Favorite British Television Show
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"Garth Merenghi's Darkplace", Mitchell & Webb, "Top Gear", BBC current affairs shows like "Newsnight", "This World" and "Panorama", "Louis Theroux Meets..." as well.
The .gif is also from one of the greatest episodes ever. The race to the North Pole!.racing fan said:Greatest show ever!Skarin said:There is only 1 British show that has mastered the art of cocking about:
Top Gear!
Ambitious but not rubbish!
TOP GEAR! Not a single flaw in it. Also seems to be very popular amongst my fellow escapists.
Monty Python's flying circus.
QI, whnever it's available.
Monty Python's flying circus.
QI, whnever it's available.
My top, of a very long list:
Blackadder, Black Books, Top Gear, Doctor Who, Peep Show, IT Crowd, QI...
The list is near enough endless.
EDIT: Oh, and of course Alan Partridge. A-HA!!
Blackadder, Black Books, Top Gear, Doctor Who, Peep Show, IT Crowd, QI...
The list is near enough endless.
EDIT: Oh, and of course Alan Partridge. A-HA!!
Oh God, here we go:McHanhan said:
HIGNFY, QI, Top Gear, Red Dwarf, Spooks, A Touch of Frost, Morse, Bottom, The Young Ones, Drop the Dead Donkey, Blackadder, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Fawlty Towers, Messiah, eh, I can't think of any more without looking at my DVD shelf so that'll do!
Bottom, Ade Edmundson and Rik Mayall, I just think it's amazing. Also Monty Python, Blackadder and BBC News at 10
RED DWARF! (If that weren't already obvious)
I just love its perfect blend of mockery, comedy and of course science fiction. I love how it simply yet elegantly pits a slobby human, a smeghead hologram, a self-obsessed cat descendant and an anal android (Yes I know Krytten only came in a few series into it, and Kachanski (I don't really know how to spell it) was there for a while, because I consider those four to be the real cast) against the worst possible odds, and yet they always live through to see the next curry night. Coincidentally, I spent most of the weekend watching my new dvd of it, and I'm watching it tonight (They do re-runs on ABC2, that's how I got into it)
Hell! Screw it being the best British show on television, more like the best show there is on television!
I just love its perfect blend of mockery, comedy and of course science fiction. I love how it simply yet elegantly pits a slobby human, a smeghead hologram, a self-obsessed cat descendant and an anal android (Yes I know Krytten only came in a few series into it, and Kachanski (I don't really know how to spell it) was there for a while, because I consider those four to be the real cast) against the worst possible odds, and yet they always live through to see the next curry night. Coincidentally, I spent most of the weekend watching my new dvd of it, and I'm watching it tonight (They do re-runs on ABC2, that's how I got into it)
Hell! Screw it being the best British show on television, more like the best show there is on television!
The British make good television.
Stuff like Spooks, Peep Show and Doctor Who are well-produced and frequently good, but let's not pretend they're anywhere as good as US produce like The Wire, Simpsons or Battlestar Galactica. The British are probably brilliant at unscripted TV, particularly comedy (anything from, say, X-Factor to Have I Got News For You), but I don't know many of these are great TV shows.
I think much of British TV's greatest work is the sort unlikely to be loved (or heard of by the non-British) by most Escapists: the short series and one-offs by the likes of Stephen Poliakoff, Jimmy McGovern and Alan Bleasdale.
Stuff like Spooks, Peep Show and Doctor Who are well-produced and frequently good, but let's not pretend they're anywhere as good as US produce like The Wire, Simpsons or Battlestar Galactica. The British are probably brilliant at unscripted TV, particularly comedy (anything from, say, X-Factor to Have I Got News For You), but I don't know many of these are great TV shows.
I think much of British TV's greatest work is the sort unlikely to be loved (or heard of by the non-British) by most Escapists: the short series and one-offs by the likes of Stephen Poliakoff, Jimmy McGovern and Alan Bleasdale.
Oh lord this!. A thousand times this!. The day Top Gear goes off air is the day humanity takes a step backwards in civilized global affairs.Skarin said:There is only 1 British show that has mastered the art of cocking about:
Top Gear!
Has anyone seen the Red Riding trilogy? It has to be one of the greatest television productions I have ever seen and its only in the third act that you truly realise the scale of the corruption. If its ever shown in America I would urge all Americans to watch it.
"You see this? This is The North, where we do what we want!"
"You see this? This is The North, where we do what we want!"
Incidently, I was actually watching Doctor Who this afternoon. Thusly, I think it can be concluded by my ownership of all the new seasons (two copies of season three!), a massive poster of Tennant with the TARDIS, a mini-TARDIS, a Tennant-Who doll, all the canon novels from Eccleston to Tennant and one Paul McGann... that Doctor Who is my favourite British show.
I will also add to the honour roll (now that Valedictorian is taken):
Torchwood
Spooks
Jekyll (only counts because it had six episodes)
Robin Hood
The Vicar of Dibley
Midsomer Murders
Casanova
Blackpool (these last two are only there because David Tennant lit up the screen in them!)
and special mention to Black Books, because Dylan Moran is my hero.
I will also add to the honour roll (now that Valedictorian is taken):
Torchwood
Spooks
Jekyll (only counts because it had six episodes)
Robin Hood
The Vicar of Dibley
Midsomer Murders
Casanova
Blackpool (these last two are only there because David Tennant lit up the screen in them!)
and special mention to Black Books, because Dylan Moran is my hero.
Look Around You! Or the Mighty Boosh!
And lately I've been getting into Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares.
And lately I've been getting into Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares.
