Best TV Shows?
 

Home-grown British or American shows, which is your favourite and why?

Also who does each category better?

Drama?
Comedy?

What are you favourite shows from each genre?

American shows for Dramas and sitcoms. British shows for reality TV and quiz shows.

My favorite American Drama: LOST
My favorite American Sitcoms: How I Met Your Mother and Friends

My favorite UK Quiz Show: The Weakest Link
My favorite UK Reality Show: Big Brother, of course!

:)

Breaking Bad, cant wait Season 5 starts soon :)

Reality is probably my favourite overall genre, favourite show is Big Brother. Also really enjoy all the "talent" type shows, Dancing on Ice, X Factor, American Idol to name just a few.

I love American dramas like Desperate Housewives and comedies like Ugly Betty, but I also love American reality tv like Top Model and Drag Race :amazed:

British reality tv is good to, BB and IAC

Breaking Bad/Weeds
How I Met Your Mother

because they are all awesome as ****

I have never watched either of Desp Housewives or Ugly Betty, they just don't really appeal to me. American comedies can be good, like Big Bang Theory (Sheldon :love:) and there's a new-ish one called The Bitch in Apartment 23, that's funny.

everyone i know loves big bang theory..i hate it personally

bitch in apartment 23 is funny

Drama - Desperate Housewives, Lost, Fringe, Revenge, Game of Thrones
Comedy - The Big Bang Theory, Modern Family, Bitch In Apartment 23, The Simpsons
Reality - Big Brother

Currently the best drama is Sons of Anarchy or Breaking Bad and the best comedy is Always Sunny in Philadelphia

I wouldn't say I'd have a favourite genre.

Trash TV/Talent shows I guess... Made In Chelsea, The Voice, X Factor, Big Brother, Young, Dumb & Living Off Mum, Coach Trip, 4 In A Bed.

But then I like American Drama as well so.

Game of Thrones, The Wire, Lost, 24, Homeland, Person of Interest, The Unit.

When it comes to comedies I only really watch Two and a Half Men these days.

:bored: Big Brother is NOT 'trash tv' despite the others you mentioned in that list compiling into that category. Big Brother is actual 'reality tv' unlike all the other edited and scripted stuff. :p

american horror story and the walking dead /thread

Trash TV/Reality TV, whatever :tongue:

Dramas: Mad Men, Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, Homeland, 24, The West Wing, Boardwalk Empire, The Wire, The Sopranos
Comedies: The Simpsons, The Office (UK), Frasier, Nurse Jackie, Veep, Parks & Recreation, Peep Show, Extras, Fawlty Towers, Green Wing, American Dad!, Beautiful People, Spaced
One-offs: Margaret (2009), Mo (2010), Red Riding (2009), Clapham Junction (2007), This is England
Panel shows/other: QI, Have I Got News For You, Shooting Stars, Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle
Kids: Dexter's Laboratory, The Animaniacs, Cow & Chicken, Johnny Bravo, Saved by the Bell, Sabrina the Teenage Witch (non-animated), Courage the Cowardly Dog, Rugrats

My top 7-

1. Doctor Who
2. Lost
3. Torchwood
4. Skins
5. Heroes
6. This is England
7. Survivors

How I Met Your Mother, Friends...... I'll just say E4 minus Glee, The Cleveland Show and Hollyoaks :joker: Desperate Housewives is one I really like. It's addictive. It's a bit of a mess of a show but I really enjoy watching it. I don't watch many dramas really.

For comedies I prefer British and Irish like Father Ted,The Office and Extras. I don't particularly like older British comedies though like Faulty towers or Only Fools and Horses

The Americans definitely do Dramas better though, my top 5 of all time are probably :

Dexter
Twin Peaks
Lost
The walking Dead
Game of Thrones

My all-time favourite TV series is Heroes. Great plots, interesting characters and I just love the whole "humans with super powers/enhanced abilities" concept. I also loved Harper's Island and Awake which were 1-offs.

Favourite current drama series include: The Walking Dead, Skins, Revenge and American Horror Story. Hopefully Breaking Bad will join that list when I get around to starting it next week!

Comedies Ive enjoyed are The Inbetweeners, 2 Pints of Lager and The IT Crowd. I dont know many old shows but Bottom is a comedy I love also. The Big Bang Theory is good but only from series 4 with Amy and Beernadette.. probably because I started watching with them present and the old 1s just feel.. odd (and I HATE Lesley).

I love Reality TV... The Apprentice, BB, TXF, Sun Sex + Suspicious Parents, Coach Trip, Come Dine With Me etc.

Then Alan Carr: Chatty Man is hilarious, definitely the best talk show, and Hollyoaks is the most entertaining soap.


After all that though, I dont watch that much TV.

Im a father ted fanatic! :) black books and alan partirdge too, not too keen on soaps or modern sitcoms though.
I love english drama like this is england, red riding, band of gold, boys from the blackstuff
but not period dramas like downton abbey.
I can't stand 'hollywood' films with car chases and explosions.
Lurve factual programmes,louis thouroux, cherry healy.. reality TV (BB obv) and documantaries, loathe quiz shows and x factor/ dancing juged talent shows...

The best programme ever made was sesame street and should be part of the curriculum in all primary schools.
:D

As for home grown shows... Nighty Night of course

American. Lost, hawaii 5:0 and scrubs
British. Shameless , the last train

Big brother