We’ve got some great Box Sets and Full Seasons available this month – but be warned, we won’t have them forever. Be sure to keep an eye on the handy countdown timer under the episode titles, we’ll give you 30 days warning because TV this good really shouldn’t be missed!
Priority Binge:
Set aside some dedicated couch time, these box sets end this month:
Lost : Seasons 1 – 6 : Available until 28 February 2015 : When a passenger jet crashes on a tropical island, the survivors must learn to survive on the mysterious island. Recently voted #27 on the list of 101 Best Written TV Series of All Time by the Writers Guild of America, if you’ve not seen this one before make sure you put it at the top of your list.
The Office (UK) : Season 1 : Available until 28 February 2015 : David Brent is the type of boss that really makes you cringe. And who better to play him than Ricky Gervais! Set in Slough, the first season of this great series follows Brent, Tim (Martin Freeman), Gareth (Mackenzie Crook) and the rest of the office as they face downsizing and possible closure. Season 2 available until 31st March
The Walking Dead : Seasons 1 – 5a : Available until 1 March 2015 : If you’ve yet to see this series and you’ve got a strong heart and stomach, this really is essential viewing. Set after a zombie apocalypse, we follow a small band of survivors as they come to terms with the loss of family, friends and life as they knew it and start to learn to live a new life - a life under the constant threat of zombie attack. S5b available on Catch Up and Live.
Bones : Seasons 1 – 9 : Available until 31 March 2015 : A socially awkward but brilliant forensic anthropologist and a self-assured but charismatic FBI agent team up to solve suspicious deaths.
True Detective : Season 1 : Available until 11 March 2015 : Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson star as Detectives Cohle and Hart, two very different men thrown together on the hunt for a serial killer in backwater Louisiana. Set in both 1995 and 2012, This was one of the biggest new shows to hit our screens in 2014 – and with good reason.
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D : Season 1 : Available until 31 March 2015 : Superhero fans are going to love this one! The series follows the agents of the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division – an elite team assembled to deal with the most bazaar new cases arising after the Battle of New York.
The Following : Season 1 Available until 28 February 2015; Season 2 Available until 2 April 2015 : Kevin Bacon stars in this dark drama about a serial killer who communicates with other serial killers and starts a cult with members following his every command. It’s pretty much best practice for anyone interested in team building… Just kidding!
Rolling Seasons:
Be sure to tune in each month for a new season of these shows:
Stargate SG-1 : Season 10 : Cult sci-fi series following a secret military team on their adventures through the Stargate. Season 10
Stargate Atlantis : Season 5 : A scientific expedition goes through the Stargate to the city of Atlantis, in the Pegasus Galaxy. Season 5
Noteworthy New Box Sets:
Comedy Central at the Comedy Store : Seasons 1 – 2 : Available until 31 March 2015 : Top comedians perform stand up at one of the UK’s most famous live comedy venues, The Comedy Store in London.
Alias : Seasons 1-5 : Available until 31 July 2015 : Jennifer Garner plays a young international spy in this action series created by J.J. Abrams.
South Park : Season 1 : Available until 30 April 2015 : The adventures of four 3rd graders before they became 4th graders forever. Back then, Kenny died in every episode… Oh, the good old days! 
Stephen Hawking’s Grand Design + Stephen Hawking’s Universe : Season 1 : Available until 1 May 2015 : Sit back and enjoy as the great Stephen Hawking talks about everything from black holes to the Big Bang…and everything in between.
24: Live Another Day : Season 9 : Available until 6 May 2015 : Jack’s back! Catch all the action from ‘Day 9’ as, four years after the events of Season 8, Jack Bauer is forced into action once more.
Ex on the Beach : Season 1 : Available until 31 March 2015 : It’s time for an attractive group of singles to face their dark pasts – i.e. their exes. Now that season 2 is starting, it’s time to refresh our memories with the first one. If you thought your ex was crazy, just wait until you see this!
Workaholics : Season 1 : Available until 30 April 2015 : The first season of this single-camera comedy, showing the lives of three friends who work together by day and live together by night.
Poirot : Season 1-13 : and Poirot: Mysterious Affair At Styles : Available until 31 July 2015 : Watch every episode of this Agatha Christie-inspired drama as detective Hercule Poirot attempts to solve the most puzzling mysteries.
Cold Feet : Seasons 1-5 : Available until 31 July 2015 : Featureing the lives of three Manchester couples at different stages of their relationships, this classic series is as dramatic as it is funny.
DCI Banks : Seasons 1-3 : Available until 31 July 2015 : Follow DCI Alan Banks as he tries to solve the most disturbing murder mysteries, with a little help from young assistant DS Annie Cabbot.
Highlights:
Revenge : Seasons 1 – 3 : Available until 30 June 2015 : Keep your friends close and your enemies closer - Emily Thorne is out for revenge on those who destroyed her father’s life.
Scandal : Seasons 1 – 3 : Available until June 2015 : Every day is a drama for a crisis management professional who helps the rich, famous and high profile to keep a lid on their scandals.
Brothers & Sisters : Seasons 1 – 5 : Available until May 2015 : When a family’s adult siblings are reunited after the death of their father, secrets, personal issues and drama around the family business quickly start to arise.
Looking : Season 1 : Available until 31 May 2015 : The lives, loves and complications of three gay men living in San Francisco. Season 2 now available on Catch Up
Grey’s Anatomy : Seasosn 1-10 : Available until 31 March 2015 : This hugely popular medical drama follows the personal and professional lives of the medical residents and interns at Grey-Sloane Memorial Hospital.
Mad Men : Seasons 1 – 7a : Available until 2017 : It’s advertising. It’s New York. It’s the ‘60s. Welcome to the world of Mad Men. This highly addictive drama follows the members of a prominent Madison Avenue advertising firm through a hugely influential decade.
Justified : Seasons 1 – 5 : Available until September 2015 : A neo-western crime series following an old school Marshal delivering his own brand of justice. Reassigned to work in his childhood home town, his unconventional, gun-slinging ways puts him firmly in the sights of both the criminals and his bosses.
24 : Seasons 1-8 : Available until 2016 : Jack Bauer works some very long hours! Given that each episode is about 1 hour long and each season is made up of 24 episodes, technically you could knock over a whole season in one day - and with the amount of adrenaline in this series, that’s actually a very tempting challenge.
The West Wing : Seasons 1 – 7 : Available until 2017 : Be careful - this popular White House drama is highly addictive. Political drama and power plays are rife in this critically acclaimed series following the professional and personal lives of the U.S. President and his administration.
Penny Dreadful : Season 1 : Available until 30 April 2019 : Gas lights and foggy streets help set the scene as some of the best characters from literary horror classics are re-imagined in this intriguing story set in Victorian London. If you like your drama dark and dangerous, look no further!
Game Of Thrones : Season 1 : Available until 29 April 2015 : This is your chance to go back to where it all began. If you’ve been following the series over the last few years, it’s worth giving the very first season another watch - those kids look so young!
Hannibal : Season 1 - 2 : Available until 2016 : Before he was wearing a modified hockey mask and taunting Clarice about lambs, Hannibal ‘The Cannibal’ Lecter was a renowned psychiatrist working with a remarkable yet troubled criminal profiler to catch serial killers for the FBI. Although he is also quite the chef, we don’t recommend watching this whilst eating dinner.
The Tudors : Seasons 1 - 4 : Available until 30 June 2015 : Henry VIII had a reputation for being a bit of a ladies man, but not a particularly nice guy. Add to an already intriguing story some amazing sets and costumes and a top cast lead by Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Henry “Man Of Steel” Cavill, and you’ve got yourself a history lesson you won’t want to miss.
Spartacus : Seasons 1 – 4 : Available until 2016 : Take an army of strapping young men with swords and sandals, pit them against the mighty power of the Roman forces, add enough blood and lust to make a seasoned Game Of Thrones fan blush, and you’ve got Spartacus. The series starts with Blood & Sand, although the next instalment, Gods Of The Arena, is a prequel, so watch them in whichever order works for you. But be sure to stick around for the next two seasons: Vengeance and War Of The Damned.
A Touch Of Cloth : Seasons 1 – 3 : Available until 2018 : Detective Inspectors Jack Cloth and Anne Oldman are solving crime one pun at a time the hit comedy that could easily be Britain’s answer to Police Squad.
Broadchurch : Season 1 : Available until 25 March 2015 : When a young boy is murdered in a small coastal town, it threatens to turn the whole community upside down. Prepare for plenty of drama in this award-winning series.
Whitechapel : Seasons 1-4 : Available until 25 June 2015 : Rupert Penry-Jones stars as an inspector investigating a series of murders which are eerily familiar to those carried out by Jack the Ripper.
Downton Abbey : Seasons 1-5 : Available until 24 June 2015 : This award-winning drama, following the lives of the inhabitants of Downton Abbey, is available in all its glory on NOW TV.
