American

(all) The gold mining ones
American Pickers
Storage wars
Border Patrol
Botched
Gordon Ramsey Kitchen Nightmares


British

First dates
Dragons Den
4 in a bed (not as racey as it sounds, it's about the hotel industry)
Tattoo Fixers

if I am working from home (alone) I might have my lunch break to one of the above..

(it's a shameful list - there are some worse ones - but they are too crappy to admit to)

24 hours in police custody - actually pretty good, i've been in police custody a few times and they actually show how it is...
Storage wars - addictive
Me and an old flatmate used to do coke and drink and watch dog the bounter hunter after work, magical combination.

Thats about it really, don't really watch broadcast tv much at all, unless theres something really worthwhile, don't even watch got, walking dead any of that stuff, I'm sure I'll watch it all one day. I watch Joe Rogan more than the BBC....

For me it has been:

The Curse of Civil War Gold

Lost Gold of World War 2

Knightfall

The Night Gallery re-runs with Rod Serling (the episodes are a bit meh in comparison to the Twilight Zone)

Used to watch this as a kid, the opening Globo TV made for Brazil was awesome as you can see!

I was a fan of She-Wolf of London when it aired back in like 1990. And anything Baywatch.

I love american pickers, not so keen on storage wars because of the arguments and bickering, gets tiresome after you've seen a lot of them,

I really like the undateables.

I feel too bad laughing and I can't help laughing because its funny.

First dates - (UK)

It don't get no trashier than...

https://www.tlc.com/tv-shows/dr-pimple-popper/

How's this for trashy: I just finished watching the Roseanne box set.

That's hardcore

I like it too

Cheaters

I got hooked on Doomsday Preppers a while back. Amazing what some of those people go through...

My wife and I absolutely love .... Doc Martin.

We binged watched all 8 series - they're currently shooting a new series - can't wait.

After going into withdrawal, my eldest son, taking pity on his his old mum and dad found us a new fix and now we're
currently happily addicted to House MD.

I only watch these things, when I literally have no energy left to do anything else useful :-)

I've been gorging on this hot garbage lately:

Gogglebox UK... i find most of the contributors quite amusing and it also keeps me up to date with whats new on the TV as they always watch new content.
I dont like the Celebrity version as they are too self aware.

8 out of 10 cats Countdown.
Especially for comedian Sean Lock, he`s dour but always entertaining with no big ego.
So yeh i tend to gravitate to whatever i find humorous.

I've been torturing myself!

It's an old TV show but since I watched the entire Twilight Zone series I also wanted to watch the Night Gallery.

Man! This show really stinks! Bad acting and weak story lines!

Ah, that's a shame! Haven't seen this one, but I love most anthology shows.

Except for Tales From the Crypt. I liked it as a kid because of death and boobs. Rewatching it a couple years ago, I had to call it quits midway through the fourth season. This show had so much potential because of the massive talent involved, but the stories were unbearable.

It's only worth it if it's free. Don't waste your money buying the series or renting it. I've been watching the re-runs on television.

To give ya an idea of the story lines:

Dracula walks into a blood bank. While talking to one of the pretty nurses, he keeps staring at the refrigerator labeled plasma. The nurse tells him he can't have the 3 liters he wants because the bank is only for donations.

Dracula then says, "well, I'd like to apply for a loan then."

THAT SOUNDS AMAZING!!!

Okay, so yeah, they obviously lacked the talent of Twilight Zone.

A really good one that god me hooked on anthologies in the first place is Tales From the Darkside. Found it cheap at Walmart, saw that George Romero had some involvement, so I grabbed it. "Levitation" alone was worth the price of admission. Thinking about that ending still messes with my head. It's a simple idea, but really well done.

I like forged in fire.

There a few decent episodes starring Burgess Meredith, Sally Field, and Leonard Nemoy. There may be other good actors in the episodes I have yet to watch.

I had to Google, and the premise sounds so stupid. ...but then I stumbled on the episode guide and realized that watching someone make a kampilan is probably going to be the coolest thing in existence. I imagine it's a lot like "How It's Made" in that if you tell someone what the show is about, it sound ridiculous, but then you watch it and you're amazed.

...I think I secretly like trash TV more than I realized.

Bravo shows have been a staple in my trash tv lineup for a while (except Top Chef. I think that one's really classy, and also enjoy it).

Me too
As an ex metalworker i find it entertaining. Freaks me out though when i see how some of them drill parts on the pedestal drill. They hold small parts with one hand instead of clamping it in the drill vice.

Wait until you get to "in the closet". I remember that episode when it aired and I couldn't sleep for like a week afterward. Probably the scariest half hour I have ever experienced on TV, even to this day.

I crossed paths with Tom Savini maybe like 15 years later and told him that the creature he designed for that episode is still one of the scariest things on the planet and he seemed to get a big kick out of it. He told me he made two of them for the episode and he still has one and gave the other to a friend. I can't imagine who the hell would want that thing sitting in their house.

I saw one episode of a show called Hell on Wheels and I immediately got into it.

Groovy like hot glue, it'll suck you in!

It's available on Netflicks.

The show is about the building of the first transcontinental railroad across the USA.



Get some!

Savini is awesome. And I love how so many people adore him. I'm still in shock fourteen years later watching Land of the Dead in the theater and seeing everybody cheer at Savini's cameo.

But yeah, that entire series was brilliant.

I remember that one. It was silly. The one where the guy was hypnotized to death, but wasn't given the proper signal to come back to life was a good one.

I was too young for Twilight Zone or the very similar Outer Limits (not the newer version), so I grew up on Get Smart and Batman. When Night Gallery started it scared the crap out of me. A few years later came The Night Stalker with Darren McGavin- that was good. So when the X-Files came out I was totally hooked- it's still my favourite TV show.

As for junk TV- I can't take that crap. When The Learning Channel started, it was amazing- I learned a lot of stuff watching it. Then that octuplet family started playing and it's been crap every since. History Channel- same thing (used to be good, now it's crap). Discovery Channel is the same too.

I will watch The Terror coming up on AMC as my sister's partner, an older Japanese guy, is in it and I understand he will be onscreen a lot. If you watch it, it's his hand doing the calligraphy.

BTW- here's an intersection in my city: