* or as we'd call them, programs.

As in, like those, and The Wire, etc, big-dollar US dramas that absolutely no-one watches for the first two series, the broadsheets start bleating on about somewhere around the end of Series 2, Twitter and forum try-hards start swearing by over the third series, than eventually the general public begin championing just after the final series gets announced?

Would be nice to watch something right from the start, but obviously no-one ever does that, really. Maybe Boardwalk Empire's an exception given as its UK airing was pushed so heavily and coincided with Sky Atlantic being launched, etc.

Shoot...