24

Kiefer Sutherland, Mary Lynn Rajskub

Seasons: 1-8

Network: FOX

Story: This groundbreaking thriller is a roller-coaster ride that unfolds in real time - covering a 24-hour day over the course of a season - each episode will have its own resolution, but the clock will never stop ticking. In each season Jack runs around to stop terrorist threats to LA.

Absolutely Fabulous

Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley

Seasons: 1-5

Network: BBC

Story: Follows the exploits of the jet-setting, bad-living PR agent and single mother Edina Monsoon and her best friend, Patsy Stone, a chain-smoking, hard-drinking, drug-imbibing, near-nymphomaniac chum of Eddy's since schooldays. Edina's strait-laced and disapproving daughter Saffron struggles to cope.

Life on Mars

John Simm, Philip Glenister, Liz White

Seasons: 1-2

Network: BBC 1

Story: A detective chief inspector from 2006 is investigating a serial killer when he is knocked over by a speeding car. Waking up, he finds himself mysteriously transported back in time to 1973. Initially struggling to come to ...