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Mock Edwardian entertainment that proved so successful that it ran for 30 years and in the process introduced around 2000 performers

BAFTA nominated eight-part drama series based on Winston Churchill's enforced political exile during the 1920s and 1930s, starring Robert Hardy and an all-star cast

Set thousands of years before the events of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, The Rings of Power covers all the major events of Middle-Earth's Second Age - the forging of the Rings, the rise of the Dark Lord Sauron and the last alliance between Elves and Men

Hidden camera show where the public were the stars. "Smile - you're on Candid Camera!"

Ground-breaking, intelligent and immensely watchable crime series set on the grey and rainy streets of Glasgow, 'Taggart' became one of the UK's longest running thriller series

Revolving around the Winslow family, a middle-class African-American family living in Chicago, 'Family Matters' was the last live-action scripted primetime show that debuted in the 1980s to leave the air, outlasting all other primetime network debuts of the 1980s with the exception of 'The Simpsons'

International Emmy Award winning (Best Drama Series) Spanish crime caper in which a gang of robbers take 67 hostages as part of their daring and dangerous assault on the Royal Mint of Spain, where they plan to print and escape with €2.4 billion

US crime drama originally intended as the fourth season of 'Narcos' but instead developed as a companion series, with events prequelling the original

The affable American comedian made such a hit with the British public that the BBC gave him his own stand-up comedy and sketch show, which featured a host of well-known stars

Harvard-educated lawyer Anthony Petrocelli turns his back on the courtrooms of Manhattan for a quieter legal career in a small Arizona town, but seems to have no trouble running into his share of murderers to defend

Eddie and Richie are two pathetic, misogynistic, slobby flatmates living in a filthy, damp flat. Perpetually bored and broke, they waste their days thinking about sex, money, and trying not kill one another

After numerous failed attempts to bring it to the screen, Neil Gaiman's fantasy drama comic book is finally brought to the screen in an enthralling Netflix series

A rarely successful adaptation from Britain to America in this sitcom concerning a divorced man who tries to get his life back in order after losing everything to his ex-wife

Popular BBC sketch show that introduced a whole host of memorable characters and a plethora of catch-phrases. So unfair!

In this ‘lost’ BBC play - the long-drawn and bitterly contested American Civil War is over, but there is a legacy of hatred left over from the fighting - hatred which comes slowly to a climax in a bar in Decker City

One of Hans Christian Andersen's first fairy tales, 'The Tinderbox' came to British television screens in 1966 as a three-part series, having been made as a full length feature in 1959

Set and filmed in Colombia, Netflix's crime drama is based on the story of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, who became a billionaire through the production and distribution of cocaine

1950s adventure series about one boy and his horse (and dog)

A spin-off, prequel and sequel to 'Breaking Bad', 'Better Call Saul' is regarded by many critics as one of the greatest television series of all time, a claim backed up by over 80 awards showered on the series

C4 comedy series in which the National Theatre of Brent act out pivotal points in history as presented by Desmond Olivier Dingle, its Founder, Artistic Director, and Chief Executive

In the 23rd century and in the decade before the original Star Trek series, Captain Christopher Pike, a young Spock, and the crew of the USS Enterprise explore new worlds and carry out missions throughout the galaxy on behalf of The Federation

US sitcom which was a spin-off of 'The Golden Girls' tells of the day to day misadventures of a widowed paediatrician and his two adult daughters

American action thriller television series based on Jack Carr's 2018 novel of the same name. The series follows Lieutenant Commander James Reece (Chris Pratt) after his platoon of Navy SEALs are ambushed while on a covert mission

Set in Newcastle Upon Tyne, The Paper Lads centres around the lives of young boys on a paper round who often make the news as well as deliver it

Full of one-liners and running gags that sent up most forms of stereotypical British society, The Fast Show was pure sketch-comedy gold

British consumer affairs programme that championed the cause of the underdog and, with a comical twist provided by members of the public, became a staple of Sunday night viewing for millions

Italian police procedural located in the imaginary town of Vigàta, Sicily, Inspector Montalbano (Italian: Il Commissario Montalbano) has been broadcast in over 65 countries, including the UK on BBC Four

Ground-breaking and uncompromising police series in which the action features the exploits of Britain's crime-busting elite

After missing for seven years, Prairie is found and returned to her adoptive parents who cannot understand what has happened to her. She was blind and can now see. What other mysteries surround this young lady who now answers the the name of The OA?

Writer Roy Clarke goes back to 1939 to prequel his own successful sitcom 'Last of the Summer Wine' with equally hilarious results