Gosh, let's see:
We've had a few good ones come our way and then inexplicably disappear. One that hasn't disappeared and has a large audience here in Canada is, of course, Coronation Street (although our episodes are about six-eight months behind the UK. We've only just discovered that the Personality Transplant Fairy has tapped Todd and he's now a homosexual, and Sara just lost her baby).
This might be showing on BBC Canada (which I don't subscribe to), but Eastenders was another one I enjoyed and it inexplicably disappeared (it used to be on PBS from the Buffalo affiliate, but no more).
Emmerdale runs daily - it's about 2 years behind the UK, as far as I can tell.
We also had, briefly, The Bill - only a handful of episodes. Bad Girls, ditto. We do get MI-5, but that's on the American A&E channel right now (it was on TVOntario, our local public broadcasting station). Masterpiece Theatre and Mystery! run a lot of British series, though I have to say I'm underwhelmed by the current incarnations of Sherlock Holmes and Ms. Marple. Wendy Hillson as Ms. Marple just doesn't work for me. Joan Hickson is the only person I've ever seen play Ms. Marple and look exactly the way I pictured her, and of course, the incomparable late Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes, ditto.
Also running in endless reruns are :
Pie in the Sky (with the immensely girthful Richard Griffiths)
Murder in Suburbia
Murder Investigation Team
Silent Witness
Heartbeat (my favourite, and not afraid to kill off major characters, though doing so rather overmuch these days. Two police officers killed in the line of duty? The north of England seems to be a dangerous place)
The Royal
All Creatures Great and Small (not recently)
Prime Suspect (all of them so far)
Cracker
Another series with Helen Mirren where she played an itinerant nanny, though I don't remember what the series was called (I think it was just "The Nanny", no obnoxiously nasal Fran Drescher in sight, thank goodness)
House of Elliot (sadly, left unfinished)
Upstairs, Downstairs (not recently)
The Pallisers (not recently)
Gormenghast
Dr. Who (the older series used to run on TVOntario, but haven't been seen in recent memory. I'm underwhelmed by the current incarnation of the Doctor, though him and the latest companion running into Charles Dickens was kind of cute.)
Blake's 7 (not recently)
Red Dwarf (not recently)
Art Attack (kid's art show)
Dalziel and Pascoe
Inspector Wexford (not recently)
A Touch of Frost
Darling Buds of May (with a very young Catherine Zeta-Jones!)
Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister (not recently)
Dame Edna (ye gods....)
Whose Line Is It Anyway (I'm still cracking up over Stephen Fry's joke about Dr. Who, and the one show with Peter Cook where he was clearly majorly drunk)
Poirot (not my favourite - they got too many details wrong and I couldn't watch it)
Rumpole (I love Rumpole!)
Antiques Roadshow (the original! Henry Samden, John Bly and all the gang....)
Midsomer Murders
Cruel Earth (a great apocalyptic fic series. I don't know if it came to a natural end or not, but they only ever showed 8 episodes and then it, too inexplicably disappeared....)
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Hmm... we do have a lot here, don't we? There's a whole bunch more that I can't recall the titles of, off-hand.
We've had a few good ones come our way and then inexplicably disappear. One that hasn't disappeared and has a large audience here in Canada is, of course, Coronation Street (although our episodes are about six-eight months behind the UK. We've only just discovered that the Personality Transplant Fairy has tapped Todd and he's now a homosexual, and Sara just lost her baby).
This might be showing on BBC Canada (which I don't subscribe to), but Eastenders was another one I enjoyed and it inexplicably disappeared (it used to be on PBS from the Buffalo affiliate, but no more).
Emmerdale runs daily - it's about 2 years behind the UK, as far as I can tell.
We also had, briefly, The Bill - only a handful of episodes. Bad Girls, ditto. We do get MI-5, but that's on the American A&E channel right now (it was on TVOntario, our local public broadcasting station). Masterpiece Theatre and Mystery! run a lot of British series, though I have to say I'm underwhelmed by the current incarnations of Sherlock Holmes and Ms. Marple. Wendy Hillson as Ms. Marple just doesn't work for me. Joan Hickson is the only person I've ever seen play Ms. Marple and look exactly the way I pictured her, and of course, the incomparable late Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes, ditto.
Also running in endless reruns are :
Pie in the Sky (with the immensely girthful Richard Griffiths)
Murder in Suburbia
Murder Investigation Team
Silent Witness
Heartbeat (my favourite, and not afraid to kill off major characters, though doing so rather overmuch these days. Two police officers killed in the line of duty? The north of England seems to be a dangerous place)
The Royal
All Creatures Great and Small (not recently)
Prime Suspect (all of them so far)
Cracker
Another series with Helen Mirren where she played an itinerant nanny, though I don't remember what the series was called (I think it was just "The Nanny", no obnoxiously nasal Fran Drescher in sight, thank goodness)
House of Elliot (sadly, left unfinished)
Upstairs, Downstairs (not recently)
The Pallisers (not recently)
Gormenghast
Dr. Who (the older series used to run on TVOntario, but haven't been seen in recent memory. I'm underwhelmed by the current incarnation of the Doctor, though him and the latest companion running into Charles Dickens was kind of cute.)
Blake's 7 (not recently)
Red Dwarf (not recently)
Art Attack (kid's art show)
Dalziel and Pascoe
Inspector Wexford (not recently)
A Touch of Frost
Darling Buds of May (with a very young Catherine Zeta-Jones!)
Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister (not recently)
Dame Edna (ye gods....)
Whose Line Is It Anyway (I'm still cracking up over Stephen Fry's joke about Dr. Who, and the one show with Peter Cook where he was clearly majorly drunk)
Poirot (not my favourite - they got too many details wrong and I couldn't watch it)
Rumpole (I love Rumpole!)
Antiques Roadshow (the original! Henry Samden, John Bly and all the gang....)
Midsomer Murders
Cruel Earth (a great apocalyptic fic series. I don't know if it came to a natural end or not, but they only ever showed 8 episodes and then it, too inexplicably disappeared....)
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Hmm... we do have a lot here, don't we? There's a whole bunch more that I can't recall the titles of, off-hand.
