Any good British sitcoms recently?

[BertieBotts]

Or situation dramas, whatever that genre is called.

I've been rewatching Teachers and Spaced and Life on Mars, and I love stuff like that. But have they made any good ones recently, that aren't off the wall wacky? I wasn't keen on Green Wing, for example, because of the craziness. I prefer it when the humour just comes about because of the characters just doing their normal thing.

I really enjoyed the BBC4 series Getting On (set in a geriatrics ward, starring Joanna Scanlan, Vicki Pepperdine and Jo Brand) and more recently Puppy Love (also Joanna Scanlan and Vicki Pepperdine). Both low key and quite dark at times. My all time favourite though was Early Doors. Very slow, gentle humour, where you cared about the characters. Poignant too.

Really enjoying Catastrophe on C4 at the moment.

Friday Night Dinner is hilarious.

Yes Catastrophe is brilliant as long as you're up for a lot of sex and swearing.

Looking forward to Cucumber and if you want a really good "situation drama", try The Legacy (Danish family drama from the makers of Borgen).

I think you would love Him & Her if you haven't seen it.

Oh, I loved Friday Night Dinner, I think? Was that the one with Tamsin Greig and the Jewish mother?

I love

The smoking room
Him and her
Love Soup

Oh and Episodes I liked too.

I haven't heard of most of these - I'll look them up.

We enjoyed Bluestone 42. Army friends who saw it reckoned the scriptwriters had the attitude of soldiers posted to Afghan bang on, although the partners left at home all found it a bit too close to the knuckle and decided to avoid it.

Ooh, all of these sound great - I especially want to try Puppy Love, Catastrophe and Him and Her now

Thanks!

Another vote for catastrophe. Really enjoying it so far

Early Doors was great fab cast.
I really like Friday Night Dinner

I loved Friday Night Dinner but it doesn't look like there's another series on the way. Bad Education is hilarious and Not Going Out is a classic.

Yes to catastrophe. Can't think of ahh other British ones I'm watching at the moment though.

Fresh meat. Channel 4, should be on 4od

Defenitely have to watch from season 1.

I still watch spaced too, never get bored of it.

I've just watched Uncle, which is still on iPlayer I think. Repeated from last winter but it made me laugh.

See I wasn't sure about Fresh Meat, I thought it might be a bit Green-Wing esque. I'll try it though.

No not like greenwing at all, it's just about the different characters you end up being thrown with at uni. So a little bit more like spaced.

No Fresh Meat is not like Green Wing - it's very "real", nothing unlikely or surreal ever happens. It's actually more emotional and more about all the insecurities everyone has underneath (though also v funny)

Ahh okay! :) That will take me back then

I'm going to avoid The Smoking Room. Teachers always gives me the urge to have a cigarette and I'm meant to have given up

Ambassadors
The trip 1&2
Uncle
cuckoo
Episodes
Lead balloon (old but well worth it)
Peep show
The in betweenness
W1A
2012
Count Arthur Strong (acquired taste)
Coupling (very old but brilliant)