Name a tv show that you enjoyed but is not widely popular

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Hoping some hidden gems might be found!

Tonight I saw A Woman of No Importance. It's a monologue performed by Patricia Routledge. I think it's from the 80s? Anyway, what I thought was a bit of satire really shone a light on loneliness and what a life ends up as, or can end up as. Also, PR didn't half know how to deliver a monologue! I'd pretty much only known her as Hyacinth Bucket.

Dead like me.

Was gutted that it got cancelled!

North Square. It was a series about a barristers' chambers in the North, back in the early 2000s, I think. Really good cast - people like Rupert Penry-Jones, Phil Davies, Helen McRory, was very well written and very watchable. I think it might still be available on catch-up, I recommend it if so.

Boomtown, it was on about 20 years ago and I think only one season. It told the story of a crime from different viewpoints, very clever, I loved it.
The US version of Prime Suspect.

Flack- London PR firm cleaning up famous people's messes. Only 2 seasons unfortunately.
I second The Other One, laugh out loud moments. 'I'm looking for a new hobby since I finished Tinder'
Hacks - No one I know had watched it, it's brilliant.
Arcane- dystopian adult cartoon, such a good programme.

Also Southland, amazing show.

It was mid-70s I watched it and loved it as a kid.

Early doors with Craig cash set in a pub . So funny . Also the other one .

Some great shouts here. I loved SouthLAnd, Boomtown and North Square.

Monroe with James Nesbitt and Sarah Parish was excellent.

A couple of shows with Eric McCormack in that I loved, Perception where he played a schizophrenic psychiatrist who helps the FBI and Travelers a brilliant time travel sci-fi series, I was gutted when that got cancelled.

I've just remembered a show from the early 80's called World's End centred around a pub. I think it only ran one season and never came back but it was really good. I remember it being aired on a Thursday night either before or after Tenko but there were strikes on at the time and some tv shows like this one never got the chance to take off like they could have done.

I loved that show!! Also survivors (the 2008 one) and prisoners wives which was around the same time I think, loved those back in the day.
Much more recently, My Lady Jane and Shadow and Bone. The former was fantastically bizarre at times but funny and so easy to watch, the latter I loved the books and was so excited to see it had been televised. Alas neither renewed for further seasons 🤦🏼‍♀️

I loved this too - did you know they brought out an audio series last year with nearly all of the original cast involved? It ended on a cliffhanger so I'm hoping there might be more in future.

I think Mark Heap is really under-rated as an actor, I've seen him play a great range of characters in Green Wing, Spaced, Love Soup, Lark Rise to Candleford, Friday Night Dinner - all varying degrees of quirky but usually quite endearing too.

Actually having mentioned Love Soup that's one I'd recommend that not many people seem to have seen. Also starring Tamsin Greig and written by David Renwick who is very clever at weaving different plot lines together

I'm watching this for the 2nd time round just now and my daughter is just starting it. It’s brilliant.

The Didakoi . It’s a wonderful book by Rumer Godden who was an excellent writer of both children’s and adult fiction. I didn’t see the tv series but I sobbed my way through the book as a child.

I love Green Wing but hadn't heard of the audio series! Away to Google now...

My offering is Community, an American comedy series set in a community college. The quality can be a bit up and down (especially the first series and the 'gas leak' series where the original creator wasn't involved) but when it's good, it's perfect.

I loved Dirty Sexy Money. It was so gloriously trashy Didn't it have the late lamented Donald Sutherland?

Personally I didn't understand why the BBC didn't properly promote Girl/Haji. It was top-tier stuff but was sort of sneaked out on BBC2 and I don't think it did that well.

I loved Pushing Daisies. It was gloriously colourful to look at, but some of the themes were really dark.

And Hex...a drama with as much ambition as Buffy, but it was British. It was hard to tell if the sense of menace came from supernatural forces or the fact that it was set at a residential college full of ambitious, competitive young people. Oh, and it was one of Michael Fassbender's early TV appearances too - he was Azazeal, the fallen angel.

I can remember a drama series for children/YA called Barriers, which was broadcast by ITV/Tyne Tees in 1981. It was about a teenage boy, name of Billy, who loses both of his parents in an accident. On top of this monumental tragedy, he then learns he was adopted and nothing he was told about his life is actually true. It was watchable in a gentle, not particularly memorable way and I don't think it was water-cooler TV, even in 1981, when there wasn't nearly as much choice as there is now.

Orphan Black!

Absolutely incredible and ended perfectly. I don’t know anyone else who’s watched it and you should!

Sunset Beach!

Crazy Ex Girlfriend
Party Down
Bojack Horseman

Don't hate me... but I loved After Life. It was both moving and funny, and uses social awkwardness around grief brilliantly. It's very slow- moving so you see the central bereaved character gradually emerging from the blackest and bleakness point of grief and depression into something hopeful, and helping others too. There's a star turn by a dog and Penelope Wilton is lovely. Great cast.
The fact it was written by Ricky Gervais makes me respect him more.

The two that spring to mind are:

Off The Map - about a bunch of doctors in some remote place in the tropics. I enjoyed it but apparently I'm alone in that because it got cancelled in the mid season break and rotten tomatoes gave it 18%

Next of Kin - had Penelope Keith in it, about some grandparents enjoying retirement when they suddenly became guardians of recently orphaned grandkids.

The Change - it's on catch up. Bridget Christie, a motorbike and a small town. Not to mention the eels.

I also liked Flash Forward but it was different to the book.

Resident Alien - an Alien comes to earth, kills the local Dr and takes over the Dr's practice and home. Humans can't see his real form, well most of them can't, one boy can.

SouthLAnd

Firefly - so sad that it only got one season and a film (Serenity) but beautifully written stories and great characters

Oh, Perception! I liked that too. I wonder if it's still available anywhere.