To ask for your top 5 ever TV shows

[Lemming20]

Looking for inspiration this Christmas.

Mine are:
Line of Duty
Bodies (hospital negligence drama by same writer)
CSI NY
Spooks
Motherland

With mad men and breaking bad a close runner up.

Can I have 6 totally forgot - veronica mars

There have been very few TV Showws I've been absolutely obsessed with, to the extent that I would cancel plans rather than miss them, which is the criteria I am using to get them down to 5:

Moonlighting
Brideshead Revisited
Babylon 5
The Walking Dead
X-Files

Mad Men
Homeland
Peaky Blinders
Schitts Creek
Breaking Bad

Oh, and VERSAILLES - damn, I thought it was easier to choose than it was. I forgot this sixth absession til I pressed post message!

ER
Twin Peaks
Only Fools and Horses
Line of Duty
The Royle Family (or Gavin and Stacey or Peep Show).
This Life

I know that’s 6….

Cagney and Lacey
Tenko
Wenthworth Prison
Game of Thrones
Any of those BBC classic Children’s book adaptations

Battlestar Galactica (Don't like sci fi but this is about humans, not tech)

Profit. Cancelled far too early and if it were out today it'd be a smash hit

Deva, one of the best shows of recent years

Mind Hunter

Sopranos

Peep Show

How could I forget the Wire?

Yes that's more than 5. Sorry

Devs not Deva

Call the midwife.
Doctor who.
Motherland. (Who doesn't like motherland? )
Greys Anatomy.
Snow Piercer.

Lots of Star Trek fans on here, I love discovery!

This is amazing thank you so much! IT crowd, Satc and Friday night dinner are all amazing.

I am going to check out Succession and the Wire, I have heard excellent things!

Any Star Trek. Especially loving Picard and Discovery right now.
Our Friends in the North. Old but brilliant and heartbreaking. Great cast.
Unforgotten. Nicola!
Witcher. Just love it.
Being Human. Bloody loved that show.

Better call saul (contemplating watching for a 3rd time before New series starts)
Breaking bad (watched 2 x. So much better on a rewatch)
Nurse Jackie
Game of Thrones
Royle family

Twin Peaks
Mother Love
A Very Peculiar Practice
Porridge
Repair Shop

Good questions

This Life
ER
Greys Anatomy
House
Downtown Abbey
Queens Gambit

Sopranos
Schitts Creek
Line of Duty
The Office (US)
It’s always Sunny in Philadelphia

Grey's Anatomy
The Good Wife
Parks and Recreation
Gilmore Girls
Gavin and Stacey

The Thick of It
Afterlife
happy Valley
It’s a Sin
The Office

Blakes 7
Secret Army
The Man in the High Castle
House
Weissensee (German series about East Germany)

Brides head Revisited (the Andrews/Irons version).
Line of Duty.
Happy Valley.
One Foot in the Grave.
Prime Suspect

I'm old.

Another vote for The Thick Of It. Gets better with multiple viewings!

Porridge
Swap Shop
Doctor Who
Breaking Bad
Stath Lets Flats

This is Us
The Office
Buffy
ER
Broadchurch

30 Rock
Arrested Development
Brooklyn nine-nine
Parks and Recreation
Archer