Mesh
 
Majority of shows have good production/graphics, but the lacking in solid content. Netflix is nice because there aren't any commercials......just have to search for "good" shows.
Generally speaking of TV, it's very difficult to find a true "family oriented" show (even children's shows like Sprout have commercials that promote contraception or some other adult oriented material that's targeting mothers).
 
My wife & I have a tough time selecting stuff from cable TV for our 4 little ones to watch, but we've seen the Andy Griffith show (all seasons) at least 2 times :). On the other hand, the cartoons coming out now are practically just garbage with pop/hip/hop themed music......the children of course are drawn to the colors/characters/graphics.
So happy they all love to read books......and the library is our friend.  

 
Well, Netflix streaming is nice if all you want is TV shows. Their offerings of movies are paltry and abominable--a lot of stuff that they could not even go direct to DVD. And every movie shows up in a dozen different "categories," so one movie is like a comedy, drama, action, adventure, independant, sci-fi, thriller, romance, kung-fu, musical, foreign film. They claim to have thousands of offerings, but that can only be if they count each TV episode separately. They have a bunch of kid's stuff, but that is not much use to me, and they have recently stocked a bunch of Mexican soap operas, that are not much good to anyone. Bitflipper is right that there is a lot of good documentary stuff, that did a first run on PBS or National Geographic or BBC.  Their user preference robot seems a bit weird. The Suggestions for Slartabartfast list seems to be full of stuff they think I will hate (1 star).

It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia is a great show. Kind of like Seinfeld, in that it's about a group of delusional, selfish screwups - but on crack & PCP. The writing and performances are great, and of course from season 2 it has Danny DeVito in what is definitely one of the best roles of his career as Frank. It's worth watching just to witness the gradual decline of Frank, who becomes more and more disgusting and depraved as the show progresses - and Rickety Cricket (played by David Hornsby), who starts off as a respectable priest in season 2 and ends up as a filthy street bum due to him getting screwed over by the gang so many times. By the end I can hardly stand to look at him, he looks so effed up with teeth missing and scars & scabs all over his face. Yet still the gang do their level best to make his life worse every time they see him. I love this show. 
 
Another good watch is An Idiot Abroad in which Ricky Gervais and Steven Merchant send the half witted but strangely insightful Karl Pilkington on trips to exotic locations to see how his narrow, insular mind copes with it. Some genuinely great moments in that one, and travel shows are always great. 
 
Extras is fantastic, if only for Darren Lamb, surely one of the funniest characters of all time. 

From the description of "Always Sunny in Philadelphia" doesn't seem like it's very sunny.
I'm not really that interested in delusional selfish screw-ups as it'd be like being in the real world.
 
I might check out those travel shows as well as Extras sounds good.
 

UPDATE: We've been watching Ripper Street and have really enjoyed this show (excellent dialogue/acting/story lines etc...). We just finished the first season (slowly but Shirley), and moving on to season 2.
Great recommendation!!
 

Hi,
 
I was thinking that there was some of the old stuff that might be found, in there, though I doubt it.
 
Of interest:
 
Ken Russell's biographies, specially Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and his version of Isadora Duncan
 
I, Claudius -- still way out there!
 
Sharpe - the series, all 17 shows, including the last two that are not about England/France. There is some good stuff there.
 
Lillie Roundtree - (Lillie). Was really good until the last 2 episodes that got a bit over written and they tried to revive it, but couldn't. It was all good as long as Bertie was there, and then died!
 
Mile High - A stewardess thing, that was not great, but had a couple of excellent performances. Fun watching stuff, though.
 
For more recent, I will get the unexpurgated Game of Thrones when it comes out. I am not a fan of censored television at all!
 
Monarch of the Glen - Also some fun performances, specially the doggie and the old man, otherwise OK.
 
Cracker - Had the guy that went on to do some Harry Potter, and this show, was incredibly good and non-sentimental. It had some great moments!
 
And, lastly, I miss Absolutely Fabulous ... love to see those two women drunk! That show would probably go well in Broadway with a double bill of the French films about the rich .... and his butler ... and ... (don't watch the Robin Williams film if you saw the originals!)

Moshkito
 
Sharpe
 
Game of Thrones
 
Monarch of the Glen
 
Cracker

 
We have series 1 -4 of Game of Thrones on DVD, brilliant stuff, it's getting better each series (as the budget grows!) Series 5 is on Blinkbox but I haven't seen it on Netflix yet.
 
Robbie Coltrane was superb in Cracker.
 
Monarch of The Glen was on Netflix a few years back, we watched them all, love that show.
 
Got most of Sharpe on VHS, but nothing to play them on...

At this rate, I may never be able to leave Netflix.

Have to also add 'That Mitchell & Webb Look' and 'Peep Show' if they're available over there. Both quite addictive.

UbiquitousBubba
It's about 13 years old and it aired for less than one season, but Firefly was (in my humble opinion), one of the finest sci-fi shows ever to air. I have the DVDs at home, but I saw that Netflix has it as well.
 
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Yeah, I bought the set and the Serenity DVD as well!

Mesh
At this rate, I may never be able to leave Netflix.

It is indeed an issue ... where to start, and where to end.
 
My suggestions will always be ... go for the different stuff and the odd stuff because you will never see it again, and they just disappear. It's the same thing in Film Festivals ... never/ever, see the American or the English films ... see everything else, because all the rest will never be released or shown again anywhere!