How I Met Your Mother - TV Sitcom

If you miss TV sitcom "Friends"...or have got to the point you can’t possibly watch another repeat on T4, try watching "How I Met Your Mother". It’s an American TV comedy, about a group of twenty-something friends and their life in New York. Sound familiar?

The show is about Ted (Josh Radnor), a single, 27-year-old architect and his search for true love. The series is narrated through flashbacks from the future with Ted addressing his teenage kids about - you guessed it - how he met their mother.

Medium - American TV Drama

Allison Dubois (played by Patricia Arquette) is a wife and mother who struggles to balance her family with the pull of psychic powers she uses to help the police solve cases. Through her psychic dreams, she helps the murdered bring their killers to justice.

Like the Ghost Whisperer I like the fact it starts and ends in one episode. Unlike the Ghost Whisperer Patricia Arquette keeps her ample assets in an array of dowdy pyjamas. Seriously, it is a much darker and bloodier drama too. Also family life and her relationship with her husband are portrayed in such a real, almost humorous way. Though it is hard to believe any person would be as easy going as her husband, who is woken up every night by Allison's nightmares and then has to chat about them.

I am Series Four and can’t find Season Five (Region 2) in the UK.

Ghost Whisperer - American TV Drama

Melinda Gordon (played by Jennifer Love Hewitt) sees earth bound spirits and uses her ability to help people by communicating with them and resolving unfinished business with the living before they cross over into “the light”. Love (as she is known in The Biz) is a stunning woman, but actually quite a good actor too. It’s more heart-warming than scary and I love the one complete story per episode.

On a deeper note, it feels comforting to think of those we have lost going into a light where they are welcomed by past loved ones.

On a shallow note, Love’s character wears lovely clothes, lives in a gorgeous home in an adorable-looking town and is married to the perfect man, so it’s all very easy on the eye. I don’t know any blokes that would sit through more than one episode though, and that would be just to watch Hewitt’s notable assets bursting out of her endless array of silk nightdresses.

The only scary thing about the show is Love's massive false eyelashes, which look like a pair of spiders trying to escape. Anyway, I am on Season Five and loving it. If you enjoy this, try Medium.