Favourite TV shows and watching them over and over

I think I must be in the minority here. If I can remember too many of the details of something I have watched previously, I find it spoils my enjoyment of it, unless it's something comedy-based. For example, there was one particular episode of Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled, featuring the comedian Chris McCausland. I've watched that episode several times since because it never fails to make me laugh.

My main form of TV watching is rewatching shows. There are some shows I've rewatched 20+ times and many that I've rewatched 5 times.

This has increased drastically in the last 5 years because TV has become so bad. I just return to the shows I know because I don't like the change in society and media.

Stargate, I watched all series all episodes 3 times over

Bbc ghosts and sherlock

I regularly watch and rewatch comedies like Black Books, The IT Crowd, Peep Show and Friday Night Dinner.

I find a lot of comfort in comedies and watching something familiar in between seeing newer things for the first time. A bit of predictability between periods of unknown I suppose.

Yes!  My most memorable one was Buffy, but also recently Lucifer and Good Omens. I have also always made up extra stories for the characters in my head, and a few years ago I discovered that there are actually places on the internet where people can share these kind of stories and other people read them.  It's extraordinary! 

" I can just get cosy and watch it and it's so warm and familiar and I can lose myself in the characters and just feel safe"

100%! I cycle through FRIENDS, Community, Brooklyn 99, and recently Superstore. All similar flavours of show.

I also relisten to doumentary style YouTube videos where I like the host's voice and the topic is interesting to me.

Killing Eve for me. 

I have The Simpsons on most nights, keep going round on Disney+. It also helps me sleep when my tinnitus is particularly loud

Oh yes, appointment viewing! It was a lovely series with a lot of heart. What a wonderful thing for Lis Sladen to be so improbably and miraculously re-discovered and loved by a while new generation three decades on,... and as the same character! Rani and Clyde have their own audio spin-off starting soon. I think it's likely to 'canonise' that beautiful 'death of SJS' webisode that RTD wrote during Lockdown.

Did you watch The Sarah Jane Adventures as well? Russell wrote those too. I thought it was a great series. Doctor's 10 and 11 guest starred in them.

Doctor Who is the mainstay one, though after forty years of being a fan, I'm only now getting to 'the great pilgrimage' - watching/listening to every episode in whatever form it exists in order from 1963-present. I'm still on the Hartnell episodes. I've done every episode before of course, but the release schedule used to be very patchwork. 

Blake's 7 is another one I go back to not infrequently. And I'm re-watching Norther Exposure for about the fifth time. It's a great show for helping to lift one's spirits during challenging times, and is so beautifully written and performed. Just a lovely community of unapologetic individualists, and that gives me a lot of comfort when I need it most. 

I'm two episodes away from finishing a Torchwood: Miracle Day re-watch. Less comforting! But a real tour de force of writing from Russell The Davies, and in my opinion the best season they did. 

I watched all episodes of all Stargates thrice, 10 seasons of SG-1, 5 seasons of Atlantis and 2 seasons of Universe, I've got them on harddrive, once with my youngest sister, when I was 22y.o. and she was 14y.o.

But The Expanse has a potential to surpass it, for the moment I watched all 5 seasons once and read all 8 books once

I used to like Elizabeth Laird books, I remember Kiss the Dust, I loved that book. I read the famous 5 too and the secret 7.  Whats your favourite movie? New Girl is really good, the charachters are quite quirky which appeals to me 

Doctor Who is on my list as well. 

Due South for me. I understand the humour in it

I also like Outlander, but only usually watch the first series.

I used to do this with books as a child and teenager. I really enjoyed rereading my favourite books- it was comforting and soothing. I reread Harry Potter books many many times (I think some of them over 15) when I was a teen. I reread other books too- one of my child hood favourites was 'Lost Riders' by Elizabeth Laird- Now that you mention it I think maybe I should read it again to bring me some comfort. I also reread the famous five a lot of times as a child and recently when I was feeling sad and overwhelmed and was going through a difficult time I actually listened to the famous five audiobooks (even though I am now 25). I also listen to the same audiobooks multiple times sometimes- I like the books/audiobooks by Cathy Glass. I do enjoy listening/readng new books/audiobooks too but there is a comfort in rereading/relistening to a book that you know and love. I do not watch much TV/movies so I have less favourites to watch, but I have rewatched a few movies too- I haven't seen New Girl - maybe I should give it a try? 

Now you’ve said this there is programmes I will watch over and over, the Big Bang theory is one of them aswell haha the other is an oldie being home improvement which starred Tim Allen 

I’ve never thought too much about it till you mention it I am going through the assessment process just now head all over the place and find watching these tv programmes calming as it takes me to a safe place that nothing is judging me 

Oh yeah. Doctor Who in particular, especially the classic series. Various other classic science fiction series to a lesser extent. I also pretty much know the film Ghostbusters off by heart.

One that became a special interest is Quantum Leap, I have the boxed set and never get bored rewatching them.