Current or favourite series

Maybee70, I think the earlier seasons of Snowpiercer are still on Netflix.

We are steering towards those of only one season. Multiple seasons never stop when they are winning.
Too many episodes with the plot getting sillier and sillier, The writers getting bored. Even great actors can not save poorly written lines and absurd plots.

I'm in the U.S. A couple years ago, our daughter told us about Still Game. Loved it! We watched the total series twice and I wept both times when it ended.

Just finished a series on Netflix called Rough Diamonds. I thought it was pretty good!

Eloethan Forgot about Spiral. Another excellent series, with some fascinatingly flawed characters, especially my favourite Gilou.

I don’t think Years and Years has ever received the recognition it deserves.

Grannmarie

I'm just watching Agatha Christie's Towards Zero on BBC i player, enjoying it.

I've recently watched Toxic Town, based on real events in post industrial Corby, very good, quite heartbreaking. It resonated with me, we live in a former steel town.

I watched Robert de Niro in Zero Day, Netflix. He plays the former President, asked to help the Government after a coordinated cyber attack causes thousands of deaths. Quite gripping.

And I have just found the latest season of Snowpiercer - post apocalyptic drama, where an enormous perpetual motion train, 879 carriages long, circles the frozen, inhospitable Earth carrying a mixed bag of survivors - on ITVX.

Some of my favourites over the years,
24, The West Wing, Homeland, V, Mad Men, A Place to call Home, Years and Years, Game of Thrones...

I wanted to watch the film of Snowpiercer but missed it when it was on tv and only realised the other day that there was now a series.

Big Little Lies is good, as is Little Fires Everywhere. Also enjoyed The Perfect Couple & currently watching The White Lotus.

Ilovedogs22

keepingquiet

I miss Doctors!!

Yes keeping quite, I have no idea why Doctors was binned?
It was brilliant, well acted with some fabulous acting talent. I hope it's all available on the BBC Iplayer?
So I can languish in it's brilliance while doing the ironing pile (mountain!) 😶

I may watch it all again from the very beginning!

I would second Years and Years and Homeland. I really liked the earlier series of Endeavour but towards the end the plots became very silly. I really liked The Good Wife but preferred the later series. My all time favourite is the French drama series Spiral.

More recently, I have enjoyed The Tower, Blue Lights and Unforgotten.

keepingquiet

I miss Doctors!!

Yes keeping quite, I have no idea why Doctors was binned?
It was brilliant, well acted with some fabulous acting talent. I hope it's all available on the BBC Iplayer?
So I can languish in it's brilliance while doing the ironing pile (mountain!) 😶

I enjoy Father Brown, on U&Drama, and the Brokenwood Mysteries detective series, set in NZ, Shakespeare and Hathaway, Madam Secretary set in US.

I don’t watch any series - I won’t be able to remember what happened in the last episode. Besides, I’m not into fiction. I like true life stories.

I haven’t heard of most of these programmes.I don’t watch American stuff or Australian progs.I love University Challenge,
Only Connect,Mastermind ,Vera, Ludwig,Patience and
Mortimer and Whitehouse fishing….

My top two favourites ever are The Sopranos and The West Wing. Both have wonderful casting/acting and writing, although TWW wasn’t quite as good once Aaron Sorkin stopped writing it.
Other favourites include Rome, Oz (except for the final episode which I found so disappointing), Deadwood (such a shame they stopped making that, I felt it could have gone on much longer. I was never an Ian McShane fan but loved him in it), Breaking Bad, Frasier, Malcolm in the Middle.
Apple TV favourites include Severance, Slow Horses, For All Mankind, Black Bird (has the brilliantly acted creepiest character ever), Ted Lasso. My favourite Apple TV series is See (based on a ridiculous premise but fabulous costumes and cinematography, plus Jason Momoa 😁).

On U I really enjoyed Darby and Joan which is set in Australia. Beautiful vistas, great chemistry between the lead characters and interesting plot. Unfortunately series 2 is only available on Acorn which is subscription so will have to wait to see that.
Also on U is the Heart Guy. Disgraced (handsome!) heart surgeon is banished from his city post to his small home town to work there. Brilliant series. It is also set in Australia.
Another one I absolutely loved was 800 Words. Journalist takes his two teenage children from the big city in Australia to New Zealand following the death of his wife. He writes a weekly article which is always exactly 800 words long hence the title. Don't know if it is still showing on any channels but it really is good - gentle, funny, quirky, sad, etc.

Agree with For All Mankind - excellent.

Following The Mandalorian on Disney (or Apple) and slightly obsessed with Baby Yoda ( anyone watching may know what I mean).
Agree Severance worth a watch and definitely getting stranger.
Have just discovered Madmen on Netflix-not for everyone because set in a time when women's roles were very different but a wonderful period piece and very watchable with well drawn characters and good acting.
A Thousand Blows on Disney/Apple? from Stephen Knight ; good roustabout storytelling and again well scripted and acted.

The Blacklist.
We are watching it for the second time.
The brilliant James Spader.

I enjoy the comfortable Call the Midwife! I miss the best comedy which was The Vicar of Dibley. I quite enjoy Granchester, but do wonder how so many vicars enjoy sleuthing?

Notagranny44, if you enjoyed The Good Wife, you might like The Politician's Wife, from the 90s, possibly earlier, with Juliet Stevenson and Trevor Eve. Minnie Driver too if I remember correctly?
I really enjoyed it at the time, not sure if it's been repeated since. I'm sure it was BBC.

I agree about Christine Baranski Notagranny44. Try watching her in The Gilded Age, I really enjoyed that. They are doing a third series this year I believe

Wolfie59

Just tried to watch Series 3 of White Lotus. I watched first episode, absolutely dire. No interesting characters. I miss Jennifer Coolidge, she was a reason to watch. Series 1 and 2 were fun (a bit dark in places), Series 3 is a turn off, not sure I’ll bother with episode 2 +. Unless someone tells me it gets better?

I agree with you about White Lotus, boring and not as good as series 1 and 2. Perhaps it will improve?

Enjoyed watching After You've Gone starring Celia Imrie and Nicholas Lindhurst. It's quite an old comedy series but I didn't watch it first time round. The two of them are left in charge of teenage children/ grandchildren when the mum goes off to Africa. Lots of laughs on BBC I player.

I watch Channel 5 on Saturday evening - documentary on the 1952 London Smog. It was fascinating and disclosed a government cover-up that happened at the time.