I guess this show's a few years old by now, but we just started watching the first series. I have to admit its by far one of the funniest shows we've seen on tv here, think that it was on Showtime or something. The Writing, so far, is consistent and deeply funny, anybody else seen this and find it as good as we did?
The bird loves Dead Like Me.
So far my favourite episode is the Halloween one with Mason taking candy from children.
Never heard of it, where and when ??
Used to be on HBO... you can rent it at Hollywood Video.
When Art Bell (a nationally syndicated radio talk show host) does his weekend show, he always makes a point of playing the signature tune to Dead Like Me. He loved the song and adored the show, but apparently it was cancelled.
We are big fans of Dead Like Me. We're just starting the second series on DVD.
It's like Six Feet Under Lite.
The main character is an eighteen-year-old girl called George, who one day gets hit by a bit of space debris that comes hurtling back to earth - the toilet seat from a space shuttle to be precise - and dies.
She discovers that in her afterlife she's an undead grim reaper. Apparently, grim reapers live among us - rent flats, have jobs. etc. She works with a colourful crew including an English guy who was a junkie who died in the 60s, a glamourous former 1940s Hollywood groupie and a traffic warden with a big mouth.
George, to make money and keep herself going has to work at a dreadful, grey temp agency called Happy Time. She also wishes she had been nicer to her dysfunctional family, who she still observes from afar, instead of being a typically surly and sarcastic eighteen-year-old.
It's the sort of quirky, whimsical series you would only expect to be made in Britain.
The down side, as others have pointed out is that it was cancelled after two seasons. The up side is that the two season are quite cheap to buy on DVD.