New tv progs to watch

[Berrichonne shrimper]

Watching season 1 and 2 of true blood at the mo and really loving it,also finished lie to me a while back and liked that also.Nurse Jackie was ok but not great,struggled with the wire as wife doesnt really like it.
Are there any other new/newish tv shows we should try out?Remeber downloading is not a crime in france so anything can be tried at least once.

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

Jeeves & Wooster. Quality.

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Just getting towards the end of Season 7 of The West Wing. Best TV series I've ever watched, bar none.

:clap:

 

[Napster]

No TV at the mo, so watching DVDs and films. Watched Peep Show series 5 last night, and bits of Blackadder 3.

 

[Ulysses]

Just getting towards the end of Season 7 of The West Wing. Best TV series I've ever watched, bar none.

:clap:

Totally agree. I'm still watching band of brothers on episode 9 now. Also started watching We are Klang last week which i thought was good.

 

[Pubey]

The Wire, Generation Kill, Band of Brothers (all HBO!). As Matt says The West Wing is superb too

 

[Ulysses]

http://www.tvguide.co.uk/newTVseries.asp

Sometimes worth checking out

 

[MK Shrimper]

Totally agree. I'm still watching band of brothers on episode 9 now. Also started watching We are Klang last week which i thought was good.

Jeez, I thought it was so bad I turned it off. Sounded like it had a laughter track over it despite being recorded live?

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

West Wing is hardly a new prog though, seeing as they stopped making it almost 3 years ago.

 

[Lester Bangs]

Watch a series called 'Underbelly' you won't regret it.

Based on real life events in Australia's organised crime world it is absolute quality.

 

[Mad Cyril]

I am currently working my way through 'The Sullivans' box set.

 

[MK Shrimper]

I am currently working my way through 'The Sullivans' box set.

Bet Jim Robinson's in it.

 

[Slipperduke]

Only just discovered The West Wing. It's awesome, but don't watch it before bed. It leaves your brains buzzing for ages after every episode.

For West Wing watchers, I can heartily recommend 'Studio 60', the cruelly truncated Sorkin follow-up.

30 Rock is the best comedy series I've seen in ages, and you can get the first series of that on Amazon for less than a tenner.

 

[Lester Bangs]

Also essential viewing if you missed it was 'Madmen', an Advertising agency in New York 1960.

Truly awesome show.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

The West Wing is superb, although I think the Wire may be even better. If we are counting the West Wing as new, can I also include Yes, Minister?

Other American imports I've enjoyed recently include House and Dexter. Oh and another vote for 30rock, wish I'd got into that sooner.

We Are Klang looked mind-staggeringly ****, possibly the ****test thing on TV since Che Wilson's appearance at the LDV final.

Mitchell and Webb has been the best recent comedy series IMHO. I also enjoyed Pyschoville, but don't imagine that is to everyone's tastes (from two of the blokes who did League of Gentleman).

 

[Uncle Leo]

Also essential viewing if you missed it was 'Madmen', an Advertising agency in New York 1960.

Truly awesome show.

What he said. Top drawer stuff.

 

[Slipperduke]

What he said. Top drawer stuff.

Got the first series on DVD, but have been so consumed with the West Wing that it's still in the polythene.

 

[Uncle Leo]

Got the first series on DVD, but have been so consumed with the West Wing that it's still in the polythene.

No rush. It's all set in the late 50s/early 60s so it's not going to get dated.

I don't much like following more than one show at a time, hence why my Sopranos DVDs are on the back burner whilst I get through The Wire (just finished Season 3 of that, marvellous stuff).

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

For West Wing watchers, I can heartily recommend 'Studio 60', the cruelly truncated Sorkin follow-up.

Exactly, it was superb. Trust thick US TV execs to not get the irony in that show and cancel it before it had time to grow. It definitely had the potential to be bigger than TWW. I think Sorkin basically just went hell for leather after being told there would be no 2nd season, the episode where Allison Janney guest stars and reignites her on-screen chemistry with Timothy Busfield is immense!

 

[Thorpe Groyney]

Working my way through a 5 dvd box set of "Still Game", an understated BBC gem.