Current or favourite series

Agree with For All Mankind - excellent.

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.

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 😁).

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….

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

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 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.

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!

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Eleothan, Spiral was brilliant! I watched it all, could still watch it again.

Just binge watched 2 series of Almas not normal on bbc iplayer.......just loved it !

Currently watching "3 Body Problem"
Sci-fi "fantasy" series - an adaptation of the Chinese novel series Remembrance of Earth's Past by former computer engineer Liu Cixin

Not great acting (maybe) but interesting and unusual.
Have watched 3 so far.

At the moment I’m enjoying an Aussie cop show called City Homicide on Amazon. I also enjoy watching Darby & Joan (waiting for the new series to come on Drama), My Life is Murder and The Brokenwood Mysteries. All series from Down Under, though there are plenty of shows from elsewhere that I like. Always love a good murder, mystery, police procedural or thriller series 🙂

I`m currently watching, and enjoying, a new police drama series, Virdee, but when I posted about it on he TV thread, I was shot down, so I shut up!

I also liked 800 words.. and loved Spiral..

I quite enjoyed the recent Agatha Christie series because of the settings and costumes.. even if the storyline was somewhat flimsy

Allira

Oh, I thought this was the thread started by someone who wanted non-demanding easy viewing!.

Ohh Allira, don't knock some of these suggestions until you've given them a whirl.
Most of the program suggestions are light but not too light or silly.
Shakespeare & Hathaway
(BBC IPlayer ) is a clever, witty detective series.
Give it a bash you never know you might like it. 👍

D eath Paradise/British Paradise/Return to Paradise.
Whatever their names are.