I don’t want to stop interest in UK TV, however I have seen a few questions about UK TV recommendations (maybe not all in this sub).
I remember seeing this happen a lot in the UK TV subs on Reddit which always ended up being the same 20 shows giving a low signal to noise, so I was wondering whether we could preempt it by making a mega thread to point people to to improve the quality of recommendations. Perhaps have some rules, such as only a single show per comment so people can vote on what they did or didn’t enjoy and end up with a ranked list?
Other thoughts I had were a mega thread per type of show, so popular sitcoms or police procedurals don’t drown out interesting dramas, and therefore an index pinned to point people to?
[Edit] Maybe each comment should contain the location where it can be watched? Might be hard as region restrictions mean that folks outside the UK wouldn’t add iPlayer URLs.
I don’t think it needs to be ranked, because tastes are subjective. Maybe make it a weekly thread where people can post a request in a comment, and then there’s a list of similar shows from the previous week’s comments. Someone posts a comment with a police procedural, and they get a (curated) list of all the similar shows.
I meant that it only end up getting ranked because people vote, not because it needs to. But a weekly thread is an interesting idea.