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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
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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!0 -
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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:
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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..
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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...Moderator: Television, Psychology and Dublin County North.
CMod: Entertainment
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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. 0 -
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 3.0 -
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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
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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.0 -
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,0 -
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)
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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:
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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:
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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).
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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)
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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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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 strings0
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG37AylK1_s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0kRyv3RRH4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF57739m7H4
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