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For those of us with an insatiable appetite for small screen entertainment, there are plenty of TV treats arriving in 2020. From brand new shows like Dracula or Star Trek: Picard to returning series such as Killing Eve and Shetland.

But before we start crafting fresh cosplay and sporting esoteric t-shirts, let's just take a moment to remember the dearly departed TV classics we lost in 2019... sniff.

Greg Hemphill and Ford Kiernan (and cast) as Jack and Victor in Still Game | Image: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scotland

Iconic Scottish ´óÏó´«Ã½ comedy Still Game aired its ninth and final series on the new ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scotland channel earlier this year.

It was a fond farewell to pensioner pals Jack and Victor, as they went into TV comedy retirement.

The Guardian said the characters would be "sorely missed" and the Herald reviewer said the last episode "brought a lump to the throat the size of a Clansman’s pie."

Described by ´óÏó´«Ã½ Comedy Commissioner, Shane Allen as "a modern sitcom masterpiece" since making its TV debut in 2002, Still Game has become a comedy phenomenon.

When it returned in 2016 after a nine year hiatus, it became the most-watched TV programme in over a decade in Scotland attracting more than half of the viewing audience.

If you're missing it, take solace in this really hard Still Game quiz.

Samwell Tarly (John Bradley) and Jon Snow (Kit Harington) in Game Of Thrones | Image: Sky Atlantic

Game of Thrones was HBO's most popular series. It won multiple Emmy awards and drew tens of millions of viewers and ended its eight-season run earlier this year.

But, as ´óÏó´«Ã½ News reported, the finale received mixed reviews, angering some fans and leading to a petition that was signed by more than a million people, to get the eighth season remade with more "competent writers". Ouch.

One particularly memorable moment from the last season was the the ‘hazelnut latte of Winterfell’. A modern day take away coffee cup accidentally left in shot in one episode - it has since been edited out. It was later revealed Conleth Hill, who played Lord Varys, was the person responsible.

All is not lost for GOT fans as according to news reports, HBO have ordered a prequel set about 300 years before events in the original series.

The show first premiered in 2007 and has made the cast among the highest paid TV stars in history

After 12 years and 279 episodes, The Big Bang Theory came to an end in May 2019.

Centered on seven characters living in Pasadena, California the comedy show represented a range of scientific professions including physicist, aerospace engineer, astrophysicist, neuroscientist and microbiologist. One university physics professor even held the show partly responsible for an 85% increase in applications to study physics in his department.

For those of you missing the celebration of all things nerd, all is not lost. One of the show's favourite characters, Sheldon Cooper, who was played by Jim Parsons, was given his own spin off show - Young Sheldon - based on an idea by actor Parsons himself. He now serves as an Executive Producer on the show.

And if you are missing Jim Parsons, here is a wonderful clip of him holding a puppy on The One Show from 2015.

You're welcome.

Pheobe Waller-Bridge stars in Fleabag

Fleabag may have started life as a theatrical monologue about an unnamed woman with a considerable sexual appetite who runs a guinea pig-themed cafe while mourning the death of her best friend, but it went on to become an international runaway TV hit.

It made a star out of writer/ performer Phoebe Waller-Bridge — she has just been announced as a Golden Globe nominee for her performance in the second (and last) series.

On the idea of a third series she said in March,"I have thought about it and there isn't going to be one... This is it - this is the final curtain."

Plenty more to come from Waller-Bridge though. She's a co-writer on the new Bond movie, she has signed a major contract to make TV shows for Amazon and the third series of Killing Eve which is her other hit creation, is expected to return to our screens in 2020.

If you're missing Fleabag, here are ´óÏó´«Ã½ Three's All the reasons why we love Fleabag.

Eleanor (Kristen Bell) and Michael (Ted Danson) in The Good Place | Image: NBC/Universal Media

What do you get if you take Anna from Frozen, a silver-haired Sam from Cheers, noughties 'yoof' TV favourite Jameela Jamil then transport them to a shiny fictional afterlife to grapple with moral and philosophical issues? Why The Good Place of course!

Although it's hard to know how The Good Place by Michael Schur went down in terms of viewing figures, its unusual combination of goofiness and high brow wit certainly made it a hit with critics. Cast member Marc Evan Jackson called it "the smartest, dumbest show on TV".

On top of being highly appealing in terms of its pace and humour it also, as ´óÏó´«Ã½ Arts pointed out, wasn't bad to look at.

Although technically it ends in 2020, we've started the goodbye process.

The show's creator announced the 4th season would be the last : "I began to feel like four seasons - just over 50 episodes - was the right lifespan", and he was "forever grateful to NBC and Universal" for "letting us end it on our own schedule".