Name some TV shows that were really popular but you never watched

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Seinfeld
Downton Abbey
Dallas
The Walking Dead
Grey's Anatomy
The Office
How I Met Your Mother
Friends
The Golden Girls
Sex and the City
Desperate Housewives
Dr. Who
The Cosby Show
Mad Men
Breaking Bad
The Sopranos
 

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Downton Abbey.....dreadfully historically wrong
Frazier ( one episide, the Daphne girl accent drove me insane)
The Crown...
Game of Thrones
The office ( one episode) ..altho' I like Ricky Gervaise in other things
Breaking Bad
The Sopranos
Sex & the city
Any of the housewife in somewhere , shows..
Peaky Blinders ( saw a 5 minute trailer for it.. too much violence and foul language .. not for me )
Walking dead

Anything with Bachelor or Bachelorette or Love Island in the title
 

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hollydolly said:
Downton Abbey.....dreadfully historically wrong
Frazier ( one episide, the Daphne girl accent drove me insane)
The Crown...
Game of Thrones
The office ( one episode) ..altho' I like Ricky Gervaise in other things
Breaking Bad
The Sopranos
Sex & the city
Any of the housewife in somewhere , shows..
Peaky Blinders ( saw a 5 minute trailer for it.. too much violence and foul language .. not for me )
Walking dead

Anything with Bachelor or Bachelorette or Love Island in the title
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You must be the only british person who doesn't watch Downton Abbey. :p
 
Downtown Abbey
Dallas
The Walking Dead
How I Met Your Mother
Desperate Housewives
Dr. Who
Mad Men
The Sopranos
Fresh Prince

Many others - mostly reality. Nothing most boring than someone else's lifestyle.
 
From deb's list I did not watch
Downton Abbey
The Walking Dead
Grey's Anatomy
Sex & the City
Dr. Who

I watched Breaking Bad & Sopranos a year or more after the series' were over. They are two of the best shows I have ever watched, especially Sopranos, a masterpiece.
 
From @hollydolly's list I did not watch
Sex & the city
Any of the housewife in somewhere , shows..
Peaky Blinders ( saw a 5 minute trailer for it.. too much violence and foul language .. not for me )
Walking dead
 
Pepper said:
From deb's list I did not watch
Downton Abbey
The Walking Dead
Grey's Anatomy
Sex & the City
Dr. Who

I watched Breaking Bad & Sopranos a year or more after the series' were over. They are two of the best shows I have ever watched, especially Sopranos, a masterpiece.
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NO Dr Who ?....noooooooo.... fair enough maybe now nowadays it's gone all Woke & PC....but of yesteryear?... fab show... :D
 
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RFW said:
You must be the only british person who doesn't watch Downton Abbey. :p
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Make that two more, my wife and I have never seen it, there again our first thirty-one years of marriage was television-less. We used to compete at dancing, as in Latin & Ballroom, only as amateurs. Nonetheless we practised, trained, choreographed, taught, danced and competed, almost every waking minute that we were not working or sleeping. We certainly got around the country a fair bit.

My mother-in-law was hooked on daytime TV soaps, it was to appease her that we got our first television, she started visiting more often once the TV was installed. The actual set was in a cabinet so that when she went home we could close the cabinet doors and the TV would be out of sight until her next visit.
 
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debodun said:
Name some TV shows that were really popular but you never watched
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I'll put a slash through the ones I've never watched:

Seinfeld
Downton Abbey
Dallas
The Walking Dead
Grey's Anatomy
The Office
How I Met Your Mother
Friends
The Golden Girls
Sex and the City
Desperate Housewives
Dr. Who
The Cosby Show
Mad Men
Breaking Bad
The Sopranos

Edit: some more to add:
Keeping Up With the Kardashians
Dancing With the Stars *
Bachelor
Bachelorette

* Dancing With the Stars- never watched, but thought it could be fun.
 
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I was either without TV or had only a small poor quality B&W from about 1970 to 1990, missed most everything in that time.
debodun said:
Breaking Bad
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hollydolly said:
Breaking Bad
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I have to say I believe that is one of the best TV shows of all time. I had a hard time starting to watch, as my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer about the same time as Walt. However she really liked it so I managed, it was a bit hard that first season.
hollydolly said:
..many of us realise it's historically inaccurate
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Not many TV shows are. However for this one most of us in the US never knew.

I often comment on historical inaccuracies in TV shows and movies, kind of a hobby of mine. My wife hates it...
 
I'm a big fan of the older westerns of the 50s, 60s & 70s. There were some shows that everyone seemed to be crazy about but I never saw them and to tell you the truth I'm maybe a better person for not seeing them:
Dallas - Don't care "Who shot J.R.
Mash - Maybe I watch 10 minutes once; couldn't understand the humour so some guy walking around in a dress.
Sex and The City - Must of been a woman's thing but not for me!
Dr. Who - It's British, I love British shows but not whatever or whoever this Who guy/woman is?
Game of Thrones - I wouldn't care less who get the throne.
Sopranos - I have watched way too many crime shows so forget this "baby"
Walking Dead - Don't believe in zombies, not impressed with local nut cases walking in our local corn mazes and pretending to be zombies. Of course, they came from the city.
Deadwood - I love western but I like to skip the swearing and the senseless killing of modern westerns. Don't really like their heavy long coats dragging in the mud. Marshall Dillon (Gunsmoke) and Chuck Connors (The Rifleman) would probably turn over in their graves if they were forced to watch one of "them thar' modern westerns.
 

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heavy long coats dragging in the mud. Marshall Dillon (Gunsmoke) and Chuck Connors (The Rifleman) would probably turn over in their graves if they were forced to watch one of "them thar' modern westerns.
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The long coats probably a lot more true for dress during those times, rather than the oh-so-squeaky-clean 1950s dress and grooming portrayed in those TV shows.
 

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