I don't get the Top Gear love at all. It's like a really bad sketch show with a bigoted 50 year old man and his clones punctuated by a montage of cars driving around Iceland.
Sure! It tends to be older stuff - Monty Python, Mr Bean, Black Adder, etc. Dr Who has become insanely popular (don't like it, myself). People love Sherlock with Cumberbatch, Downton Abbey.
Not really...maybe a bit of Top Gear and I've watched a few episode of Penny Dreadful (I think it's a co-produced US/UK show). Mr. Bean movies are great, though. I also enjoyed the old Monty Python movies. Overall I think US television is better, even the stuff US studios copy like The Office which I have seen a couple UK versions of the show as well.
I normally don't, because they don't play them much on our tv channels, that i know off. But i have a friend who gave me this DVD of a show called " The IT Crowd " .. I believe its British, dam funny.
Downton Abbey Dr. Who (since Eccleston, didn't really watch the original series) Being Human Misfits Hunted Orphan Black (although that's BBC America so I don't know if that counts) Dracula (same caveat) Sherlock
IT Crowd Episodes Torchwood Black Books Life of Mars Ashes to Ashes Hustle Black Mirror Man/Woman Big Train Bedlam Endeavour Fresh Meat Fawlty Towers Him & Her The Hour An Idiot Abroad Intruders Lovejoy Man/Woman Mumbai Calling The Mitchell and Webb Look/Feel/whatever Peep Show Red Dwarf Psychoville Vexed Utopia The Young Ones Spy Primeval (but I quit because it got stupid fast) Outcasts Survivors Chalk Spaced
Plus some of the really good mini series (there may be overlap here):
Hidden Neverwhere The Shadow Line Garth Marengi's Dark Place Man to Man with Dean Learner The Last Train
@korvus: I'll check it out. I also have The Magicians but I haven't gotten around to it. Peep Show is one of my favorite shows, even though it's social akward-type humor which I usually don't like.
It's funny, because I was talking to a guy from the UK and the topic of TV came up. I asked him what are some good shows to check out and he asked me what I liked. This was years ago, so I don't clearly remember what all my answers were but shows like Hustle, maybe Life on Mars, maybe Spooks (aka MI6) and a few others I mentioned. He chuckled a bit because he said that the shows I named were actually shows that are kind of regarded as "like American" shows with their high drama or action content, so he thought it was funny that I (an American) zeroed in on those.
@Byshop: Would I Lie To You? is a bit different from the rest. It's a comedy show where they have 2 teams (the team captains are David Mitchell and Lee Mack, both very funny) and invite known British people to come tell stories of their life and the other team has to guess if it's truth or a lie. Of course they come up with these really intricate lies that sound true and these very weird truths that sound fake. Then you have Mitchell going on his tirades with Mack and it's quite hilarious. It's one of my go-to shows when I need a laugh...and probably one of the very few shows where I actually laugh instead of a "that was slightly amusing" smile,
Have no use for bbc America after top gear was yanked. The trio had great chemistry. It was one of those programs that come around maybe once every 20 years, and that sniveling little coward producer blew it.
Have no use for bbc America after top gear was yanked. The trio had great chemistry. It was one of those programs that come around maybe once every 20 years, and that sniveling little coward producer blew it.
I don't if you have been following, but Jeremy Clarkson had multiple warnings and punches some poor sod, for not getting steak and chips.
If that show didn't have the crowd and money bags behind it, he would have been let go long ago.
When it comes to TV the US cant make British TV series and British cant make US shows. Look at Life on Mars. They took it literally.
American The Office is better than the British version.
I'm pretty sure most people (including critics) disagree with that.
According to IMDb The Office (US) has a a higher score than the British one. And the British show got cancelled precisely because it got low ratings from critics and viewers alike at the time. The show might be well-liked now but at the time it certainly wasn't.
When it comes to TV the US cant make British TV series and British cant make US shows. Look at Life on Mars. They took it literally.
American The Office is better than the British version.
I'm pretty sure most people (including critics) disagree with that.
According to IMDb The Office (US) has a a higher score than the British one. And the British show got cancelled precisely because it got low ratings from critics and viewers alike at the time. The show might be well-liked now but at the time it certainly wasn't.
The UK version is almost a decade old finished. Most of the IMDB userbase in their 20's.
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