Midsomer shot its bolt a long time ago. Lewis is still engaging, but has a similar problem, an improbably high slaughter rate in a small community.

Oh, I know the show now, the one with Thomlinson or whatever his name is.

Quite liked that, though not as keen on the new side kick, took a bit of warming up.

Talking of Lewis, have to say I've not been enjoying the new stories quite so much, but it is fun seeing how things like the short cut I used to take to get into town hasn't changed all that much, or how town parks have gotten rid of all the bikes along the fence railing, it was where everyone would knick a bike to ride home after missing the last bus on a Friday night and then return them the next day Oh and how someone I knew from school who's family ran a Indian restaurant is now a coffee shop and the bike shop isn't there anymore, but the hand made leather shoe shop still is, despite never ever seeing anyone in there

Anyone watch Amerikans pilot on FX?

You are soooo a page behind

Ahh. Well, to carry on then, they have to cram a bunch into a pilot for audiences over here, that seems to be the rules.

You two are in the same room on tablets aren't you?

We weren't, no. We were a whole room away from each other!

So this was a little slow, kind of reminded me of Columbo, just a little more shiny, but that kind of paced show.

Actually half decent though, well it was creepy. Certainly has potential and seems like some kind of interesting back story about the main characters being at odds with each other.

I'm quite enjoying Continuum on the SyFy channel. As it's set in Vancouver I'm presuming its Canadian. :-)

I like DCI Banks. It's different.

I hate American copper shows. Where the woman wear the highest heels, botoxed faces and try and act like men. Usually they are 5.2, weigh about 80lbs and can beat the crap out of a 6ft.6 300lb man - ugh, please.

Like The Following cus of James Purefoy - love that guy! And the Bacon of course.

Death in Paradise is ok if there's nothing else on - which for me there is not. He kinda reminds me of Poirot without the charm.

New season of Justified is on, not bad but don't know how they can top last season's baddie.

Taping The Americans - not sure if I will like it.

Spartacus is back too - blood and guts galore.

Ooooo, and Walking Dead comes back soon - my dream TV show - Spartacus meets Walking Dead!

Gratitude for idea

I've been watching original series Star Trek on 'ME TV'. I thought I had seen all of them 100 times, but there are some I've never seen on British TV. They seem to be of lower quality, it's intriguing that the BBC seemed to have weeded out some episodes?

2nd season of Smash started again last night with a 2 hour special.

Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome

It is nice to get a taste of the Galactica universe again, I want more, anyone know if this is to be continued?

I had never seen an episode of Lewis until this week, although I have often seen it being filmed, but I was off work with the flu and suddenly felt really homesick for Oxford so started watching the current series.

Agree with Sally about the improbably high murder rate though. I was a student at Oxford for 8 years and nobody I knew was ever murdered . Although quite recently an old tutor of mine died after falling down a staircase in her college and The Sun reported it as a 'Morse-style mystery' .