The TV shows you’re not watching, but should be

THERE’S a lot on TV and with more choices it becomes even harder to find something to watch. Here’s a list of shows that may have fallen under your radar — but really should be watching.

TITUS Welliver has been given the role of a lifetime as Los Angeles detective Harry Bosch in US crime drama Bosch — and now all he needs is for Aussie audiences to catch on.

Bosch heads a list of top notch TV shows that are slipping through the cracks because of the sheer volume of programs available to local viewers.

In the US alone there are more than more than 400 original scripted series being pumped out each year.

Titus Welliver stars in Bosch season two.

It is proving impossible for viewers to keep up with the flood.

Bosch, which screens on SBS, doesn’t make the Top 50 shows on a Thursday night in Australia but has the critics raving and is up to its third season.

“When I read the pilot script for Bosch, I thought, ‘What a fascinating multifaceted interesting character,” Welliver says.

“Here is a guy who does heroic things, but is not necessarily a truly heroic character. He really truly is the classic ‘antihero’ in the truest sense of the word.”

Other hidden gems have huge pedigree. David Fincher (Seven) created Mindhunter. Neil Jordan (The Crying Game) is the force behind Riviera.

Big-name stars including Julia Stiles, Ted Danson and Kristen Bell feature in standout performances.

There is hope. Thanks to catch-up and binge viewing, some of these shows could end up on viewers’ radar.

Welliver says he intends on playing Bosch, based on the crime novels by Michael Connelly, for many years to come.

“You know, I don’t see Harry Bosch as the guy who’s going to ride off into the sunset. He’s the guy that will keep going — and that’s kind of wonderful,” Welliver says.

“He’s not like James Bond, where you hit a certain age limit where it would be kind of ridiculous [to continue playing the character].”

THE BEST SHOWS YOU’RE NOT WATCHING RIGHT NOW

'The Good Place' starring Kristen Bell and Ted Danson. Picture: Netflix

The Good Place (Netflix)

This very funny comedy, starring Ted Danson and Kristen Bell, launched to very little fanfare on Netflix Aus. Which is strange, because it’s one of the best thing I’ve seen in ages. It’s all about Eleanor, a pretty sub-par person, who mistakenly ends up in ‘The Good Place’, aka heaven. It’s utopia, presided over by Michael, played by Danson, it’s ‘architect’. Series one is screening in its entirety, with season two dropping weekly. Unmissable. Clare Rigden

Jonathan Groff in a scene from Mindhunter. Picture: Patrick Harbron/Netflix.

Mindhunter (Netflix)

Like a good retro crime drama? Set in 1977, Jonathon Groff plays an FBI agent with the most Aussie name ever — Holden Ford. The 10 binge-friendly episodes start with Ford trying to reason with a man holding a woman hostage with a gun. There’s a graphic conclusion which reminds you that it’s directed by David Fincher (Seven, Fight Club, Gone Girl). The characters are based on real life FBI agents and the criminals on actual killers. Cameron Adams

Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan in Catastrophe.

Catastrophe (Foxtel Now)

Getting knocked up after a week-long fling is a catastrophe in most people’s opinion. Ad man Rob (Rob Delaney) is an optimistic American who decides to stay in London with schoolteacher Sharon (Sharon Horgan) and see if they can make a go of it. Funny, sweary and unpredictable with great dialogue. Anna Brain

Lovesick starring Daniel Ings and Johnny Flynn.

Lovesick (Netflix)

This one was called Scrotal Recall in the UK, which is apparently too raunchy for our timid dispositions. There’s nothing timid about the series. Dylan (Johnny Flynn) finds out he has an STD, so he needs to contact all the girls he’s ever slept with (quite a few). His sexual call sheet is filled with sweet and sour stories, with each episode devoted to one lady. Anna Brain

Titus Welliver stars in Bosch.

Bosch (SBS)

I’ve always been a sucker for a good Los Angeles-based crime drama — Chinatown, The Big Sleep — and so I have quickly become addicted to Bosch, based on the best-selling novels by Michael Connelly. Titus Welliver (Sons of Anarchy) is pitch-perfect as the world weary Detective Harry Bosch and this year’s third season, which centres on the murders of an aspiring actor as well as a Vietnam veteran, is a cracker. Colin Vickery

The Edge of the Bush.

Edge of the Bush (ABC iView)

At just under 10 minutes per episode you can binge on this entire series and still have change for an hour. Starring comedian Anne Edmonds (aka ‘Fashion Krackspert Helen Bidou’ from The Katering Show), it’s a wacky, ridiculous — and ultimately hilarious — tale of a “family callisthenics dynasty” torn about by a dark secret. Anne plays all four central characters. Genius. Clare Rigden

Milo Parker in The Durrells.

The Durrells (Seven)

If, like me, you devoured Gerald Durrell’s sweet, autobiographical books about his family’s time spent living on the Greek island of Corfu in the 1930s, as a youngster, then you will absolutely adore this family-friendly adaptation, currently screening on Seven. Each and every cast member is EXACTLY as I imagined them to be in my head. And the little boy who plays Gerald (Milo Parker), is just adorable. Clare Rigden

Julia Stiles stars as Georgina Clios in the TV series Riviera. Picture: SBS.

Riviera (SBS)

This 10-part series is pure escapism. For a start, the French Riviera scenery is drop-dead-gorgeous. Then there is a top-flight cast of headed by Julia Stiles and Lena Olin. Yes, the story involving American art curator Georgina Clios (styles) investigating the death of billionaire husband Constantine (Anthony LaPaglia) in a yachting accident feels like it has been ripped out of the pages of Dynasty — but who cares, I say. Colin Vickery