Pleasant tv show!

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Stressed out elderly relative- is there anything we can all watch that isn’t full of sex and violence? Oh and isn’t inane? Maybe funny?
help!

Have they seen Detectorists? Such a lovely, funny and gentle show.

Do they have Netflix? I'd recommend Man on the Inside with Ted Danson.

Keeping Up Appearances, Open All Hours, Only Fools & Horses, As Time Goes By, are my comfort shows.

Vicar of Dibley, Last Tango in Halifax, The Good Life, All Creatures Great and Small, The Durrells

The Good Life, To the Manor Born and The Cockfields are my comfort shows

Fawlty towers, keeping up appearances, midsummer murders, dads army, blackadder, last of the summer wine

All creatures great and small (newer one). It’s just lovely and easy going.

The cockfields, Last Tango in Halifax, The Durrells, Fisk, Two Doors Down,

Hart to Hart reruns are always fun.

Gilmore girls or the Durrells

Channel 5 All Creatures Great and Small. I swear there was an episode where they just showed a baby gurgling and it was lovely. A bit of comedy in
the brothers relationship.

Ludwig (BBC) is quite gentle, a bit of a mystery solver.

What about programmes like The Repair Shop? Grand Designs? Great British Bake Off?

The oldies are often the goodies, as PP suggested. I watched Fawlty Towers recently with my teenager, we really enjoyed it. I also love rewatching Dad's Army.

Definitely Detectorists.

Ludwig is pretty good too. Or period drama - BBC Pride and Prejudice is one of my go-to programmes for stressful times, as is Poirot with David Suchet (though obviously there's some violence in those).

Changing Ends. ITV/ITVX. Starring Alan Carr (about his life growing up.)

It's brilliant. 😄

Detectorists and Ghosts.

We've recently watched The Cafe with Ralph Little. A very gentle comedy with lovely people and as it's set at the seaside so it's beautiful to look at too.

Death in Paradise is very relaxing and engaging too.

Mortimer and Whitehouse, gone fishing.

Another vote for man on the inside. Very good. Also what about death in paradise / return to paradise / beyond paradise? I watch for the images of sunshine in winter 😅

Another vote for Ghosts and Detectorists both so wholesome, gentle, funny and also excellently done. I will also add Mortimer and Whitehouse - gone fishing. My DH and I both have no interest in fishing but honestly it's one of our favourite comfort programmes, it is warm, funny and good hearted and you get the most beautiful scenery (the fish are incidental).

And you get Ted the dog.

I find Modern Family both amusing and nice. Yes, there are a lot of stereotypes in it (the prissey gay male, the flamboyant gay male, the loud woman from South America ect ect) but I find that the story's are mostly kind about sterotypes.

I'm 75, and I also like The Simpsons (the political digs are so good) South Park, Strictly Come Dancing and Kingdoms on Bbc1.

in short, being old is not a defining charcteri stic.

I really cannot get on board with the view that we are one thing or another. And only that one thing.

So, I'm old, yes. I m also left wing, a mother a sister a friend and many many other things. I am not just old. Categorizing me as old, as my defining charscteristic, is to reduce me. Please don't do that to your relative.

Dp and I love Julia - about Julia child.

This is WONDERFUL! thank you all so much!
Elderly relative, and me for that matter. Is a bit over sex and violence- especially when it’s to make up for a lack of script! ( looking at you in your latest Emma Thompson!)
here’s coupes of tea and hob nobs to all, thank you!

Doc Martin might suit, or Wild at Heart

Call the Midwife
Downton Abbey
Father Ted
All those lovely restful things on BBC4 in the early evenings - Michael Portillo's railway journeys, that chap that endlessly chugs up and down the canals bemoaning how rarely he sees his girlfriend (think about it, lad!), Julia Bradbury on one of her long hikes.