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You did NOT like GoT. Take that back!
But there's a lot of good recommendations already, so I'll re-affirm a few of them that I both saw and enjoyed (exclusions are probably because I didn't see the shows):
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You're literally the only person I've heard say anything like that. Sir Terry's own daughter has disavowed it, saying that it "shares no DNA with my father's Watch."
I know a lot of people never got past the the total re-write of ... well, everything. I understand that. If you go in wanting the source material or you will be horribly disappointed. If, instead, you go in saying, "Alright, I know the fans are in revolt, but let's just see why this got made if it is so far from the source," then I think you will see that yes, every aspect is changed, and the story mash-up misses the original points, but... But -- BUT as a show, it was a change of pace (within what limits TV allows) and still retained a feel of a Watch novel. It wasn't a clone of Game of Thrones or Black Adder, or anything else -- and, true, it certainly wasn't a clone of Night Watch, either. It was its own thing, and I'm a bit bummed out that the hatred means it will never get another season.
I thought Resident Alien was hilarious. Great Adolescent humor.