Which TV series would you advise me to watch if you could only recommend ONE?

[Deleted member 18477]

Breaking Bad obviously.

 

[Philzo-93]

Breaking Bad

 

[Biscuit]

Another vote for Doctor Who.

 

[Jim Van Winkle]

Our Friends in the North.

Legendary TV.

 

[pastafarian]

The West Wing
must be well over 100 hours of quality viewing(with subtitles of course)

 

[SouthCoastOwl]

Comedy - M*A*S*H

Drama - Breaking Bad

 

[Seagull kimchi]

Fringe is very good

 

[Dr. Notthenineo'clocknews]

The Boys From The Blackstuff (although watch The Blackstuff first)

 

[Husty]

Husty was spot on.

 

[Papa Lazarou]

Spaced
Dr Who
X-Files
Game of Thrones

I tried the Wire - but after a couple of episodes I gave up.

 

[Machiavelli]

Jeeves and Wooster with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, excellent stories, brilliantly acted.

Good spot. Not my favourite, but well worth a shout.

 

[Machiavelli]

Now that Borgen has finished I look forward to The Bridge second series in January.

With you on both of these, the lead character in The Bridge is just about the most brilliant I've come across thus far.

 

[FamilyGuy]

Boston Legal

Yes, yes, yes, what he said - I was gonna suggest this but I couldn't remember what it was called! (it's an age thing).

and/or M.A.S.H. and/or West Wing (the latter for it's continual lessons of "how to negotiate for everything".)

 

[seagully]

Vikings. A bit like Game of Thrones but better and based on the true history of the Vikings. First scripted series by The History Channel and it's an absolute belter.

Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQFQN3-Pm8E

This. Also love the music during the opening credits.

 

[Husty]

Sopranos and the Wire. Breaking Bad is overrated.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

Obviously the classics like Spaced etc

In recent months/years (as thats when I've only just had access to Sky) I've really enjoyed discovering Modern Family and Revolution.

 

[brighton_girl87]

Now that Borgen has finished I look forward to The Bridge second series in January.

January - Bingo. The last I heard it was going to be November and I got a tad worried when it wasn't advertised anywhere.

 

[Machiavelli]

I'm going to recommend one that's barely started, so it's the most promising. And it is promising, because it's ambitious. That ambition is shown by its length (the plan is for 40+ episodes), and that it tracks a particular space over a long period, a century. In this, it follows on from Heimat, which played an important role in Germany's post-war reconstruction of the psyche after Nazism.
The series is called The Village. It began earlier on this year on BBC1, so may well still be available on iPlayer, otherwise there's other web sources to track it down or the now ubiquitous box set. The first episode is glacially s....l....o....w, which might put some people off, but it's just scene-setting, as we have to adjust our perspectives for a century-long, forty-episode series. Perseverance more than pays off by the final episode dealing with the aftermath of WW1, which was one of the most staggering hours of TV I've ever seen, and is a welcome antidote to the mawkish celebrations/remembrances we will get from our politicians and big-wigs on this subject next year on the centenary of 'The Great War's' outbreak.

Others include: GBH, (the original) House of Cards, Doctor Who, The Bridge, Borgen, The Killing, Fawlty Towers, The Day Today, Brass Eye, and plenty more that will come to me in due course.

What this points to is that we are living through a halcyon period of televisual brilliance.

 

[driller]

24.

 

[Badger]

24.

This would be my top American recommendation.