What should I be watching in 2014?

A new year and lots of new shows for us to enjoy/complain about but what for you are the ones to watch this year?

The new series of Game of Thrones would be the best place to start.

Not if he hasn't watched the previous three....

I have and I will be watching season 4 - I was looking at the newer programmes tbh

House Of Cards.

While not due for release till September I'm looking forward to seeing what Better call Saul is like

True Detective looks like it could be good with Woody Harrelson in it

Banshee season 2 has just started in the US, lots of shagging and fighting in it, and the shagging is with good great looking women.

The main woman needs bigger...MUCH BIGGER boobs

Brooklyn nine nine could be good as well

Won best comedy and best actor at the golden globes

gazzyD wrote:Brooklyn nine nine could be good as well

Won best comedy and best actor at the golden globes

Don't think it's that good, but it is amusing. And Andre Braugher steals the show as the captain, easily the best character. I prefer Parks and Rec though, now that is genius.

These are some of the new shows i am looking forward to


Mob City - 1940's Mobster series from Frank Darabont (starts this friday on FOX)

True Detective - Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson play two investigators on a hunt for a killer that spans 17 years.

Believe - about a 10 year old girl with supernatural powers who is protected by a ex death row inmate while being hunted by a shady organisation

The Smoke - could be the new Londons Burning ( i used to love that show )

The 100 - Ninety-seven years after a nuclear war has destroyed civilisation, a spaceship housing the lone human survivors sends 100 juvenile delinquents back to Earth to investigate the possibility of re-colonizing the planet.

Played - follows the Covert Investigations Unit (CIU), a group of elite Toronto-based undercover police officers who risk their lives to infiltrate criminal organisations. Each week the team take on a new case, quickly crafting and executing "plays" to bring down their targets. ( starts friday on 5USA )

Helix - A team of scientists from the Centres for Disease Control travel to a high-tech research facility in the Arctic to investigate a possible disease outbreak, only to find themselves pulled into a terrifying life-and-death struggle that holds the key to mankind's salvation or total annihilation. (starts monday channel 5 )

Fortitude - follows the events of a previously tranquil Arctic town after a murder shocks the close-knit community and sets in motion a compelling hunt for the killer.

and 2 others we should get sometime this year

Gracepoint - US version of Broadchurch

Intelligence - Lost's Josh Holloway returns in this high-tech thriller playing a spy with a computer chip in his brain

To be honest, I just read the TV schedule every week and pick out the programmes that look to be of interest.

There are some cracking dramas around, but the best ones are "one offs" rather than franchises. The best British crime dramas have either passed their sell by date (Silent Witness) and are becoming more and more predictable although the plots are more and more farfetched, or the truly good ones (for example: Wire in the Blood, Waking the Dead) have ended.

I recently watched The Bridge 2 on BBC4, which was (in my opinion) a cracking view, with genuinely quirky characters, believable baddies and a solid, realistic storyline.

On the downside, Sherlock is tosh, Dr Who has become wrist-cuttingly bad and as for Atlantis.... Oh, myyyyy gooooooooood.

Now the BBC have come up with The Musketeers. With Auntie Beeb's recent calamitous adaptations of historical stories, Alexander Dumas must be spinning in his shroud.

If you have Sky movies though (and I know a movie isn't exactly TV, but then again, it is) I thoroughly recommend the Sky Premier of Hitchcock, with Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren. Superb. Quality roles for quality actors and a highly enjoyable film all round.

The Fourth Lion wrote:

If you have Sky movies though (and I know a movie isn't exactly TV, but then again, it is) I thoroughly recommend the Sky Premier of Hitchcock, with Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren.    Superb.  Quality roles for quality actors and a highly enjoyable film all round.

Saw Hitchcock on the plane when going on holiday in the summer. It was so good I also watched it a fortnight later flying back! Brilliant film with several outstanding performances. As well as Hopkins and Mirren, thought James D'Arcy excelled in the role of Anthony Perkins. Probably helps if you're an old git like me and Lion   with a bit of knowledge of Hitchcock's Psycho but would still strongly recommend to all.

I've just been introduced to a new TV show called 'True Detective' starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson.

Synopsis as follows:The lives of two detectives, Rust Cohle and Martin Hart, become entangled during a 17-year hunt for a serial killer in Louisiana.

Only watched the first episode but it had me gripped from the beginning. Check it out.

I'm also waiting in anticipation for the second series of 'Hannibal' to begin. I loved the first one. Madds Mikkelsen is frighteningly good.

I can't stop watching 'Archer' (Animated version). It's hilarious. Season 5 has just started. Let's head into the 'Danger Zone'.

has true detective started, wanted to watch that. will see if i can get it on demand. was it on sky Atlantic?

Hostages is quite a decent show.

Arree with Sharksoul on Hannibal...I love it.

Looking forward to House of Cards too. Loved the original and am pleasantly surprised by Spacey's adaptation

I liked that guy out of House of cards............and thought I'd give Gormenghast a go as I saw he was starring in that !!

What a load of garboche.........Didn't understand any of it........

Crappola............Good actor though sadly missed.

Watched 1st ep of True Detective, looks like it could turn into a corker.

I'd tend to avoid Hostages and Intelligence as neither is likely to be getting a second season. Thats only if you don't like the thought of one season shows

SharkSoul wrote:
I can't stop watching 'Archer' (Animated version).  It's hilarious.  Season 5 has just started.  Let's head into the 'Danger Zone'.

You have that right! Archer is brilliant or should we call it Archer:Vice?

Try Hinterland. Crime drama set in the Cambrians. It was originally on S4C but the beeb have commissioned it. There's only 1 episode left I think but they're all on iplayer. Better than Silent witness imo...

compelling and rich wrote:has true detective started, wanted to watch that. will see if i can get it on demand. was it on sky Atlantic?

I 'downloaded' it compelling. Watched the second episode this week, one of the strong points about this aside from the really strong leads is that it's so atmospheric. You really get a feel for that deep south backwards bayou mentality.

I haven't watched any of Season 5 of Archer yet Bull. I'm going to 'download' it and watch it with the missus because she loves Archer.

C&R.

Read that it does'nt air here till 22nd feb.
Its on sky atlantic.

I might get shouted down for this, but Big Brother has been very entertaining   

The 2 episodes of Brooklyn 99 I've seen have also been very entertaining

GSC wrote:I might get shouted down for this, but Big Brother has been very entertaining  

The 2 episodes of Brooklyn 99 I've seen have also been very entertaining

Wife loves it and therefore I watch by default..however been impressed with the jugs on the girl Casey and am loving Jim Davidson (but then as a sexist pig myself, it's a bit of a given)

It's awesome the 5th season Shark!!

Oh and another show which is worth watching is Arrow. Has been awesome. Has become the show I most look forward to every week.

DAVE667 wrote:

GSC wrote:I might get shouted down for this, but Big Brother has been very entertaining    

The 2 episodes of Brooklyn 99 I've seen have also been very entertaining

Wife loves it and therefore I watch by default..however been impressed with the jugs on the girl Casey and am loving Jim Davidson (but then as a sexist pig myself, it's a bit of a given)

Luisa and Jim are gold. I never watch it myself usually but having been persuaded (forced) to by my (better) half its actually been pretty good viewing

Jim on being asked by Big Brother who he would rather have sex with "Linda or Liz?" "Being a happily married man I am not interested in having sex with Linda or Liz", he replies. "If you put a gun to my head" he continues (and then pauses for a moment as if deciding) "I'd pull the trigger!" 
 
He's been brilliant. And pretty restrained in dealing with most of what he has had to endure from Linda and Luisa in my opinion.

Seriously how lovely did Emma Willis look last night?

She has beautiful eyes and when she does that slow sexy languid blink I have to have a quick check to make sure my wife doesn't see me drooling at the telly.

My only concern is that I'm now watching "The Voice" so I can get another glimpse of her

There's someone deliciously evil at the helm of BB

They are indeed....a true sh!t stirring legend. Whoever works in booking should be given a knighthood.

Next year...John Leslie and Ulrika with Stan Collymore and Nick Griffin.

And Frankie Boyle

Tbf though, Jim, Luisa and Lee have been tv gold

GSC wrote:And Frankie Boyle

And Katie Price

and the remains of Jade Goody (I'm already possessed by the spirit of Frankie Boyle)

and just to make Boyle look warm and cuddly, Jerry Sadowitz

Jim Deservedly wins the greatest BB series ever. Was brilliant entertainment