selling/doing up/gardening done to death. Never watch any of the soaps now.

University Challenge- so I can fantasise about Jeremy
The Post - was terrific - some more please
Police dramas without too much violence
Gentle murder mysteries - e.g. Midsummer Murders
House and Garden shows (not Monty what a bore)
A good film
Strictly - largely because there is nothing else on Saturday evenings
More on Netflix than anything else

I rarely find anything I want to watch on TV. I don't like soaps, "reality" programmes or all the property/baking/antique programmes. I do watch the news (national and local) and then it's either switch off and read a book or watch a DVD

I'm a telly addict, ( unashamedly, it's harmless! ), although I rarely watch it in the daytime, except for Escape to the Country, but in the evenings I enjoy almost everything.
I'm easy to please, loving EastEnders and Corrie, then any wildlife documentaries, quizzes like Mastermind and University Challenge, drama series (recently enjoyed The Cry), and of course the News... I love all news and current affair programmes. And at present I love Strictly and the X Factor. And any baking or cooking programmes. And lots of comedies, especially Have I Got News For You. Upstart Crow is brilliant..... I could go on..... and on......

We like Sky Art’s landscape painter competition, Only Connect and Would I Lie To You. DH very keen on Salvage Hunters on the Quest channel.