This is one of the most popular shows in the UK, so it’s not going away anytime soon. The current series is now two Detectives beyond Mooney leaving.
If you do want to move on, you should try looking out for two spin-offs, Beyond Paradise, about DI Humphrey Goodman coming back to Britain and trying to live his normal life again. And the Australian based Return To Paradise, with all new characters. Mooney cameos in that one.
It is still fun and the same formula. DI Parker starts out slow in S9, but then gets into the swing of things.
I just watch 3 half episodes of the New Hollywood Squares. In the first two, they had Drew Barrymore in the center square (and in the third also, she looked like she was having fun) but only two others I knew. In epi 3 they added in Jay Leno and Chaka Khan so more 'celebrity power".
No loughs for me, but I grinned several times, which to be honest- is more than broadcast shows usually get from me. But until Jay got on, they were doing those great Gilbert Gottfried bluffs- so generally if you agreed, you’d be right. That takes some of the fun out of it.
I had never heard of the new host but he had a lot of energy and did some banter fairly well.
Finished season one of North of North. Canadian show set in a small Inuit community. Hoped for something like Reservation Dogs, but it is a fairly generic sitcom with little examination of the native culture.
Another series, YouTube specific this time, is Lateral with Tom Scott. Tom and 3 other podcasters solve lateral thinking problems and have fun with it. There’s also a podcast on lateralcast.com but that’s audio only, and I enjoy watching their expressions. I’m all caught up 
Tom Scott has a lot of other videos that I will check out if they sound interesting.
To be honest, I don’t really like the character of Ruby (she just seems too unprofessional) so I’ll stick around long enough to check out her replacement. Also it looks like Florence comes back for two more seasons, which is a plus.
@GuanoLad, I remember reading somewhere (possibly upthread?) that Beyond Paradise wasn’t all that great. I see it pop up in my suggestions on Prime/Britbox but usually ignore it.
I’m in the process of revisiting Califonia’s Gold on the CA’s Gold Fan youtube channel. It’s a given that people make fun of Huell Howser’s unbridled enthusiasm, but the state never had a better ambassador. Watching even a couple of episodes provides a nice escape from the current news cycle.
Watched the first ep of Mo, a comedy on Netflix. The premise is Mo is Palestinian by heritage (not birth), but though he’s been in the US for 25 years, he still has no citizenship in either country. He passes as Hispanic to avoid anti-Muslim sentiment, but has to avoid ICE. 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.
And 92% on the PopcornMeter!
So I finished Homicide:Life on the Streets last night.
It was kind of a weird time capsule of the 90s. It’s interesting to see how many attitudes have changed since then, but also how many haven’t. We discussed smoking earlier, and while the amount of smoking did seem to decrease in later seasons, they did still have things like people smoking in bars.
They also seemed to care a lot more about police shootings, and suspects committing suicide before being arrested. These days, we kind of expect mass shooters to kill themselves, and are a bit surprised when one actually gets arrested.
And it was fun playing “Spot The Wire Actors” throughout the series.
I love it. It’s just my cup of tea. What I like about it, and maybe this is not what people expect, is that the crimes aren’t murders all the time. In fact so far they have only had one to investigate. But I really enjoy the characters and the pace.
Ok, well I did like Humphrey and was sorry to see him go, so maybe I’ll check it out.
I am rewatching Star Trek-Deep Space Nine. One cable channel has the first five ST channels on six nights a week and not long ago DS9 was starting again. I am relearning some things about the characters I’d forgotten or never learned.
One of the other things besides the smoking that stood out for me was how so few of the Baltimore born and bred main characters spoke with actual Baltimore accents. They would throw a bone with the occasional “hon” reference, but accent-wise it might as well have been just another New York cop show. (Granted, Frank was supposed to have been born and raised in New York.)
And it seemed like they frequently cast local Baltimore actors for the bit parts, so on that score they at least made the effort. (Or it was a great way to not have to pay for LAX-to-BWI airline tickets.)
All that said, still one of the best cop shows ever.
I finished this series and I enjoyed it. I rather liked the claustrophobic element of being trapped in various areas of the school without knowing what is going on (as opposed to one long extended chase scene or action scene). They’re supposed to be filming a second season this year; I’m always a little leery about whether teen actors will look drastically different when there’s a big gap between sequels.
Apparently a lot of that was through the influence of Robert Chew, who played Prop Joe in The Wire, and was also on Homicide once. He was pretty prominent in the local acting scene, and helped other actors get hired.
I like it. It balances his personal life and dealing with fitting into a small town crew.
I realize I’m well over a decade behind, but I just finished Season 1 of Downton Abbey on Prime. I’m enjoying it thus far, and, if it’s historically accurate, it certainly is making me think about the British aristocracy and servant classes of only a century ago.
It’s really annoying, however, when Prime inserts its commercials in the middle of a scene. I guess I’m not yet buying enough stuff from Amazon.
Quite accurate but not perfect-
In most respects, very.
he one element that does not ring true is the easy interaction and conversation between the upstairs world of the family and their peers and the downstairs world of the hired help. That just didn’t happen (or at least not on such a scale). Most of the family wouldn’t have even known a housemaid’s name. These great country homes had back stairways for a reason. There’s not going to have been much interaction between these social sets, let alone much of an emotional connection. Of course, it always takes some element of the improbable to make a story a story instead of a dull narrative.
I loved DA and read all sorts of complaints by English people that it wasn’t really like that, and Mary would have had a hard time finding a lover post WW1, and more. Didn’t let it bother me, it felt right and why should I let a few grumps ruin my fun?
Then Julian Fellows does a show (“The Gilded Age”) set in 1870s America re: some guy who ran a trust, and it was so historically inaccurate that I had to turn it off in 10 minutes.
Anyway, DA is fun. Especially if you fast-forward through the incredibly dreary Mr. Bates storyline.