Your top 5 series/sitcoms ever?

[Richard Cranium]

Yasmin's Getting Married
House From Hell
The Shire
Being Lara Bingle
Skithouse

Channel 10's hit rate is so, so low. Thank **** for Offspsring, The Project and the Big Bash League from their perspective.

 

[JackOutback]

I don't want to sound like a twat, but how can you watch tele and be half into it and not have watched The Sopranos?

It's like being into music and never hearing The Beatles (not that I like them really) or never watching a Scorsese or Tarantino movie but saying you love film.

I haven't seen the Sopranos, yet consider myself something of a TV snob. The reasons include that I've never really enjoyed the mob genre as much as others and I was living in London when it was on and didn't have access to it on free TV. The idea of going back to however many seasons it was doesn't really appeal to me. I already have to do that for the Wire, and that's only four seasons.

 

[Proper Gander]

Fawlty Towers
Seinfeld
How I Met Your Mother
Criminal Minds
Midsomer Murders

I find it difficult to picture you settling in for a session with Midsomer Murders.

This is a strangely confronting thread.

 

[Sinjin Smith]

Men behaving badly (UK)
Blackadder
Flight of the conchords
Scrubs
Frasier

 

[Doss]

I find it difficult to picture you settling in for a session with Midsomer Murders.

This is a strangely confronting thread.

Inspector Barnaby, what a guy.

 

[Proper Gander]

1. Homicide: Life on The Street
2. The Wire
3. Breaking Bad
4. Mad Men
5. Freaks and Geeks

Highest Australian shows for me are Janus and Love My Way.

I wrote off to universities to do a law degree on the back of watching Janus.

 

[Plugger35]

Yasmin's Getting Married
House From Hell
The Shire
Being Lara Bingle
Skithouse

Channel 10's hit rate is so, so low. Thank **** for Offspsring, The Project and the Big Bash League from their perspective.

There was also The Renovators, a shitter version of The Block if that's even possible, which was also a massive flop for them.

The other stations have had a few flops too though, Ch9 with that Excess Baggage show and that Ben Elton comedy show which was as funny as cancer.

Neither survived more than a few weeks.

 

[ioppolo]

How could I forget the Inbetweeners

 

[JackOutback]

Blue Murder and Wildside the pick of Australian drama. The Late Show and Frontline, the best of comedy.

 

[Gough]

I wrote off to universities to do a law degree on the back of watching Janus.

Phoenix, the series that proceeded it was also very good.

 

[Proper Gander]

Phoenix, the series that proceeded it was also very good.

Yes. I wrote off to a bunch of police training colleges on the back of watching Phoenix.

As an aside, I saw Shaun Scully who was the Goose on Phoenix - the forensics bloke - buying oysters in Apollo Bay in November. It's a funny old world.

 

[Gough]

Yes. I wrote off to a bunch of police training colleges on the back of watching Phoenix.

As an aside, I saw Shaun Scully who was the Goose on Phoenix - the forensics bloke - buying oysters in Apollo Bay in November. It's a funny old world.

For the love of god never watch Breaking Bad.

 

[Firestarter]

I don't want to sound like a twat, but how can you watch tele and be half into it and not have watched The Sopranos?

It's like being into music and never hearing The Beatles (not that I like them really) or never watching a Scorsese or Tarantino movie but saying you love film.

I don't care for any of those names but my tastes are more along the lines of:

Red Dwarf/Psych/Castle
Robert Palmer/Huey Lewis/Hall and Oates
Lion King/A Few Good Men/Paul

Respectively.

 

[gaskin]

1. Band of Brothers
2. Friday Night Lights
3. Blue Mountain State
4. Forever (Only made one season but it is the one show I go back and watch the most)
5. Scrubs

Honorable mentions to Smallville, The Inbetweeners, Battlestar Galactica, and Boston Legal.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

I don't want to sound like a twat, but how can you watch tele and be half into it and not have watched The Sopranos?

It's like being into music and never hearing The Beatles (not that I like them really) or never watching a Scorsese or Tarantino movie but saying you love film.

A) a bit long in the tooth now. There's so many big HBO series now that people will watch the latest hype one, and then prob work backwards if they really become a TV nerd. A few drop off each series back. Oz is the same but even further back

B) the mob thing has gone cold-ish and it doesn't attract people like it once did. Late 90s - mid 2000s was not long after classic mob like Goodfellas and Casino. Not anymore, the mafia itself has long declined and hence so has the fascination and art around it

 

[Roobs321]

I wrote off to universities to do a law degree on the back of watching Janus.

Oh I can just imagine! One of those procedural-esque programs which makes their profession feel like the only calling worth pursuing. Janus for the most part was as intelligent as any drama anywhere, anytime.

 

[Firestarter]

1. Band of Brothers
2. Friday Night Lights
3. Blue Mountain State
4. Forever (Only made one season but it is the one show I go back and watch the most)
5. Scrubs

Honorable mentions to Smallville, The Inbetweeners, Battlestar Galactica, and Boston Legal.

Boston Legal could also make my list actually.

 

[King_Steele]

And this is why society is stuffed.

It's lewd, lascivious, salacious, outrageous!

 

[King_Steele]

Seinfeld, Simpsons, Everybody Loves Raymond, Two & a half men
& Futurama

 

[little graham]

We must remember this
a kiss is still a kiss
a sigh is just a sigh
the fundamental things in life as time goes by..

 

[Perth gal]

Yasmin's Getting Married
House From Hell
The Shire
Being Lara Bingle
Skithouse

Channel 10's hit rate is so, so low. Thank **** for Offspsring, The Project and the Big Bash League from their perspective.

You got some mighty good viewing tastes right there ma boy.

 

[DazalenkoUBewty]

And this is why society is stuffed.

 

[Scotland]

A common theme with the best British series is that they had short runs.

The Office excluding specials was 2 lots of 6 episodes.
Blackadder (yeah the first one stank) was 4 lots of 6, each set in a different era.
Fawlty Towers, 2 lots of 6.
Not the Nine o Clock News was 27 episodes over 4 seasons.
Even the The Inbetweeners came and went with 3 lots of 6 episodes.

Monty Python's Flying Circus ran for 45 episodes, which for a sketch show is a lot. Some classic scenes but if you sit down and watch a bunch of episodes a lot of the sketches missed. With the exception of a handful of sketches (Dead parrot, silly walks, Spanish Inqusition etc.) they are more remembered for the movies they put out rather than the show.

Too many shows that start off good either stay on too long and lose relevance/popularity or the writers just run out of ideas and the show declines.

Lost (which was by no means a classic series) was a ratings hit when it started. I was bored with it like most people by season 2 or 3 and apparently they dragged out for 6 seasons. Smoke monster, Dharma Initiative, numbers... yawn. Over it, bye.

Sons of Anarchy I quite enjoyed. Well written and the characters were relatable, the storyline had plenty of arcs etc. for a show about a bunch of guys who ride bikes and sell guns, then towards the end they ran out of ideas and there were so few characters left important to the overall story. It would have been a better series had they ended it after 5 or 6 series rather than dragged it out to 7.

The Chaser guys are funnier than any of the 'comedians' like Peter Helliar that get regular spots on TV but I think they've probably had their time now. CNNNN was funny, and everyone enjoyed their satire and wacky stunts on The Chaser, but there's only so many times they can be re-hashed before it isn't funny any more. Roy and HG are a good example. The Dream was perfect for Sydney 2000. Each time they are wheeled out for an Olympic-themed show it just feels a bit more cringeworthy.

 

[JackOutback]

Seinfeld, Simpsons, Everybody Loves Raymond, Two & a half men
& Futurama

Two of them are not like the others.

 

[bomberclifford]

Good thread. Brings back some memories.

Drama
1. Oz
2. Deadwood
3. The Wire
4. Mad Men
5. Boardwalk Empire

(The Knick just misses out)

SciFi/Fantasy/Horror
1. Game of Thrones
2. Mr Robot
3. Westworld
4. Dr Who
5. Blakes 7

Comedy
1. IT Crowd
2. Mighty Boosh
3. Curb Your Enthusiasm
4. Peep Show
5. Veep

(Flight of the Conchords & Arrested Development just miss out)