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Jonathan Creek
Live TV Topless Darts
Cold Feet

The all time classic has to be Farty Towers.

Eldorado

Not going out
The new Knight Rider
Bodies
My Name is Earl (getting close to the end but had another series left in it)

thunderbirds!

Alan Partridge

Crystal Maze

Apparitions

the office

The Big Break.

Noels house party

I sort of agree, if only because the last series ended on a minor cliff hanger. If it hadn't then I'm not so sure, it'd been running out of steam since the end of the second series, jumped the shark massively in the third and the return to the classic format hadn't quite worked out in the fourth.

Nathan Barley

The new Knight Rider
Shark

Garth Marenghis dark place
Black books

Germany 1 - 5 England...that could've gone on for hours.

The West Wing.
Studio 60
Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Nathan Barley

No. As soon as I saw this thread I thought not that. Gervais has never regretted stopping it and I agree with him. It was just 2 series and a Christmas special of absolute unrivalled quality that changed comedy. Yeah sure, it could have still been really good for a couple more series and it would have been fun to see what it would have been like but its better to just leave it and say there was no drop in quality.

You can always watch the american office if you want more of something similar.

Agree with darkplace.

Men behaving badly

The Wire - it ended brilliantly but left you desperately wanting more
ER - although it had become a bit stale it was still miles ahead of most TV dramas

Minder
Only Fools & Horses (before the last batch of episodes)

Got to agree with those three.

i know what you are saying and in a way i agree.it had ran it's course and it did end well,but it was so damn good i selfishly want more

The Office was shit.

Ben Behaving Madly

One foot in the grave..

I don't think you really think that.

the day today
time trumpet
flipside tv
brass eye
Da Ali G show
green wing
coupling
father ted
2004: The Stupid Version
friday night armistice
the adam and joe show

Spaced

I'd have to go for classic kids tv programmes, you watched them for years and when you buy the dvd it turns out they only ever made 13 episodes;

- Trumpton
- Fingerbobs
- The Flumps
- Mr Benn


Pretty certain Simon Pegg said they're not done with Spaced yet and there will be more at some point - most likely another series rather than a film. Think it was when Jonathan Ross interviewed him about Star Trek.

Certainly overrated.  It had it’s moments of genius but there was far to much flannel and hype surrounding it all and I think old beardy tub did the right thing at the right time when he pulled it.

Give me a re-run of On the Busses any day of the week.  Now there's real life.

Dirty Sexy Money

Great comedy. Thought it lost a lot when Jeff (Richard Coyle) left. I suppose it was doomed as Davenport was off playing with pirates around then anyway. Rrrrr.

Still at least Moffitt has a show back on the screen soon(ish), he's writing Dr. Who.

Oh and Charmed - Alysa Milano....now she was worth watching !

And the episodes he's already written have been the best ones.

He's also writing a new sherlock holmes series for BBC One.

Jonathan Creek is the best shout so far.

Bought them all on DVD recently, still quality to watch. Should deffo roll out a new series.

Life on Mars

Although I think it had more left, they were right to can it when they did. Go out on a high, rather than drag it out and leave the last series feeling weak. Which, although I love it, is what the Wire did IMO

They did a special at Xmas and there will be another one next Easter. Amazing that its been running over 12 years now and they've only managed to do 26 episodes so far. Not sure why they aren't making more, what else does Alan Davis do other than QI?

the last series of the Wire was a bit disappointing in some respects but I think the inevitability of the impending ending was difficult to ignore. I did love the last episode though.

Definitely agree - I was shocked to hear they wound it up after series 2 in the States (and I'm sure I heard a rumour that they didn't even showthe final episode!)

Brass Eye and Father Ted are good shouts.

I also reckon a series called Jack and Jill.

It was an American drama love story thing that only ran for 2 seasons i think. But i loved the female co-star (Amanda Peet) so much that i even watched re runs. :-[

She is THE most beautiful woman on the planet. Here's some pictures i took. 

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Bit wrinkly.

I think Brass Eye is perfect at the seven episodes made.  Not sure how many more issues they could have covered, other than perhaps immigration.

Chris Morris's Terrorist/Suicide bombing thing he's been planning finally got picked up by film4 after getting turned down by channel4 and the bbc recently. Something to look forward to.

I reckon he might get fatwaed

Never heard of it - if it makes it to TV could you chuck a reminder on here?  Wouldn't want to miss that one.

Don't think it will be on for a while. Not even sure what format it will take. Sounds like it's more likely to be sitcom style than some sort of mocumentary if the wikipedia article is anything to go by:


It's got a reference to the interview but I'm too lazy to follow it.

Before it got picked up by film4 he was going to get fans to pay £50 to appear as extras as a way to help fund it. Well according to a mate anyway.

Amanda Peet was lovely in Studio 60.

My big shout out would go to:

Invasion,
and possibly Generation Kill.

But maybe the latter was so good because it was relatively short.

Big Break
The Fast Show
Dawsons Creek
Friends
The Borrowers
Spitting Image

Operation Good Guys - perfected the fly-on-the wall doc/comedy 10 years before Ricky Gervais claimed to have invented it
Green Wing - erratic, strange, but brilliant in parts
Brass - Spoof of Dallas or Dynasty set in a Yorkshire mill town

Friends?  Really?  I don't think I've ever seen a dead horse more flogged.

You bet

fantasy football to

They did try flogging it more with Joey, which was a flop.

Though that was the weakest spin off they could do, I'd have liked to see them do "The Bings" - Chandler and Monica living in the suburbs with kids. Except no one else actually wanted to do a spin off.

I'm not sure after how long it went on for any spin off would have worked, they rarely do.  The one obvious exception is of course Frasier, which was far better than Cheers.  And far, far, far better than Friends for what its worth.

The A-Team

American Gothic.

Only one series and then the studio pulled the plug.

To be truly great you have to go out on a high note, therefore you can't go all the way to the end.  You'll either be left wanting more, or disappointed, and I know which I'd rather have.

My initial reaction was to say Spaced.  In hindsight, I think I might throw up if they do bring out some crappy update.

Saint and Greavsie

Father Ted. Shame he had to kark it.

REALLY? J'adore Lee Macks stand up but this programme was deeply rubbish

Weird, considering Ricky Gervais' biggest influence in that genre is Christopher Guest who worked in that genre in the early 1980's (there was mockumentary films before that too). I see no problems in folks disliking stuff but you're making things up!

I really liked The Office but people went a bit mental for it, like Peter Kay (whatever happened to him?).

Anyway, my shout is Arrested Development - it was given a farcical final episode after they found out it was cancelled.

Also, King of the Hill.

I'd have said Futurama but they've brought it back.

My Nan says Bad Girls should still be on.

Boston Legal...Shatner at his brilliance.

Surprised there seems to be no mention of Blackadder.

THE LARRY SANDERS SHOW.

I think blackadder did well to end when it did.

This morning with Richard not Judy

dark skies - anyone remember it?

only one series, i really thought it needed a second, shame.