Top TV (17 titles)

by: Katherine from Edinburgh

65% from 8 members

Only the best show on tv...ever. Too much? Ok, it's a well constructed, superbly acted heist drama. Another show cancelled after the first series despite its obvious merits. To be a fly on the wall in a tv execs office - how do their minds work?...

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The Kill Point on DVD (2007)
Starring: Geoffrey Cantor, Jennifer Ferrin, John Leguizamo
Director: Steve Shill, Joshua Trank
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Award-winning actor John Leguizamo is ''Mr. Wolf,'' an Iraq war veteran who leads his ex-platoon on a daring bank heist. But when the robbery goes tragically wrong, the onetime soldier has no choice but to take hostages. Going head-to-head with Mr. Wolf is ''Horst Cali'' (Donnie Wahlberg), a no-..read more »

Rate this: 64% from 1,842 member

Starsky And Hutch - First Season

Do you really need my reasons for this recommendation? Classic! It ran for four seasons, rent them all.

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Starsky And Hutch - First Season (5 discs) on DVD (1976)
Starring: David Soul, Paul Michael Glaser, Antonio Fargas
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The first series of the popular television programme.

Rate this: 68% from 2,467 members

Secret Life Of Us, The - Series 1

There are four seasons of this Australian drama and I would highly recommend them all. Look out for the Claudia Karvan-starring Love My Way -- best tv series to come out of Australia or anywhere, for that matter.

Secret Life Of Us, The - Series 1 (6 discs)
Starring: Claudia Karvan, Samuel Johnson, Deborah Mailman
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The lives of eight twenty-somethings living in an apartment block in Melbourne. Discs 1-3 contain episodes: Telemovie Part One, Telemovie Part Two, The Unbelievable Truth, The Garden of Gethsemane, The Rules, Expect The Unexpected, The Road Not Taken, What Am I?, The Secret Life of Us, State of ..read more »

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Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip

Lurve it!

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Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip (6 discs) on DVD (2006)
Starring: Matthew Perry, Amanda Peet, Bradley Whitford
Director: Timothy Busfield, Thomas Schlamme
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WEST WING creator Aaron Sorkin presents a revealing and very funny look at the backstage workings of a late-night comedy sketch show in STUDIO 60 ON THE SUNSET STRIP. The show (which is named STUDIO 60) is plummeting in the ratings and it looks like the network, NBS, might be about to axe it. In a ..read more »

Rate this: 82% from 4,107 members

Mad About You - Season 1

I love the relation between Paul and Jamie. I think the actors' friendship and obvious ease in each other's company creates a great partnership on screen.

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Mad About You - Season 1 (2 discs) on DVD
Starring: Paul Reiser, Helen Hunt
Director: Danny Jacobson, Paul Reiser
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A heartwarming sitcom starring Paul Reiser--who also created the series--and Helen Hunt as the Buchmans, MAD ABOUT YOU tells the story of a young newlywed couple navigating the myriad trials and tribulations of keeping their marriage healthy, and themselves sane.

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Boomtown - Series 1 - Episodes 1 To 9

I revisted this after watching The Kill Point. Donnie Wahlberg ain't half bad! I'm off to look out my NKOTB albums on cassette... good times...

Boomtown - Series 1 - Episodes 1 To 9 (5 discs) on DVD (2003)
Starring: Donnie Wahlberg, Mykelti Williamson, Neal McDonough
Director: Tucker Gates, Peter Werner, Jon Avnet
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Set in current-day Los Angeles; each episode of BOOMTOWN features a different criminal case which, in Rashomon fashion, is shown repeatedly but from everybody's point-of-view: the police, medical staff, TV reporters and the criminals. This, of course, leads to differing views of what has happened ..read more »

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Cheers - Season 1

This ran for years and years and years and is always watchable. There was a noticeable lull in quality when Nicholas Colassanto (Coach) passed away and Woody Harrelson replaced him as the sweet but dim character. But the new group quickly gelled and it was back to the business of making people laugh.

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Cheers - Season 1 (4 discs) on DVD (1983)
Starring: Ted Danson, Shelley Long, Rhea Perlman
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Cheers is the bar run by recovering alcoholic and former Red Sox pitcher Sam Malone (Ted Danson). When Diane Chambers (Shelley Long), a teaching assistant, is dumped by her professor boyfriend, she takes a job waiting tables at the bar, thus beginning an on-again/off-again relationship with Sam. ..read more »

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Arrested Development - Season 1

I'm still mourning the cancellation of this show. Admittedly the third series was awful (I'm sorry AD fans, but it's true) but seasons one and two will make you fall in love with the Bluth family and their illegal antics. Rent all three seasons, support the Bluths!

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Arrested Development - Season 1 (3 discs) on DVD (2004)
Starring: Jason Bateman, Portia de Rossi, Will Arnett
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All the episodes from Season One of Arrested Development, the U.S. comedy about a wealthy family, who lost everything, and the one son who had no choice but to keep them all together... Episode titles: Pilot, Top Banana, Bringing Up Buster, Key Decisions, Charity Drive, Visiting Ours, In God We ..read more »

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Spaced

This series didn't catch my attention when it first appeared on tv but after Shaun of the Dead, I had to consume everything Simon Pegg-esque and Spaced didn't disappoint. I only wish I'd seen it earlier. Brilliant!

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Spaced (3 discs) on DVD (1999)
Starring: Jessica Stevenson, Simon Pegg, Julia Deakin
Director: Edgar Wright
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The sitcom SPACED features Tim and Daisy (Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson), two quirky young adults who pose as a professional couple in order to rent a flat in Tufnell Park, London. Tim is an assistant manager of a comic book store and an aspiring comic book artist while Daisy is an unemployed ..read more »

Rate this: 82% from 21,102 members

Law And Order Criminal Intent - Series 1

6'4" Vincent D'Onofrio (yum) and his mini sidekick, Kathryn Erbe, are eternally watchable.

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Law And Order Criminal Intent - Series 1 (6 discs) on DVD
Starring: Vincent D'Onofrio, Kathryn Erbe, Jamey Sheridan
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The latest in the Law & Order Spin offs, Criminal Intent focuses on the NYPD's Major Case Squad in its efforts to stop the worst criminal offenders in New York . All 22 episodes from Season One of Law and Order: Criminal Intent. Episode titles: One, Art, Smothered, The Faithful, Jones, The Extra ..read more »

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