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TV Show Recommendations *NO DISCUSSION*

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  • Registered Users Posts: 55,422 ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    Notice:

    I've added an extra parameter to the OP - "Watch his if you like..." where you can list shows that are similar to the one you are recommending.

    I'll delete this message in a few days..... (and basquille and I will edit some of the posts from the last week)


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,190 ✭✭✭wolfric


    Title: Ncis
    Cast: Mark Harmon, Michael Weatherly,Cote de Pablo, Sean Murray, David McCallum, Pauley Perrette + some others.
    Genre: Crime police procedural drama
    Description: Team of special agents which conducts criminal nvestigations involving the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. (Basicly a more drama based CSI)
    Links:
    Wikiepdia
    IMDB
    CBS


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    Title: The Mentalist
    Cast: Robin Tunney, Simon Baker
    Genre: Crime Drama, Light Entertainment
    Description: A mentalist (sham medium) turned private investigator uses his skills to help the police
    Links: IMDB TVRage
    Watch this if you like: Ghost Whisperer, Warehouse 13.


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,286 ✭✭✭WesternNight


    Title: The West Wing
    Cast: Martin Sheen, Rob Lowe, Allison Janney, John Spencer, Bradley Whitford, Richard Schiff, Janel Moloney, Dulé Hill.
    Genre: Political drama, with a good dash of comedy.
    Description: A behind-the-scenes look at the goings-on within the White House.
    Links: Imdb


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,497 ✭✭✭omahaid


    Title: Life On Mars
    Cast: Philip Glenister, John Simm, Liz White, Dean Andrews, Marshall Lancaster
    Genre: Speculative Fiction, Police procedural
    Description: After being involved in a car accident in 2006, DCI Sam Tyler (Simm) wakes up to find himself in 1973, the era of 'Sweeney' type policing, Mark III Cortinas, and flared trousers.
    Links: IMDB, Wikipedia, TV.com
    Watch this if you like: Ashes to Ashes, The Sweeney


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  • Registered Users Posts: 588 ✭✭✭laoisforliam


    Title: The Corner
    Cast: Tk Carter, Khandi Alexander, Sean Nelson, Clarke Peters
    Genre: Drama Miniseries
    Description: The Corner chronicles the life of a family living in poverty amid the open-air drug markets of West Baltimore.
    Links: IMDB, Wikipedia
    Watch this if you like: The Wire


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    Title: Defying Gravity
    Cast: Paula Garcés (The Shield), Christina Cox (Chronicles of Riddick), Eyal Podell (24)
    Genre: Sci-Fi / Drama
    Description: In the near future, eight astronauts from five countries (four women and four men) undertake a mysterious six-year international space mission covering thirteen billion kilometres. With the eyes of the world upon them - everything they do is monitored, and every emotion they feel, scrutinized - they soon discover that their real assignment is not at all what they thought.
    Links: IMDB, Wikipedia, ABC
    Watch this if you like: 2001 AD, Firefly

    Extra Note: Cancelled after 1 season of 13 episodes (as of 22/10/2009). 1-8 shown on BBC (UK) and ABC (US), 9 on CTV (Canada) and 10-13 on SPACE (Canada).


  • Registered Users Posts: 302 ✭✭Sidney77


    Title: Ashes To Ashes
    Cast: Keely Hawes, Philip Glenister, Dean Andrews, Marshall Lancaster Monserrat Lombard
    Genre: Police, Time travel, Drama
    Description: After being shot DC Alex Drake finds herself in 1982 tryin to find a way to get home and deal with a mostly sexist male police force.
    Links: IMDB, Wikipedia, YouTube
    Watch this if you like:Life on Mars, Any police series, anything to do with time travel


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 914 ✭✭✭tommyboy2222


    Title:"Psych"

    Cast: James Roday, Dulé Hill, Corbin Bernson

    Genre: Comedy/Crime/Mystery

    Description:A novice sleuth (Roday) is hired by the police after he cons them into thinking he has psychic powers that help solve crimes. With this assistance of his reluctant best friend (Hill) the duo take on a series of complicated cases.

    Links:http://www.usanetwork.com/series/psych/video/fullep/


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,362 ✭✭✭K4t


    Title: Deadwood
    Cast: Ian McShane (worth watching for his performance alone), Timothy Olyphant, Powers Booth, William Sanderson, Molly Parker
    Genre: Gritty Western drama
    Description: Set in the 1870s, the show charts the growth of Deadwood from camp to town, incorporating a variety of storylines. A truly exceptional tv show.
    Links:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadwood_(TV_series)
    Watch this if you like: The Sopranos


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭Nothingcompares


    Title: Pushing Daisies
    Cast: Lee Pace, Anna Friel (Brookside), Chi McBride, Kristin Chenoweth
    Genre: Black Comedy
    Description: This romantic comedy shows us the fairy tale-like world of Ned, a man who can bring dead people back to life through the power of his touch. He teams up with a PI to solve murders
    Links: Wikipedia, Tv.com
    Watch this if you like: Amelie, Lemony Snickets A Series of Unfortunate Events, Tim Burton
    You should know: This was cancelled at the end of the second season so doesn't have a satisfying ending


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,744 ✭✭✭Táck


    Title: Bored To Death
    Cast: Ted Danson, Jason Schwartzman, Zach Galifianakis (alan from hangover)
    Genre: Comedy, Black Comedy
    Description: book writer with writers block decides to become a private detective in new jersey, whilst trying to comfort his lonely boss, ted-dan and his best friend zach who smokes lots and lots of weed. or pot as they call ittis only the first season too, so best to jump on board now!
    Links: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1255913/ www.torrentz.com
    Watch this if you like: weed. ted danson. Zach Galifianakis. black comedy. weed.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,547 ✭✭✭funkyjebus


    Title: Black Books
    Cast: Dylan Moran, Bill Bailey, Tamsin Greig
    Genre: Comedy
    Description: Bernard Black runs his own bookshop even though he doesn't much like people who buy books and hates having customers. Next door to Bernard's shop is the Nifty Gifty gift shop run by Fran, probably Bernard's only friend in the world. When Bernard's accountant goes on the run Bernard employs stress victim, Manny to help in his shop. This leads to a series of surreal adventures around the shop
    Links: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0262150/
    Watch this if you like: to laugh, Dylan Moran, Bill Bailey


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,547 ✭✭✭funkyjebus


    Title: Peep Show
    Cast: David Mitchell, Robert Webb
    Genre: Comedy
    Description: Mark and Jez are a couple of twenty-something roommates who have nothing in common - except for the fact that their lives are anything but normal. Mayhem ensues as the pair strive to cope with day-to-day life.
    Links: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387764/
    Watch this if you like: That Mitchell & Webb Look, The inbetweeners.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,547 ✭✭✭funkyjebus


    Title: The INbetweeners
    Cast: Simon Bird, James Buckley, Blake Harrison
    Genre: Comedy
    Description: The Inbetweeners is a BAFTAnominated British sitcom about a group of teenage friends struggling through sixth form at school
    Links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inbetweeners
    Watch this if you like: To remember what it was like messing with your mates at school, Peep Show


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,417 ✭✭✭The Pontiac


    Title: Underbelly
    Cast: Gyton Grantley, Les Hill, Asher Keddie, Roy Billing, Anna Hutchison.
    Genre: Crime, Drama.
    Description: A 13-part Australian television mini-series, retelling the real events of the 1995–2004 gangland war in Melbourne.
    Links: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1119176/
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underbelly_%28TV_series%29
    Watch this if you like: The Sopranos, The Wire.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 34,916 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Title: Bodies
    Cast: Max Beesley, Neve MacIntosh, Patrick Baladi, Keith Allen, Tamzin Malleson
    Genre: Medical, Drama.
    Description: Two-season medical drama set in the ObGyn ward of a British hospital and centred on the nasty politics of healthcare as a young doctor tries to draw attention to a senior colleague's repeated mistakes. Gritty and graphic.

    Links: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0398427/
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodies_%28TV_series%29
    Watch this if you like: Nurse Jackie, The Wire.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,810 ✭✭✭Seren_


    Title: Garth Marenghi's Darkplace

    Cast: Matthew Holness, Richard Ayoade, Matt Berry, Alice Lowe

    Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi

    Description: Hmm, it's hard to describe this show in a short paragraph! Basically Garth Marenghi (Holness) is a horror writer, who wrote and starred in Darkplace, a supposed 80s medical drama. It's made to really seem like it was made in the 80s, with cheesy dialogue and special effects. A very funny show :)

    Links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkplace

    Watch this if you like... The IT Crowd, The Mighty Boosh.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 18,160 CMod ✭✭✭✭The Black Oil


    Title: Millennium

    Cast: Lance Henriksen, Megan Gallagher, Terry O' Quinn, Kristen Cloke and Klea Scott

    Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller

    Description: Like The X Files, but want something that's a bit darker? This might well be the show for you. It only lasted 3 series and sometimes the quality was a bit mixed, but rest assured you'll see well-written characters, a good premise and unnerving stories. Lance Henriksen plays a former FBI agent who has a gift for seeing what the killer sees. I know, I know, but give it a chance and it's not CSI!

    Links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_(TV_series)

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115270/

    Watch this if you like... The X Files.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,048 ✭✭✭dolliemix


    Title: Six Feet Under

    Cast: Peter Krause, Michael C Hall, Frances Conroy, Rachel Griffiths, Lauren Ambrose

    Genre: Drama, Dark Comedy

    Description: Drama based around a family run undertakers in LA. This show is everything you wouldn't expect from an 'LA' drama. Every show opens with the death of an unknown character, whose body ends up in the Fisher family's Funeral Home. There are 63 episodes over 5 series. It's an endearing portrayal of a dysfunctional family dealing with the death of their father/ husband and their own individual issues. The final episode haunted me for weeks after.

    Links: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0248654/; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Feet_Under_(TV_series)

    Watch this if you liked: Little Miss Sunshine, Volver, The Sopranos


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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,964 ✭✭✭ToniTuddle


    Title: The Black Donnellys

    Cast: Jonathan Tucker, Olivia Wilde(currently in House), Billy Lush, Tom Guiry, Peter Greene

    Genre: Drama

    Description: The series follows four young Roman Catholic Irish-American brothers in Hell's Kitchen and their involvement with organized crime. Although the show is set in the present day, it draws heavily upon Irish-American history and iconic themes. The pilot episode illustrates a clear tension and rivalry between the Irish and the Italians.

    Links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Donnellys

    Watch this if you like: The Sopranos
    Currently: Show was cancelled by NBC, they have yet to comment on their actions and give fans a reason -.- prompting online petitions.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,143 ✭✭✭locum-motion


    Title: Flash Forward
    Cast: Joseph Fiennes (Shakespeare in Love), John Cho (Harold & Kumar, Star Trek), Sonya Walger (Lost), Jack Davenport (This Life, Coupling), Courtney B. Vance (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), Dominic Monaghan (Lord of the Rings trilogy, Lost)
    Genre: SciFi/Drama
    Description: (From Wikipedia) "A mysterious event causes nearly everyone on the planet to simultaneously lose consciousness for 137 seconds, during which people see what appear to be visions of their lives approximately six months in the future—a global "flashforward". A team of Los Angeles FBI agents, led by Stanford Wedeck (Vance) and spearheaded by Mark Benford (Fiennes), begin the process of determining what happened, why, and whether it will happen again. Benford contributes a unique perspective on the investigation; in his flashforward, he saw the results of six months of investigation that he had done on the flashforward event, and he and his team use those clues to recreate the investigation.
    The team investigates a number of events related to the flashforward, including "Suspect Zero", who did not lose consciousness during the event, the sinister "D. Gibbons", and a similar mass loss of consciousness in Somalia in 1991. Meanwhile, personal revelations contained within the flashforwards occupy the personal lives of the principal characters. Mark Benford sees his alcoholism relapsing, his wife sees herself with another man, and other characters grapple with similarly unexpected or surprising revelations in their flashforwards."

    Links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlashForward_%28TV_series%29

    Watch this if you like: Lost, X Files, The 4400.

    Currently: The 1st two episodes were shown tonight on RTE 2.
    The 1st ten episodes have been shown on US tv, with the remaining 14 due to restart in March.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 18,160 CMod ✭✭✭✭The Black Oil


    Title: From the Earth to the Moon

    Cast: Adam Baldwin, Gary Cole, Cary Elwes, Paul McCrane, Kevin Pollak and more you'll probably recognise.

    Genre: Drama, Mini-series

    Description: I think this series may be a little underrated, it's a bit of a hidden gem. It comes from HBO so you'll expect it to be of a certain standard and generally you won't be disappointed. It would have been so easy for something like this to slip into cheese or jingoism, but it doesn't. It's about the men, their country, their work ethic, friendsips...I will admit that it's not perfect which may contradict my hidden gem statement, but it's still very good viewing! Tom Hanks has a hand in this, as he did in Band of Brothers and John Adams...I would watch all three of these series again before watching the rather overrated Saving Private Ryan. Like him or loathe him he obviously knows how to make a good series.

    If you have any interest in space, the moon landings, space travel then check it out.

    Links: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120570/

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_Earth_to_the_Moon_(TV_miniseries)

    Watch this if you liked: Band of Brothers


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,680 ✭✭✭✭Panthro


    Title: Summer Heights High

    Cast: Chris Lilley

    Genre: Comedy

    Description: Australian television mockumentary series written by and starring Chris Lilley. It is a parody of high school life epitomised by its three protagonists: effeminate and megalomaniacal "Director of Performing Arts" Mr G; self-absorbed, privileged teenager Ja'mie King; and disobedient, vulgar Tongan student Jonah Takalua, all played by Lilley. It lampoons Australian high school life and many aspects of the human condition and is filmed in a documentary style, with non-actors playing supporting characters.

    Links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_Heights_High

    Watch this if you like: Good comedy


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,316 ✭✭✭Reginald P. DuM


    Title: Entourage

    Cast: Kevin Connolly, Adrian Grenier, Kevin Dillon, Jerry Ferrera, Jeremy Piven, Rex Lee, Perrey Reeves, plus various cameos.

    Genre: Comedy

    Description: Entourage depicts the rise of Hollywood actor Vinny Chase as he and childhhood friends, or entourage, attempt to adjust to fame and notoriety.

    Links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entourage_%28TV_series%29
    http://www.hbo.com/entourage/



    Watch this if you like: Weeds, Californication, Curb.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,588 ✭✭✭JP Liz


    Title: Glee
    Cast: Mathew Morison, Jane Lynch, Jayma Mays, Lea Michele, Cory Monteith
    Genre: Hour Long Comedy
    Description: A high-school Spanish teacher takes over his school's Glee club, hoping to restore it to its former glory.
    Links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glee_(TV_series)


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,964 ✭✭✭ToniTuddle


    Title: Carnivále

    Cast: Clancy Brown , Nick Stahl , Clea DuVall , Carla Gallo

    Genre: Supernatural

    Description: Battle between Good and Evil. Carnivále follows a travelling carnival through the American Dust Bowl circuit. Focusing on Ben Hawkins, a mysterious fugitive with unusual healing powers, who is taken in by the carnival and Brother Justin, the charismatic yet evil evangelist who will ultimately cross his path. The series takes place at a time of worldwide unrest, with evil on the rise around the globe and the Great Depression wreaking economic and social havoc.

    Links: HBO , Wiki Info

    Watch this if you like: Twin Peaks, Lost


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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,386 ✭✭✭EKRIUQ


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    Title:
    Brotherhood

    Cast:
    Jason Isaacs,Jason Clarke,Annabeth Gish,Fionnula Flanagan, Kevin Chapman

    Genre:
    Drama/ Gangster,

    Description: Set in an Irish neighbourhood in Providence, the series reflects around two brothers on opposite sides of the law: one a gangster (Jason Isaacs) and the other a politician (Jason Clarke). An Irish American theme to the show. It ran for 3 season's

    Links: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457229/
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brotherhood_%282006_TV_series%29


    Watch this if you like: The Soprano's,


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,316 ✭✭✭Reginald P. DuM


    Title: Shameless

    Cast: David Threlfall, Elliot Tittensor, Geard Kearns, Rebecca Ryan, Pauline McGlynn.

    Genre: Comedy/Drama

    Description: Shameless follows the ups and downs of the dysfunctional Gallagher family, headed by the patriarch Frank. The Gallaghers try to survive on their wits and humour in the Chatsworth Estate, a lively working class Manchester suburb.

    Links:

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377260/

    http://www.channel4.com/programmes/shameless


    Watch this if you like: Good ol' fashioned English humour.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭Hank_Jones


    Title: Southland

    Cast: Ben McKenzie, Michael Cudlitz, Shawn Hatosy, Regina King, Tom Everett Scott

    Genre: Action/Drama

    Description: Cop show based in Los Angeles. Centres mainly around one rookie officer (McKenzie) and he begins working on the tough streets of LA. Great acting and storylines, with a very strong cast of actors.

    Links:

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1299368/

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southland_%28TV_series%29


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