Do you have any favourite relaxing TV series or films?

Repair shop
Anything with wildlife
Amandaland for a laugh
Alan titchmarsh’s weekend
Mortimer and Whitehouse fishing
Canal boat diaries
The detectorists

Not to or film, but I relax by listening to podcasts.
A relaxing one is Rosebud with Giles Brandreth who chats with various people about their lives. Often find myself dropping off when listening to this 🤣🤣

Heartbeat
Call the Midwife
Classic Coronation Street

Escape to the Country

I love the old black & white British films. One I go back to time and again is The Happiest Days Of Your Life. Alastair Sim and Margaret Rutherford star in this hilarious film. I had it on DVD but it's very likely on YouTube.

When I want to chill and relax I probably don't choose "relaxing" things I tend to choose "mindless" or funny ones.

"Gogglebox" and Have I got News for You" spring to mind.

Or, I might put on a couple of "This American Life" episodes if I didn't want to gawp and just wanted audio.

The original ‘Miss Marple’, the Joan Hickson ones.

I feel like one of the cast, seen them so many times,
but the combination of the scenery, the language, the clothes, the houses, village life, plus the occasional murder, but nothing too gruesome or shocking.

The 1950’s, so evocative. The class system, still so evident, the aristocracy, the middle and working classes, the maids and cooks….

The Good Life.

Reuben Owen , Life in the Dales.

A bunch of young friends making their living . Its good to remember that many young people do just get on with life , fix what's broken, have fun and make the most of everything without recourse to botox, designer outfits, nail and hair extensions, screaming matches.

Some filthy activities and animal behaviour.

I've started series 1 of Death in Paradise and will watch one a night. There are about 16 series I think
My 2 podcasts have just finished so I am looking for a new one. The Book Club was too much for me as he seemed to read the books so quickly I couldn't keep up.

I like to be quiet on my own with a cup of tea and a biscuit.
And watch -
Any old black and white film.
Sky Arts -Landscape or Portrait artist of the year
Watercolour Challenge
Murder mysteries, but I know the dialogue of my favourites off by heart.
Anything horsey
Country programmes with Jack Hargreaves
Farming
Fishing

kircubbin2000

I've started series 1 of Death in Paradise and will watch one a night. There are about 16 series I think
My 2 podcasts have just finished so I am looking for a new one. The Book Club was too much for me as he seemed to read the books so quickly I couldn't keep up.

Just in case you think the same, I preferred later series to Series one and two.

There are also a few Christmas episodes to watch out for.

Recently I decided to stop watching the news politics etc and I started to watch Hetty Wainthrop on BBC iplayer.

The music, settings and the characters are so evocative of a more peaceful era.

I have just finished the whole series and am on the lookout for another, so this thread is useful for giving me some pointers.

I usually like to relax to anything that is real life rather than acting.

Rick Stein travel and cooking programmes
Tread The Globe (retired couple travelling around the world)
Cecelia and Christopher in Svaalbard
I love watching random people filming themselves walking around cities such as New York etc.

Great thread FlowerFan

I like Death in Paradise too. All of them.
I also like to watch Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries partly because I love the clothes.

I watch "Would I lie to you" if I'm feeling stressed. It makes me laugh which melts all the stress away.
I like to watch old films like The 39 steps or The Lady Vanishes. No frenetic action or swear words so relaxing.

Beyond Paradise which I much prefer to the original Death in Paradise.
Also Doc Marten and Call the Midwife.

I like most murder/mysteries
Location x3
Lingo
Tipping Point
Life in th Sun, looking for a house or flat in Spain. Some have £80K want at least 2 bedrooms, modern, zilch to do, near the sea and shops! Dream on

The recent series of 'Amandaland'. The characters of Amanda and her sidekick Anne are a real Chalk'n'Cheese couple which makes it very compulsive.

My comfort television is Keeping Up Appearances. It makes me laugh however often I watch it, and laughing is relaxing.

Couneryfile used to be my favourite.

Oh sod!
Countryfile!

aonk

Beyond Paradise which I much prefer to the original Death in Paradise.
Also Doc Marten and Call the Midwife.

I only recently discovered Beyond Paradise so I’ve got several series to watch. Is Doc Marten on catchup? For some reason, even though I love anything about Cornwall, having lived there in my late teens I’ve never really watched it. There’s a new American version of Doc Marten which, unlike most American versions of much loved series is actually supposed to be very good. Like Fairislecable I, too am avoiding the news.