I just finished Red Dwarf X and it totally renewed my love for this series. Definitely recommended!

I watched State Of Play, Life On Mars and Ashes To Ashes based on the recommendations of this thread. All three were great. What shall I tackle next?

I'm amazed nobody has mentioned "House of Cards" in this thread, which was brilliant.

I am genuinely shocked that people can actually name British TV shows made in the last three years that are not soaps, news items or Doctor Who.
Every time I turn on my television all that appears to be on is USA comidies, even the cartoons are American.

To tell you the truth, the only thing I regularly watch at the moment is Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe
Its like I'm saying
"Hey Charlie, Is everything still shit?"
"Yes, Yes it is, here's some very amusing, deeply cynical jokes about just how shit it all is"
"Ta Charlie, same time next week?"
and then go back to not watching telly again
I AM doing Dr Who right from the 1963 William Hartnell start though - still on series one!

I agree with pretty much the majority of the suggestions in this thread. Here are some extras which I don't think have been mentioned:

- Atlantis (similar to Merlin)
- Inspector Morse/Lewis/Endeavour (detective series - all set in/around scenic Oxford)
- Father Brown (another short detective series set in about the 1950s)
- Inbetweeners (comedy)
- Friday Night Dinner (comedy)

I'm sure there are lots more but my brain is hungry and can't think of any more at the moment!

My favorites (most previously mentioned):

Monty Python
Black Adder
The Vicar of Dibley
Absolutely Fabulous
The Young Ones
Red Dwarf (Series X is great!)
The Michael Palin Travel Series (Around the World in 80 Days, Sahara, etc.)
To the Manor Born

I think I also read in the thread some references to Gaiman's work. FYI, he's involved in a new 6-issue "prequel" of the Sandman graphic novels. I've read the first one and it's pretty good.

Something I really got hooked on recently is Vera. Only seen three episodes of the second season (it's one of those "short seasons, full-length episodes" kinda deals; as usual, I started watching just as the local station was ending the run, mumble grumble), but I'm sold.

There's something about the mood and atmosphere (reminded me of Ghost Writer a bit in that regard), the main character (not what You'd expect from a leading detective in a crime drama), and Brenda Blethyns performance that I found almost hypnotic.

So for anybody in the mood for a moody, slower-paced "whodunnit" crime drama, give DCI Vera Stanhope a try.

I watched a few episodes of a show on BBCA a year or two ago that I really liked - How Not to Live Your Life.

We were talking about Chris Morris stuff before and I just realised we somehow forgot the dark, dream-like, surreal and amazing 'Jam' welcome in jam!

I think he was in Nathan Barley too - a satire about obnoxious 'New Media' types, that was pretty good too

I also remembered what a criminally overlooked program 'Nightingales' was look here:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098874/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
8.1 on IMDB so its not just nostalgia for the obscure that's making me mention it!

Garrow's Law - period legal drama based on liberally interpreted real cases and real personalities that revolutionized UK legal system
Are you being served? - sit com in a department store
Single Handed - Irish though, a police drama series with a lot of shadows
North and South - very swoon-worthy with Richard Armitage, but not only - also a social commentary on industrial revolution and labour relations
Pride and Prejudice - Colin Firth and the wet shirt...?

And as mentioned:

Chief Inspector Morse - what a series, what actors, never equaled in my view!

Robbie Coltrane is a pretty big guy, yes!

Some of my favorites
Downton Abby (just got into it)
Midsomer Murders
Rosemary and Thyme
New Tricks
The House of Elliot (sadly ended on a cliffhanger)
Waiting for God

If we're counting Irish ones, then the Jack Taylor series are also really good :)

Just remembered another I missed off my earlier list: Case Histories (detective series)