While watching Boardwalk Empire...

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I've finally started watching Boardwalk Empire (and I'm totally loving it) and I just dig how it's like watching a movie every week.  And there's all these other shows on that are like movies too, limited and ongoing, and that's pretty neat too.  But the problem is: they're all mature, R-rated and usually dramas.  (I was making a tongue-in-cheek list in my head of "HBO" qualities of shows-- movie stars, no cold open, supporting female characters get naked often, lots of curse words, etc...)

My issue is-- where's the stuff for the non-mature audience?

Yeah, kids are lucky because they're more open and accepting of strange ideas, so they've always gotten experimental stuff first, and there's usually some crossover success with things like Avatar the Last Airbender and Adventure Time, and I LOVE that there's a series of "How To Train Your Dragon" that looks just like the movie.  That's brilliant.

But all of those-- they're series for kids that adults can enjoy.

What about the family stuff?  The stuff that the family can all sit down and watch together and know this is for all of them equally.  Not stuff that adults would dig that's watered down and not stuff intended for kids that's dirtied up.  And not stuff diluted and castrated for a mass audience (and nevermind that "keeping it clean for kids" -- kids are much more sophisticated than they're ever given credit for).  Quality stuff meant for them.

Modern Family is all I can think of, and that's in renegotiations (and while I don't know shit about that sort of thing, if ModFam had some strong competition, that might make a good bargaining chip for the cast).  Although to be fair, I rarely watch broadcast TV so maybe there's others, but I can't name them off the top of my head.

Where is the Boardwalk Empire/Mad Men/Breaking Bad-quality content for the family to watch together?

I dunno.

And don't think this is me being some kind of prude, I'm really not, it's more that I want variety, and without variety all this stuff is going to start getting derivative and boring really quick.

I guess the place to start looking would be books-- everything is adapted or remade these days-- so let me open this question up to all of you:  what books do you think would be good for a long-form quality television adaptation suitable for family viewing?
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