Comfort TV: What Series or Shows are like comfort food to you?

[Whistler]

Whenever I need TV comfort, and I mean 'coming home after a hard day of getting chewed out by irate clients' comfort, I go to M.A.S.H, The Vicar of Dibley, The IT Crowd or Arrested Development. The Twilight Zone is my final refuge.

[SeeDoubleYou]

And what they're doing with Cinematic Titanic and Rifftrax, respectively, is like manna in the desert...
now, if only they can work things out with Jim Mallon and give MST3K a kinda multiversal-reboot

Well, even as I wrote this, Joel was already teasing just this!
They're doing it online, says on the wikipedia that they'll get a new host and have cameos from the alumni, and here they talk about new bots; very, very cool!!
Found this when, on a whim, I watched a rough cut of It Lives By Night on YouTube ("blowing mud") and this led to youtube videos of the Turkey Day marathon DVDs they've been releasing with the new intros and segments with Joel, and Trace and Josh doing Crow and Servo. After some time, I eventually searched on Google "mst3k reboot" and, viola!
So, truly, a multiversal-reboot; the Eternal Champion reincarnate!

[Pietro_Mercurios]

Just watched the SKY TV miniseries, Terry Pratchett's Hogfather, again. Based on his Discworld novel of the same name. A very neat piece of storytelling, both the novel & the series. Great characters with some spot on casting, however eccentric the performance. Also with a profound moral, very Pratchett.

Now going to watch some Father Ted, for some more satirically quasi-religious comfort food

[Rothgo]

Bake Off. Simples.

[Pietro_Mercurios]

Bake Off. Simples.

In that case, The Great British Sewing Bee & especially, The Repair Shop. Two things we actually watch together. 🙂

[Rothgo]

I LOVE the sewing bee. Repair shop a bit less: a tad too overtly and deliberately sentimental.

[Rothgo]

...The Great British Sewing Bee ...

Have you seen the Sewing Bee's 2020 New Year's Special Edition? A celebrity special that I genuinely enjoyed. A rare thing indeed!

[Pietro_Mercurios]

Missed it. It'll probably come round again, I'll keep an eye out for it.

[Pietro_Mercurios]

Just watched an episode of one of my favourite TV comfort series, Lovejoy. From season 2, Montezuma's Revenge. It's got everything. Cursed golden pre-Columbian artefacts, greasers on motorbikes, crooked managers of death metal bands & exotic femme fatales. Picaresque whimsy of the first order.

[lemec]

I only watched each Lovejoy about two times, I think, maybe three on a couple episodes. They would be fun to watch again!

[zlogdan]

The Big Band Theory and Young Sheldon. I used to love Everybody hates Chris then it was available for me on Amazon prime. I started watching it but I could not cope with the stories because I read they pretty much reflect Chris Rock's life's suffering as a kid and I simply could not find it funny. Although it as Terry Crews and other amazing comedians.

[EverKing]

Mrs. EverKing and I usually go back to "How I Met Your Mother" although she also drops in "Downton Abbey" and "Call the Midwife" for comfort shows. For me, I tend to end up back on shows I remember watching in the 80's and 90's..."Magnum P.I." and "Highlander: The Series" chief among them.

[Heresiologist]

... ..."Magnum P.I." ...

Right on, King-gie Baby -- Dah-Duhnt, Dah Dah Dah-deh-duhnt.

For myself, there's too much new and old (but never seen) stuff to explore. About the closest thing to comfort tv I've watched lately is a bunch of Youtube vids about playing old D&D and Call of Cthulhu adventures.

[Pietro_Mercurios]

Last week or two, I've been delving into my collection of Jeremy Brett, Sherlock Holmes, & Joan Hickson, Miss Marple, DVDs. Brett is pretty much the definitve Holmes, for me & I started watching Holmes, back in the Sixties, with Peter Cushing. I actually watched the copy of Hammer's, The Hound of the Baskervilles, that I picked up in Berlin, a few years back, for reference. It's great fun & Cushing was definitely a huge Holmes fan himself, It's also full on Hammer 'grand guignol' gothic. But, Brett's Holmes is just extraordinary, to the point where Brett may have eventually lost himself in the performance, making himself ill in the process.

Hickson also manages a star turn as Marple. No one could purse a disapproving lip, or cock a quizzical eyebrow, quite like Hickson. I also have a couple of Margaret Rutherford's quirky films from the early Sixties. Her Miss Marple is a bit more bonkers.

[Milk]

Twin Peaks + Channel Zero are my go-to for moody afternoons + Mr Robot
Brooklyn 99 is nicely silly.

My partner is currently binging True Blood which is suitably ridiculous. I'm currently re-watching Lovecraft Country.