What's your 'comfort telly'?

[ButchersGirl]

So for me it's Gavin and Stacey and Friends. Whenever I need some comfort, they go on.

What's yours and what do you think it is that makes something 'comfort telly'?

Frasier
Friends
Black Books
A good crime programme.

Friends
Call the midwife

Escape to the chateau.
Big bang theory.
Ben Fogle New lives in the wild.
River Cottage, Nigel Slater, Nigella

Welcome to Plathville but shhh don’t tell anybody…ever!

Detectorists. There is something so lovely about it.

Poirot / Miss Marple or similar.

The news
Friends
Father Ted
Location X3
Wanted down under
4 in a bed
Colombo
Some sport... It depends
Only fools and horses

Homes under the hammer.
Darling Buds of May
(I am old before my time....)

Gavin & Stacey
The Royle Family

Escape to the country.

Friends
IT Crowd
The Office (US)
Seinfeld
Larry Sanders
Phone Shop

Every so often DH and I will watch The Sopranos or Mad Men from start to finish, like two episodes a night after dinner. We're saving the last series of Better Call Saul, will watch Breaking Bad then BCS right through. It sounds tedious, idk why I love rewatching. I'm a rereader too. So comforting.

Oh and 30 Rock!

Buffy
Friends
More recently - MAFS Australia

Big bang theory or friends. I've watched them all so many times but that means it's familiar and that's what I like when I'm feeling down or homesick.

Motherland
Fresh Meat
Big School
Peep Show

Friends, but really I have comfort films rather than TV. Kevin and Perry Go Large, the first Inbetweeners movie, Lost Boys, Rosemary's Baby.

Vicar of Dibley
Detectorists
Star Struck
The 1995 Pride and Prejudice adaptation

Friends
Celebrating Masterchef
Midsummer Murders

For me it’s vintage Eastenders. 2 episodes back to back at 1pm every weekday an ‘Drama’ channel. Phil has just been shot, Mel & Steve just married and hot Dan Sullivan is lurking and they’re gearing up to the episode where Kat tells Zoe she is her mum. Great stuff

I have loved watching the re-runs of Top of the Pops on Friday nights on BBC4 over the years. They started with 1977 (I think) and they are now on 1993, which is getting to the end of ‘my era’, as I was a proper 80s kid. I’m now looking forward to reruns of the Britpop era

Masterchef Australia
Tipping Point
Gilmore Girls
Derry Girls

4 in a bed

Yes, good choice.

Brideshead Revisited (the Jeremy Irons TV series, not the awful film)
I Claudius
Sherlock Holmes (with Jeremy Brett)
Stephen Fry on QI (nothing against Toksvig, but she's not Stephen Fry)
Jeeves and Wooster (Stephen Fry again)

The Royle Family
Miranda
The Catherine Tate Show
My Family
Midsomer Murders
Gavin and Stacey
Keeping Up Appearances
Benidorm

To be "comfort telly" to me they need to be warm, cosy and lighthearted with nothing too serious or demanding going on.

Game of thrones
Afterlife
Gavin and Stacey
Mandy