TV Binge Watch (Part 2)

Shows or Specials You’ve Seen in 2025

  1. Cunk On Life
  2. The Equalizer
  3. Star Wars: Skeleton Crew
  4. The New Year’s Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic
  5. Severance
  6. Going Dutch
  7. Frozen Planet II
  8. Man on the Inside
  9. The Norwood Builder

One of my favorite Sherlock Holmes episodes starring the late great Jeremy Brett.

Shows or Specials You’ve Seen in 2025

  1. Cunk On Life
  2. The Equalizer
  3. Star Wars: Skeleton Crew
  4. The New Year’s Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic
  5. Severance
  6. Going Dutch
  7. Frozen Planet II
  8. Man on the Inside
  9. The Norwood Builder
  10. Jimmy Fallon’s 10th Anniversary special

It was from 2024, but I just saw it.

Stand-out made for TV movies or mini-series

  1. Brian’s Song (1971)

About Chicago Bears player Brian Piccolo, and his friendship with Gale Sayers.

Stand-out made for TV movies or mini-series

  1. Brian’s Song (1971)
  2. Roots (1977)

Stand-out made for TV movies or mini-series

  1. Brian’s Song (1971)
  2. Roots (1977)
  3. The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1971 in the US)

I think it was the first time I watched a BBC show, or anything on a public TV station.

Stand-out made for TV movies or mini-series

  1. Brian’s Song (1971)
  2. Roots (1977)
  3. The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1971 in the US)
  4. The Last Dance (2020)

About the Chicago Bulls Jordan Era. It was the first docuseries I watched after the Covid lockdown took place.

Stand-out made for TV movies or mini-series

  1. Brian’s Song (1971)
  2. Roots (1977)
  3. The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1971 in the US)
  4. The Last Dance (2020)
  5. The Thorn Birds (1983)

Stand-out made for TV movies or mini-series

  1. Brian’s Song (1971)
  2. Roots (1977)
  3. The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1971 in the US)
  4. The Last Dance (2020)
  5. The Thorn Birds (1983)
  6. Shogun (1980)

Stand-out made for TV movies or mini-series

  1. Brian’s Song (1971)
  2. Roots (1977)
  3. The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1971 in the US)
  4. The Last Dance (2020)
  5. The Thorn Birds (1983)
  6. Shogun (1980)
  7. Shōgun (2024)

Stand-out made for TV movies or mini-series

  1. Brian’s Song (1971)
  2. Roots (1977)
  3. The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1971 in the US)
  4. The Last Dance (2020)
  5. The Thorn Birds (1983)
  6. Shogun (1980)
  7. Shōgun (2024)
  8. Duel (1971)

Stand-out made for TV movies or mini-series

  1. Brian’s Song (1971)
  2. Roots (1977)
  3. The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1971 in the US)
  4. The Last Dance (2020)
  5. The Thorn Birds (1983)
  6. Shogun (1980)
  7. Shōgun (2024)
  8. Duel (1971)
  9. Twin Peaks (1990)

Renewing it for a second season was a big mistake.

Stand-out made for TV movies or mini-series

  1. Brian’s Song (1971)
  2. Roots (1977)
  3. The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1971 in the US)
  4. The Last Dance (2020)
  5. The Thorn Birds (1983)
  6. Shogun (1980)
  7. Shōgun (2024)
  8. Duel (1971)
  9. Twin Peaks (1990)
  10. The Stand (1994)

pass

Remakes

  1. The Golden Girls

Upcoming: the new cast stars Tina Fey, Lisa Kudrow, Maya Rudolph and Amy Poehler.

Remakes

  1. The Golden Girls
  2. Quantum Leap

They should have left it alone.

Remakes

  1. The Golden Girls
  2. Quantum Leap
  3. Night Court

Ditto

Remakes

  1. The Golden Girls
  2. Quantum Leap
  3. Night Court
  4. The Odd Couple

Remakes

  1. The Golden Girls
  2. Quantum Leap
  3. Night Court
  4. The Odd Couple
  5. Hawaii Five-O

Ninja’d.

Remakes

  1. The Golden Girls
  2. Quantum Leap
  3. Night Court
  4. The Odd Couple
  5. Hawaii Five-O
  6. Grimm

A remake/reboot/continuation was announced earlier this month (it will stream on Peacock). Little else is known at this time. We shall see if it lives up to the original.

-“BB”-

Remakes

  1. The Golden Girls
  2. Quantum Leap
  3. Night Court
  4. The Odd Couple
  5. Hawaii Five-O
  6. Grimm
  7. S.W.A.T.

O RLY? The last episode of the original had a future glimpse of the main characters’ children taking up their roles.