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Wishbone: Red Dwarf
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Blackadder
'Allo 'Allo
A bit of Fry and Laurie
Little Britain
Father Ted
My Hero
Absolutely Fabulous
The Young Ones
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A touch of Frost
Dr Who
Not the 9 o'clock news
Alas Smith & Jones
Mr Bean (not the movies)
I miss the Young Ones, I used to stay up to watch it on TV when YTV used to run it back to back with Doctor Who, Fry and Laurie and Red Dwarf.
Post edited January 16, 2014 by Theta_Sigma
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Theta_Sigma: I found Sandman gets REALLY good the further on you go. I agree, I would love to see him do another novel with Terry Pratchett...hell I'd like to see an adaptation of Good Omens for the screen, or a game for that matter. That would make for some serious awesome in my opinion.
A mini series would probably be the best way. An adenvture game would be awesome as well.

The last I heard they were going to do a film based on The Graveyard Book, but I have not heard anything about it for a while.
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Theta_Sigma: I found Sandman gets REALLY good the further on you go. I agree, I would love to see him do another novel with Terry Pratchett...hell I'd like to see an adaptation of Good Omens for the screen, or a game for that matter. That would make for some serious awesome in my opinion.
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mabrookes: A mini series would probably be the best way. An adenvture game would be awesome as well.

The last I heard they were going to do a film based on The Graveyard Book, but I have not heard anything about it for a while.
I agree, if anything I would LOVE an adventure game based on Good Omens, but I would more than happily take a mini-series so long as the casting was well done. Actually for all the problems Dirk Gently had Stephen Mangan was awesome for Dirk.

Actually, the series (if you could call it that) version of Dirk Gently is worth watching. I found it very enjoyable and minus McDuff being a bit more of a dumbass than he should, it was quiet enjoyable.

Oh yes, the BBC version of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Dirk Gently to that list for the OP. :D
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Theta_Sigma: Oh yes, the BBC version of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Dirk Gently to that list for the OP. :D
Oh yea, Dirk Gently I watched the first episode of that and then forgot about it. I enjoyed it as well, it does happen sometimes as I don't actually watch live tv that much so I have a habit of missing things and losing track of what I have/want to watch!

And I loved Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, the books as well obviously, but I would watch the tv series all the time. I lost the dvd at uni after lending it out (along with my black books dvd, Hellraiser trilogy set and a few others).
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Cormoran: For something a little more on the serious side there's Life On Mars. Be sure you get the UK version, of course.
Also the sequel series Ashes to Ashes, which was IMHO just as good.

Also:

Spooks (in the US it's apparently known as MI-5 to differentiate it from the American English racial epithet)
Doc Martin
Post edited January 16, 2014 by jamyskis
Other than Doctor Who, which is a no-brainer, I really liked Luther. If you're not insanely bored of cop stuff yet it's worth trying.

I really want to watch Broadchurch but it's not on DVD in the US yet.
Blackadder
Monty Pythons Flying Circus
Red Dwarf
The Adventures, Return, Memoirs, Case book of Sherlock Holmes (Grenada TV version 1984)
The Mighty Boosh
Dr. Who
Top Gear (Not the American one)
Neverwhere (miniseries by Neil Gaimen)
Mr. Bean
Post edited January 16, 2014 by Trajhenkhetlive
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Theta_Sigma: Oh yes, the BBC version of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Dirk Gently to that list for the OP. :D
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mabrookes: Oh yea, Dirk Gently I watched the first episode of that and then forgot about it. I enjoyed it as well, it does happen sometimes as I don't actually watch live tv that much so I have a habit of missing things and losing track of what I have/want to watch!

And I loved Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, the books as well obviously, but I would watch the tv series all the time. I lost the dvd at uni after lending it out (along with my black books dvd, Hellraiser trilogy set and a few others).
While I didn't mind the pilot, I found the episodes A LOT better personally. It held more true to DNA's sense of humour than that atrocious HHGttG movie.

I am a huge HHGttG fan myself, I have the series around here somewhere but I'm not sure where I put it. Ouch that sucks, I know what it's like to lose stuff because of someone not returning it. Ah good ole Hellraiser, the first 4 were absolutely fantastic, kind of a shame that Inferno onwards just went down hill.

I met Doug Bradley actually, fantastic guy; very friendly and you can tell he loves his fans. I got that vibe from him, Malcolm McDowell, Robert Englund, Felicia Day, Voltaire, Tom Savini, Tom Noonan, Nathan Fillion, Christopher Lloyd, Colin Baker, George Takei, Ron Perlman, Carrie Fisher, and a few others I've had the good fortune to meet.
Green Wing
The Inbetweeners
Brass Eye
For the best of British humour, see A Bit of Fry and Laurie – two of some of the best comedians in the UK just doing what comes to them naturally, Monty Python style.

Little Britain was a great disappointment. It was fun in the first two or three episodes, but then I realised they showed exactly the same jokes in one episode after another, only with slight variations.
Heil Honey I'm Home!
More Fry and Laurie: Jeeves and Wooster
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Most great comedies were already mentioned, but why leave out some of the best older ones:
Morecamb and Wise ( [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7GeKLE0x3s]Andre Previn sketch, a classic in British comedy)
The Two Ronnies
Post edited January 16, 2014 by HertogJan
Orphan Black
Mad Dogs
Death in Paradise
Life on Mars
Ashes to Ashes

Shoud cover a couple of genres.:D

P.S.: also the Sharpe movie series.
Post edited January 16, 2014 by wolfsrain
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wolfsrain: Orphan Black
Mad Dogs
Death in Paradise
Life on Mars
Ashes to Ashes

Shoud cover a couple of genres.:D

P.S.: also the Sharpe movie series.
Orphan Black is co-developed by Space! :D Actually much of the cast is Canadian (if not almost all of it) and it is a wonderful show. Not to go too much on a tangent, but Tatiana Maslany was in a bizarre Canadian film called Picture Day. It's an odd little film they had (or have) On Demand. It's about a girl who has to repeat her last year of Secondary School and her growth as a person. It's a coming of age story story but it's not half bad, and it ends on a happy but not "Hollywood" ending (at least I don't consider it that).
Well, it's BBC America and Space. And the cast is mostly canadian.

Tatiana Maslany did a great job, but i also loved Michael Mando and Jordan Gavaris in their roles. Strange enough, you guys are doing some nice series there ( saw King, Endgame, XIII, Lost Girl and a few others ). Plus, how much of Stargate was made with the money of your TV networks?!:D
Post edited January 16, 2014 by wolfsrain