What is your favourite British TV show?

...but I also like

Sherlock
Dr Who
Lip Service
Sugar Rush

and lots of the BBC mini series

Also White Chapel and The Graham Norton Show.

Merlin.

As in this?

Yep. I love the show. ^_^

"Torchwood" was good sci-fi before they went American.

"A Touch of Frost" and "Murphy's Law" were excellent cop shows.

"Doc Martin" was good drama.

"The Hotel" is the best 'reality show' ever made.

"Peep Show" is/was the best sitcom, anywhere, ever... as was "Black Books". :O)

"Worst Week..." for short comedy series.

"QI" for panel shows, and "The University Challenge" for quiz shows.

"Creature Comforts" wins Best Animated Short Subjects.

"Look Around You" was great for just being off-the-wall hilarious.

Everything else has been well worth watching, except for "Ali G" and "Bo' Selecta" which should never have been aired in the first place.

QI i love that. university challenge bit too clever for me lol, i cant answer any of the questions! i like a touch of frost on lazy afternoons when im not working.

Everything Stephen Fry touches is excellent! I can't answer the University Challenge questions, either-- but it's just amazing to see these school kids breeze right through. :O)

skins

Both are oldies but Benny Hill is #2


#1 is Monty Python

I've actually seen all of those. I hate the US version of the office, but yours was slightly better. Still, not something I'd watch. Red Dwarf was ok. Little Britain is all right in small doses, Black Adder was not my cuppa because I can't stand one of the actors in it whose name escapes me at the moment. I did like Fawlty Towers (although not as much as Monty Python) and I love Sherlock and think it's just terrible that the US is going to do a second rate remake.

To be fair, name a time the US didn't remake a foreign TV show into something horrible when compared to the original.

True, but the Brits have also done remakes of our shows at times. I wonder why we have Hollywood when their stuff is so much better?

Because we don't understand their humor as a whole. I watched a movie once called Attack the Block that was almost never heard of outside of Britain, but if you can find it, watch it. Ghetto kids save their neighborhood from an alien invasion. So much awesome action and humor. I did have to have some of the jokes explained, because I am still becoming acclimated to their brand of humor. I get some of it, but some is still out of my reach.

And, as for them remaking our shows, I saw Law & Order UK and it is amazing. I cannot stand the American version.

Dont forget all the brilliant shows of yesteryear.
Fawlty Towers, Monty Python, Porridge, Dad's Army, Space 1999, Steptoe & Son, Thunderbirds, Survivors, Quatermass.

Plus... Only Fools And Horses, Alan Partridge, Ideal, Reggie Perrin (the original) Phoenix Nights, Spaced, Thin Blue Line, Green Wing, Fry and Laurie, Time Gentlemen Please, Midsomer Murders and Taggart.

Did you catch the remake of "Survivors" by any chance? I was enjoying that, until they just quit making them. :O( Could you pop by the BBC and get them back onto this project again, sometime?

I haven't even bothered with American TV for the past 15 years. No comparison.

At our house Top Gear and Wheeler Dealer

I forgot about how much I love Top Gear. Richard Hammond is the best.

Benny Hill.

Sherlock Holmes.

Hahhahaha Blackadder for sure but hey mate, you missed a few classic. Namely Top Gear, Mr. Bean and common Dad's Army haha

i was actually just thinking...hey, nobody has said dad's army! youre a mind reader!

Ah sure you you know yourself

the avengers

ummmm I have a TARDIS tattoo! But I love that Misfits, Sherlock, That Hotel show I can't remember the full title. MI 5, Torchwood, IT crew, Absolutly Fabulous! Did I miss any?

My favorite episode is when TARDIS entered the body of that hot chick. Best episode ever.

Sexy! yeah it was written by Neil Gaiman which explains why it was so awesome!

He needs to write more, but if he does, I need to get more tissues, because he broke my heart with that one.

What no all of the above? that would have been mine. Keeping up appearances, On the buses. My family, last of the summer wine.

Dr. Who, The Office, Torchwood, Mr. Bean, Blackadder. :)

Top gear !
And Monty Python

how did i forget top gear??? i know its popular all over the world, yet i forgot about it. doh.

You got that right. The yank version is crap

i know, ive seen it. its not even good enough to be crap!

or Reginald Perrin