What tv shows did you get into years after they first aired?

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Line of duty

I'm just finishing the West Wing. I did like it when it aired but only properly watched the entire series last month.

Absolutely brilliant show.

I started watching Gavin and Stacey in 2018 when I was pregnant! Can't believe I never watched it before.
Also binged the Royle Family in lockdown and Friday night dinner. Both amazing.
I'm going to watch Greys Anatomy next

Probably most of them! I'm a tad slow on the uptake.

Breaking Bad.
Mad Men.
Call My Agent.
Offspring.
The 'Scandi Noir' phenonemon, other than the last few series of The Bridge.

No doubt there are others that I can't think of right now.

All Creatures Great and Small, I loved the books, and the Robert Hardy, Christopher Timothy, Carol Drinkwater & Peter Davison one so much that I felt the “new” one wouldn’t compare. I’m currently watching series 5 of the new one. It has different story lines and some new characters and I’m loving it.

Also Call The Midwife, but that’s because there’s no way DH & 4 DSs would have watched it on the family TV on a Sunday evening when it first came out.

Bridgerton, Suits, Happy Valley

Modern family

Downtown and happy valley.

Noel’s House Party

We finally started watching BB about three months after the final series ended. So many of our friends were saying it was one of the best ever series, but I just didn’t want to watch a show about drug dealers.

Ironically it was when Ugly Betty ended and left a vacancy that we finally decided to watch it. I was still undecided after the first episode, but that Ailbuquerque sun drew me in, in the end.

Still think Mad Men was way better…

Fat Friends.
Gavin and Stacey.
The Royle Family.
Heartbeat.

body of proof
rizzoli and isles
law and order SVU

bit of a theme!

Gilmore Girls - how did I miss this at the time?
The IT Crowd - I thought it looked rubbish. It's hilarious.

The Royle Family
Cold Feet
Benidorm
Breaking Bad
Gavin and Stacy
Ghosts
Not Going Out

I loved Babylon Berlin! We've now given up Sky, so, sadly, won't see the upcoming (last) series. Hope you enjoy it.

The Walking Dead - I caught up around the Negan era.

Outlander - caught up just as the latest series started.

Law and Order NYC - will take me years to get through it if it stays on Netflix.

Downtown Abbey - was able to binge watch the whole lot a few Xmasses ago😃.

Call the midwife - another total binge but lost interest once they moved into more recent times.

Silent Witness - dip into that from time to time.

Prisoner Cell Block H - I did watch it in the late 80's/early 90's as a kid but I had missed loads and a lot went over my head, then towards the end, our local TV station skipped a few hundred episodes to get it finished quicker so I've never seen it end to end. Been watching it off and on via YouTube for the last few years.

Finally my absolute favourite 'Band of Gold' from 1990's, it was all about prostitutes and murder so not appropriate for teenage me - I was probably busy hanging out in the High Street anyway 😆. I managed to catch a repeat of it years ago and it was fantastic. A very young Eileen Grimshaw from Corrie was in it.

Royle Family!

Breaking Bad! It's soooo good and soooo old.

The Great British Sewing Bee. Only started watching it last week after reading Patrick Grant's (excellent) book: Less: Stop Buying So Much Rubbish

I binged Game of Thrones in lockdown after years of thinking it wasn’t my thing. Absolutely loved it.

modern family - another one with a teen who watched it with me and I love it, it’s so funny!

homeland - watched it later then everyone as per usual but really enjoyed it

Gilmore Girls

The Walking Dead and Friday Night Dinner

I’ve just started watching Clarkson’s Farm. I thought I wouldn’t like it years ago because of him but so far I’ve found it an enjoyable and informative watch.

Keeping up with the kardashians is now my guilty pleasure.

This Life

I literally ACHE for the 90s despite only being a child at the time. I would give anything to have been a young professional in London in the 90s….

The Sopranos.