hulu.com has opened up a whole new world for me in TV land. I'm discovering really good television DOES exist, unfortunately, a lot of it is produced in Great Britain and not easily accessed here in the States.
I've watched every available episode of Wire in the Blood and Doc Martin.
Can any of you Brits recommend any other series that I might be on the lookout for at Hulu?
The only downside is that my vocabulary has gotten rather, um, colorful. I'm kind of schizophrenic that way.
Cindy
Hehehehe...
You might like to look out for:
Silent Witness (about a team of forensic scientists) Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes (weird police drama) Midsomer Murders Law and Order
Ooo! Thanks, Kate! I'm starting a list.
Wait - is that YOUR Law & Order or MY Law & Order?
Cindy
If you want a really good laugh look up old episodes of Keeping up Appearances. Hyacinth is just too much as are her sisters.
Love Midsomer Murders
Steven Alaska
I just LOVE Hyacinth! ("Sherrrriiiiddannnnn")
Love "MI-5" !
and "As time goes by"
gotta love PBS!
amy in CNY
I had a quick look through and couldn't actually find very many UK series.
I did find The Camomile Lawn - a drama in 5 parts set in the 1940s flashing forward to the 1980s, not a very recent one, but good. Kingdom, which is set in the County just north of me (Norfolk), with Stephen Fry playing a solicitor and the original UK version of the Office.
Sally at the Seaside ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~uk
Teleflora wrote:
Yes, I enjoyed what I saw of Kingdom. I'm hoping they get more episodes. The woman who plays his sister was also in the first season or 2 of Wire in the Blood. She's very good.
I really enjoyed the scenery in Kingdom. You're very lucky to live in such beautiful country. I was astonished at the beauty of Cornwall (?) in Doc Martin, as well.
It's just gorgeous, innit?
:-)
Cindy
i love Doc Martin show too. we get that followed by the latest version of Reggie Perrin with the same actor in the lead role. oh, i wonder if rising damp or reggie perrin is on that site. off to look thru it more thoroughly (sp?). j.
"Teleflora" wrote ... Yes, I enjoyed what I saw of Kingdom. I'm hoping they get more episodes. The woman who plays his sister was also in the first season or 2 of Wire in the Blood. She's very good.
I really enjoyed the scenery in Kingdom. You're very lucky to live in such beautiful country. I was astonished at the beauty of Cornwall (?) in Doc Martin, as well.
It's just gorgeous, innit? :-) Cindy
I watched what they had of Kingdom as well. I also hope they can get more. I am a bit of a fan of Mr. Fry, though he is rather often in a lot of parrot jokes at my house of late. (G)
I have more or less resigned myself to ordering my favorite shows from Britain on DVD. Though the British television people seem to be as odd about releasing shows onto DVD for region one as they are about sending them west to PBS stations. I swear I am going to get a region free dvd player, or figure out how to make the one I have region free. It seems expensive at a glance, but then you realize that you can get an entire season of the new series Doctor Who for the price of a month's worth of cable. Now if we can just shake the other 20 odd years worth of The Doctor, or at least what they haven't misplaced, out of the BBC in seasonal format!
NightMist
I got DD an alarm clock for Christmas. Mr Fry's voice wakes her every morning saying Mr Fryish things.
I've requested the whole Upstairs/Downstairs series on DVD. I finally found it in a Signals catalogue, I believe.
Cindy
faulty towers has its moments. j.
Ours.
And our original The Office with Ricky Gervause - if you can stand it. I can't.
They are out on the web in places...
Look for Elizabrth R with Glenda Jackson.
How about Rosemary & Thyme which is showing on our cable TV at present.
I wouldn't want to hire them to do my garden though, someone is murdered every episode.
Heartbeat also, my husband's favourite.
Then there was Lilies which I loved.
Edna in Sydney
I can't stand our version at all. It's embarrassing for me to watch.
Cindy
Oh well, John Cleese and the whole Monty Python trip have their own thing goin on.
"Dinsdale, He was a nice boy... He nailed my head to a coffee table."
Cindy
Ooh, I remember that - it was indeed very good and a very dramatic sound track that featured Ravel's String Quartet.
Lizzy
Don't think anyone's mentioned Inspector Morse. A classic series with lots of scenery and lovely background music too.
Sally at the Seaside ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~uk
Teleflora wrote:
Ooops, sent too soon. Was also going to suggest Larkrise to Candleford (series 3 now showing on UK tv) and Cranford. Both made Sunday evening TV really non-missable. Both gentle costume dramas - no bad language and bringing either a tear to the eye or a smile to the face.
Sally at the Seaside ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~uk
Sally Sw> Don't think anyone's mentioned Inspector Morse. A classic series with
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