TV Show Recommendations NO DISCUSSION

pappyodaniel · 22-11-2010 4:13pm

Title: Pulling
Cast: Sharon Horgan Tanya Franks Rebekah Staton Cavan Clerkin
Genre: Comedy-Drama
Description: Pulling is a BBC comedy series about three single female friends who live in London. It was co-written by Sharon Horgan (sister of Irish rugby player Shane Horgan) and Dennis Kelly and stars Sharon Horgan as Donna, Tanya Franks as Karen, Rebekah Staton as Louise and Cavan Clerkin as Karl.
Links: Wiki

JP Liz V1 · 22-11-2010 4:20pm

Title: Raising Hope
Cast: Lucas Neff, Martha Plimpton, Garret Dillahunt, Shannon Woodward and Cloris Leachman
Genre: Comedy
Description: Jimmy Chance, who hasn't made the best decisions in life, is trying his best to raise his daughter with the help of his family who didn't do the best job raising him as a child. His family consists of a working mom and dad Virginia and Burt, and an almost never-lucid grandma Maw Maw. Sabrina, a worker at the local store that Jimmy has a crush on.
Links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_Hope

pappyodaniel · 24-11-2010 2:42pm

Title: The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret
Cast: David Cross Sharon Horgan Blake Harrison Will Arnett
Genre: Comedy-Drama
Description: It is about an American (Cross) who takes a job running the sales team selling the energy drink Thunder Muscle at the London branch of his company, but who has no experience of British culture, knows nothing about sales, and has only one employee.
Links: Wiki

ziedth · 02-12-2010 12:15pm

Title: Journeyman
Cast: Kevin McKidd, Gretchen Egolf and Moon Bloodgood
Genre: Fantasy | Romance | Sci-Fi
Description: Canceled time travel series that I basically think was to clever for the US, follows the story of Dan who gains the ability to randomly travel back in time and help people. Definately worth a look
Links: IMDB
Watch if you liked: Daily Edition, Quantum leap , Any time travel show.

JP Liz V1 · 02-12-2010 3:54pm

Title: Terriers
Cast: Donal Logue, Michael Raymond James, Laura Allen and Rockmond Dunbar
Genre: Dramedy
Description:
Ex-cop and recovering alcoholic, Hank Dolworth partners with his best friend, former criminal, Britt Pollack in an unlicensed private investigation business in Ocean Beach, San Diego, California.
Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terriers_(TV_series)
http://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/originals/terriers/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1493239/

wil · 06-01-2011 4:28am

Title: howNOTtoliveyourlife -series 3
Cast: Dan Clark, David Armand, Leila Hoffman, Laura Haddock,
Genre: adult sitcom
Description: Don (a cross between Rik Mayall in Bottom and Ben Chaplin in Game On) vain, shallow, layabout, socially inept, un-pc, narcissistic, unembarassable general dickhead 20-something loveable loser shares his dead grandmothers house with his grandmothers (now his) carer (sort of male Mrs Doyle crossed with a besotted golden retriever))and his oap ex neighbour(a sort of female Fr Jack). He narrates over his situations with some Scrubs type imaginary asides of lists of things he would or wouldnt do etc. Socially wrong stuff with his occasional attempt at doing right.
Written and starring Dan Clark, got good in series 2
Links: wiki, imdb, sample1, sample2
Watch if you liked: Game on, Bottom, Fr Ted, Family Guy

merlie · 15-01-2011 4:05pm

Title: Bedlam
Cast: Will Young, Theo James, Charlotte Salt and Ashley Madekwe.
Genre: Supernatural drama
Description: The conversion of a former mental asylum into a plush new apartment block called Bedlam Heights is probably asking for trouble. Will Young stars as one of the residents who is terrorised by the spirits of former patients who are set on terrifying the new residents of the building
Links: http://www.tv.com/bedlam/show/79960/summary.html?tag=page_nav;subtabs;summary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHRpMe0ORSQ
http://tv.sky.com/will-young-to-star-in-living-drama

lordgoat · 16-01-2011 12:39am

Title: Treme
Cast: Lots of the Wire cast star again
Description: Based in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Chronicles the lives of people trying to piece their lives back together. Heavily steeped in NO customs and traditions with a large splattering of music this is a show not to be missed

Uncle Mclovin · 25-01-2011 1:33pm

Title: Rome (HBO)

Cast: Kevin McKidd, Ray Stevenson, Polly Walker, Kerry Condon

Genre: Period Drama

Description: Rome is sketched both from the aristocratic viewpoint of Julius Caesar, his family, his adopted successor Octavian Augustus, and their political allies and adversaries, and from the politically naive viewpoint of a few ordinary Romans, notably the soldiers Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo and their families.

Links: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0384766/
http://www.tv.com/rome/show/23351/summary.html?tag=page_nav;main

Watch this if you like: The Tudors

Unfortunately Rome only ran for two seasons due to budget constraints. Great series all the same.

source · 27-01-2011 11:31am

Title: Rush (Australia)

Cast: Rodger Corser, Callan Mulvey and Nicole da Silva

Genre: Crime Drama

Description: Based on the real-life Critical Incident Response Team, a branch of the Victorian Police Force, the members of Tactical Response aren’t your average police officers. They’re highly trained, equipped with specialist skills and weaponry which support their fundamental aim of non-lethal policing. Their ability to think laterally in the heat of a crisis is also crucial. Backed by comprehensive intelligence and cutting-edge technology, TR is better placed than anyone to stay one step ahead of the criminals and intercept them before any harm is done.

Links: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1258216/
http://ten.com.au/rush.htm

Watch this if you like: Southland, Third Watch

30-01-2011 11:33am

Title Luther

Cast Steven Mackintosh, Idris Elba

Description "Luther" follows the cases of a troubled yet brilliant English police detective, DCI John Luther (IMDB)

Links IMDB, Wikipedia

Watch this if you like Prime Suspect(s), Wire in the Blood

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Title Wire in the Blood

Cast Robson Green

Description Wire in the Blood is a British crime drama television series produced by Coastal Productions for the ITV network. The series is based on characters created by Val McDermid; a university clinical psychologist, Dr Anthony "Tony" Valentine Hill (Robson Green), is teamed with a tough female Detective Inspector

Links IMDB, Wikipedia

Watch this if you like Prime Suspect(s), intelligent British crime shows

honkytonk52 · 05-02-2011 5:18pm

Title: Blue Bloods
Cast: Donnie Wahlberg,Bridget Moynahan,Will Estes,Len Cariou,Tom Selleck
Genre: Police Drama
Description: The series follows the Reagan family of police officers with the New York City Police Department. Francis "Frank" Reagan (Tom Selleck) is the Police Commissioner, who is widowed with three grown children: Danny, Erin, Jamie, and another son who died. Danny (Donnie Wahlberg) is a top NYPD detective but is sometimes hard-nosed and does not always go by the book. Erin (Bridget Moynahan) is an assistant district attorney who prosecutes many of the criminals Danny arrests
Links: http://www.cbs.com/primetime/blue_bloods/

Plazaman · 10-02-2011 5:23pm

Title : Hawaii-Five-O
Cast : Alex O Loughlin, Scott Caan, Daniel Dae Kim, Grace Park and Others
Genre : Police Drama
Description : Steve McGarrett returns home to Oahu, in order to find his father's killer. The governor offers him the chance to run his own task force (Five-O). Updated remake of the original classic TV show (1968 - 1980)
Links : IMDB : CBS
Watch This If You Like : NCIS, The District

WesternNight · 10-02-2011 10:25pm

Title: Parenthood
Cast: Peter Krause, Lauren Graham, Dax Shepard, Monica Potter, Erika Christensen, Craig T. Nelson
Genre: Drama, comedy.. "dramedy"
Description: Parenthood follows the trials and tribulations of the very large, very colorful and imperfect Braverman family.
Links: IMDb, Wiki, NBC
Watch This If You Like: Brothers & Sisters

honkytonk52 · 01-03-2011 11:30pm

Title: Justified
Cast: Timothy Olyphant, Natalie Zea, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter
Genre: Drama Crime
Description: Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens is a 19th century-style but modern-day officer, who enforces his brand of justice which puts a target on his back with criminals and puts him at odds with his bosses in the U.S. Marshals Service. As a result of his having eagerly shot a Miami fugitive in a "justified" shooting in his South Florida assignment, he gets reassigned to the district covering his rural Eastern Kentucky mining hometown of Harlan.
Links: http://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/originals/justified/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1489428/

MagicMarker · 02-03-2011 12:18am

Title: Castle
Cast: Nathan Fillon, Stana Katic, Jon Huertas, Seamus Dever, Susan Sullivan
Genre: Crime/Drama/Satire
Description: World famous crime writer joins forces with homicide cop for ''research''.
Links: IMDB:TV.COM
Watch this if you like: Crime/Drama

Nathan Fillon makes this show what it is, he's an absolute legend! Even though it's a run of the mill cop show, it's surprisingly original with its twists and turns. You don't always see stuff coming a mile off like you do other shows! Probably one of my favourite shows atm.

Oh yeah, and the Firefly reference in Season 2 is awesome!!!!!

RolandIRL · 02-03-2011 2:23am

Title: Firefly
Cast: Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk
Genre: Space Western
Description: Series following the the adventures of the renegade crew of Serenity, a Firefly-class spaceship
Links: Wiki, Youtube trailer, IMDB
Watch this if you like: Other sci-fi space drama

Only one season which is a travesty, but got a film Serenity which tied up a few loose ends.

MagicMarker wrote: »

Oh yeah, and the Firefly reference in Season 2 is awesome!!!!!

That clip had me in stitches

Youtube link

Kimia · 15-03-2011 10:21pm

Title : The Chicago Code
Cast : Jason Clarke, Jennifer Beals, Matt Lauria, Devin Kelley, Todd Williams, Billy Lush, Delroy Lindo
Genre : Police Drama
Description : The series follows officers of the Chicago Police Department as they fight crime on the streets and try to expose political corruption within the city. Veteran Chicago Police Detective Jarek Wysocki leads the special unit against fighting the corruption. Wysocki was assigned to head the special unit by his boss the newly appointed first-female Chicago Police Superintendent and his one time partner, Teresa Colvin. Also on the unit is Caleb Evers, a young detective and Wysocki's latest partner. During their investigations the detectives often encounter police officers Vonda Wysocki (Jarek's niece) and Vonda's partner Isaac Joiner. Undercover officer Liam Hennessey works the streets as he gets information on the Irish mob and their connection to the corruption. Believed source of the corruption is Alderman Ronin Gibbons, a powerful and influential politician in Chicago.
Links : http://www.fox.com/chicagocode/
Watch This If You Like : Criminal Minds, CSI, The Wire, any other police show

Dman001 · 23-04-2011 11:30pm

Title: Big Love
Cast: Bill Paxton, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Chloe Sevigny, Ginnifer Goodwin, Amanda Seyfried.
Genre: Drama
Description:The series revolves around a family's struggles to live their polygamous lifestyle while keeping it a secret from the outside world.The series revolves around Bill Henrickson, his three wives (Barb, Nicki,and Margene) and their (combined) nine children. Henrickson lives with his family in three neighboring houses in Sandy, Utah, a suburb of Salt Lake City.
Links: http://www.hbo.com/big-love/index.html
Watch This If You Like: Six Feet Under, Brothers and Sisters

Title: How To Make It In America
Cast: Bryan Greenberg, Victor Rasuk, Lake Bell, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Luis Guzman, Scott "Kid Cudi" Mescudi
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Description: follows two enterprising twenty-somethings hustling their way through New York City's fashion scene, determined to achieve their version of the American Dream. Trying to make a name for themselves in the city's competitive fashion scene, Ben Epstein and his friend and business partner Cam Calderon use their street knowledge and connections to make their way up.
Link: http://www.hbo.com/big-love/index.html#/how-to-make-it-in-america
Watch This If You Like: Entourage, Flight of the Conchords

pappyodaniel · 31-05-2011 4:06pm

Title: Angry Boys
Cast: It's pretty much Chris Lilley
Genre: Mockumentary, Comedy, Drama
Description: (from Wiki)The show explores the issues faced by young males in the 21st century – their influences, their pressures, their dreams and ambitions. In Angry Boys, Lilley plays multiple characters: S.mouse, a black American rapper; Jen, a manipulative Japanese mother, Blake Oakfield, a champion surfer; Ruth "Gran" Sims, a guard at a juvenile detention facility; and her grandchildren, South Australian twins Daniel and Nathan Sim
Link: ABC HBO
Watch This If You Like: Summer Heights High, We Can Be Heroes, The Office, Curb Your Enthusiasm.

mikemac · 01-06-2011 8:15am

Title: Murder One, the first season. I'm not recommending Series Two which has a huge turnover in the cast
Cast: Daniel Benzali, Stanley Tucci, Mary McCormack, Michael Hayden, Jason Gedrick
Genre: Legal Drama
Description:Season One: Good looking, rich young Hollywood star picks up girl from club, takes her home and she ends up dead. Did he do it? Can his brilliant lawyers save him? What will happen in the court trial?

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_One_(TV_series)
Watch this if you like: The Killing, John Grisham books and films, legal dramas

shano1888 · 14-06-2011 12:32pm

Title: Spiral (Engrenages)
Cast: lots of french folk
Genre: Police drama
Description: The plot focuses upon the lives of members of the police, members of the french judical system and criminals in the Parisian underworld. Three seasons, 2006; 2008; 2010, each better than the last, would really recommend this one.
Links:
Watch this if you like: The Wire.

DeepBlue · 14-06-2011 12:58pm

Title: Fobrydelsen (The Killing)
Cast: Sofie Gråbøl, Lars Mikkelsen, Bjarne Henriksen, nn Eleonora Jørgensen, Betsy Brandt, Marie Askehave, Michael Moritzen, Søren Malling, Nicolaj Kopernikus.
Genre: Mystery, Drama, Action/Suspense

Description: Detective Inspector Sarah Lund is looking forward to her last day with the Copenhagen Police department. She is supposed to move to Sweden with her fiancé and transfer to the Swedish Police, but everything changes when a 19-year-old woman, Nanna Birk Larsen, is found raped and brutally murdered. Along with Detective Inspector Jan Meyer, Sarah is forced to head the investigation, as it soon becomes clear that she and Meyer are chasing a very intelligent and dangerous murderer.

Local politician Troels Hartmann is in the middle of a hard election campaign to become the new mayor of Copenhagen when suddenly, evidence links him to the murder. But is he really the murderer? At the same time, the girl's family and friends struggle to cope with their loss.

Over a span of twenty days, suspect upon suspect is sought out as violence and political pressures cast their shadows over the hunt for the killer.

Links: BBC | TVRage.com | IMDB.com

Note: This is the Danish original not to be confused with the AMC Remake.

Watch this if you like:The Wire, Engregages (Spiral), Murder One, Intelligent police dramas, woolly jumpers!

James T Kirk · 04-07-2011 11:02pm

Title: Sirens

Cast: Rhys Thomas, Kayvan Novak, Richard Madden, Amy Beth Hayes

Genre: Comedy/Drama

Description:

A team of world-weary paramedics are forced to confront the dregs of society - not to mention their own inadequacies - in this comedy drama.

Links: [URL=]http://www.channel4.com/programmes/sirens[/URL]

Watch this if you like: This Life, Teachers

Jelle1880 · 06-07-2011 1:37am

Title: Suits

Cast: Patrick J Adams, Gabriel Macht, Meghan Markle, Gina Torres, Rick Hoffman.

Genre: Comedy/Drama

Description:

Suits, formerly known as A Legal Mind, is a USA Network television drama series starring Patrick J. Adams and Gabriel Macht. It debuted on June 23, 2011 with a 90-minute premiere episode.

Mike Ross (Patrick J. Adams) is a lazy but brilliant college dropout with an eidetic memory that has allowed him to pass the bar exam without attending law school. Harvey Specter (Gabriel Macht), one of Manhattan's best lawyers, hires Ross as his new associate. Because of the firm's policy of hiring only Harvard Law graduates, Ross is forced to pretend that he has gone to Harvard.

Links: http://www.usanetwork.com/series/suits/

Watch this if you like: No idea honestly, it's unlike anything I've seen before.
Perhaps... Numb3rs, The Mentalist,... ?

Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYUQKm2nZNE

mikemac · 10-07-2011 9:43pm

Title: Necessary Roughness

Cast: Callie Thorne, Marc Blucas, Hannah Marks, Patrick Johnson

Genre: Comedy/drama
Channel/Backer: USA Network

Description:
Follows a New York therapist. Her cheating husband was kicked out, marriage over and she know raises her two teenage children.
Back on the dating scene she meets a charming, good looking trainer with the fictional New York Hawks, an American Football team.
The team has a spoilt, lazy, diva player and the coach sends this player to her for therapy to see if she can sort his wayward manner.
She then becomes the therapist to know as TV hosts, politicians and famous people come to her.

Watch this if you like: Frasier, can't think of other examples..

The Black Oil · 12-07-2011 10:16am

Title: The X Files

Cast: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, William B. Davis.

Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller, Sci-Fi

Description: I was 12 or 13 when this started and kept up with every episode until the end and the two feature films. This was pretty much the sci-fi show of the 90s, if not the show of that time. Duchovny (Mulder) and Anderson (Scully) had real chemistry and the quality of the episodes was such that, even in the early years, it had a quality more akin to a feature film budget. Scully is undoubtedly an example of a strong female TV character - engaging, well-written and highly intelligent. What really stood out, though, was the writing. Granted, eventually it did get buried under the weight of its own convoluted continuity, but for a good few years it was very good. I loved the humour and some of the excellent dialogue and story lines the show had. Mytharc or standalone? I'm fond of both, save for when the mytharc went arseways. Supernatural is probably its closest natural successor and has clearly learned from The X Files as has Fringe, which though decent, doesn't quite hit the mark as much as is said, imo.

Setup? Two FBI agents, operating outside of the Bureau's mainstream, investigate strange events, paranormal activity and the downright weird. Can they do so without interference and can they find the truth? Mulder, the believer, Scully the scientist whose role is to bring a skeptical perspective to his work. The Truth Is Out There.

Fanbase? Well, it can be a little weird, and some of the shippers are a little nuts and narrow-minded.

Links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_X-Files

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

Watch this if you like... Millennium, Supernatural or Fringe

The Black Oil · 15-07-2011 7:29pm

Title: House of Cards

Cast: Ian Richardson, Diane Fletcher, Susannah Harker.

Genre: Political drama

Description: Meet Francis Urquhart, Chip Whip of the governing Tory party. A sharp operator on many levels, intelligent, cunning, wonderfully manipulative and a no BS kind of guy.

This is perhaps quite apt for the times we're in now, given the NOTW revelations and the suggested connections with 10 Downing St.

Or at least, you might very well think that, I couldn't possibly comment.

Links:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098825/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Cards

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/cinema/features/house_of_cards.shtml

Watch this if you like: The West Wing, erm...

MagicMarker · 08-08-2011 7:58pm

Title: Men of a Certain Age
Cast: Ray Romano, Scott Bakula and Andre Braugher
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Description: There are highs and lows to every age, but three best friends know what it's like to be Men of a Certain Age. Ray Romano stars in an honest, emotional and funny drama about what it is like to be a middle aged man in the modern era.
Links: IMDB TV.COM
Watch this if you like: There's really nothing else like this tbh.

It's only when doing up this post that I've suddenly found out that this has been cancelled!!!

:mad: Absolutely gutted, I watched the first two seasons over the past few days and it's been absolutely fantastic, easily one of the best shows around imo. I'm praying another network picks this up.

bpb101 · 15-08-2011 7:22pm

Title: White collar
Cast: Matt Bomer Tim DeKay Willie Garson Tiffani Thiessen
Genre: Crime , Drama
Description:A white collar criminal agrees to help the FBI catch other white collar criminals using his expertise as an art and securities thief, counterfeiter and racketeer.
Links: Imdb USA Network Wikipedia
Watch this if you like:
crime shows , fbi shows, art

NOTE* RTE finished airing season 1 in may i think as usa finished airing season 2 in march.
USA are now half way through season 3 , i don't know whether rte will show season 2 or 3.

Liber8or · 16-08-2011 3:59pm

Title: Boston Legal

Cast: James Spader, William Shatner, Candice Bergen

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Description: A spin-off from David E. Kelley's award winning 'The Practice' which sees Alan Shore (James Spader) tackle civil law by joining a new firm - Crane, Poole and Schmidt. Accompanied by the enigmatic Denny Crane (William Shatner) who has "won over 6,000 cases; never lost, never will" they form an unbreakable bond of friendship whilst dealing with the trivialities and straight-out quirkiness of people both inside and outside the firm.

Links: Boston Legal

Watch this if you like: The Practice, Ally McBeal, Harry's Law

DermotOH · 19-09-2011 1:52am

Title: Game of Thrones
Cast: Sean Bean, Mark Addy, Michelle Fairley, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lena Headey
Genre: Medieval fantasy
Description: Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Political and sexual intrigue is pervasive
Links: IMDB, HBO
Watch this if you like: Rome, Boardwalk Empire

pappyodaniel · 27-09-2011 4:18pm

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Title: Fresh Meat
Cast: Jack Whitehall, Joe Thomas, Greg McHugh, Kimberly Nixon, Zawe Ashton and Charlotte Ritchie.
Genre: comedy drama series
Description: Student drama Fresh Meat, written by Peep Show creators Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain.
Link: Channel4
Watch This If You Like: Awkward British comedy like Peep Show, The Office, Inbetweeners etc.

puppetmaster · 05-10-2011 8:58pm

Title: Franklin and Bash
Cast: Breckin Meyer, Mark-Paul Gosselaar
Genre: Law/Courtroom Drama/Comedy
Description: Lawyers and lifelong friends Jared Franklin and Peter Bash are recruited by a large firm's major partner after winning a high-profile case.
Quirky show, not badly written. An Easy watch and quiet funny. 10 episodes in the first season. Been renewed for season 2. (so someones watchin it)

Links: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1600199/
Watch this if you like: Boston Legal, Ally McBeal,

squeakyduck · 06-10-2011 2:25pm

Title: Ringer
Cast: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nestor Carbonell
Genre: Drama
Description: (from IMDB) A young woman on the run from the mob poses as her wealthy twin sister to try and evade them, but soon discovers that her sister has a price on her head as well.

Links: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1819654/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringer_(TV_series)
Watch this if you like: The lying game

keane2097 · 11-10-2011 5:47pm

Title: Archer

Cast: H. Jon Benjamin, Judy Greer, Chris Parnell, Aisha Tyler, Jessica Walter, George Coe, Amber Nash

Genre: Animation/Comedy

Description: Set at the International Secret Intelligence Service (ISIS) in New York City, suave but incredibly self-centered master spy Sterling Archer deals with global espionage; his domineering, hypersexual mother/boss, Malory Archer; his ex-girlfriend (and fellow ISIS agent), Lana Kane; her ISIS accountant boyfriend (later ex) Cyril Figgis; and a less-than-masculine code name, "Duchess".

Links: IMDB|TV.com

Watch this if you like: Arrested Development, Get Smart

Status: Ongoing (currently in Season 3).

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpYiR5L9COw

keane2097 · 11-10-2011 6:01pm

Title: Alphas

Cast: David Strathairn, Ryan Cartwright, Warren Christie, Azita Ghanizada, Laura Mennell, Malik Yoba

Genre: Sci-fi/Drama

Description: A group of everyday people who possess uncanny neurological abnormalities is working for a secret government agency. This elite group is able to uncover what the CIA, FBI and Pentagon cannot or will not solve.

Links: IMDB|TV.com

Watch this if you like: Heroes

Status: Ongoing (Season 1 complete)

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPaF_4-ZXVc

mikemac · 23-10-2011 3:10am

Title: The League

Genre: Comedy

Description: Follows families and friends as they work towards winning their fantasy football league. Smart and witty comedy

. All sorts of backstabbing and hilarity ensues.

No knowledge of American football or fantasy football is required. Often get cameos like NFL players and broadcasters from ESPN and the networks.

Links: http://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/originals/theleague/

Watch this if you like: can't think of anything similar

Status: Ongoing (currently in Season 3).

bb1234567 · 23-10-2011 8:12pm

Title-The walking Dead

Genre-Drama/Horror

Cast-Andrew Lincoln,Jon Bernthal,Sarah Wayne Callies,Laurie Holden Jeffrey DeMun ,Steven Yeun.

Description-Police officer Rick Grimes leads a group of survivors in a world overrun by zombies.

Wathc if you like- Dead Set

Status-Ongoing(Season one complete) currently on episode 2 of season 2.

Season 2 Poster-http://cdn.sheknows.com/articles/2011/07/walking-dead-comic-com.jpg

Another Poster-http://seat42f.com/images/stories/tvshows/WalkingDead/The-Walking-Dead-Season-2-Poster.jpg

Season 2 Trailer-Quite long but very good, gets very good half way through, skip to 2:40 if you dont have enough time,that when it gets good!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grWV8WZtAQc.

enjoy show, hope you like it I love it!

bnt · 04-11-2011 11:22pm

Title: Fashion Police
Cast: Joan Rivers, Kelly Osbourne, Giuliana Rancic, George Kotsiopoulos
Genre: Chat / Celebrity / Fluff
Description: Mercilessly ripping the mickey out of celebrities and their fashion choices, with occasional praise for those who get it right.
Links: http://uk.eonline.com/news/fashion
Watch this if you like: laughing at pretentious celebs, Joan Rivers' scatological humour.

Fionne · 25-11-2011 4:08pm

For comedy: The Big Bang Theory - fabulously written comedy based on the lives of 4 nerdy scientists and their waitress/actress neighbour Penny. Jim Parsons has won Emmys for a good reason.

For drama: Rebus - gritty detective series based in Edinburgh starring Ken Stott.

For period drama: Lark Rise To Candleford, starring Julia Sawalha, Liz Smith, Brendan Coyle based on a true story of the life of a young trainee postmistress in 19th century rural England.

Conor108 · 03-12-2011 7:56pm

Title: Friday Night Lights

Cast: Kyle Chandler, Connie Briton, Brad Leland, Gaius Charles, Taylor Kitsch

Description: Based on the 2004 movie (Which itself was based on a book) FNL follows the lives of the Dillon Panthers football team and Coach Taylor in small town America. I wasn't even an American football fan but this is just such a good show, probably my favorite ever! Criminally underwatched

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG37AylK1_s

bb1234567 · 03-12-2011 8:25pm

Title- American Horror Story.

Genre-Horror(But dont be deceived, its really gripping dialogue and characters, and you really get to know the superb characters very well, very tense and thrilling...definitely not about cheap popout scares and gore, a really gripping sort of psychological horror, very creepy..not for the feint hearted though.)

Cast-Connie Britton,Taissa Farmiga,Jessica Lange,Dylan McDermott, Denis O'Hare,Frances Conroy ,Evan Peters.
(exceptionally good cast, all really amazing actors particularly the woman who plays Constance, main actress connie britton is excellent also.)

Description-A family of three move from Boston to Los Angeles as a means of reconciling their past anguish. They move to a restored mansion, unaware that the home is haunted.

Status-Ongoing - now on episode 8 of season 1.

Youll really be missing out if you dont watch this! Try it I love it.

Nice poster for show-http://www.thetvinformant.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/American-Horror-Story-S1-Poster-3.jpg

Enjoy!
P.s I would have posted the season trailer but I did'nt as its just terrible and does the brilliant show absolutely no justice! I'm sure it'd actually put some of you off if you watched it before watching the show

Hobbes · 24-12-2011 12:19pm

Title- Parks and Recreation

Genre- Comedy, somewhat in the lines of Trailer park boys, fake-documentry.

Cast- Amy Poehler, Rashida Jones, Aziz Ansari, Nick Offerman, Aubrey Plaza, April Ludgate, Andy Dwyer, Jerry Gergich, Paul Schneider, Adam Scott, Rob Lowe

Description- The absurd antics of an Indiana town's public officials as they pursue sundry projects to make their city a better place.

Status-Ongoing (in 4th season)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0kRyv3RRH4

mikemac1 · 26-12-2011 6:42am

Title- Hell on Wheels AMC

Genre- Drama, historical references

Cast- Colm Meaney, Dominique McElligott, Anson Mount, Christopher Heyerdahl.

Description- The US Civil War is over and the Union Pacific railroad is being built. Men looking to work and others with a purpose head west on this scheme.
It's a rough world out there, no laws and men make their own fate

Status-Ongoing Season One

Watch this if you liked: Deadwood

mikemac1 · 26-12-2011 6:51am

Title- Pillars of the Earth

Genre- Drama, fantasy, historical references

Cast- Eddie Redmayne, Haley Attwell, Matthew Macfadyen, Ian McShane, Rufus Sewell

Description- Set in a time which realy happened and known as "The Anarchy", the realm is divided by civil war. Covers religious corruption, lords abusing their power, devious politics and all the while common folk trying to get on with life
Is it any different today you ask

Status- One season, now over. Book adaptation

Watch this if you liked: Game of Thrones,

Incredible theme tune

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF57739m7H4

fruvai · 30-12-2011 4:32pm

Title- Twin Peaks

Genre- Drama, Crime, Mystery

Cast- Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Ontkean, Mädchen Amick, Lara Flynn Boyle, Sherilyn Fenn, Ray Wise, Jack Nance, Sheryl Lee, Grace Zabriskie

Description- Twin Peaks is an American television serial drama created by David Lynch and Mark Frost. The series follows the investigation headed by FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper, of the murder of a popular teenager and homecoming queen, Laura Palmer.

Links- IMDB

Status- Ran for two seasons (1990-1991)

Watch this if you like: Northern Exposure, X-Files, Lost and damn good cups of coffee

Seren_ · 02-01-2012 9:02pm

Title: Party Down

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ken Marino, Adam Scott, Lizzy Caplan, Martin Starr, Ryan Hansen, Jane Lynch, Megan Mullally.

Description: The show focuses on a group of aspiring actors/writers/whatever who work for a catering company while trying to make it in Hollywood. Each episode finds the team working a new event, and inevitably getting tangled up with the colorful, affluent guests and their absurd lives.

Links: IMDB Wikipedia

Watch this if you like: Community, Arrested Development.

sid77ie · 05-01-2012 8:05am

Title:Fringe

Genre:Sci/Fi

Cast:Anna Torv,John Noble,Joshua Jackson, Lance Reddick

Description: The FBI teams up with a formerly-institutionalized scientist - who was performing experiments on the fringe of real science - and his son to investigate weird crimes that are seemingly part of a larger pattern, and may be connected with a global company called Massive Dynamics.

Watch this if you like:The X Files, Supernatural, Flashfoward.

Links:http://http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1119644/
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WoollyRedHat · 08-01-2012 4:10am

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Title: 7th Heaven

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Stephen Collins, Catherine Hicks and Jessica Biel

Description: A reverend who drinks too much and his adulterous wife tries to raise the perfect american family and instill the christian way of life, with hilarious results and a loveable, talking dog who is the only one who really knows what's going on, only to die in season 7.
Links: IMDB Wikipedia

Watch this if you like: Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Brown paper packages tied up with strings

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