What do you watch on TV with your 8-11 year old boys?

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Because I'm struggling to find something that they enjoy which is still interesting to me.

They're staying up later so I want to be able to flump on the sofa occasionally and watch something as a family.

But there's only so many nature docs I can stand!

IS there anything young-boy-friendly and enjoyable for adults on freeview / netflix / amazon?

Mine like,
Traffic Cops
Police Interceptors
Zumbos just desserts
The Chase
Pottery Throwdown
The Jason Manford thing BBC on a Saturday evening
Impractical Jokers

Masterchef, Death In Paradise, Poirot,
Midsomer Murders, Match of the Day and Spring/Autumn Watch.

We're watching Fawlty Towers with DC (9+11) ATM. They love Manuel and howl at some of the episodes. There is the odd 1970s cringey moment but it's worth it

Mr Bean!

At that age DS loved Merlin, Outnumbered, and we dipped into a bit of old school 80s stuff too - The A Team, Knightrider...

All the above plus...

The bone detectives (newish series c4, you can watch on all4)
Digging up the past
The 1900 island
The Mallorca files
Jonathan creek on iPlayer

Can you find Robot Wars anywhere?

Sport. Match of the day.

My 10yo DS loves Strictly when it’s on. Otherwise sport, quiz shows, Bake Off, Michael McIntyre.

The Good Place brings up lots of interesting conversations.my 10yr old and watch Doctors on catch-up. Some themes are very interesting to talk about. I struggled with the Viagra overdose episode.

Crackerjack is back and it's pretty good! I enjoyed watching it with my boys, aged 12 and 6. The Dog Ate My Homework (kids' quiz show) is also good. Both on iPlayer.

My 10, 8 year olds and I like Gortimer Gibbons Life on Normal Street - free on Amazon Prime

My boys are 9 and 12. We have watched Bake Off, Dark Materials, Greatest Dancer, Dr Who, Strictly, Pointless, Richard Osmans House of Games. We have just started watching The Simpsons, Brooklyn 99 and Would I Lie to You, which to be honest aren’t particularly suitable for the 9 year old, but I try to engage him in conversation or send him on errands if I think things are getting too old for him!

Sugar rush
Fuller house
One say at a time

My boy also lives jason manford game shows.

I appear nit to be able to type anymore...

We like Gortimer and Just Add Magic on Prime. Also Race Across the World, bbc2 and Ambulance (DS11)

Top Gear
The Grand Tour
Traffic Cops
Guy Martin
He used to love Deadly 60 but doesn't watch that now.
He'll watch Location Location Location or Love it or List it with me as well.

Red Dwarf
The Good Place
Brooklyn Nine Nine
Blackadder
Top Gear
Amazing Engineering type programmes
History documentaries

Is Scrapheap Challenge available on any channel at the moment? My two went through a stage of loving that.

Takeshi's castle, Ninja Warrior and Wipeout are perennial favourites here.
He adored Carnage, which was as far as I can see one series only with Freddie Flintoff.
Lego Masters and Strictly when they're on.

We're loving Outnumbered at the moment. Merlin, sometimes Bake Off or Sugar Rush.

He'd love something else like Merlin but i can't find anything age appropriate.

Race Across The World

Pointless

The Chase (!)

Any cookery programme

Eat Well for Less

Strictly

His Dark Materials

There is a programme about a chimpanzee sanctuary that is on at 8pm on Thursdays which we all like very much

Doctor Who

A question of sport

The crystal maze

Top gear/grand tour, abandoned engineering, engineering disasters, race around the world, BGT. I have watched more Jeremy Clarkson than I ever wanted 😅

Merlin on iplayer. I enjoyed playing spot the game of thrones character too, and see where the inspiration came for the Daenerys/Dragon wings shot. Win win.