Recommendations for TV programmes 90s/early 00s

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Me and Dh are running out of things to watch from this time. A

We have watched so far:

Fat friends - loved, probably more than the first time we watched it, when it came out.

The Booze Cruise 1, 2 and 3 - love these so much and gutted they didn't make more. Watched and loved them when they first came out.

Cutting It - watching just now and on series 3. Absolutely batshit crazy. We watched this first time around but couldn't mind anything about it.

Any other programs we should watch along the same lines?

Last Tango in Halifax
Criminal Minds
Ever Decreasing Circles - we really enjoyed this - it was so funny

I used to love it

The Riff Raff Element is my contribution

Life On Mars and Our Friends In The North.
Rewatched them both recently and loved them as much as the first time.

GBH

@TidyDancer looks like Ally McBeal is on Disney+

Unfortunately it isn't. ☹️ only in the US not the UK unfortunately. I got tricked by that googling before!

Sex In The City
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Seinfeld
Always Sunny In Philadelphia (I prefer the earlier seasons)
The Office (both the UK and US versions are great)
Pulling
Lost
Southpark

Oh bum. Bloomin google, why the buggery bollocks does it give me US results all the time when I'm in the UK?

Murder One!

I remember being hooked on the 1st series of this - possibly the 1st series I'd ever watched that was about 21 episodes long.

Would love to rematch it as I can't remember the outcome of the trial 🤣

I remember enjoying Life Begins with Caroline Quentin.

I had totally forgotten about Hustle. We used to love watching it when first on.

Life begins was really good also.

All of those already mentioned plus

• Between the Lines
• the Vice
• Drop the Dead Donkey
• Blue Murder
• Wire in the Blood
• Touching Evil
• House
• Just Shoot Me!
• Spin City
• Auf Wiedersen Pet (series 3)
• Jeeves and Wooster
• Doc Martin
• Linda Green
• Roger Roger
• New Tricks
• Minder
• Sugar Rush

You might enjoy "Piglets" currently being shown on ITV on Saturday nights.,Same writer, Mark Heap, shares the weirdness.

Absolutely this ☝

Clocking Off I watched recently and loved it, it’s very early noughties, but god it looks dated. The cars the phones. Lots of actors in it who have gone on to better things.

At Home with the Braithwaites is another fantastic one as is The Lakes.

Much more recent which I loved was Last Tango in Halifax, written by same person as Braithwaites.

Sharpe

Bodies on BBC iPlayer. I have just watched this for the first time, it’s honestly one of the best dramas I’ve ever seen despite it being 20 years old, it’s written by Jed Mercurio who also wrote Line of Duty and Bodyguard and stars Max Beesley as Dr Rob Lake who takes on the post of registrar in obstetrics and gynaecology who unearths the negligent practice of the senior obstetrician Roger Hurley, it has a great cast, Keith Allen also stars as a brilliant but utterly awful human being of a consultant! If you are due to give birth I would skip it though it will put you off for life! Can’t recommend it enough.

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0074crt

Oooh, this sounds up my street, love Jed Mercurio's stuff!

I rewatched that a few years ago. Plus season 2 which was another trial/lawyer?.

I fancy another watch!

Ally mcbeale currently not on any uk service but it was on prime a few years ago as I thought I'd rewatch it and never did

I love this thread! I'm definitely going to watch some of these. Loved Cutting It, The Lakes and Footballers Wives first time round.

Currently loving 80s brookside on STV player. Only 5 episodes a week released though on a Wednesday.

A TV film from 2001 called Hot Money, stars Caroline Quentin as a downtrodden cleaner at the Bank of England who comes up with a plan to steal cash at the bank. It’s on YouTube.

Dirtwater Dynasty - Australian saga with Sam Neill

Seaford or Seaforth with Linus Roache and Lia ( can’t remember surname)

Totally fluffy series called Sunburn about holiday reps

The Leaving of Liverpool

Cracker

Prime Suspect

Miss Marple and Poirot

Early Casualty

Men Behaving Badly and Ab Fab have probably aged badly!

Agree with this, I saw it this year and was blown away.

I've been watching Silk with Maxine Peake after seeing it recommended on here. Loving it, don't know how I missed it first time round.

Oh, oh , and Mistresses. I think Patrick Baladi was in both that and Bodies. Also in Stella which is noughties not nineties but totally awesome.