Watch List

Yesterday I talked about binge-reading. I'm really not a binge-watcher, though; I prefer to mix up the kind of things I watch in an evening.

And I'm watching some stuff that some of you may never have seen. Murder City is a police procedural from the early 2000s, set in Melbourne, Australia. The team of detectives has a nice chemistry and the occasional looks at their backstories help make them seem like more than devices to carry forward the plot. If you've watched The Doctor Blake Mysteries, you'll want to see Nadine Garner in the series she did before that.

Avenue 5 is a science-fiction comedy starring Hugh Laurie; it's all about a luxury space tourist liner that winds up on a three-year trip instead of the six-week tour of the solar system it was supposed to take. Each episode is only 30 minutes, but they pack a lot of story and a lot of laughs in that time.

Pointless is a British game show that could be described as the opposite of Family Feud. The object is not to find the answer most people gave in a survey...but the one the least people did. In the final round, a "pointless" answer will win you the jackpot. (One caveat--even the pointless answers have to be correct.)