What's your favorite TV show right now?

[JW77]

For me its still got to be Dr Who:D

For a real laugh however, Netflix is doing 'King Julian 'EXCILED'  a madagascar spinoff,  it may be animated but its got so many references to other films, I swear the writers are smoking something, its genius!!

[Riki]

Totally Enjoying King Julian (EXCILED) on Netflix

I've seen that a couple of times scrolling through.. I wasn't sure exactly what it was, so never bothered with it.. I kind of forgot how funny the writers can be at Dreamworks.. I believe there is also a Puss in Boots series that I haven't checked out yet

[BoltWiz1973]

I was looking for something new to watch since some shows are ending now. I loved Ray Donovan and The Bridge.
I power-watched House of Cards, which was really good. I have never seen The Wire so may get that from Netflix.
I also heard Once Upon A Time is addicting.
Any other recommendations?

I'm looking forward to MacGyver Season 2. This is the new MacGyver with Lucas Till and George Eads! I have already seen the original series and I am wondering if Richard Dean Anderson will make an appearance in this one!

[Paul]

For me its still got to be Dr Who

OK, that makes you the most intelligent person on this board

However since Dr Who is not on at the moment (except repeats, there are always repeats showing somewhere). The best show on TV at the moment is Lucifer (Fox in the US, Amazon TV in the UK). For those who have never seen it, the slightly mad plot line is: Satan gets bored with running Hell, so he moves to LA where he opens a nightclub (as you do). One of his favourite singers gets murdered, so he teams up with a female detective (who once stared in a soft porn {very soft porn} teen comedy) to catch the killer. He finds he enjoys this (misses "punishing" bad people) so becomes the porn star cop's unofficial partner. Oh yeah, and the devil has a psychiatrist too (he has moved to LA, after all).

Umm, when I said "Slightly mad plot", perhaps I should have left out the word "slightly".

It can occasionally be slightly blasphemous (for example season two featured God's ex-wife) but if you can live with that it does occasionally make good points about the religion too. And it is a very good show.

[cassandra]

Thanx for that tip Paul, Lucifer will get a try at least

[MooseMom]

On my last visit to the UK, I binge watched "People Just Do Nothing", and I know no one else who has seen it other than the one friend who recommended it to me.  I tried so hard to explain it to my husband but utterly failed, and he very kindly bought the DVD set for me.  I couldn't believe that it's available on NTSC format!  I was so pleasantly surprised.

Netflix has just released the final season of W1A, which is a parody of the BBC (W1A being the post code for Broadcasting House).  It stars Hugh Bonneville, who was Lord Crawley in Downton Abbey.

We're also watching Vera on Netflix; we're halfway through season 4.

Looking forward to the new season of Peaky Blinders.

Almost through watching Ken Burns' Vietnam War.

[Cupcake]

Love loved Ray Donovan; every time he opens the truck someone is gonna get whacked! Tonight is the finale of project runway-not really digging any of the finalists but the drama is addicting.

[Simon Dog]

Better Call Saul (netflix).   

[okarol]

Better Call Saul (netflix).

Love loved Ray Donovan; every time he opens the truck someone is gonna get whacked! Tonight is the finale of project runway-not really digging any of the finalists but the drama is addicting.

[Paul]

Just saw a pilot for a TV show with a mad plotline. The actual series has not started yet, they put out the pilot as a sort of teaser advert for the main series. The plotline is: Jean Claude Van Damme was not really an actor (if you have seen any of his films, that much rings true). His films were really a cover story. In truth he was a "dark ops" type special agent. Location shoots were arranged to get him wherever the mission needed him to be. But eventually he got a bit too old for that life and retired.

Then a chance meeting with his on set hair designer from the old days reminds him that he really loves her. To get back in her life he returns to his old boss and gets his job as a special agent back. Trouble is, he is still a bit passed his best, and not really up to new missions.

Jean Claude Van Damme plays himself, brave, particularly as he plays himself as a bit of an idiot. It is no award winner, but funny in places, especially if you are old enough (and had lowbrow taste enough) to have watched Jean Claude Van Damme's movies in the 1980s, so that you get the in jokes. Will probably end up as one of those shows that I watch occasionally, when I have nothing else to do, but don't go out of my way to see.

[Paul]

Just seen something on TV that I never thought I'd see, a comedian that I thought "went too far". I'll not quote the joke because British TV allows a lot more than American TV, and this is probably not the place for stuff like this, but the comedian was describing his sex life with his wife, it was very funny material, and I was laughing, but as he described one particular messy act I suddenly realized "I don't want to hear this". And by the look on the audiences faces, they did not either.

[Paul]

Weee......Got Castle back. I am watching it on Amazon TV, they tend to charge (the equivalent of about $2.50 per episode) for the first year after broadcast, then give it free. Being tight I never pay, always wait (and even if I did, $2.50 per episode is far too expensive, cheaper to buy the series on DVD). This worked up to season six, but season seven did not go down in price to "free" when expected. So I waited. Then they started charging for seasons one to six too, so I assumed we would never get the last two seasons free (although I did not know they would be the last two seasons back then, there were still plans for season nine) and gave up on the show. Then a couple of days back I noticed that season one was free again, checked the others, and found that all episodes in all eight seasons are free.

So now I am at last catching up on the last two seasons of Castle.

(The day I discovered that the last two seasons were now free was my birthday. Do you think they did it as a birthday present for me? )

[cassandra]

(The day I discovered that the last two seasons were now free was my birthday. Do you think they did it as a birthday present for me? )

Of course it's a present.


I sometimes watch  on Amazon "the tick" which is a pretty funny play on "the fly"

[LorinnPKD]

Oh, I'm so sadnow!  I just ran over to add Castle to my Amazon playlist and it's not free here in the US.  Boooooooo.

But at least we have peanut butter cups, so.

[Simon Dog]

but as he described one particular messy act I suddenly realized "I don't want to hear this". And by the look on the audiences faces, they did not either.

At least the script writers in Better Call Saul simply used the term Cleveland Steamer and were gracious enough not to describe it.

[SweetyPie]

Criminal minds!!
Masterchef
Cut throat kitchen
Greys anatomy
The challenge

[kitkatz]

Greys Anatomy
Counting On
WWE Smackdown
WWE Raw

[Hectoro]

but as he described one particular Performer 8 success story I suddenly realized "I don't want to hear this". And by the look on the audiences faces, they did not either.

At least the script writers in Better Call Saul simply used the term Cleveland Steamer and were gracious enough not to describe it.

I'm watching Altered Carbon at the moment. It's really good. It's a sci-fi show and you can get all the episodes at once on Netflix.

[cassandra]

Am now watching 'the good wife', very good

[MooseMom]

I'm watching the second season of "Occupied" on Netflix.  It's a Norwegian tv series set in the near future. 

The PM of Norway has decided to end Norway's oil and gas industry and replace it with mining and processing a new form of energy, thus helping the environment.  Well, the EU doesn't like this at all, so they "invite" the Russians to "temporarily occupy" Norway with a view of maintaining Norway's oil and gas fields.

I really like it because when I was younger, I worked in London with a reinsurance broker for energy underwriters at Lloyd's of London, so I saw firsthand how big Norway's oil and gas facilities and markets are.  I have friends and colleagues still in Oslo.  I was there just a few months ago, and as a part of my tourist-y agenda, I visited City Hall (that's where the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony is held each year).  So imagine my surprise when I saw in the tv show that City Hall had been commandeered as Russian HQ.

And then when parts of Oslo started blowing up (in the series), it was really creepy!

So, if you have Netflix, I recommend this series. 

We're also watching Jessica Jones, but I also like my half hour comedies like Modern Family and blackish.

We watched Roseanne the other night and loved it!

[Riki]

Am now watching 'the good wife', very good

That's a really good show.  I was actually sorry to see it end.  There is a spinoff to it called "The Good Fight" which is also very good, and in it's second season.  Unfortunately, in the US, it's only available on CBS All Access, but here in Canada, it plays on the Women's Network.  You can probably check the Googles to see if it's available anywhere else.

I've started watching a new show, called Rise, about a troupe of high school theatre students.  It has a very Dead Poets Society feel to it

[kristina]

I very much enjoy watching the series "World of Mysteries" and "Naked Science" (both courtesy of youtube) and it is most interesting to watch scientists using the latest scientific tools to find an answer to interesting folktales like the Loch Ness-monster-mystery or the "Quest for the Holy Grail", or the mystery of Pyramids etc. Great fun to watch!

[cattlekid]

For current TV, it is "Empire" on Fox (US).  Like the old TV show "Dallas" but in a hip-hop music setting.

For TV that is currently not on, it's Game of Thrones.  I just finished season 3 so PLEASE no spoilers.   

[irvinsen5]

Impractical Jokers

[Cupcake]

Patrick Melrose! I'd watch Benedict Cumberbatch read the phone book.