Since you haven’t mentioned it, you might be delighted with TV Go Home and hopefully Unnovations should be linked off there too…
Some incredibly sickly funny stuff off there, its a joke TV Guide, with the likes of “Muppets Schindlers List” (With pictures of Kermit and Fozzy in SS Uniform).
Yes. Definitely. Mark Heap’s character (Alan Statham) would be enough to carry an entire show all by itself - but you have magnificent performances from all the others too - it’s really a jam-packed comedy.
The Mitchell and Webb sketch with them as German soldiers on the Eastern front is possibly my most favourite comedy sketch of all time.
Quite simply, the best drama *ever *shown on British TV is Brideshead Revisited. One of the few TV adaptions from a book (Evelyn Waugh’s novel) that equals or possibly transcends the original.
There have been some great suggestions already.
May I offer an idiosyncratic view?
The best Robin Hood by far was Robin of Sherwood.
(The current series is just … simplistic :rolleyes: )
Sherlock Holmes has been done many times - I think Jeremy Brett did him best.
Blackadder was truly great slapstick comedy, with an original theme and a fantastic twist.
(However Father Ted never appealed to me - it was completely stereotyped 
)
Ronnie Barker was a genius. **The Two Ronnies ** was hilarious, except when Ronnie Corbett did solo sketches. 
Porridge is a classic, but Open All Hours a disappointment.
Stephen Fry (and Hugh Laurie) really capture the spirit of PG Wodehouse in Jeeves and Wooster.
No car chases, no gun battles - just English countryside and upper-class twits.
QI which Stephen Fry hosts, is an interesting and amusing comedy show.
Of course Dave Allen, **Fawlty Towers ** and Monty Python.
Yes, Minister and **Yes, Prime Minister ** are in the PG Wodehouse mould. There’s no action - it’s all in the writing and the acting. Genius.
House of Cards, To Play the King and The Final Cut was written by a politician and really captures the potential darkness behind the public persona.
Absolutely.
Yes, I forgot about Brooker’s TVGoHome.
From what I’ve seen, it was their only decent one, which is a shame because it was a great first sketch for the show.
I can’t watch any Sherlock Holmes story without Jeremy Brett as Holmes. He’s one of those actors who made the role very much his own. Its sad that the drugs he was taking to address his mental state hastened his end.
I forgot to mention that I love the House of Cards trilogy. Speaking as someone who works in politics/government it was totally engaging (even if it didn’t particularly ring that true for me - but then I don’t work within the PM’s inner circle so there’s no reason for it to).
Absolutely bollocks more like 
RoS is just psuedo-mystical neo-paganism with bad haircuts. Look out, look out Herne the hunter is about!
:smack: I thought tagos was referring to late 80’s Channel 4 sketch show Absolutely (the one with Hunter & Docherty, among others). Which I thought was a pretty obscure, not to mention questionable, recommendation.
And to mention again, is out on DVD in full for 25 quid on 5th of May…
I am looking forward to seeing this all over again despite having copied it from VHS to DVD a while back… I still can’t watch a wedding video anymore without remembering the film students version…
Seconded. At least the new one doesn’t take itself too seriously.
As a nerdy kid with an interest in history, i remember getting really excited at the talk about how Robin of Sherwood was going to be the most “realistic” take on the story ever.
I was more than a little bit disappointed to see it slowly turn into an accurate recreation of the bad acid trip some Hippy screenwriter experienced whilst dropping tabs in his garden one day. Herne the Hunter needed a good kicking.
Lady Marian was quite cute though, and it did have Ray Winstone in it.
Rooooooooooooobin, DUM… thehoodedman… DUM DUM 
No love for The Fast Show, or did I miss something? It’s still one of my all-time favourite shows, and the Enfield-Whitehouse follow-up was pretty good as well - I think it aired last year. No idea about US DVD availability.
didn’t they change robins in RoS as well?
Yes, Michael Praed regenerated into Jason Connery (Sean Connery’s son).
I love QI, but I do get the feeling that it’s a bit of a die roll on whether, with any given factoid, it will endorse commonly believed spurious claptrap or reveal it as precisely such. Relatedly, I found this moment terribly embarrassing and awkward to watch; poor, completely correct Alan Davies. But, regardless, overall, the show is very entertaining.
Ahh, but is that example the fault of the QI gnomes or Fry himself? Do you have an example of the QI question wranglers getting it wrong? I’m not disagreeing with you, just interested.
That one was Fry himself, of course, doing the whole “has a reputation for erudition that can let him pass off nonsense as truth” thing (it’s not even so much that he was wrong about the point as that he was so simply voice-from-on-high pompous about arguing it, in that case, which made it awkward to watch), but isn’t really the best example of what I mean, yeah. I’m fairly certain the QI question wranglers have gotten some things wrong as well before (their track record is pretty good and they do reveal a lot of silly factoid-myths for what they are, but every now and then, they seem to fall to one), but I can’t think of any instances offhand. I’ll have to go look.
That Mitchell and Webb Look was much much better in its original incarnation on the radio, That Mitchell and Webb Sound. Most of the sketches in the TV show were in the radio show, and since they were originally written for radio, they don’t work all that well on TV. Their “Hairdressers Sans Frontiers” sketch was also hilarious.