Recommendations TVs

Poor people (ru)
The story of an intelligent loser who lives in a communal apartment in St. Petersburg works as a “literary Negro” by Olga Buzova and writes an autobiography on her behalf.

Super Salaryman Mr. Saenai (ja)
52-year-old Saenai is an ordinary middle management salaryman. One day, he is forcibly handed a super suit by a strange old man and reluctantly takes over as superman. With a wife from hell Enko and two adolescents, Saenai is stuck between world peace and domestic problems. Life does not go well just by becoming superman. What is justice, peace and happiness?

The Fairfield Boys (en)
Stories intertwine to create a tapestry of the old west. The Fairfield Boys are known outlaws and a deadly shootout leads to a complication of events. From a simple philosopher, shot in a field for no good reason, to the hunting of a horse thief. This series leads to the ultimate tale of survival.

Lost Promise (zh)
In the martial arts world, two major developments occured. First, the new Wulin Master Jiang Qing Liu is attacked at his ceremony, causing him to lose his inner strength. Second, the Demon Lord Bo Ye Jing Xing escapes captivity after being imprisoned for 11 years by the former Wulin Master Jiang Yin Tian. While everyone is in search for the Demon Lord, little did they know that he was hiding in Qing Liu's bed chamber. Bo Ye Jing Xing will help Qing Liu recover his inner strength while he stays with him. Many days later, a beautiful woman is delivered to Qing Liu in a brocade box along with a manual and some rouge pills. Qing Liu pretends to be enamoured with her and kept her as his concubine. The Jiang family and servants were perplexed by the demure looking but uncouth woman.

Hyperion Bay (en)
Hyperion Bay is an American drama series that ran for one season on The WB Television Network from September 1998 to March 1999.

My Host Club Inheritance (ja)
Kumiko, who works in the sales department at an advertising agency, unexpectedly inherits “MAJEST”, a host club in Kabukicho on the brink of collapse. She decides to revive the host club to its full glory, while working alongside a quirky ensemble of male hosts.

Stranger than Paradise (ko)
Yun-Jae is a lonely but successful lawyer who was abandoned as a child and adopted to Canada. One day, he goes back to Korea after receiving word that his birth family was found. But he fails to meet his family and after returning to Canada, finds out that a trusted colleague and his girlfriend have both betrayed him. He loses the will to live and jumps off of a cruise ship. However he is rescued along with Hee-ran, a popular singer who jumped off the cruise ship at the same time he did. Yun-Jae and Hee-Ran who meet in this unusual way, take a beautiful journey through Canada together and part after a sweet farewell kiss. San-Ho, grew up in a family that was so poor that his parents were forced to abandon his older brother as a child. And he becomes Hee-Ran’s road manager in the hopes of becoming successful. Although people don’t take him seriously, he is full of ambition and aims to become one of the most powerful men in the entertainment industry.

Jailbirds New Orleans (en)
Feuds, flirtations and toilet talk go down among the incarcerated women at the Orleans Justice Center in New Orleans on this gritty reality series.
Braingames (en)
Braingames is an American educational program shown on HBO in the mid-1980s. It was a half-hour program consisting of brain-teasing animated skits designed to make the viewers think.

High Times (en)
High Times is a Scottish comedy drama on STV, based around the lives of two flatmates and their neighbours in a high-rise tower block in Glasgow, in the last weeks before its closure for renovation. There are six episodes of stories interlinking the lives of a number of families. The first series of High Times won a BAFTA Scotland award in 2004 for Best Scottish television drama and was shortlisted for the 2005 Rose d'Or and Prix Italia television awards. In the same year it also won the award for Best Drama Series at the Celtic Film and Television Festival. Series 2 was nominated for a Royal Television Society award. In June 2010 it was announced that High Times would be one of the STV archive programmes to be made available on YouTube on the STV Player channel.

Rick Stein's India (en)
Rick Stein sets out on a journey around India to discover the different cuisines celebrated the world over.

Sign (ko)
A medical investigation drama about forensic doctors solving murder cases. Go Da Kyung is an eager rookie investigator who gets paired with the famous forensic doctor, Yoon Ji Hoon. They initially clash due to their different styles of investigation as well as their opposing personalities - Da Kyung's energetic nature is a source of irritation for the prickly Ji Hoon - but later develop a complex relationship as the two strive to uncover the truth through science.

Ariza (tr)
The series tells an incredibly gripping story of a regular man and taxi driver named Ali Rıza, whose life changes forever upon encountering a breathtaking customer named Halide, the precious daughter of a known mob boss