In all my life I think I’ve only ever heard two things being discuss at work. Of course I’ve worked places where you can’t really talk.
The two are Mock the Week, Too Hot for TV; and, more recently, Game of Thrones.
What about you? Does it happen more often for you?
It reached a fever pitch right around the end of Breaking Bad. These days, GoT and Mad Men seem to get most of the water cooler chat, but overall TV conversation is waaaaaaaaaaaay down from where it was 6-7 months ago.
I’ve had a running email thread with my supervisor since last fall about Mad Men. Recently, this has evolved into conversations with other staff about television. A large part of this is mentioning a show that one person recommends or is specifically relevant. For example, if someone is going to New Jersey soon, The Sopranos may come up in conversation.
Otherwise, here are some of the things I’ve heard mentioned: Royal Pains, Law and Order, The Voice, America’s Got Talent, Lost (we have a coworker who is watching just now on DVD), and The Simpsons. This would have all been in the last 2 months or so.
Brendon
The Wire back in the day.
The woman in the office across the hall is a huge Amazing Race fan, as am I, so we have a conversation almost every Monday morning on that topic.
I think I remember 24 being discussed frequently during its initial run, although I didn’t watch. American Idol also used to have its share of office followers.
The last show I’ve heard cause consistent talk at work was Lost.
Breaking Bad finale had a fair amount of talk but I don’t really recall ever hearing anything in the regular course of things.
I hear “what do you watch/like” type conversation all the time but not so much actual specific show talk any more. I suspect a fair amount of that is because of timeshifting and binge watching nobody knows who’s seen what when any more.
There were probably people here I could have talked about House of Cards with, but the hassle of being on different episodes and not knowing what is safe to say would be too much effort.
When I was in IT I sat next to the coworker services team and they would come in in the morning and talk about Grey’s Anatomy for 30 minutes. That show got bad pretty quickly so I used to disappear into the server room right about that time.
Going back 10-20 years ago
Survivor
Seinfeld
X-files
Twin Peaks
Northern Exposure
Dancing with the Stars (my boss and a co-worker enjoy judges’ antics); Once Upon a Time, Blacklist, Justified.
In the last year or so, American Idol (one of our manager’s daughters was a contestant this last season, otherwise I doubt it’d have been discussed), Game of Thrones, a little of Breaking Bad when it was winding down, and Walking Dead. Most current talk seems to involve gaming campaigns, not TV, though.
A number of us watched True Detective and discussed it every Monday. We had a final episode party at my house. Some of us talked about House of Cards and Mad Men, but with Netflix, none of us seemed to be on the same episodes, so it didn’t go anywhere.
I work in an engineering department at a university. We are waaayyyyy too geeky to discuss TV at work. I have to get that the old fashioned way - from message boards like this one.
Back when I used to go in to the office, it was Glee. We all watched it - we shared the DVD’s - it was a daily thing. There was one other show, but I’m not able to remember what it was - we mostly talked about Glee.
Now that I’m working at home, it’s more an argument about WHAT to have on the TV. Husband and I have TOTALLY different TV tastes. 
A couple of us are Doctor Who fans…
GoT is the big winner. It gets mentions even off-season. The only other non-competition show (DWTS, The Voice, SYTYCD and AI and the a capella show all get a mention every now and then) that got any play in my place of work was Sleepy Hollow.
The first season of Survivor.
In my office it’s Dancing With The Stars.:rolleyes:
We talk about TV at work all the time. Mostly genre shows since we all have the same taste pretty much.
Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, Downton Abbey. I don’t watch any of them, so my eyes start glazing over when the shows get discussed.
I used to work for a fairly conservative financial magazine, and my co-workers (including two very hetero guys) would discuss “RuPaul’s Drag Race.” Ironically, I was the only gay guy in our department but I was the only one who wasn’t invested in it.
The same office everyone watched “Project Runway” (well, the ladies did anyway) and - going back a long way - “The Osbournes.”