For me

The Wire

Green Wing

This is England in all its variants

and my absolute favourite

Our Friends in the North

I’ll go for:

Hill Street Blues
The Larry Sanders Show
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Still Game
Law & Order - 1978 one with Derek Martin.

the mk 3 cortina they used was the exact model and colour of my first ever car, so it had me hooked from the start. I keep meaning to watch it again as I’ve got it on dvd

The cars were great weren't they?!! My old man said there were plenty of DCI Gene Hunts!!… It might not of always been right or legal he said but bad people got nicked!!

Don't waste your time with jealousy. Sometimes your ahead, sometimes your behind, the race is long. But in the end it's only with yourself!!

I watched it when it came out. Watched it again a couple of years later, tried to watch it again a year or so later, but it was too familiar.
I’m just finishing watching it again, as it’s been ages now and I’d forgotten some of it.
F*cking love Sopranos.

I heard that the new spin off will have Gandolfinis boy playing the main part , might be b*llocks though.

More violence, f*cking hell mate. I assume you are joking, if not you might want to move on to snuff movies.

Vito was killed and had a wooden pole shoved up his arse.
Jacky Jnr was shot dead
Richie Aprile was shot dead
Tony B was shot dead
Ralphie was strangled to death
Ralphie beat that young stripper to death
Eugine topped himself
Pussy was shot dead
Tony was shot
Pauli’s strangled his mums mate to death
The fit Merc saleswoman topped herself
Dr Melphi was raped
Christopher was suffocated
Adriana was shot dead
Furio and Christopher chopped someone up with meat cleavers
Tony B and Christopher dub up 2 skeleton and smashed them up with hammers
Few people were rapped in chicken wire and thrown in the sea.

Loads of others killed aswell, but the worst thing I saw was Ralphie getting a dildo shoved up his arse by Janice . There was no need for that.

All spread over 6 seasons, 13 hour long episodes, the problem I think I had is I’ve watched them all back to back in recent weeks and the way people have spoke over the years I was honestly expecting more. Episodes where there was nothing, of which there was quite a few, seemed to drag on a bit, probably because I just got greedy and was waiting for more murder and mayhem.
But I do love the way you were able to list it all, I assume off the top of your head
My favourite was Tony and Christopher chopping Ralphie up in the bath
And an early episode where a couple of them, Christopher and someone else I think, were putting a body through a mincer at the butchers

The whole series was a constant reminder of how times have changed, an example that springs to mind for me, is the way they were visiting someone in hospital and standing next to the bed smoking. Although the nurse told them to stop, it was still a sign of the times that they even sparked up on a hospital ward. Blimey, you get hung, drawn and quartered if you lit a fag in a pub these days

This has reminded me of visiting my old man when he was in Hither Green hospital and spending the whole time rolling fags for him. He was using licorice papers which tasted horrible to me.
Another time he was St. Thomas’s and the doctor put him on a course of bottled Guinness “for the iron”. He liked that doctor a lot.

Yes but which one's Vito?

Red and Blue Army!