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TV programmes you wish they’d bring back

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UnagiForLife · 07/10/2022 19:56

I used to love Faking It, not sure why it stopped being made. The ones with the Cornish clog dancer turned street dancer and the classical musician turned club DJ were my absolute favourites and I still go back and rewatch them now.

What TV programme would you like to see brought back?

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MumofSpud · 08/10/2022 02:10

chouxfleur · 07/10/2022 22:31

Afterlife starring Lesley Sharp and Andrew Lincoln ( not the Ricky Gervais one)

Loved this - I remember it was on when I was v v pregnant with DD

Utterlyexhausted · 08/10/2022 02:21

SMTV Live
The Big Breakfast
TFI Friday
Dick and Don in da Bungalow

Tigresswoods · 08/10/2022 02:24

Dawn Frenchie Murder Most Horrid

Jojoanna · 08/10/2022 02:28

Tiswas
TOTP
El Doraldo
TFI
Heartbeat

KosherDill · 08/10/2022 02:29

As Time Goes By

CherryRipe1 · 08/10/2022 02:35

The Life and Loves of a She-Devil. Brilliant

FeralWitch · 08/10/2022 05:23

I loved Child of Our Time - I had a DC born in 2000, so I watched it avidly. So very sad that one of the babies died by suicide a few years ago.

There was a similar programme called Born To Be Different, which I also loved, as my DC had a disability. I found it so uplifting.

ArtfulPuss · 08/10/2022 06:33

Tomorrow's World. I have been going on about this (to eye rolls from the DC) for years. Youngest DC would have been glued to it.
Though, not sure I really want to know what inventions are around the corner these days...

HRTQueen · 08/10/2022 08:30

Drop The Dead Donkey

Tootels · 08/10/2022 08:54

Newer versions of:

Londons Burning
Heart Beat

I was going to say Soldier Soldier but it's too close to home so I avoid military programmes.

I enjoyed a series filmed in a salon years back.

Vanderpump · 08/10/2022 08:56

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 07/10/2022 20:48

Sunset Beach. It was absolutely bonkers and brilliantly so...

Loved sunset beach on a Saturday afternoon!

lollipoprainbow · 08/10/2022 09:00

Brook side loved the omnibus on a Saturday afternoon

Cold feet

Motherland

lollipoprainbow · 08/10/2022 09:04

That's life

Love in the countryside

illbeinthegarden · 08/10/2022 09:10

DomesticBlisters · 07/10/2022 22:32

Did anyone watch The Last Train? Must have been on in the 90s and I loved it but nobody seems to remember it.

Ohh I loved this!!

MissKittyFantastico84 · 08/10/2022 09:11

Without a doubt, the show Hidden Talent on C4.

It was hosted by Richard Bacon and was about finding normal people with an exceptional natural talent for things, like learning languages or free diving.

My favourite episode was when they found a factory worker with no formal art training at all, who could almost immediately identify art forgeries. He had a natural eye for the form and rules of art - and it was so moving to see him discover what he could do.

It was like watching people discover they had super powers and it was AWESOME.

Upwiththisiwillnotput · 08/10/2022 15:45

@Utterlyexhausted Booogieees!!! 😁

pjmasksitsthepjmasks · 08/10/2022 16:08

The generation game

Mammyloveswine · 08/10/2022 16:25

Byker grove! Loved it!

Also londons burning and peak practice!

Utterlyexhausted · 08/10/2022 16:31

Upwiththisiwillnotput · 08/10/2022 15:45

@Utterlyexhausted Booogieees!!! 😁

They were so ace!!

Amblesidebadger · 08/10/2022 16:36

Green Wing

Had forgotten about 'Faking it' but it was great.

husbandcallsmepickle · 08/10/2022 16:37

DomesticBlisters · 07/10/2022 22:32

Did anyone watch The Last Train? Must have been on in the 90s and I loved it but nobody seems to remember it.

With Millie from This Life?

StinkerTroll · 08/10/2022 16:45

Time team obvs, I'd pay to watch the end of firefly, they finished it mid season (this was over 15 years ago now and I'm still bitter!)

Iamthewombat · 08/10/2022 16:46

FeralWitch · 07/10/2022 22:00

I loved Faking It!

I also loved Would Like To Meet, where they sorted people out for a first date and spied on them in a surveillance van; and She’s Gotta Have It, a shopping/clothes type show with Liza Tarbuck.

And bring back The Clothes Show!

All of the above, plus:

What Not to Wear (original T&S version, not the one where they choose two women from five).

Bank of Mum and Dad.

Your Money or Your Life, with Alvin Hall.

The Adventure Game. I loved that as a kid.

Trouble at the Top/Blood on the Carpet. The BBC used to be brilliant at knocking out popular business programmes that told a story well. I wish that they would make more.

Lovegossip · 08/10/2022 17:54

Who rules the roost and child of our time

Also the "UP" series. I know the director/narrator of that died so I don't know if it will carry on in the future

FeralWitch · 08/10/2022 18:02

There was one that was a reality tv series about a family-run double glazing company. It was totally compelling and could be very funny. I wish I could remember what it was called.