UK TV SHOWS TO SEE
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1. Birds of a Feather (1989–2020)
Not Rated | 75 min | Comedy
Comedy series following the lives of sisters Tracey and Sharon who are left to fend for themselves after their husbands are arrested for armed robbery.
Stars: Linda Robson, Lesley Joseph, Pauline Quirke, Alun Lewis
Votes: 2,478
2. 2point4 Children (1991–1999)
40 min | Comedy
Follows the lives of the Porters; a seemingly average family whose world is frequently turned upside-down, due to bad luck and bizarre occurrence.
Stars: Belinda Lang, Gary Olsen, Julia Hills, John Pickard
Votes: 1,704
3. The Brittas Empire (1991–1997)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy
Gordon Brittas is the manager of the Whitbury-Newtown Leisure Centre. Despite his good intentions, everything seems to go wrong when he's around, despite the best efforts of the center staff and his long-suffering wife, Helen.
Stars: Chris Barrie, Harriet Thorpe, Michael Burns, Tim Marriott
Votes: 3,793
4. French and Saunders (1987–2017)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
Comedy duo Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders satirically present aspects of British life, films such as Batman Forever and Pulp Fiction.
Stars: Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Simon Brint, Rowland Rivron
Votes: 3,750
5. Open All Hours (1976–1985)
30 min | Comedy
Arkwright is a miserly and eccentric shopkeeper with a stammer, who longs to marry his lifelong love Nurse Gladys. He runs a small town grocery store along with his errand boy and nephew, Granville and a particularly dangerous till.
Stars: Ronnie Barker, David Jason, Lynda Baron, Barbara Flynn
Votes: 5,956
6. The Good Life (1975–1978)
28 min | Comedy
Tom Good quits the rat race, and with wife Barbara turns the garden of their Surbiton house into a smallholding. Their neighbours, snobbish Margo Leadbetter and her conventional husband Jerry, feel variously amused, offended and impressed.
Stars: Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal, Penelope Keith, Paul Eddington
Votes: 4,023
7. Are You Being Served? (1972–1985)
TV-PG | 28 min | Comedy
The misadventures of the staff of a retail floor of a major department store.
Stars: Mollie Sugden, John Inman, Frank Thornton, Wendy Richard
Votes: 9,229
8. Not the Nine O'Clock News (1979–1982)
TV-PG | 25 min | Comedy
British sketch comedy starring the likes of Rowan Atkinson and Mel Smith.
Stars: Rowan Atkinson, Mel Smith, Pamela Stephenson, Griff Rhys Jones
Votes: 2,802
9. Game-On (1995–1998)
TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy
The misadventures of three twenty-something flatmates, bound together by circumstance. Mandy is sexually active, Martin is sexually inactive, and their troubled landlord Matthew never leaves the flat.
Stars: Matthew Cottle, Samantha Womack, Neil Stuke, Tracy Keating
Votes: 2,563
10. Goodnight Sweetheart (1993–2016)
Not Rated | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
British sitcom in which an unhappily married man discovers he can time travel back to 1940s war-torn London where he masquerades as an MI5 agent and part-time songwriter whilst courting the local barmaid.
Stars: Nicholas Lyndhurst, Victor McGuire, Christopher Ettridge, Elizabeth Carling
Votes: 3,337
11. Spaced (1999–2001)
TV-14 | 25 min | Comedy
Friends Tim and Daisy, 20-something North Londoners with uncertain futures, must pretend to be a couple to live in the only apartment they can afford.
Stars: Simon Pegg, Jessica Hynes, Julia Deakin, Nick Frost
Votes: 57,679
12. Clatterford (2006–2009)
60 min | Comedy
The comical misadventures of friends involved with a women's club. Retitled as "Clatterford" in the United States.
Stars: Sue Johnston, Dawn French, Maggie Steed, Jennifer Saunders
Votes: 1,323
13. Ambassadors (2013)
Comedy, Drama
The adventures and politics of a British ambassador to a fictitious Asian country called Tajbekistan.
Stars: David Mitchell, Robert Webb, Susan Lynch, Amara Karan
Votes: 1,930
14. Ladies of Letters (2009– )
Not Rated | 25 min | Comedy
Two middle-age crazy English widows become best friends via letters, over many misadventure-filled years. Having met under a table at a wedding, when both were drunk with merriment, misunderstanding comes naturally to them.
Stars: Anne Reid, Maureen Lipman, Morag Siller, Daniel Crowder
Votes: 248
15. Motherland (I) (2016–2022)
TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy
This is a programme about navigating the trials and traumas of middle-class motherhood. It looks at the competitive side and unromantic tale on parenting--not the cute, acceptable face of motherhood.
Stars: Anna Maxwell Martin, Lucy Punch, Diane Morgan, Paul Ready
Votes: 8,150
16. Am I Being Unreasonable? (2022– )
29 min | Comedy, Thriller
Follows two friends who love having fun and booze, until everything unravels.
Stars: Daisy May Cooper, Lenny Rush, Selin Hizli, Dustin Demri-Burns
Votes: 4,049
17. Dreamland (I) (2023– )
22 min | Comedy, Drama
In the town of Margate, Eldest sister Trish is pregnant and expecting a girl baby. Her sisters Clare and Leila rally around her with their mum. But other sister Mel makes an unexpected return threatens to destabilize the entire family.
Stars: Freema Agyeman, Lily Allen, Frances Barber, Gabby Best
Votes: 995
18. Men Behaving Badly (1996–1997)
30 min | Comedy
Kevin and Jamie are two roommates. While both are content to wallow in their immaturity, Kevin must contend with his girlfriend Sarah's attempt to "improve" him. Jamie is always ready to provide immoral support.
Stars: Rob Schneider, Dina Spybey-Waters, Ron Eldard, Justine Bateman
Votes: 896
19. The Royle Family (1998–2012)
45 min | Comedy
A British sitcom about the everyday life of a working-class family in Northwest England: watching telly, smoking, drinking, and bickering.
Stars: Caroline Aherne, Craig Cash, Sue Johnston, Ricky Tomlinson
Votes: 9,087
20. Phoenix Nights (2001–2002)
25 min | Comedy
The misadventures of club owner Brian Potter who is determined to make The Phoenix Club the best working men's club in Greater Manchester.
Stars: Peter Kay, Dave Spikey, Justin Moorhouse, Paddy McGuinness
Votes: 7,611
21. Outnumbered (2007–2016)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama
A part-improvised comedy about a couple bringing up their three young children.
Stars: Hugh Dennis, Claire Skinner, Tyger Drew-Honey, Daniel Roche
Votes: 12,177
22. Bread (1986–1991)
30 min | Comedy
The series set in working-class Liverpool. Meet the Boswells: they're penniless, jobless and with little hope of things improving, but life's never stale.
Stars: Jean Boht, Nick Conway, Jonathon Morris, Kenneth Waller
Votes: 1,542
23. Meet the Richardsons (2020– )
40 min | Comedy
Mockumentary focusing on real-life comedy couple Jon Richardson and Lucy Beaumont, who play aptly fictionalised versions of themselves, their home and work lives, and relationships with their Hebden Bridge neighbours and celebrity friends.
Stars: Lucy Beaumont, Jon Richardson, Elsie Richardson, Damion Priestley
Votes: 907
24. Hapless (2020– )
Comedy
Misadventures of Paul Green, an investigative journalist working for a small Jewish publication in the UK, The Jewish Enquirer.
Stars: Tim Downie, Josh Howie, Jeany Spark, Lucy Montgomery
Votes: 221
25. Not Going Out (2006– )
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy
The mishaps of slacker Lee and the love of his life, Lucy along with their friends & family.
Stars: Lee Mack, Sally Bretton, Katy Wix, Hugh Dennis
Votes: 7,909
26. Would I Lie to You? (2007– )
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, Game-Show
Two teams, lead by their team leader (either Lee Mack or David Mitchell), have to try and make the other team believe their crazy stories.
Stars: David Mitchell, Lee Mack, Rob Brydon, Paul Ridley
Votes: 9,689
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