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    Successful programmes you've never seen

    By that I mean you may have caught clips of them here and there, but you've never seen an entire episode.

    Star Trek (or any US sci-fi)
    Six Feet Under
    The Sopranos
    The West Wing
    Gavin & Stacey
    The Wire

    #2
    Successful programmes you've never seen

    Oh and Heroes. And Dexter.

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      #3
      Successful programmes you've never seen

      Until last weekend, Seinfeld. Currently:

      Everything that you mention above, plus:
      CSI
      Heroes
      Buffy
      The League Of Gentlemen

      I spend so much time watching slightly more obscure stuff that I miss out on a lot of more common programmes. The Sopranos is on my "to do" list for this year.

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        #4
        Successful programmes you've never seen

        Buffy
        Lost
        CSI: Miami
        Grey's Anatomy
        Dancing With the Stars
        The West Wing
        How I Met Your Mother
        Two & A Half Men
        Prison Break
        24

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          #5
          Successful programmes you've never seen

          Heroes
          CSI
          Curb Your Enthusiasm
          Lost

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            #6
            Successful programmes you've never seen

            24
            The West Wing
            Six Feet Under

            Any of the CSI programmes -- had to review the Miami one for work last year and switched it off well before the end.
            Friends
            Lost
            The League Of Gentlemen
            Little Britain

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              #7
              Successful programmes you've never seen

              I can add:

              CSI
              Buffy
              Prison Break
              24
              Curb Your Enthusiasm
              Lost
              Friends

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                #8
                Successful programmes you've never seen

                I hadn't seen the UK Office until this year, when I happened upon the US series 2. The Gervais one isn't as good.

                Also: The Unit, The Shield, The Wire, Carter The Unstoppable etc...

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                  #9
                  Successful programmes you've never seen

                  Great idea for a thread.

                  Heroes
                  The Wire
                  Deadwood
                  24
                  Cold Feet
                  Thundercats
                  Howard's Way
                  Coupling
                  Desperate Housewives
                  The OC
                  The Apprentice
                  On The Buses

                  By the way, break out the straitjackets for Auntie Beryl.

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                    #10
                    Successful programmes you've never seen

                    You're not missing much with On The Buses, there, SR.

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                      #11
                      Successful programmes you've never seen

                      I agree with Auntie Beryl, the US Office is a notable improvement.

                      Anyway: Buffy's the only one mentioned so far that I haven't ever seen all the way through.

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                        #12
                        Successful programmes you've never seen

                        .

                        - 'Boys from the Black Stuff' and 'Auf Wieder Sehen, Pet' (out of the country at the time)
                        - 'Deadwood' (yet to reach here)
                        - 'Jerry Springer'
                        - 'Top Gear' (avoided like the plague)

                        .

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                          #13
                          Successful programmes you've never seen

                          Anyone seen a Canadian comedy called Corner Gas? I know it's been picked up in quite a few countries, and I'd recommend a look if you tend to like comedy with a distinctly Canadian tone.

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                            #14
                            Successful programmes you've never seen

                            Yeah, mark me down for The Wire. I really need to get hold of some box-sets.

                            Also Prison Break and Lost. But I don't give a fuck about those two.

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                              #15
                              Successful programmes you've never seen

                              The only Canadian comedy I can remember seeing is The Newsroom, which was boring. The only Canadian drama I can remember seeing is Intelligence, which was boring.

                              Not that I'm assuming all Canadian telly is boring, of course.

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                                #16
                                Successful programmes you've never seen

                                Heroes
                                Lost
                                Prison Break
                                Any and all variants of Australian Idol,Dancing with the Stars, It Takes Two etc
                                Holby City
                                The Wire
                                Curb Your Enthusiasm

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                                  #17
                                  Successful programmes you've never seen

                                  Buffy
                                  Lost
                                  CSI: Miami
                                  Grey's Anatomy
                                  Dancing With the Stars
                                  The West Wing
                                  How I Met Your Mother
                                  Two & A Half Men
                                  Prison Break
                                  24
                                  Heroes
                                  Six Feet Under
                                  Friends
                                  The Unit
                                  The Shield
                                  The Wire
                                  Deadwood
                                  Cold Feet
                                  Thundercats
                                  Howard's Way
                                  Coupling
                                  Desperate Housewives
                                  The OC
                                  The Apprentice
                                  Shameless
                                  This Life
                                  X Factor (that's successful, isn't it?)
                                  Boston Legal

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                                    #18
                                    Successful programmes you've never seen

                                    Lost
                                    Heroes
                                    The West Wing
                                    CSI
                                    Prison Break
                                    Battlestar Galactica (but I did order series 1 the other day)
                                    Deadwood (but someone did give me some DVDs so I will be)
                                    The Shield
                                    Oz
                                    All of those things where celebs dance or skate or whatever and all talent shows

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                                      #19
                                      Successful programmes you've never seen

                                      Was Oz that successful, do you think? Normally, successful programmes are placed in and around the 10.00pm slot, which is sort of 'prime-time for adults'. I remember Oz being slung on around midnight or so, which doesn't exactly gain you viewers.

                                      I add (and thanks to Pheobe for reminding me) Gavin and Stacey and the new Battlestar Galactica to my roll-call of...well..I was going to say 'shame', but I haven't had that many sleepless nights missing them all to be frank.

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                                        #20
                                        Successful programmes you've never seen

                                        I think they made quite a lot of series of it, and I remember a phase of people talking about it *all the time*, and I really wanted to see it, but maybe I overestimated its success.

                                        Then again, The Wire has only ever made it to UK telly hidden away on the Fox channel and it's phenomenally successful.

                                        Oh I know -
                                        The OC
                                        Desperate Housewives
                                        Smallville

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                                          #21
                                          Successful programmes you've never seen

                                          Desperate Housewives
                                          Smallville


                                          Fuck me, two more I've never seen. Cultural hermit, moi?

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                                            #22
                                            Successful programmes you've never seen

                                            Oz was fucking brilliant.

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                                              #23
                                              Successful programmes you've never seen

                                              ian, honestly, there's a hell of a lot more of these that I'd never have seen if it wasn't for work.

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                                                #24
                                                Successful programmes you've never seen

                                                I can't quite put the finger on why I'm averse to all that stuff. I suppose it's like people who say they don't follow football because then it's one less thing to worry about. With episodic telly, I don't have to worry about whether they'll make another series, or whether potentially good programmes will fall apart and end up disappointing you.

                                                Or disappoint you despite word-of-mouth or pure hype.

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                                                  #25
                                                  Successful programmes you've never seen

                                                  Inspired by the above...

                                                  Six Feet Under
                                                  The Sopranos
                                                  The West Wing
                                                  The Wire
                                                  Dexter
                                                  Lost
                                                  Grey's Anatomy
                                                  Dancing With the Stars
                                                  How I Met Your Mother
                                                  Two & A Half Men
                                                  Prison Break
                                                  24
                                                  Deadwood
                                                  The OC
                                                  Desperate Housewives
                                                  Smallville
                                                  The Shield
                                                  Oz
                                                  The Unit
                                                  Cold Feet
                                                  Thundercats
                                                  Howard's Way
                                                  Coupling
                                                  The OC
                                                  The Apprentice
                                                  Shameless
                                                  X Factor
                                                  Boston Legal

                                                  ...and some other contenders:

                                                  Hollyoaks
                                                  Brookside
                                                  Skins

                                                  Surprisingly, there's a few comedies in there, too:

                                                  Black Books
                                                  Gavin & Stacey
                                                  Drop The Dead Donkey

                                                  It seems that most of those mentioned are those American dramas that seem designed specifically to get you addicted to them - The Sopranos, Lost and 24 being the ultimate examples. I'm sorry to say that I did accidentally watch and subsequently get addicted to that pile of shite that was 'Heroes'! I'm deliberately avoiding the second series.

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