TV Show Suggestions

What's Worth Watching?

Last week on Twitter I asked for some suggestions for older TV shows I may have missed. I tend to enjoy British and Australian shows, American crime, comedy, mystery, etc.  I received some great responses, so I decided to put them in a blog post. Maybe you will find a new show, too! There are certainly a lot of good ones to choose from, based on titles others suggested. I tried to categorize them by the streaming service which offers them, but I may not have gotten it all correct! So, here goes.

Amazon

Damages

Vikings

The Listener

Leverage

New Amsterdam

Carnival Row

Mad Men

Upload (TV-MA)

Doc Martin

Unforgotten

Scott & Bailey

Bosch
Vera
Loch Ness
The Durells in Corfu
The Capture
The Tunnel
The Missing
Silent Witness
Fleabag
The Marvels Miss Maisel
The Man in the High Castle

Endeavor

Lie to Me

The Americans

Modern Love

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Good Omens

Our Girl

Sneaky Pete

Spirited (Australian)

Love My Way (Australian)

The Secret Life of Us (Australian)

The Expanse

Jack Ryan

Netflix

The Tudors (TV-MA)

Hollywood (TV-MA)

Dead to Me (lots of votes for this one)

Sense8

Bordertown

The Woods

Mr. Selfridge (movie)

Self-Made (based on the life of C.J. Walker)

The English Game

Last Tango in Halifax

Broadchurch

Sherlock

Offspring (Australian)

The Five, Safe, The Stranger (based on books by Harlen Coben)

Kim's Convenience

Hinterland
Bosch

Vera

Loch Ness

Call the Midwife

Designated Survivor

Anne with and E

Never Have I Ever

Virgin River (based on the book series by Robyn Carr)

Pose

American Horror Story

Reign

Schitt$ Creek

Black Spot

Trapped

Sweet Magnolias

Space Force

Madame Secretary

Godless

Shtisel (Israeli)

When Heroes Fly (Israeli) 

Fauda (Israeli)

Heart of Dixie

Wentworth

Manhunt: Unabomber

Narcos

Grand Designs

The World's Most Extraordinary Homes

Hulu

11.22.63 (Stephen King)

His Dark Materials

Taboo (TV-MA - naked Tom Hardy, so I'm told lol)!

The Great (TV-MA)

Acorn

Rake (legal drama)

Brokenwood Mysteries

Slings and Arrows 

Murdock Mysteries

Sundance

Liar

YouTube

Rosemary & Thyme

NBC (Free to Stream with commercials)

Superstore

Life

PBS

Baptiste (7 day trial on Amazon)

World On Fire

BritBox

Shetland

Paramount Network 

Yellowstone

68 Whiskey

Sue Jackson included a couple blog posts with more shows she has reviewed here: https://bookbybook.blogspot.com/p/tv-reviews.html as well as a Summer 2020 Preview here: https://bookbybook.blogspot.com/2020/06/summer-2020-tv-preview.html

Hope you can find something new to watch, when you aren't reading a good book.

Happy Viewing!