Surreal

I just started watching the BBC shows via iPlayer and I want to know your favorite shows!

I just watched all of Merlin, Series 2 and enjoyed it for the romp it is - especially Anthony Head.

I also just found out that Spooks is what's shown here as MI-5 and I feel compelled to play catch up now via Netflix.

Of course I'm a hardcore Doctor Who fan - come on Waters of Mars and very fond of Torchwood (sorry Sarah Jane, I'm not 12).

Otherwise, I tend to like mysteries, crime ... not comedy so much.

Help a poor Yank out!

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Velmwend Pontoppidan

Well I love the BBC a LOT. I used to live in the states and I missed it so much. News that unbiased is a rare thing! but in my opinion they only do a few things well; comedy and documentary. And period dramas. If you like nature shows I think David Attenborough's new series is still on the iPlayer, it's tremendous.

Tea Panhandle

I don't know if Hustle is still on the player but that was a good show I used to watch.

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Arilynn

I have no clue about iPlayer, but have you tried Being Human? It's a show that just finished the first season on BBC America. I haven't watched all of it, but I like what I saw, which mainly is Aidan Turner as a vampire because I have fastforwarded through other parts of it.



Yum. Being Human, BBC America

The premise sounds like a bad joke and Mr. Turner wears way too many clothes, but it is entertaining.

Tess Whitcroft

Well, I am not a Brit myself but I am a huge fan of the British comedy quiz shows...

Mock the Week

Have I got News for You

QI

8 Out of 10 Cats


Tess

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Gordon Ramsey Kitchen Nightmares is OK. It's not as lame as the F word or the American one.

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Lucifer Baphomet

The Brian Blessed episode of Have I got News for You was the best ever.

Good choice, Tess.

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Charlotte Bartlett

I have to admit to loving Spooks. The latest series started last Wednesday and is up on Iplayer episode one. Would really recommend doing catch up though before watching it. There was also a programme about a priest who was an exorcist a while back Martin Shaw played him (I think) no longer on iplayer but you may find elsewhere- was called Apparitions. Messiah was also quite good by the BBC - link here and you can see other drama from the BBC.

BBC - Northern Ireland - Messiah : The Rapture

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Tyche Shepherd

As Arilynn mentioned "Being Human" is worth watching.

Also Spiral. Series II ended a week or 2 ago . It's a subtitled French Series (co-made/financed by BBC Four) about a group of cops , lawyers and judges investigating a Drugs Ring - very gallic,corrupt, gritty and violent. Sort of a Law and Order format, with single episode stories along side the full series investigation , well worth checking out . I have Series I on my Christmas List.


The other BBC shows I'll watch not mentioned above are Master Chef and University Challenge.

But if you are now using a proxy you should also check out Channel 4 - 4oD - Channel 4 is the state owned commerical channel - Ignore the numerous US Shows but check out some of the UK comedy shows such as Peep Show and The IT crowd. They do some very good one off documentaries as well.


EDIT I've just reread your OP Surreal - Ignore the comedy suggestion - but if you really like mysteries and crime you have to watch the Channel 4 Red Riding trilogy - http://www.channel4.com/programmes/red-riding A very dark look at a semi-fictional 1970's & 80's account of bent coppers, serial killers and corruption - Scary ! Oh and Wallenger on the BBC - A Swedish cop show ... lots of anoraks and bleak seascapes ... very Strindbergian

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Cailyn Miller

I'll third the Being Human suggestions, and add Survivors:


Oh and folks - new Dr Who this Sunday!

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Quantum Destiny

Not exactly a mystery or crime show, but I reckon 'Life' is the best thing on BBC at the moment. It's probably my fave ever nature documentary series, and there have certainly been few!

Life (BBC TV series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The first five episodes are currently available on BBC iPlayer.

BBC iPlayer - Life: Challenges of Life

Cristiano

The BBC is dead to me since they canceled Footballers Wives. Hotel Babylon almost made up for it, but BBCA never showed the third season.

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Tyche Shepherd

It wasn't really a BBC series so they didn't cancel it , it was ITV who were responsible (teh Evol free market broadcaster) - Though it was cancelled because it had lower ratings than it's time slot competitor ... Hotel Babylon on the BBC

Cristiano

You mean Hotel Babylon killed Footballers Wives?

Tyche Shepherd

Yep !! Well it was contributory, the real reason was declining ratings but the 5th Series was up against Hotel Babylon which tended to get better ratings

Retro

Hotel Babylon wasn't the same after Anna Thornton-Wilton left.

Milana Cavan

Is there hope of another season? Is there is there?

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Tyche Shepherd

It was filmed a couple of months ago and will be aired in the UK in January

Surreal

Is that Waters of Mars? I had heard December release.

Milana Cavan

That's for BBC America. December 19th. Just a little over a month away.

Surreal

Makes plans to watch it on Sunday.

Surreal

Watching Wire in the Blood on Netflix Instant. Can we say twisted?

I love British shows.

Bruise Shepherd

You didn't ask for music suggestions, but... Later... with Jools Holland is one of the best ever.
At times the show can offer a dazzlingly eclectic mix of music. All played live. No lip syncing.
Holland can seem like a smarmy little twonk, but the music is wonderful.

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Aidan Turner played Dante Gabriel Rossetti in Desperate Romantics, often shirtless. That was a fun romp.

For drama, I very much liked Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes.