What are you looking at?

[Marjo]

Hi guys!

I've seen mention of X-Factor, Strictly, that baking show, Poldark (@Cleoriff) and of course my current favourite, Star Trek (the original).

I want to know what other series you watch or have watched in the past that you consider favourites?

My list is so long that if I post all of it you will think I have no social life. But these are some of the best ones I've ever watched (in no particular order):

• The X-Files
• Vampire Diaries
• True Blood
• Star Trek (original from the 60s)
• Stargate SG1
• Marvel's Agents of SHIELD
• Stargate Atlantis
• Agatha Christie's Poirot
• Northern Exposure
• The Bold and the Beautiful
• Bones
• Madam Secretary
• Elementary

Which ones of these have you seen?

[jonsie]

UK without a shadow of a doubt. The Americans have this habit of ruining anything we hold sacred when adapted for their own market. 

A Chinese American female Watson sidekicking a recovering drug addict? Just awful! 

[Cleoriff]

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@Marjo wrote:

@Cleoriff's passionate talk about Sherlock in another thread made me think of a question for you all who watch these:

Which one is better: the American version (Elementary, with Johnny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu) or the UK version (Sherlock, with Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman)?

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Absolutely no comparison. I started watching Elementary and found it quite banal The trick with Sherlock is each series consists of no more than 4 episodes. For fans like me it always leaves you wanting more...

[Marjo]

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@Cleoriff wrote:

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@Marjo wrote:

@Cleoriff's passionate talk about Sherlock in another thread made me think of a question for you all who watch these:

Which one is better: the American version (Elementary, with Johnny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu) or the UK version (Sherlock, with Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman)?

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Absolutely no comparison. I started watching Elementary and found it quite banal The trick with Sherlock is each series consists of no more than 4 episodes. For fans like me it always leaves you wanting more...

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Just clarifying, you're saying it's a good thing if there's less episodes? For me it's the other way around. If it's a good series, I can't get enough. I could watch 4 episodes in a row, easily. Maybe more. Well how many hours are there in a day?

(Elementary though, not Sherlock! Please don't throw tomatoes at me.)

[Cleoriff]

I'm saying it's a good thing for the programme makers. Always great to leave viewers wanting more.

Also, I honestly can't understand how anyone can compare Elementary with Sherlock? #justsaying

[Anonymous]

I havn't watched the USA version of Sherlock, but I'd say it'd be hard to be the UK version 

[jonsie]

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@Marjo wrote:

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@Cleoriff wrote:

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@Marjo wrote:

@Cleoriff's passionate talk about Sherlock in another thread made me think of a question for you all who watch these:

Which one is better: the American version (Elementary, with Johnny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu) or the UK version (Sherlock, with Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman)?

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Absolutely no comparison. I started watching Elementary and found it quite banal The trick with Sherlock is each series consists of no more than 4 episodes. For fans like me it always leaves you wanting more...

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Just clarifying, you're saying it's a good thing if there's less episodes? For me it's the other way around. If it's a good series, I can't get enough. I could watch 4 episodes in a row, easily. Maybe more. Well how many hours are there in a day?

(Elementary though, not Sherlock! Please don't throw tomatoes at me.)

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Reminds me of the old song by Five Penny Piece .....

1st verse :

As I went out walking with my brother Jim
Somebody threw a tomato at him
Now tomatoes are soft and they don’t hurt the skin
This beggar did, it was still in the tin

[Marjo]

I think the US/UK versions are very different in style too though that it's quite hard to compare them actually. Generally I like US series better than UK ones. Somehow the UK ones are often quite dark, if you know what I mean.

Also, thanks for that @jonsie now it's going to be in my head for the rest of the day!

[Cleoriff]

Lots of dark psychological thrillers on TV currently.

The Missing

The Level

Paranoid

The Fall

However, two of the funniest shows are Would I Lie to You and Gogglebox (I GB isn't to everyones taste but I love it)

[Marjo]

The Fall! I like that one because it has Gillian Anderson in it. Nostalgic. That's the one right? It is dark too though so sadly I have avoided it anyway.

[jonsie]

So I pay True Vision £20 a mother for wifi and around a hundred channels, yet the army thinks its OK to commander every channel with the same wall to wall coverage of the death of the King and make sure the broadcasts are in Black and white. Thank God for BBC iplayer in these troubled times!