TV Reviews7.7/10
Patricia Routledge’s Snobby Housewife Runs 5 Seasons Without Losing Charge
A housewife of modest means pretends grandeur and invites the neighbourhood to supper, and the whole world laughs.
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Tag: British sitcom
TV Reviews7.5/10
Catastrophe Review: Sharon and Rob’s Five Seasons of Mess
A British sitcom about a couple who sleep together once and spend five seasons trying to undo it, with honest, funny, and uncomfortable comedy.
TV Reviews7.9/10
Spaced at 27: The Anti-Friends That Understood Its Era’s Twenty-Somethings Best
Spaced, the 1999 Channel 4 sitcom by Simon Pegg, Jessica Hynes and Edgar Wright, ran 14 episodes across two series. A look back at the anti-Friends.
TV Reviews7.3/10
How The Inbetweeners turned teenage awkwardness into a sitcom that still holds up 18 years on
The Inbetweeners ran 18 episodes on E4 from 2008 to 2010, won a BAFTA Audience Award, and now its rights are moving toward a possible revival.
TV Reviews8.1/10
Black Books: 18 Episodes of Misanthropy, Two BAFTAs, and a Small, Devoted Audience
Black Books ran 18 episodes on Channel 4 from 2000 to 2004. A look at Dylan Moran, Bill Bailey, two BAFTAs, and why the show's smallness is its strength.
TV Reviews6.7/10
The IT Crowd’s premise outshone its execution, and its brevity left viewers wanting more
A review of The IT Crowd, the Channel 4 sitcom that ran 24 episodes from 2006 to 2010, scoring 6.7/10 for its basement trio and unmade fifth series.