In our house the GF’s guilty pleasure is Cops – we love the weirdly incongruous theme tune and how weirdly polite the crims are.
For me its old episodes of Taggart from deep down in the digital channel boondocks
Partly its the way it subverts modern TV production practices by hardly bothering with any of them ‘lets not bother shooting a reverse, lets just get the cast to stand as close to each other as possible and talk to the sides of each others faces like an Abba vidio’
Partly because a body is always discovered by a jogger.
And partly because friends of mine often turn up on screen – and are often really good. My pal Iain is in a running-away-from-the-cops scene and its honestly the best ever running-away scene I’ve ever seen, on either the small screen or the big. Its genuinely bloody brilliant.
But most importantly its in 4×3 with gives the top and bottom 2″s of our telly a bit of a workout (that and episodes of the wire which are all in 4×3 for some reason)