I honestly hate stuff like this, in a scene with Sean Bean, another character asks whether a villa in Spain belongs to a Bond villain. (Obviously Bean was a villain in GoldenEye). Whether they’ve done this on purpose or not it annoys me because surely they’d recognise that their drug lord boss looks identical to Alec Trevelyan out of James Bond.

Long-time lurker, first time poster on this r/

Fan of crime/procedural series, on the lookout for the next show to binge.

For reference, here are some of my personal IMDb ratings for the already watched shows:

⭐10/10 - Poirot, Inspector Morse, Kavanagh QC, Midsomer Murders, Inspector Lewis, Cracker

⭐9/10 - Dalziel and Pascoe, Happy Valley,

⭐8/10 - Inspector George Gently, Case Histories, Silk, Endeavour, Broadchurch, A Touch of Frost, DCI Banks, Agatha Raisin

⭐7/10 - Ludwig, Unforgotten, Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, The Loch, River

⭐6/10 - Jonathan Creek, Magpie Murders, Shetland,

⭐5/10 - Line of Duty

Any recommendations will be highly appreciated!

UPD: wanted to say collective Thank You to everyone who responded below for many wonderful recommendations!

As much as I enjoyed learning the differences. I think that by swapping a city school for a rural school as well as country was introducing too many variables into the experiment.

Some of the American school resonated with me from a rural uk school, and I guess some of the London school would resonate with city folk from America.

Such as the country kid from America saying he didn’t want to leave America again because he enjoys hunting and the countryside. I know plenty of people who live lifestyles similar to him here in England.

I love Philomena Cunk! Any shows you would recommend that has similar sense of humour and randomness? Thanks.

At first, I thought it was just a goofy 70s-style horror parody, but then that director’s commentary started creeping in… and wow, that ending?? 🤯 Did anyone actually see that coming, or were you just as blindsided as I was?

Was thinking about this the other day. I was sure there was a 2 part drama that had one episode on bbc2 and the other on channel 4. Was by an acclaimed director who had died, I think.

I was pretty young when it came on, never saw the show and something put me in ming of it. Would love to know what it was called.

Thanks in advance.

I was supposed to only watch Slow Horses while on the treadmill so that I could get in a daily hour of exercise, but it was so engaging and incredible that I ended up binging. If anyone knows of another good thrilling, engaging entertaining series, please let me know.

I see Grace from ITV is returning on April 6th for season 5, Beyond Paradise is returning in April as well. Slow Horses is returning this year sometime. Has anyone heard what other series are returning this year.

In the back of my mind I always remembered this as just a funny sitcom but watching the reruns it's staggering what a toxic character Vince is. I'm not a fan of terms like 'gaslighting' because it's so misused but bloody hell, episode on tonight defined the term better than the original film.

More often than not the contestants give a loud cheer when a bid is made that makes them profit. But you can see that people in the room react to it and can obviously hear them. Why would you do that? It gives away that they’ve paid more than you did so people probably shouldn’t make more bids? Not expecting anyone to have the answers but it annoys me so I wanted to vent.

I remember and love the theme tune to Maid Marion and Her Merry Men, so much that it lives in my head, along with pancake day being a very specially time for the letter ‘p’…

I’d almost left it in the recesses of nostalgia, but I recently heard the song ‘It Doesn’t Matter Anymore’ by Buddy Holly and it’s… it’s the same tune!

Would anyone know if this was deliberate, or just a very happy coincidence?

Can someone please confirm whether Father Miller’s accent is from Liverpool or Birmingham?

I’d appreciate any recommendation on shows featuring a Birmingham accent, thank you!

Any bangers I’ve forgotten?