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The Sopranos

A New Jersey mobster struggles with business, family and therapy.

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Game of Thrones

Epic fantasy series based on George RR Martin’s novels.

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Breaking Bad

Teacher with terminal cancer becomes drug kingpin to secure the future of his family.

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Blue Planet

Landmark natural history documentary from David Attenborough.

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Band of Brothers

World War II seen through the eyes of one group of soldiers of the US army’s airborne division.

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The Wire

Sprawling crime drama setin Baltimore, Maryland

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Sherlock

A modern take on Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic novel series, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman.

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Black Mirror

Sci-fi anthology series from Charlie Brooker.

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The Twilight Zone

Classic sci-fi anthology series which sees normal individuals find themselves in extraordinary circumstances.

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House of Cards

The collected adventures of a ruthless Washington power couple.

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Arrested Development

The youngest son of a real estate tycoon attempts to keep his bonkers family together after his father is sent to prison.

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Curb Your Enthusiasm

Seinfeld co-creator Larry David stars as a grumpy, fictionalised version of himself in this half-hour comedy.

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Friends

Wildly popular sitcom following the lives of New Yorkers Joey, Rachel, Ross, Phoebe, Monica and Chandler.

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Seinfeld

The misadventures of a neurotic foursome in New York City, led by comedian Jerry Seinfeld.

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The Simpsons

Everyone’s favourite dysfunctional cartoon family navigate life in the fictional US town of Springfield.

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South Park

The misadventures of four foul-mouthed youngsters in a small town in Colorado.

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Boardwalk Empire

Gangster drama set in prohibition-era Atlantic City.

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Downton Abbey

Inside the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family in early 20th century Britain.

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Line of Duty

Inside the anti-corruption unit of the British police force.

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The Office

Ricky Gervais’ cringe-inducing workplace sitcom.

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ER

The long-running US medical drama set in Chicago’s County General hospital.

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Sex and the City

Sitcom set around a young writer and her best girlfriends in New York City.

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Six Feet Under

Drama set around a family-run Los Angeles funeral home.

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Mad Men

Period drama set around a major Madison Avenue ad agency in the 1960s and its enigmatic creative, Don Draper.

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Battlestar Galactica

The crew of a spaceship attempt to protect the last fleet of human civilians from an attack as they journey toward earth.

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Mr Robot

A gifted young hacker gets recruited by a mysterious underground group to destroy the firm he has been hired to protect.

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Ozark

A financial adviser drags his family to a remote community in Missouri in order to launder money for a Mexican drug cartel.

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The West Wing

Inside the lives of White House staffers during two presidential terms.

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Stranger Things

A young boy mysteriously disappears in a small town in Indiana in the 1980s. Things get weird…

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The Crown

Biopic about Queen Elizabeth II’s reign.

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Fawlty Towers

Classic British sitcom set in a fictional Torquay hotel.

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House

Medical drama centred around a brilliant, curmudgeon doctor who solves difficult cases with his crack team.

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24

Real-time drama following the work of counter-terrorist agent Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland).

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Rick and Morty

Animation following the escapades of a mad scientist and his nephew

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The Thick of It

British political satire from Armando Iannucci

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The Night Of

A man charged with murder after waking up next to a dead body attempts to clear his name

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Firefly

Joss Whedon’s short-lived sci-fi western series

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True Detective

Dark detective drama starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson

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Pride and Prejudice

1990s Jane Austen adaptation from the BBC

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Twin Peaks

David Lynch’s trippy drama about a murder investigation in small-town America

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Westworld

Sci-fi drama set in a wild west-themed amusement park populated by robots

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Lost

Plane crash survivors strive for a way off an otherworldly island.

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Killing Eve

A government agent develops a mutual obsession with a psychotic killer

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This is Us

Heartwarming drama about a unique set of triplets

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Big Little Lies

Three bourgeois mothers in upstate New York get tangled up in a murder investigation

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Brass Eye

1990s current affairs spoof.

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The IT Crowd

Comedy set in the IT department of a large corporation

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Mr Bean

Rowan Atkinson stars as a man who is incapable of completing simple tasks without calamitous results

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Luther

Idris Elba stars as a genius but volatile detective in this BBC drama

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Endeavour

Crime procedural, set in the 1960s, which follows the work of a young detective in Oxford

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Modern Family

Three families navigate day-to-day life in this comedy

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The X-Files

Two FBI agents investigate strange and supernatural occurrences

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Parks and Recreation

Sitcom revolving around a determined local politician and her eccentric staff

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The Good Place

US sitcom set in the afterlife

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Outnumbered

Partly-improvised comedy about a young couple raising three children

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Fleabag

Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s hilarious and heartbreaking tale of a woman coming to terms with a recent tragedy

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Dexter

A police officer with a bloodlust turns psychotic vigilante by night

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Blackadder

Pseudo-historical British sitcom led by Rowan Atkinson

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Star Trek: The Next Generation

Patrick Stewart leads a new fleet on the starship Enterprise

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Father Ted

Classic Irish comedy about three priests who live on a remote island

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Peep Show

Mark and Jez, two roomates in London, navigate daily life in this British sitcom

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30 Rock

Sitcom starring Tina Fey as the show-runner of a US type variety show

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Fargo

Anthological crime drama, inspired by the Coen brothers’ film, set in the eponymous Minnesota town

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I’m Alan Partridge

The escapades of Steve Coogan’s failed TV presenter

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Broadchurch

A media frenzy in the wake of the murder of a young boy threatens to tear a small community apart

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer

A teenage girl, imbued with supernatural abilities, takes on demons – and high school

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The Killing

A murder investigation and a political campaign intertwine

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The Inbetweeners

Sitcom following the antics of four British schoolmates

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Frasier

spin-off of classic sitcom Cheers, which sees the titular psychiatrist return to his hometown of Seattle

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Spaced

Sitcom following two 20-something Londoners who pretend to be a couple to share an affordable apartment

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Wolf Hall

Period drama following the rise of Thomas Cromwell

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The Jinx

True crime drama about a real estate developer tied to a series of unsolved crimes

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Jessica Jones

Marvel superhero series following the titular heroine in New York City

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Poldark

Period drama set in 1700s Cornwall

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Better Call Saul

Breaking Bad prequel series centred around criminal lawyer Jimmy McGill

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Cold Feet

Manchester-set drama series which follows the lives of three middle-aged couples

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BoJack Horseman

Animated series about a depressive, anthropomorphic horse

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Unforgotten

London-based cold case crime procedural

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Outlander

An English WW2 nurse is swept back in time to 1743.

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The League of Gentlemen

Mark Gatiss, Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton’s madcap comedy series

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13 Reasons Why

A teenager seeks answers after his classmate commits suicide

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Catastrophe

An American man gets an Irish Londoner pregnant during a holiday romance

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Doctor Foster

Domestic drama starring Suranne Jones and Bertie Carvel

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Peaky Blinders

Gangster epic set in 1919 Birmingham

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Narcos

The criminal exploits of Pablo Escobar

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Ripper Street

Period crime drama set 6 months after the Jack the Ripper murders

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Girls

Lena Dunham’s comedy about a group of twenty-something New Yorkers

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The Affair

An extramarital relationship between a novelist and a young waitress changes the course of many lives

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Doctor Who

Classic British sci-fi series about adventures through time and space

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Orange is the New Black

Netflix comedy-drama set in a women’s prison in Connecticut

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Sense8

Sci-fi thriller about eight strangers across the world who find themselves mysteriously connected

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Inside No. 9

Clever dark-comedy anthology series from League of Gentleman writers Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton

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Making a Murderer

True-crime documentary series about the prolific case of Steven Avery

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The Walking Dead

A police officer wakes up in hospital to find the world overrun by zombies

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Brooklyn Nine-Nine

American police sitcom about the team of Brooklyn’s 99th precinct, starring Andy Samberg

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Grey’s Anatomy

American medical drama following the careers of a group of interns

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Green Wing

Hospital-based comedy, with a distinct absence of anything medical

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True Blood

HBO fantasy series whose protagonist, a telepathic waitress, falls in love with a vampire

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Gilmore Girls

Comedy drama centering on the relationship between a mother and her daughter in small-town Connecticut

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Monty Python’s Flying Circus

Surreal and absurd sketch comedy from the legendary group that created ‘The Holy Grail’ and ‘The Life of Brian’

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Only Fools and Horses

Classic comedy about two brothers in South-east London who try and get rich through black market scheming

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Detectorists

Comedy about the friendship between two eccentric metal detectorists

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Call the Midwife

Follows the lives of midwives in London throughout the mid-20th century, originally adapted from the memoirs of Jennifer Worth

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Hannibal

Psychological crime thriller adapted from the Hannibal Lecter novels of Thomas Harris

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The Night Manager

A hotel manager tries to infiltrate an arms dealer’s network. Based on the book by John Le Carre

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Billions

A US attorney goes head-to-head with a powerful hedge billionaire

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Silicon Valley

An engineer in San Francisco pulls together a team in order to launch a start-up business

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The Good Wife

Following a scandal that sees a former state attorney in jail, his housewife is left to pick up the pieces, and provide for the family

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Scrubs

Quirky comedy set in a fictional US hospital

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Lucifer

The devil abandons hell and moves to Los Angeles where he owns a nightclub

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Skins

British drama that tackles a variety of issues while following the lives of a group of teenagers

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Gavin and Stacey

Heart-warming comedy about the relationship between and Englishman and Welsh woman, alongside their family and friends

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In the Flesh

A young zombie tries to integrate back society and life at home in Lancashire

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Rome

The story of two soldiers, set against the backdrop of the birth of the Roman Empire

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The Man in the High Castle

Adaptation on the novel by Philip K Dick, set in a dystopian world in which the Axis powers won the war

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It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Comedy about a group of dysfunctional friends, and their ambitious and insane schemes

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Vikings

A fictionalised account of the Norse Vikings of medieval Scandinavia

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American Horror Story

Horror anthology series that explores a variety of themes

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Little Britain

Satirical comedy portraying exaggerated characters of British life through series of sketches

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Sex Education

Asa Butterfield plays the awkward teenage son of a sex therapist (Gillian Anderson) who soon realises his inherited knowledge could be lucrative and make him popular at school.

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