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Heads up gang, the wonderful C4 sitcom Phoneshop is now available on C4 player! It's next on my to watch list after I've finished Everyone Else Burns.

Ideal is a terrific show created by Graham Duff and starring Johnny Vegas. It is one of the most underappreciated TV shows ever (sitcom or otherwise), and it shouldn't be because it's a masterpiece. All 7 series are impeccably made and boast an incredible cast of characters and genius scriptwriting from start to finish. It really should be widely known. So pleased it's finally on iplayer.

Anyone have any idea how they did the "hello hugh!" sketches?

I'm gutted about it being cancelled as it's my comfort show. Could anyone suggest any sitcoms similar?

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Lesser-known, long-forgotten BAFTA winning gem, which has never been posted on this board

set entirely in the smoking room of a corporate office. Slow moving, follows the banal chatter of the company's smokers, including Robert Webb

it's not on any streaming services, but S1 is on DVD for less than £3 or the bundle for about a tenner. Highly recommended. Was always one of my faves, and has stood the test of time during my current re-watch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfnbTnEFh7k

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smoking_Room

Hey all, not sure if anyone can help me, i LOVE this show it's so good, i was mid watching it on Netflix when they killed it in my country. i do have a copy of it now but no subtitles... i dont understand half of it, maybe someone has and can share his SRT files with us somehow? thank you so much!!!

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0281491/

Just started watching this on the recommendation from the Taskmaster subreddit - no idea how I missed this on first viewing. Genius.

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So recently I’ve gone on a bit of a binge of British sitcoms/comedies to get me through my commutes.

I remember reading an article a while ago saying that British comedy was being underfunded and was a cause for concern. Now the thing is whilst we can all agree there isn’t that many I’d like to bring to debate a few things and also hope to share and you guys share some of your favourites.

We aren’t talking the likes of the giants of Only Fools and Horses or the ever controversial Marmite that is Mrs Brown’s Boys, but more so I guess it’s shows that we’ve missed or never bothered with.

In my recent watching one thing I have discovered is the lack of a laughter track or live audience. I’m starting to think i prefer this format as I feel the comedy timing is then based on your own personal feelings rather than more often than not a forced laugh, in a sense of laughing is contagious so you’re going a long with it (but that’s different debate).

Generally as I approach the end of a show I look for the next one and just last night I managed to add quite a few to the list. I’ve had a few strict rules to follow but when the list goes down the list rules will change.

For you if you wished to follow what I’m doing either at home or in your commute or whenever you feel like it really here are my rules for it:

1. The show must be a show I’ve not watched or watched completely before
2. The show must have at least 2 series (seasons)
3. The show must be of UK or Irish origin (to begin with)
4. I must give the show a full series (season) chance before giving up on it. We all know many pilots are shot years before in some cases and the show changes a lot once we get past the first few.

On recently looking on many streaming sites and that includes the big 3 traditional broadcasters I see that there is a lot of shows out there. Some I’ve heard of, some I hadn’t, however I noticed that many are dropping them in one go now and then broadcasting later. This is a format we are used to thanks to the likes of the bigger streaming giants. This isn’t going to go away so it’s great that many are now following this.

I did also notice with BBC that there were at least 5 shows I added to my watchlist that said “(insert show) will return” which I thought was a great thing. Nothing new i know but gives me a further interest in the show as there are many shows on there with 1 series and likely no hope of a second.

Now I guess my questions are this:

Is sitcom or British comedy really dying out or are we just not giving shows a chance anymore?

Are the big 3 not giving shows a chance or are they going the way of streaming giants and giving too many chances and churning out too much?

Are shows being lost in the shuffle because there is that much tv out there that we just don’t think about now?

Five wiped BBC TV sitcom episodes from the mid-1960s have been partially recovered, British Comedy Guide can announce.

All written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, the creators of Porridge and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, the original video tapes were wiped by the corporation, but have now been recovered from off-air audio recordings made by viewer Mike Dodsworth.

None of the programmes have been heard - or seen - since the time of their original broadcasts and are otherwise missing from the BBC's archives.

The collection comprises of one edition of the duo's landmark, breakthrough comedy series The Likely Lads, and the first four episodes of Further Adventures Of Lucky Jim, their television outing for the famed character created by comic novelist Sir Kingsley Amis.

The The Likely Lads episode is the third from Series 2, Talk Of The Town, which aired on 30th June 1965. It sees Bob (Rodney Bewes) wake up the morning after a large party in a state of confusion, as the whole town appears to be excitedly congratulating him - and he has no idea why.

https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/news/8031/bbc-sitcom-recordings-found-clement-la-frenais/

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Check out the latest episode with Harry H Corbett daughter Su Corbett. https://linktr.ee/steppodandson

• I'm thinking early 90s, probably 1990-1995.
• It was a husband/wife thing, he was the put-upon sort living in the suburbs, almost like a younger years Victor Meldrew, but not as grumpy, just a bit unlucky.
• They were middleaged, I don't think there were any kids in the show.
• It's not Conjugal Rites or Joking Apart.
• Probably only lasted the one season.
• In the episode I remember, the main guy and his neighbour had kept some secret from their wives. When the women found out at a party, they both grabbed a cake and advanced on the men. The neighbour ducked out of the way and the lead got hit by both cakes and then, in his typical resigned manner, said "I wish I'd thought of that."

Anybody got a Scooby?

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All episodes now on the iPlayer.

was Thames the greatest ever for making sit coms...?

sadly it lost its goverment license in the early 90s and Carlton TV took over

New Podcast StepPod & Son available:

https://linktr.ee/steppodandson?utm_source=linktree_profile_share&ltsid=31dda362-a6c7-4248-b76e-cda445c0427f

https://youtu.be/8Kmj8q2rQLE?si=Si6Pk6ad8ACV2YFH

I'm on the hunt for the UK series Manchild, which aired on BBC 2 from 2002-2003. There appear to be used copies of the DVD of series 1 but series 2 was never released.

As I remember - it was absolutely hilarious if at times a little hard to watch. Would love any ideas about how to watch or buy or anyone's hazy memories of the show!

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