You’ve seen one episode, you’ve seen them all?

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Inspired by the ‘Vera’ thread - what are the shows you can see once, then theoretically never see again without missing anything?

My vote goes to Location Location Location. As much as I love it, the formula is eternally predictable:

‘Steve and Samantha Deluded-Twats are looking for a spacious two-bedroom apartment in west London. They love pricey Chiswick, but only have £300k to spend. They’re hoping that, with our help, they can find an area nearby with an attractive high street with a villagey feel and lots of independent shops and cafés, even though they buy everything off Amazon and get their lunch from Tesco Express like the rest of us. Today, I’ll be showing them a one-bed in need of work opposite a condemned council estate now being used as an unofficial skate park and drug den. I REALLY hope they can see the potential’.

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Omg love this thread made me laugh through lunch. Love Grand Design but your comment @HesterShaw1 had me nearly wetting myself Love location location location mainly because I'm a nosey cow and like looking around the houses sometimes for inspiration.
I don't watch much else mainstream especially since lockdown and Netflix is my go too but definitely agree the soaps stopped watching them nearly 10 years ago because of the predictably

@Turtleoo I agree with Long Lost Family! I think the show does some fantastic work and it used to make me cry every week but now it is very much more of the same. I mean, everyone has the internet don't they? I used to think Nicky Campbell had access to a special DNA database but I suspect it's just good old Google.

Eastenders(im assuming every other soap aswelll)

Someone has an affair it comes out bg fight

someone murders someone big reveal after a year

phil gets drunk

someone has an argument

and they all dont have a washing machine

The end.

The first several series of 'The Big Bang Theory'.

Impractical Jokers.

Four obnoxious man-children behave obnoxiously.

Fin.

having seen nothing odd in a man who looks like he bought his hair in the Halloween aisle at Wilko

This had me howling 🤣🤣

GoT, famously described as "Tits and Dragons."

But there were also battles.

there are some long running things what try so manically different every few weeks that they become totally unbelievable crap - Holby City, for example. How many staff/ex staff are going to blow up the hospital/go on a shooting spree/have some frankenstein research project they're obsessed with? And weird that no one ever has a relationship with someone that doesn't also work at the same hospital.

there are also some shows that never really change, do anything different, same format, but are brilliant.
The fabulous Mortimer and WHitehouse Gone Fishing is back - same as ever, but incredibly relaxing, and I don't even agree with fishing as a sport.
Aimable hour of chat, occasionally vaulting into bursts of surreal or incredibly childish humour.

@Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g

Odd, I thought I hadn't missed an episode of The Archers in a couple of decades ...

Update - the old bloke that got upset about his marrows has died. other than that, no changes.