A little help, O Wise and Knowledgeable Flist...

[gnine]

So here I am in jolly old England, settling in, classes just starting up (something I do plan to write about soon, I swear...) and in between the socializing, studying and exploring, I find myself watching quite a bit of TV. This is happening in part because I always watch more when I live alone (something to do when relaxing before bed or while eating dinner, etc) and partly because while I'm studying, I often use TV as a reward for getting work done (write another page on this essay, and you can watch another episode, etc). Good motivation for a horrible procrastinator like myself ^_-.

Anyways, my request: I'm looking for series to watch. (Just got through all of Criminal Minds, need something new...) It can be new or old (and by old, I mean whenever. Keep in mind one of my most recent fandoms was Man from UNCLE, and if that's not old skool, don't know what is...^_-) Any genre, whatever. If it's one of your favorites or just something you think'd be fun to watch. Just gimme a brief description, maybe why I might like it...(bonus points for anything with hurt/comfort, teaminess or siblings being cute)

Thanks flist, I'm counting on you! ^_^

ETA: As a reference to those who are reccing things, a list of what I have seen:



...I almost hesitate in posting this due to the sheer size...oops. And these are just the western fandoms, the list would be twice as long, at least, if I included anime/J-dramas...:-p

All of these are shows I've seen at least one full season of (some I haven't seen past that, like Heroes, due to lack of interest, but I've seen enough to get the feel of it)

Bold is for shows that I fanned on, by watching repeatedly/reading fic/reccing it, etc.

* means fandoms I've actually produced stuff for, be it art, fic, vids, whatnot...

30 Rock, Alien Nation, Arrested Development, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Babylon 5, Batman Beyond, Battlestar Galactica, Being Human, Big Bang Theory, Burn Notice, Carnivale, Castle, Colditz, Criminal Minds, Dinosaurs, Doctor Who, Due South, Eureka, Farscape, Firefly, Forever Knight, Gargoyles, Gilmore Girls, Heroes, Highlander*, Hustle, Invisible Man,Jeeves and Wooster, Justice League Unlimited, Legend (1995), Leverage, Life, Life on Mars, Lois and Clark, Lost, Malcom in the Middle, Man from UNCLE*, Merlin, NCIS*, NCIS: LA, Night Court, Numb3rs, Once a Thief, Prison Break, Professionals, Psych, Pushing Daisies, Quantum Leap, Queer as Folk (UK only), Real Ghostbusters*, Red Dwarf , Sapphire and Steel, Scrubs, Seaquest, Sentinel*, Seven Days, Sliders, Smallville*, Star Trek (all except for Enterprise), Stargate Atlantis*, Stargate SG-1*, Starsky and Hutch, Static Shock, Supernatural, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles , The Shield, Torchwood, Traders, True Blood, Twin Peaks, United States of Tara, Wiseguy, WitchBlade, Xena, X-Files*, X-men (Animated Series and Evolution)

...And chances are I've missed something...:-p

As someone already mentioned in the comments about keeping an eye on this post for ideas of there own, if there's any shows in this list you're interested in, feel free to ask for a description, rec, review, etc...

Comments

[pennyplainknits.livejournal.com]

First, welcome to England! Second, for teaminess I can highly recommend Leverage! Its awesome, about a group of thieves, hackers and con artists who right wrongs. It stars Tim Hutton, but they are all great and I am in love with Aldis Hodge and Christian Kane. Its funny, the cast have insane chemistry and the female characters are great!

[jya-bd-cp-ttgb.livejournal.com]

The Professionals - original flavor, meaning Martin Shaw as Doyle and Lewis Collins as Bodie. It is, as far as I know, available on DVD, so you should be able to find it pretty easily. Hell, they play original Trek reruns over here, so it might even be on cable.

British flavored Starsky and Hutch fighting terrorists, smugglers and gun runners each week while calling each other pet names such as Sunshine and Angelfish. "Discovered in a Graveyard" is the ouchiest episode made and if you're lucky enough to find it, you'll never climb out of Pros fandom again.

Since you like Man From U.N.C.L.E. You might want to give Sapphire and Steel a shot if you can find it. Illya - David McCan-never-spell-his-name- plays Steel. Sci Fi drama.

[alessandriana.livejournal.com]

I'm going to have to watch this post for ideas, cause I'm in about the same situation-- living alone, doing school-things, and needing more TV for entertainment. :)

Series wot I have enjoyed recently:

Invisible Man: AWESOME. It's about a thief named Darien who gets a gland implanted in his head that enables him to become invisible, and is forced to work for a secret Agency to solve crimes and stop terrorism and that kind of thing. It's got lovely teamy moments between Darien, his partner and his Keeper, and h/c in literally *every single episode*-- it's beautiful. And the entire thing is up on hulu/youtube.

The Chronicle: Cute little series about a reporter who can't get a job anywhere else, so he has to join a tabloid of the Bigfoot-Ate-My-Baby type-- only to find out that everything they write about is 100% real. I'm only on episode 4, so I'll let this ship manifesto (http://community.livejournal.com/ship_manifesto/183490.html) speak to why it's so awesome. (Downloads here (http://community.livejournal.com/heard_of_it/16960.html), tho you have to join the comm to see them.)

Warehouse 13: Brand new SciFi Channel SyFy series, kind of dorky and adorable, about two Secret Service agents who get shanghaied into working at the Warehouse, a repository for supernatural objects. Great partner dynamics between Pete and Myka, the two leads, and some pretty awesome secondary characters. And they definitely aren't afraid to throw the characters from moving cars and that sort of thing. (Note: the first two episodes aren't great, but it hits its stride after that.)

and, of course: THE MIDDLEMAN. Fantastically quirky series that was cut cruelly short. Wendy Watson, a struggling artist, gets recruited by a secret agency to solve exotic problems and fight against evil forces. Lots of lovely friendships and teaminess. I basically love this show with all my heart.

[bluemeanybeany.livejournal.com]

Hello dearie. We will bring some dvd goodies next time we meet up. :)

There is also the bbc iplayer for all british cousins if you havent found that yet.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/

All the bbc programming from the past week is there so if you miss something you can watch it without bittorrents. You can also download any programme and keep it for a month. Its very handy when Doctor Who is on because you can watch it legally as many times as you want. You can also get all the bbc radio stations there too. [Radio 1= under 30s pop Radio 2= Mainstream pop Radio 3= classical music Radio 4= one of the remaining pillars of civilised society Radio 5= live news and sport Radio 6= Indie/jazz/punk Radio 7= bbc spoken word archive [many science fiction plays] and the World Service.

You could always try Only Fools and Horses which is about two brothers in 1980s London.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shdU7kd9qFU

I'm assuming youve seen Blackadder

Mock the Week is here
http://www.youtube.com/user/Mrmoody#g/u
Which has already noticed it has slashfiction about it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKLHzSgETVg&feature=player_profilepage

We will have a think and bring some stuff

[bluemeanybeany.livejournal.com]

bluemeanybeany
2009-10-10 08:01 pm UTC (link)
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Yeah next weekend sounds great. We'll have a look for things to do but if youve got any suggestions we can do that.

Only Fools and Horses are 25 minutes long (theyre good to watch whilst eating tea, the episode I gave you has Jim Broadbent in) It ran for 22 years, so if you like it there's certainly enough to keep you occupied :)

GeorgieSmith sent us a really fun tv series last week which we'll give you called Adam Adamant. It's about a Victorian gentlemen hero who gets crygenically frozen by his arch nemisis 'the face' and wakes up in swinging London in 1966. [its what Austin Powers was based on] The actor in it is sooooo like David Tennant its just very funny. He has a blonde companion like Rose too. Its from the same producers as Doctor Who.

Oh and there's always Raffles- the most slashy slash programme Ive ever seen. The couple in that make Solo and Illya seem positively hetrosexual.

[acchikocchi.livejournal.com]

*wide, innocent eyes* How do you feel about reconnecting with Japan?

(That is to say, any time you want jdrama recs, you have only to ask. XD And no, I am not influenced solely by pretty boys. Not that they hurt or anything.)

[efrafan-refugee.livejournal.com]

The first season of Fringe was pretty cool. Although the second (which is airing now) is not as spectacular. There's some father/son stuff in it... which I am a bit loathe to suggest you watch for fear the slash that might occur. It's like the X-Files but I like the feel of it a lot more. If nothing else John Noble is amazing as Dr. Bishop.

[libsechumanist.livejournal.com]

I did my PhD in lovely London-yeah UK! As for shows, I always enjoyed Profiler and Providence - female centric shows and the occasional JFlan appearance, which always helps. And Robert Davi in Profiler was a sympathetic character for a change. Also, quirky Ed - a lawyer in a bowling alley just screams mayhem. And Northern Exposure in its first years; quirky as hell always, but the last season or two kind of went off the rails. Old ER is fun for young George Clooney and Hewlett shows up somewhere in the first five years, as does JFlan's wife.

Hope something strikes your fancy!

[spacealien-vamp.livejournal.com]

Series that I've enjoyed include Scarecrow & Mrs. King (Young Bruce Boxleitner = yay!), Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (corny but fun, especially the eps with Kermit), and Time Trax (I came this || close to writing hot hologram love fic between SELMA and Automan). Almost everything else I've fanned over has already made it onto your list, or else something about it makes me not want to rec. (For example, I enjoyed Beauty and the Beast, but the series ending was horrible.)

Edited to add: Speaking of Bruce Boxleitner, why is Chuck not on your list already? Whoa.

[menuriko.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you this is a series not in your taste. I've never heard of anyone who has fanned on this, besides me. But I think "Alias Smith & Jones" is a wonderful series. I fanned on that one long before I knew that was what I was doing (had never heard the word, and none of my friends were into fanning).

[ilkaril.livejournal.com]

Why not start up some of the british crime stuff they have a lot and they are good. :)

[utopiantrunks.livejournal.com]

I just finished watching all the old seasons of How I Met Your Mother, largely using it for dinnertime and drawing background. It's amusing, it has grown-up Doogie Howser, it has a cute married couple and several forever-friendships.

Someone else up there mentioned Ed--I watched that for Justin Long, of course, but it's also pretty cute fluffy small-town feel-good friendshippy stuff.

The only non-comedy things I'm watching right now are Supernatural and Dexter. Dexter is still brilliant, but not precisely feel-good. Although there is cute partner stuff and sibling stuff.

[byakkodan-slash.livejournal.com]

Start watching the new Stargate!

Dude, watch Dollhouse. Oh, and Glee.

[crashtestskater.livejournal.com]

Ok, the old Mission Impossible was pretty good. I also love Murder She Wrote. Mom was a huge fan of The A-Team and the episodes I saw were a blast. I also personally love CSI despite it's many flaws, but it's still fun.

[nikojen.livejournal.com]

Gotta throw out a quick plug for The Magnificent Seven, if you haven't looked at it before. As an h/c fan who just discovered the fandom recently, I can't figure out how I missed it all these years. The show's tagline pretty much says it all: "Seven Men. One Destiny." Seven adorable cowboys forming a family and defending one-another to the death as they protect a town from evil ranchers, bank robbers, bandits, etc. (They also get an occasional visit from Robert Vaughn as the boys' boss. ;) )

Have (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRpkgJV6TU8) a couple (http://bamvidvault.ning.com/video/wild-one) pretty (http://www.youtube.com/group/m7#p/a/13/GPbM2730t2c) vids (http://bamvidvault.ning.com/video/i-will-never-let-you-go).

Slings and Arrows

[beautifuljoe.livejournal.com]

Canadian -- only three years of shows -- twisted theatre show (based on Stratford Theatre Festival) .. watch to to check out first one gets you the "ghost" and is a little weird.

[happynoon.livejournal.com]

Well according to your list, you have excellent taste. I recommend House, Fraiser and Newsradio. From the shows you listed, I think you would like these.

Found your LJ from a very old story on FFN, Those Left Behind, which is one of my all time favorite gravi stories. Laughed to see you were a fellow Seattlite. Enjoy England, I hear the weather is about the same haha!