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Answering the eternal question... WHAT TO WATCH NEXT?

Looking for a box set to get your adrenaline racing or to escape to a different era? In need of a good laugh to lift your spirits? Hunting for a TV show that the whole family can watch together?

If you're feeling indecisive about your next binge-watching session, we've done the hard work for you. Featuring 1,000 carefully curated reviews written by a panel of TV connoisseurs, What To Watch When offers up the best show suggestions for every mood and moment.

From the Publisher

Publisher ‏ : ‎ DK (October 1, 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0241460522
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0241460528
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.01 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.1 x 1.46 x 8.54 inches
Reviewer: Found Highways
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: 1,000 TV Shows for Every Mood and Moment. Really.
Review: This beatiful DK book is one you will want to own, even though it's cheap for the ebook price. It has some unique features.There are ten category/chapter headings printed opposite the book's spine. These headings answer the question posed by the title: What to Watch When?You Want to Get Your Pulse Racing,You Have Three Generations on One Sofa,You Want to Escape to a Different Time,You Want a Cozy Night In,You Need a Feel-Good Moment,You Need a Really Good Laugh,You Want to Learn Something New,You Feel Like Wallowing,You Just Want to Switch Off, or,You Want to Be Scared Witless.There are hundreds of shows that are decades old (Like The Prisioner and Danger Man), but there are also plenty that are recent (Good Omens and Dead Like Me).Some are series that sucessful producers and writers hoped would become popular (Murder One was one of my favorites).Any book of cult shows is going to have its share of British TV (Midsomer Murders), but this book has Belgian TV (Professor T) as well as French and German, too.And the Romanian series Comrade Detective is for anyone interested in seventies-style detectives and Marxist-Leninist political philosophy (trust me, it's worth watching it if you're even considering buying this book).There's something for you if you like Westerns (The Lone Ranger and Wagon Train) or science fiction (Star Trek or Firefly).Science (Blue Planet, Planet Earth) is here as well asIf you're a classicist (Weni, widi, wici) there's Rome and Spartacus, or you can find a documentary on almost any war.Anyone reading this probably knows the qualities of The Twilight Zone, but you might not know how good an anthology series Friday the 13th :The Series was.It will take a while to get through What to Watch When: 1,000 TV Shows for Every Mood and Moment. It's a great book.

Reviewer: Patrick
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Not enough recommendations for each emotional state.
Review: - I like that the book takes a new approach to indexing shows based upon emotion rather than genre. Are you happy and want happy shows? Then watch XYZ. I even like the short summaries describing what the show is like. It’’ had to write a book that encompasses all the show to watch related to a specific mood, but this book gives it a try. It does a fairly decent job, but is missing a few critical items.- There is not enough variety of shows for each emotional state. It lists a handful of shows with some descriptions. A larger list would have been preferred because finding a show on a streaming service that I belong to is a lot of work and many times may not be available. A longer list would give a person a better chance of finding a show to watch.- The recommendations span so many show types (animation, comedy, SciFi, old and new) that it is easy to dismiss a show based on genre that one is not interested in. The book could have been focused on just SciFi, or Action Adventure, or Fantasy and might have been better suited for a set audience. Again, a longer list of shows or movies would have made the book much better.- I also wish they had a webpage with links to sites that focus on where to watch a show, IMDB, actors, etc. It would have been a great addendum or complement to the book.- There is a focus on pointing to a specific show in a season. Unfortunately, most TV shows are short and the next episode could fall outside the mood. For example pointing to MASH as a good comedy is fine, but there are many MASH episodes that are dark and dramatic. This is not the fault of the authors, but a list of the top recommended episodes of a series would keep an emotion ride happening.- A separate chart of the top-rated shows of a series would go a long way and strengthen any recommendations.This is a decent book and one that folks can enjoy. Just know that you will soon dive into the internet for more recommendations beyond the book.

Reviewer: J&J
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Nostalgia & Education
Review: I tried to stump this extensive book & it passed the test.Had to use the Index to research shows. The 'Contents' is more synopsis than story.Truly, only one missing, I thought deserved recognition was 'Laverne & Shirley'.Don't know why I'm surprised as DK is The Expert on Education & Information.There's one season shows like 'My So Called Life' & squeaky new additions like 'The Mandalorian'.Shows that are part of our culture from Star Trek, Cheers & Downton Abbey.Cult followings like Dark & American Horror Story .Off beat, questionable moral comedies such as Trailer Park Boys & Shameless.Even Animation from Bob's Burgers to Scooby Doo.Missed quite a few great Canadian shows, unless they are on a paid streaming platform,like 'Corner Gas' which steams free on Imdb.For the most part, quite a thorough representation of The BBC & American Tv.Including Netflix, Hulu & Prime Original shows.It's really a great book. Fun to flip through & a conversation starter.Packed with so many "Omg" moments, you'll be shocked it's only 2"thick.'What to Watch When' is The Rare Book you can gift as Hardbound or Digital Copy.Also, The Rare gift that bridges the ages, as it covers the last 60 years of TV.Something Grandpa might enjoy more than socks.

Reviewer: Bluebell Girl
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: What to Watch When: 1,000 TV Shows for Every Mood and Moment is a great book to have in your living room near your TV. If you get stuck for something to watch, just have a flick through and I am sure you will find a tv show that suits your mood. The categories are What to watch when: You want to get your pulse racing, you have 3 generations on one sofa, when you want to escape to a different time, you want a cosy night in,you need a feel good moment, you need a really good laugh, you want to learn something new, you feel like wallowing, you just want to switch off, and you want to be scared witless.This is quite a thick book, with 479 pages. There are lots of shows listed but obviously not every programme ever made. A useful reference book. To be honest I am not sure who this book is aimed at, maybe a younger generation who don’t know about certain shows? I’m really not sure.

Reviewer: Here's our thoughts
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: In the digital age where you can get information about anything sometimes you can spend so long surfing through menus on Netflix and the like that you don't end up actually watching anything. Book goes along way towards rectifying that issue and actually giving you ideas for new things to watch. Obviously they'll be a lot of things in there that you will have already seen but having only thumbed through the book I've already found a few things that I like the sound of. I wish I got this book prior to lockdown as I could've use my time a lot more effectively if I had had this.

Reviewer: Roland Deschain
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I thought this was going to be an intelligent breakdown of why certain shows fit moods and moments with detailed analysis of the shows themselves and although some shows get 1-2 pages the vast majority get 1-2 paragraphs, such high hopes utterly let down by shoddy conception and tv show blurbs that seem to have been written by people who may not have ever watched the shows they reviewed.I give it three stars simply because as usual from DK it is a lovely hardback and presented beautifully.

Reviewer: Miss
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: This fairly small but very thick and sturdy hardback is great as a coffee table book to start conversations, or a fun gift. It is split into the following sections: What to watch when you want to get your pulse racing; when you have three generations on one sofa; when you want to escape to a different time; when you want a cosy night in; when you need a feel-good moment; when you need a really good laugh; when you want to learn something new; when you feel like wallowing; when you just want to switch off; when you want to be scared witless. The chapters are listed on the contents page, along with a small selection of the included shows (just the ones that get a full page write-up, which is a little odd).Each chapter has several recommendations which cover one or two pages, and several much smaller ones. Even the ones with smaller write-ups have the genre, date of release, length of show and age restriction, but only the ones with larger write-ups have the amount of seasons listed, which is a bit annoying. Overall I found the write-ups to be quite dry and not very entertaining, but they do get the basic information across. They are livened up slightly by the occasional illustration or fun infographic (the 'things Kenneth Parcell can do' diagram for 30 Rock is a great addition). The shows recommended lean towards the more modern, but there are some classics included too.It's a fun and useful book, though I wish the write-ups were more engaging. This information can all be found easily on line, and there will definitely be a lot of people who'd prefer to flick through their streaming service recs instead of looking in a book, but I'm still pleased to own it.

Reviewer: J. McDonald 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: A handy hardback directory/guide to notable TV shows available as boxed sets.The limitations of the book are rather obvious from the outset; it isn't comprehensive (it would be unreasonable to expect it to be) so some of one's favourite or memorable shows are inevitably missing; the selection has been made by a panel of experts – none of whom I've heard of – and there is no information on availability of the shows as boxed sets either on disc or download – again, it's unreasonable to expect up-to-the -minute information on this, but it would have been helpful to know if the sets have been released at anytime on disc in one's region.The more positive aspects are that the selection is wide-ranging; British and American shows as far back as the 50s are included (“I Love Lucy”, “Quatermass”) alongside contemporary marathon examples (“Game of Thrones”); there's a healthy inclusion of world drama as well – which is worthy of praise. Each show has a brief description – it's themes, content, age rating and dates.The structure of the book is a little contentious, with shows listed according to rather arbitrary headings, but there is an index at the back and the most popular shows are shown in the table of contents in the first pages.It's a compact volume rather than a coffee-table book, interesting to leaf through and - I should think – useful to the binge viewer with access to extensive subscription content.Not a bad attempt as a guide, but do note some of the caveats listed above; check out the “Look inside” option above for a sample of the layout/content.