Any suggestions for a new drama/thriller show to watch? Channel BT seems to have slowed down recently and FTA has nothing on it. So what's your all time favorites or must see shows?

Here's a list of show I've watched or continue to watch if they are still running

- Spooks
- Murphy's Law
- Seinfeld
- Frasier
- West Wing
- Smallville
- Heroes
- House
- BSG
- Scrubs
- Californication
- Secret diary
- Fringe
- Lost
- Alias
- Terminator Chronicles
- Dexter
- Two and a half men

Edit: left some out

Supernatural

you should watch these:

chuck
big bang theory
true blood
fringe
24

I concur with Chuck

Boston Legal
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Family Guy/Simpsons/Futurama/American Dad/King of the Hill etc

Skins
Life
Generation Kill
Breaking Bad

30 rock!!!!!!

all im watching now is 30rock, scrubs, the office and madmen

30 Rock & Boston Legal have had a few recommendations from the guys at work.

Skins
Life
Generation Kill
Breaking Bad

Got a rundown on these? Never heard of them before.

Been watching Fringe, starts off with kinda average acting, gets better, now its on a break :(

go check out old tv shows that no one watches anymore cause they're in low def.


start with Yes muthaf***er Minister and work your way from there if you can handle the accent. Watching these shows is quite interesting again if you know the political background of the producers and writers.


It's kinda like playing your favourite games again - just cause you got an uber new system and you'd like to see everything in it's full glory..

Been watching Fringe, starts off with kinda average acting, gets better, now its on a break :(

bah another one? how lame

oh.. and **everyone** has to watch a long and boring David Attenborough docco about bees at least once in their life while stoned off their tits..

sure - you may have to travel to the netherlands or Canberra to be able to do this semi-legally.. it it's a must do

In Therapy was good.
Almost Human is good too.

generation kill was interesting, although i feel like there was something lost in the translation from book to tv show

skins = uk teenagers + drugs + sex

not nearly as good as it sounds, atleast after the first season.

Prison Break
How i met your mother

Entourage FTMFW
Weeds
7 Periods with Mr Gormsby
IT Crowd

Already mentioned:
Boston Legal
Two and a Half Men
Scrubs
Californication
Dexter

Supernatural

NO

I suggest somebody make a show about an old-school private detective in a dark, dirty city who has a sock puppet on his left hand who acts as his sidekick.

I missed the point of the thread, didn't I?

Worst week of my life

Lie to Me is pretty cool

And Life on Mars is interesting, the US one isn't as good as the UK one yet, but its striking out in its own direction now and finding its feet, and its an entertaining watch.

Life is a good show

RUSTA

Breaking Bad is about a high school chem teacher that gets diagnosed with lung cancer so he starts cooking meth. not bad, not great.

big bang theory is pretty average. Same formula as IT crowd- 2 geeks with geek friends that cohabit with a generic female character, hilarity ensues! Not really, they just drop some pseudo geek buzzwords like differential and integral and hope geeks laugh.

House is still the best :D

I don't see what the appeal about Lie to Me is.

The bits where they show human interaction is a little interesting but very gimmicky.

The main problem for me is that the main guy just doesn't seem like a well developed character - he is hard to "connect" with and understand. And by hard to understand i don't mean he is interesting in complex, i mean he is plain and boring.

Life; is good
Life on Mars (UK) was good, Yet to see how US one shapes up
I'm liking Lie to Me at the moment as well.

I've heard good things about Chuck, but have yet to get around to watching it.

The main problem for me is that the main guy just doesn't seem like a well developed character - he is hard to "connect" with and understand. And by hard to understand i don't mean he is interesting in complex, i mean he is plain and boring.

I think they're just trying to imitate House.

30 rock and How I met your mother are my favs atm

Just finished watching True Blood, and can't f***ing wait til they finish season 2! Damn this show has it all!!!

Any new show should include the hunting down and shooting of every single slag that put their hand up to be on Aussie Ladette to lady.... I refused to watch that crap show based totally on the low life scum they promote on it.

Lone Gunmen.

Sadly got axed after 1 season.

The Mentalist
Breaking Bad
Life
Burn Notice - No mention of this yet... great show

Crusoe - stretching it a bit but unique

go check out old tv shows that no one watches anymore cause they're in low def.
start with Yes muthaf***er Minister and work your way from there if you can handle the accent. Watching these shows is quite interesting again if you know the political background of the producers and writers.
It's kinda like playing your favourite games again - just cause you got an uber new system and you'd like to see everything in it's full glory..

I did this recently with a UK show called 'This Life'. You can still track it down in the usual places and its available on DVD. One of the best shows I watched on TV. That plus like you said already Yes (prime) Minister, Arrested Development, Faulty Towers, Ripping Yarns, Firefly, Rome and Coupling are some of the TV shows I have most enjoyed watching over the years.

Ages ago now I used to watch a French Cop drama on SBS called Navarro that was f***ing unreal. Needless to say years spent trying to track it down since have turned up nothing.

last edited by Azaria at 01:10:44 17/Feb/09

bah another one? how lame

FOX in their brilliance, have decided that a freshman show (Fringe) can survive two major breaks.

This one being the mandatory "American Idol" two hour s***fest. Fringe will return in 60 secondsApril.

The Wire
The Shield
Damages
Dexter
Friday Night Lights
Father Ted
It's Always Sunny in Philidelphia
Life
Sleeper Cell
The Hollow Men
The Gruen Transfer
United States of Tara
Dollhouse
Underbelly
Family Guy
American Dad
Six Feet Under
Sopranos

I watch tons more but these are the ones no one has mentioned yet (I think)

last edited by HeardY at 06:52:19 17/Feb/09

+1 on breaking bad

For drama:

Oz
The wire
The shield
Breaking bad
Mad men
The Tudors

For thriller:

Damages

start with Yes Minister and work your way from there if you can handle the accent. Watching these shows is quite interesting again if you know the political background of the producers and writers.

Actually yeah, a friend got me to watch Yes Minister... it's a f***ing brilliant show. I would recommend it very highly to anyone who enjoys British humour.

Burn Notice - No mention of this yet... great show

f*** yeah, dunno how I forgot that, Burn Notice is awesome.

Supernatural


NO

YES

nah, its definately a NO matey;

Father Ted

Love this, shame it's so hard to find.

whatevs, best show ever.

TicMan I have them all!

I concur with Chuck

Me too.

And Ugly Betty.

.... What?

lie to me
supernatural
allo allo
yes minister
are you being served

Supernatural, I've just started watching Chuck though and its awesome

TicMan I have them all!

Gimme gimme! Next time I'm in Ireland (October hopefully) I'll stop in and pick them up.

Black Books.

Going to see Dylan Moran in April, can't wait!

It's only 5.5gb or there abouts, I can host them if that's easier?

Going to see Dylan Moran in April, can't wait!

Bastard! Where is that?

My idea for a great TV show is a reality tv program where all the producers of reality tv programs are put into a large house for 2 months.

Each week, one gets shot through the head. At the end, the sole survivor gets castrated.

It has the benefit of being great entertainment, plus at the end there are no more reality tv producers save one, and he wont have the balls to make any more!

HeardY - sounds good, I'll PM some details to you.

Frakture - Melbourne, he's also in Sydney & Hobart (for some strange reason).

For those that watch - 'Rescue Me' is back in April - just a friendly advance warning. :)

Oh hells yeah! Been waiting for Rescue Me for AGES!

I would add Life to your list.

It's in my top 3 and you've already got the other 2, Dexter and Fringe.

Black Books +1

-High quality shows-

The Wire (most realistic show ever)
Rome
Deadwood
Sopranos

-Medium quality-

24
The Unit

-SciFi-

Babylon 5 (bit old, but best Scifi ever. better than BSG)
Deep Space 9 (awesome characters, great story. less pansy than most Star Treks)

-Animations-

American Dad (very funny)
Robot Chicken (extreme LOL moments)
Family Guy (similar to A.Dad but jokes are much dumber and less funny)

Most of these have already been suggested...

24, Prison Break, Heroes, Lost, Nip/Tuck, The Mentalist, The Unit, Fringe.

Most of these have already been suggested...

but without much context, just random unordered lists. I wouldn't trust someone's opinion if they list Two and a half men, Fringe or Prison Break. That's some low quality TV right there :)

you've obviously never watched fringe then :)

you've obviously never watched fringe then :)

Assumption fail.

I'm fairly patient, but half a season was enough for me to acknowledge the characters were weak and unlikeable and the general plot just retarded. 'Threshold' had a comparable feel but was much more interesting and better executed, but that got canned.

How bad is the Pommy accent in Black books? I find it hard listening to that "Pommy whine" for 30mins.

There were a couple of shows going lately that got canned that were great. The one where the big dinosaur things come up out of the ocean, the one where 2 guys were framed as terrorists by their mate and the time machine guy that was from Rome.

The one where the big dinosaur things come up out of the ocean

surface

time machine guy that was from Rome.

journeyman

black books is excruciating to watch. mrs hardware likes it, i just want to punch all the characters in the face for being so retarded.

i get half a chubby for the bird in black books
dylan and bill are hi-larious

you are obviously very bad at (watching) comedy mrH

How bad is the Pommy accent in Black books?

you realise that bernard is irish right?