10 Britcoms to Stream Right Now
10 Britcoms to Stream Right Now
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Britcoms, or British sitcoms, feature some of the most wonderful writing, jokes, and characters. Here are 10 recommended shows that are streaming now.
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It’s a well-known fact that when it comes to comedy (and drama), the Brits really do it better, with crisper writing, sharper performances, and tighter plotting. Maybe it’s because their comedies have fewer episodes, so that the writers have more time to focus on what makes a show really funny rather than focusing so much on fluff.
Maybe it’s because their actors tend to be better than their American counterparts. Whatever the case, it is absolutely true that Britcoms will keep you in stitches for hours. Here are ten of them that you can stream right now.
10 The IT Crowd
Broadcast from 2006-2010 by Channel 4, The IT Crowd is from the creator of other Britcoms Father Ted and Black Books. Twenty-four episodes long, it follows a misfit IT department at fictional Reynholm Industries. Familiar faces are Chris O’Dowd (Bridesmaids), Matt Berry (What We Do In the Shadows), and Noel Fielding (The Great British Baking Show).
O’Dowd and costar Richard Ayoade (Travel Man) star as the socially stunted workers that staff the department. O’Dowd as Roy and Ayoade as Moss navigate their corporate life around the derision of everyone that work with them— when they manage to work, that is. It’s currently available on Netflix.
9 Absolutely Fabulous
Starring Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley, and Julia Sawalha, Absolutely Fabulous (or Ab Fab as it’s known to fans) aired from 1992-1995 and 2001-2003, with additional specials airing intermittently until 2012 BBC Two and later BBC One.
Following the exploits of two aging women— Eddy and Patsy—(Saunders and Lumley) involved in the London fashion scene as they indulge themselves and try to regain a lost youth, it also shows their lives as they move from crises to crises, which they’re helped out of largely by Eddy’s increasingly contemptuous daughter (Sawalha). It’s currently available on Amazon Prime, Britbox, and Hulu
8 Keeping Up Appearances
Created by Roy Clarke, also known as the creator of Last of the Summer Wine, it shows the attempts of overbearing Hyacinth Bucket (Patricia Routledge) and her long-suffering husband to climb the social ladder. Although she’s made it from her lower class upbringing into the lower levels of the middle class with her marriage to Richard Bucket— which Hyacinth insists is pronounced Bouquet over Richard’s protestations that it was always said like it was spelled before they were married— Hyacinth still constantly attempts to be accepted by the upper class.
Her lower class sisters Rose and Daisy, as well as Daisy’s lazy husband Onslow, constantly interfere in her plans and contrast with the way Hyacinth sees herself. It’s currently available on Britbox.
7 Blackadder
Rowan Atkinson of Mr. Bean fame heads up the cast of this show as the titular Edmund Blackadder. We follow Blackadder’s descendants (and those of his dogsbody Baldrick) through time, as each series shows them in a different historical period. The main series- The Black Adder, Blackadder II, Blackadder the Third, and Blackadder Goes Forth- follow them through the Middle Ages, the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, the Regency, and the First World War respectively.
In each series the pair must cope with a not-so-bright member of the ruling classes. Lord Percy Percy serves as the foil in the first two series, followed by the Prince Regent and dimwitted Lieutenant George (both played by Hugh Laurie) in the third and fourth. It’s currently available on Britbox and Hulu.
6 Gavin and Stacey
Written by James Corden (host of The Late Late Show to Americans) and Ruth Jones, Gavin and Stacey focuses on the intertwined lives of families and friends from Wales and Essex after the title characters marry. As Gavin and Stacey try to find their strides in their new lives together, their best friends Smithy (Corden) and Nessa (Jones) try to cope with their detestation for one another and their own changing lives.
In addition to the main two storylines, the show carries on several other plots throughout the series- including Gavin’s mother’s lies about vegetarianism to Stacey’s family and the secret of what happened on a fishing trip with Stacey’s uncle Bryn and her brother Jason. It’s currently available on Amazon Prime and Britbox.
5 Peep Show
Starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb, Peep Show portrays two friends who share a flat in Croyden, a large suburb in South London. A loan manager and a slacker who lives in the spare room, the two are unlikely friends. Focusing mostly on life’s unpleasantries, Peep Show both makes you want to crawl into a hole to hide and keep watching to see how much worse it can get.
With nine seasons aired from 2003-2015, it was a long lasting success. It also features Olivia Colman in one of her earliest roles. It’s currently available on Hulu and AcornTV.
4 The Thick of It
If Armando Iannucci is familiar to Americans, it’s as creator of the HBO hit VEEP starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus. He created The Thick of It first- VEEP is essentially an American retelling of this earlier show. It follows a completely fictional government department as the minister in charge stumbles his way through the job. Peter Capaldi (Doctor Who) plays an official sent by the Prime Minister with the intent to make sure the department is doing their job.
The show aired from 2005-2012 on BBC Four and BBC Two. It’s currently available on Amazon Prime, Hulu, and Britbox.
3 Fleabag
This Emmy and Golden Globe-winning series was created and written Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who stars as well. Fleabag (Waller-Bridge) is a young woman in London who doesn’t have the smoothest life. She butts heads with nearly everyone in the series, including her sister Claire, her father, and her father’s girlfriend and their godmother, played by Oliva Colman. Although Fleabag’s actions are morally questionable at best, her addresses to the audience and internal narrations show that (sometimes, at least) her heart is in the right place.
Originally airing on BBC One and Two, it was co-produced with Amazon Prime, who have exclusive streaming rights.
2 Derry Girls
Set in Derry, Northern Ireland in the 1990s during the end of the Troubles, it shows a group of girls at a Catholic school as they navigate every thing that it means to be a teen, as well as everything that it means to grow up in Northern Ireland as decades of anger and violence was winding down- although being teens, the most pressing issues for them are the cliques and drama surrounding their own small parts of life.
Starting in 2018, it’s still currently airing. It’s currently available on Netflix.
1 The Inbetweeners
In some ways the English, suburban, and male precursor of Derry Girls, this show was a hit when it premiered. It follows a group of teen boys as they navigate being lads, banter, and school. Rules-follower Will narrates the show after moving from a private school to the rowdier public school and meeting his new crowd of sometimes immature but always funny friends.
Airing on E4 from 2008 to 2010, it’s also seen two films, two books, and a failed American reboot. It’s currently available to stream on Netflix.
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