No wrong answers. Could be a game show, docu-series, fiction, sci-fi, anything that didn’t make it but should have.

  • marquisalex@feddit.uk
    3·
    3 hours ago

    Jam.

    Dark and weird sketch comedy from Chris Morris (probably best known for the film Four Lions, and the already-mentioned TV series Brass Eye). Transgressive comedy from the past usually either feels tame or completely unacceptable as social mores drift over time, but this (for the most part) still manages to sit in the sweet spot.

    • marquisalex@feddit.uk
      2·
      3 hours ago

      Seems my brain just assumed that Brass Eye had already been mentioned… Double checked the thread, and it somehow hasn’t, despite the Paedogeddon episode being one of the most notorious pieces of British TV in history. If you’re going to watch just one piece of Morris’ TV work, it should be this episode.

  • flesh bot@programming.devEnglish
    1·
    4 hours ago

    I’ll add How Not to Live Your Life just because you may not have heard of it, though I’ve no idea where you might be able to watch it.

  • P00ptart@lemmy.world
    5·
    8 hours ago

    Time team. That shit was amazing. It went on for like 20+ years and EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. it was fascinating. The closest thing we have now is josh gates’ expedition unknown, which is really hit and miss. Recently it’s been so picky about things they’re likely to hit on that some seasons only have 4-6 episodes. He tries to make the finds to be to big. Time team found all kinds of fantastic things because they were just looking for historical significance, not mountains of treasure. But they always found treasures of some kind. That was a really great, fascinating show.

    I’m also a really big fan of top gear.

    • Prior_Industry@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 hours ago

      I feel like this about another C4 program of that era - Grand Designs.

      Gone on for years now, but it just seeing how these people underestimate what they are getting into and will then just throw extra fuel on the pressure fire “just started renovating this massive listed barn that’s 90% falling down and has no actual foundations, time to have a baby! Oh and you’re also self employed and going to manage the project yourself and do some of the building yourself you say?”

      "To sum it up, how financially crippled are you and how many mortgages do you now have 😂 " .

      Kevin McCloud is basically taking the piss out of you for the whole show.

      It will be weird when it’s not on anymore.

      • P00ptart@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 hours ago

        Yeah, but guess what? They found a wall! It always felt so much better than like supernatural shows where they’re like “we totally found evidence” yeah, sure ya did. “No, we did, see this spec of dust? That’s a ghost”. Alright, but did ya find a floor or nails? Show me the gpr.

  • pootzapie@lemy.lolEnglish
    3·
    8 hours ago

    Toast of London, Stewart Lee - 7th greatest comedian special, Duchess of Duke street

  • BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world
    3·
    8 hours ago

    i havent watched a lot of british tv shows

    the inbetweeners should still be in the cultural zeitgeist tho that show is hilarious

  • cheers_queers@lemmy.zip
    10·
    14 hours ago

    Absolutely Fabulous is a great sitcom about a teenaged girl dealing with her narcissistic mother’s shenanigans. funny AND has some real moments.

  • HexagonSun@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2·
    10 hours ago

    The Glam Metal Detectives.

    Thought it was really funny but it’s completely forgotten now.