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[TheOtherHelenMumsnet]

TalkTalk want to hear your recommendations for TV programmes and boxsets that you or your children have been gripped by recently. They've just launched YouView which should make it easier to catch the best bits of recent telly as well as old classics. Here's what they say about it:

"YouView is a groundbreaking new TV service now available to all TalkTalk customers. We have joined forces with the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 to create a new way of watching TV. YouView allows access to the best On Demand content, an ability to record and rewind live TV and search through thousands of hours of great TV with ease. This month's TV gift from TalkTalk includes some old favourites like Grey's Anatomy, The Tudors, and Friends, as well as Peppa Pig, Bob the Builder and Pingu for the DCs."

What's the best TV series you've ever watched?

Is there anything on at the moment/has there been anything recently that you're particularly glued to?

Are there any programmes you're using this half term to keep your DCs entertained?

Please share any recommendations you have for can't miss shows. Everyone who posts on this thread will be entered into a prize draw to win a £200 Love2Shop voucher.

Thanks and good luck with the prize draw
MNHQ

[ExasperatedSigh]

Sorry, stupid phone got ahead of me. Otherwise we both loved The Wire, Homicide, Twin Peaks. I'm more of a tv watcher than Dh and remain a massive Buffy fan. Also really liked Misfits and my secret shame is Next Top Model

[Titsalinabumsquash]

We're very much into 'The Following' here (obvs not the kids!) We are really enjoying the cliff hanger endings of each episode and discussing it after to see if we can guess the next installment.

I've also got really back into Casualty! Haven't watched it since I was a child and now I cannot miss the current series since it started again.

DC's (6&8) love total wipe out and you've been framed, anything a bit silly that we can have a laugh at. :)

[Springsister]

We loved homeland. Now it's finished we are watching first series of 24 which neither of us watched in 2001. Technology wise its dated but still fun.

Loved Miranda

Kids are enjoying old jack and abney and teal.

[Titsalinabumsquash]

My 8 year old DS and I are also glued to Glee on a Sunday night and we have the previous series from the beginning on boxset dvd.

I also used Outnumbered and Miranda on iPlayer to get me through grueling hospital stays with DS1 and and myself when I was in for 2 weeks before the birth of DS3.

[JambalayaCodfishPie]

Box Set wise I love House. Currently on S7.

Im also LOVING The Following. Although I wish I'd sky+'d the whole series before starting to watch - I hate waiting a whole week for the next episode!

DD2 loved the recent retro weekend that CITV did. I'd love to be able access all the shows I enjoyed as a child.

[DowntonTrout]

I have Sky+ HD. I was initially impressed with all the features and excited about their On Demand service. But it isn't the full on demand like I get on iplayer on my iPad and I've found it easier just to watch catch up tv on my iPad app- just like I've always done.

I wish that sky go and mysky etc were all in one app so I didn't have to swap between them all the time. The remote record is genius though- so I can set my box to record something if I'm out and about and have forgotten to set the box.
I like being able to download things onto my iPad to watch later on the train without having to be connected to wifi.

My fav all time series is 24. I used to record them all and watch in big chunks, 5 or 6 episodes at a time. I was devasted when I caught up and then had to wait another week for the next episode. I watched the first series of Heroes like that too and when we missed recording a few episodes of the 2nd series we never got into it again.

DD is mad for Keeping up with the Kardashians. We have that on series link and she will sit and watch them over and over again.

Love Sherlock and wish there was more of that. Downton Abbey was a Favorite too(can you tell?) and Miranda. My go to show- if there's nothing else that grabs my attention is QI.

Right now I'm hooked on Mr Selfridge and I always watch Great British Menu. If I could pick a retro series to watch it would be The Good Life. It was genius and had such brilliant characterisation.

[DowntonTrout]

Oh and should add DH, who watches some different things to me. He loved Homeland and Game of Thrones. He would still rewatch Band of Brothers if it was on.

He used to watch The Tudors and Spooks. Have just got him into The Following after I watched the first two episodes.

He's currently been watching Africa and would watch anything David Attenborough has done. Similarly Brian Cox - anything, and the Equator series. He often catches An Idiot Abroad if it's being repeated and never misses Antiques Roadshow or Top Gear!

[DowntonTrout]

Thirdly DS (25) is STILL watching reruns of Friends.

[ExasperatedSigh]

Oh yes, ds loves Total Wipeout too. He demands that we 'be teams' - I'm the course and he's the contestants, so I have to cheer when someone falls in the water etc.

[prettybird]

and then of course there is our secret vice: "Neighbours", which we enjoy watching as a family

[GenericDietCola]

I love Call the Midwife and DD loves Get Well Soon. I think she has a crush on Dr Ranj.

[EarnestDullard]

My all-time favourite series is Six Feet Under.

Currently favourites include Homeland, Walking Dead, Breaking Bad and Revenge. Guilty pleasures are One Born Every Minute and Supernatural.

DD1 loves Tree Fu Tom, Old Jack's Boat and Let's Play. She'll happily watch anything on CBeebies actually. And she watches Barney on Netflix.

[canran]

Breaking Bad, watched the entire lot on a 31-day-free-trial from netflix. Enjoyed Walking Dead but not seen it for a bit, oh and when it became relevant to me, I started liking One Born Every Minute too!

[motherofvikings]

The Wire was what has gripped me the most. :)
Pre dc's dh and I would ration ourselves to only 3 episodes a night so we wouldn't burn through it too fast! :)

I can't wait for Game of Thrones to come back too!

I do love neighbours as a guilty pleasure and really like that I can catch up through the on demand services sky :)

The dcs are currently into octonauts - but are desperate for the rest of season 2, Sarah and Duck which is new and narrated from someone from In The Thick Of It (I'm always half expecting and expletive riddled rant!)

[LillethTheCat]

I watch a lot of American programs

My favourites are:

Hart of Dixie
Supernatural
Once Upon a Time
Elementary
Arrow
True Blood
The Vampire Diaries
Beauty and The Beast
The Walking Dead
2 Broke Girls
New Girl

DH also watches:
Blue Bloods
NCIS: LA
Warehouse 13
The Following
Destination Truth
Fact or Faked
Storage Hunters
Hollywood Treasures

We both also like
Modern Family
Raising Hope

HTH

[MegBusset]

The best programme I've ever watched is The Wire, with Seinfeld a close second. I have all of both on DVD and rewatch them regularly. Right now I'm working my way through Game Of Thrones series one on DVD and have series two waiting on Sky+.

We don't watch that much actual television but I do like Come Dine With Me and One Born Every Minute.

The DC have grown out of CBeebies now, which makes me slightly sad (they are 3 and 5). They love Doctor Who, Sarah Jane Adventures, Ben 10 and Matt Hatter.

[BlingBubbles]

We absolutely loved Homeland when it was on and we are now watching The Following which both my Dh and I love.

My Dd is only 19months so the things she currently likes are Agent Oso, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and Fireman Sam.

[frylight]

Current favourite for us are

Utopia, Death in Paradise, Black Mirror, Lewis

We also love films

Past favourites have been

Sppoks, Sherlock, Homeland, Lost, Twin Peaks, Morse

[LackaDAISYcal]

Currently watching...

Utopia
Mrs Brown's Boys
BBC Penguin Programme

Also love cheesy comedies, American soaps, iCarly (though I pretend it's for my DD), SpongeBob Squarepants

Love watching when on...

Silent Witness
Dr Who

Used to never miss...

Waking the Dead
ER
Merlin

Best series ever.....tricky one, but probably Dr Who

Spongebob is entertaining the DC, along with Old Jack's Boat on CBeebies, old transformer DVDs and Despicable Me this holiday.

[Indith]

At the moment I'm watching Call the Midwife, One Born Every Minute and the new series of How I Met Your Mother.

Dh and I enjoy decent funny stuff like Russel Howard's Good News and regulars such as Have I Got News for You. We giggled a fair bit in a slightly hopeless way at Cuckoo a while ago and always love Outnumbered.

We also like good, interesting things like Palin or Attenborough.

The dcs will veg out in front of crap if you let them, like most children but actually since Christmas dd in particular has been watching the snowman and the snowman and the snow dog when she wants so TV time so I'm really glad I recorded those. Ds1 gave up children's TV for lent so we've not been watching much these holidays which is really lovely. Yesterday we watched a nature documentary in the afternoon which happened to be on :).

We currently have BT vision employee version so the ability to record, pause and rewind etc but no monthly subscription. If we want anything extra then everything is on pay per view. TBH though stuff doesn't stream well through the box even though we have fibre optic broadband . We are considering getting rid of the TV completely and just using catch up services on the computer for things we really want to watch. I don't want another service to add a whole load of other ways to just sit and watch mindless crap. We'll use the money we save on a TV licence to buy more box sets of really good things we can watch as a family :)

[FrankellyMyDearIDontGiveADamn]

I don't have any DC, but to entertain myself I watch box sets of:

West Wing
Buffy
Sherlock
Supernatural
Scrubs
Big Bang Theory
House

[BelindaCarlisle]

What's the best TV series you've ever watched? mad men or our friends in the north

Is there anything on at the moment/has there been anything recently that you're particularly glued to? i loved all the nordic stuff on bbc4 and Homeland

Are there any programmes you're using this half term to keep your DCs entertained? no, half term was last week in many parts of the country grrr

[noddyholder]

Homeland and/or This Life
Breaking Bad
No ds too old

[CarlingBlackMabel]

Homeland

Also Cloudstreet, the adaptation of the Tim Winton novel with Kerry fox that was on Sunday evenings. brillliant drama and performances.

DC watched the whole of the Leonardo series on BBC - exciting drama of the fictionalised life of the young da Vinci, against baddie Medicis. Great TV for 9, 10, 11 year olds.

[Snapespeare]

My Best TV series ever is Doctor Who. I watched it as a child and was overjoyed when it came back as it was a part of my childhood I could share with my children. We're all HUGE DW fans.

Recently. We've enjoyed anything David Attenborough, who is an absolute treasure. I like Sherlock and black mirror...alongside question time and news programmes.

No, I don't use the TV to 'keep the kids quiet' they're all teenage now, have their own tastes and friends.