ava’s essential viewing list of British TV
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Paddington 2
Paul King · 2017
Paddington, now happily settled with the Browns, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy, but it is stolen.
Paddington
Paul King · 2014
A young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a new home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he meets the kindly Brown family.
Keeping Mum
Niall Johnson · 2005
A pastor preoccupied with writing the perfect sermon fails to realize that his wife is having an affair and his children are up to no good.
Peep Show
Andrew O'Connor, Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain · 2003
Peep Show follows the lives of two men from their twenties to thirties, Mark Corrigan, who has steady employment for most of the series, and Jeremy "Jez" Usbourne, an unemployed would-be musician.
Derry Girls
Lisa McGee · 2018
Amidst the political conflict of Northern Ireland in the 1990s, five secondary school students square off with the universal challenges of being a teenager.
Hot Fuzz
Edgar Wright · 2007
Former London constable Nicholas Angel finds it difficult to adapt to his new assignment in the sleepy British village of Sandford. Not only does he miss the excitement of the big city, but he also has a well-meaning oaf for a partner. However, when a series of grisly accidents rocks Sandford, Angel smells something rotten in the idyllic village.
Spaced
Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, Jessica Hynes · 1999
Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret.
The Office
Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant · 2001
Nightmare boss. Tedious colleagues. Pointless tasks. Welcome to Wernham Hogg. Fancy a tea break with David Brent? Classic comedy from the archive.
Friday Night Dinner
Robert Popper · 2011
Two siblings share their Friday night dinners at their parents home and, somehow, something always goes wrong.
The Windsors
George Jeffrie, Bert Tyler-Moore · 2016
Comedy soap opera re-imagining the lives of the British Royal Family as you have never seen them before.
Inside No. 9
Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton · 2014
An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'.
Fleabag
Phoebe Waller-Bridge · 2016
La protagonista, Fleabag, es una mujer de clase media que tiene una situación familiar complicada y un trabajo con el que no puede mantener su estilo de vida. Ella es propietaria de un café con el que apenas gana dinero y su novio es un hombre que llena su vacío existencial con encuentros sexuales sin sentido con todo tipo de mujeres, cada cual peor de la anterior. Y eso es solo una pequeña parte de su vida y situaciones cotidianas con las que Fleabag debe lidiar. Fleabag es un ejemplo de una vida que ha ido mal y debe adaptarse a nuevas situaciones, cosa que consigue hacer gracias a su personalidad.
Outnumbered
Guy Jenkin, Andy Hamilton · 2007
Partly-improvised sitcom looking at the trials and tribulations of bringing up three young children - a regal five-year-old girl with a talent for interrogation, a seven-year-old boy who could fib for Britain and an 11-year-old who is gearing up for his scary first day at secondary school.
