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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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Iamthewombat · 10/10/2022 21:46

The BBC version of The Life and Loves of a She-Devil is on Youtube (or was). Not sure how it could be ‘brought back’: Fay Weldon didn’t write a sequel (and nor should she, the ending was complete and perfect) and I don’t think that any remake could come close to the original.

Sulusu · 10/10/2022 21:46

Robot Wars.

Maireas · 10/10/2022 22:23

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 07/10/2022 20:48

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

I bloody loved that! Insane but compelling!

Maireas · 10/10/2022 22:24

The Musketeers
Merlin
good Saturday evening adventure programmes, suitable for the whole family.

Maireas · 10/10/2022 22:25

Atlantis

EarringsandLipstick · 10/10/2022 22:52

The Hours.

Sublime acting. Still upset it ended on an ambiguous note (it wasn't meant to end) & there was so much story to tell

SecretVictoria · 11/10/2022 13:22

retractablerule · 08/10/2022 19:26

Goodnight Sweetheart had a bit more mileage before the digital/social media world we live in now that would make Gary's claims impossible to maintain.

The good life. I just loved Margo so much I'd never tire of seeing how she reacted to the 'modern' world.

Londons Burning - very few programmes about the fire service and this was great (I know they are a victim of their own success, cars safer, hardly any chip pans, less smokers especially indoors etc etc) but they do some cracking stuff around securing properties from DV, working with hoarders, shutting down CSE and CCE hot spots on fire regulations, some areas being medical first responders so a lot of scope to work with.

A touch of frost - loved David Jason in this. Totally implausible from a police procedural point of view but I loved it and watch repeats whenever I see them.

The Bill - Reg Hollis was the hero of that show. I watch repeats on Drama and just love it!

Rev - Olivia Coleman and Tom Hollander were just superb and it didn't run for enough series at all. Would loved to have seen him sent to a naice country parish.

Home Fires as mentioned above.

I'd love the BBC to repeat The Monocled Mutineer. I have it on DVD. while it was historically inaccurate in many places and Percy Topliss was an all round wrong un I think it is a stark reminder of what happens when we have an elite and ruling class that remain unchallenged and laugh in the face of us plebs.

Yes, GS would have been impossible to do now. I mean, when they did that one-off a few years ago and his ‘now’ wife knew (from what he wrote on the wall of the wartime flat) and he had a 20 year old daughter in the present day. They also moved it on to the 1960s in the past.

I suppose the most difficult thing would be to explain all the songs that he said he’d written as the Stones, Beatles etc became famous!

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