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Never heard of Come Fly With Me, looks good. I forgot about Look Around You too. That guy was Darth Maul or something like that.


Holy shit I had no idea that Peter Serafinowicz was the voice of Darth Maul. Amazing.

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Nighty Night - i knew i'd forgotten something . . . . and as Lixx mentioned, anything Charlie Brooker does is great too :)

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Nice lists BloodDrinker & Moog. For anyone who digs Simon Pegg's humor definitely check Spaced. A gem of a show. Go back to where it all started.

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Created and written by: Simon Pegg & Jessica Stevenson
Directed by: Edgar Wright
Starring: Simon Pegg, Jessica Stevenson, Nick Frost, Mark Heap, Julia Deakin, Katy Carmichael and Aida the Dog
Series: 2
Episodes: 14

Plot: Tim Bisley (Pegg) and Daisy Steiner (Stevenson) are two London twenty-somethings who meet by chance in a café while both are flat-hunting. Despite barely knowing each other, they conspire to pose as a young professional couple in order to meet the requisites of an advertisement for a relatively cheap flat in the distinctive building at 23 Meteor Street,Tufnell Park, which is owned by and also houses the landlady, Marsha Klein (Julia Deakin). Also in the building is Brian Topp (Mark Heap), an eccentric conceptual artist who lives and works on his various pieces in the ground floor flat.[ep 1] Frequent visitors are Tim's best friend, Mike Watt (Nick Frost), who ends up becoming a lodger after Marsha's daughter Amber Weary "flies the nest",[ep 2] and Daisy's best friend, Twist Morgan (Katy Carmichael).

The series largely concerns the colourful and surrealistic adventures of Tim and Daisy as they navigate through life, decide on what they want to do with their lives, come to terms with affairs of the heart, and try to figure out new and largely unproductive ways of killing time. Tim and Daisy repeatedly stress that they are not a couple to everyone but Marsha, but despite (or because of) this, romantic tension develops between them, particularly during the second series.

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^^^ That is a great photo !!

Ah, takes me back . . . . Spaced was such a great show . . . . 'Fried Gold' (as they used to say on the set apparently)

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Great lists - some classic stuff in there

That photo of Mark Heap above reminds me of another one:
'Green Wing' - you can't beat a bit of Dr Alan Statham!

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An Idiot Abroad Series 1 + 2

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Nighty Night - i knew i'd forgotten something . . . . and as Lixx mentioned, anything Charlie Brooker does is great too :)


So, to my knowledge, Charlie Brooker wrote the original comic strip thing that Nathan Barley is from & Chris Morris Directed that show I think, what other shows did Charlie Brooker write? Someone said IT Crowd but that's Graham Lineham right? (who is another great UK comic writer, all his shows are pretty much gold.)

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Green wing if it hasn't already been said, that series was unreal.
set in a hospital but none of this scrubs bollocks.

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whites is really nice and the trip also one of my current favorites


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The League of Gentlemen

Such a great tv series with so many classic horror references. And a never ending lineup of bizarre characters ... Toad collectors, Mickey and his invincible car - Maxie Power, Legz Akimbo, Papa Lazarou, Herr Lip and of course the Local shopkeepers. The movie was a terrible let down.

I've gotta make time to watch Psychoville. Anyone feeling it?

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The League of Gentlemen

Such a great tv series with so many classic horror references. And a never ending lineup of bizarre characters ... Toad collectors, Mickey and his invincible car - Maxie Power, Legz Akimbo, Papa Lazarou, Herr Lip and of course the Local shopkeepers. The movie was a terrible let down.

I've gotta make time to watch Psychoville. Anyone feeling it?



League is breasts as they say. Need to rewatch psychoville dunno if I finished
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I'm typing on my mobile n I feel like a "fat handed twat" - anyone???

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One of my favorites of all time.

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Yes! I never plan to watch it but always catch odd episodes late at night. Great show.

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No AbFab...or Chef?

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Shameless (even the Americanised version managed to retain the same grimness!)

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Might have been mentioned, didn't see it, bears repeating anyway.

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Same goes for this.

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And no mention of Little Britain? Really now...

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what's airing right now in the UK? Current season shit. Misfits just finished, as I mentioned earlier it's awesome. Judging by this thread I've seen nearly every british comedy ever so I need some new shit! :)

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...And no mention of Little Britain? Really now...
Well, kind of...
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Sorry, kroker, the only NOW now "funny" things I'm hip to are Sherlock and Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror, and both are only three episode series.

As far as older stuff not mentioned yet, I like Asylum (pre-Spaced Pegg/Wright show), Big Train (brilliant sketch with lots of now familiar faces) and Jam (fuhhhkked Chris Morris program) very much.

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what's airing right now in the UK? Current season shit. Misfits just finished, as I mentioned earlier it's awesome. Judging by this thread I've seen nearly every british comedy ever so I need some new shit! :)

Life's too short, Warrick Davies, Stephen Merchant and Ricky Gervais, as well as a host of other famous faces, But its hit and miss, I've loved parts of it but its not as whole.

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If you like Alan Partridge, the book "I Partridge, we need to talk about Alan" is well worth a read.

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The Increasingly Poor Desicions of Todd Margaret just started season 2.
It's a US show technically but takes place in England & was originally intended for Channel 4 I believe & the pilot ep also aired on UK tv prior to being picked up by IFC.

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Watched Bellamy's People again recently - it's such a great show !! Felix Dexter is a genius - i wish he was in more stuff.

Here's Felix in a classic Fast Show sketch from back in the day . . . 'The Fast Show' is known as 'Brilliant' in America apparently . . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcEA4qAl9m8

And here he is as 'Early D' in Bellamy's People :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnxoqajt7v4

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...And no mention of Little Britain? Really now...
Well, kind of...
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Computer says "No"
:D

Sorry, kroker, the only NOW now "funny" things I'm hip to are Sherlock and Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror, and both are only three episode series.

As far as older stuff not mentioned yet, I like Asylum (pre-Spaced Pegg/Wright show), Big Train (brilliant sketch with lots of now familiar faces) and Jam (fuhhhkked Chris Morris program) very much.



just watched Black Mirror today. The 1st ep was really good the other 2 were pretty good, not as good as the 1st. I like how it's similar to Twilight Zone or The Outer Limits.
Those other 3 older shows you mentioned are great too. Big Train is where that 'Fat Handed Twat' quote a few posts up is from


never heard of Felix Dexter, that was pretty funny, def check out more of that stuff

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Alan Partridge (Steve Coogan) has done an online series for Fosters recently (so have The Fast Show & Vic & Bob)
I watched the first episode last night and i thought it was pretty good . . . .

- Alan Partridge's Mid Morning Matters -

Episode 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvYbsKcBxGo
Episode 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ftq74FSaWc
Episode 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFixUuMwTlM

And so on . . . . i think there are 12 episodes at about 16 mins each
You Tube will be taking them down soon because Coogan's company are planning to show them on TV at some point.

They are still available on Rapidshare and Hotfile type links.

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what's airing right now in the UK? Current season shit. Misfits just finished, as I mentioned earlier it's awesome. Judging by this thread I've seen nearly every british comedy ever so I need some new shit! :)

As for recent stuff have you tried 'Fresh Meat' ? - its supposed to be really good, i haven't got round to watching it yet but my brother and all my friends reckon its funny. It has one of the guys from The Inbetweeners in it . . . .

'Fresh Meat' written by Peep Show creators Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong, its already going down a storm with the press;
"Smart, sympathetic and pretty much adorable from the get-go" - The Guardian
"Brilliant new comedy drama" - The Sun
"It has hit written all over" - The Sunday Times
"Brilliantly observed. Excellent Cast" ***** - Heat

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