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British sitcom

Index British sitcom

A British sitcom or a Britcom is a situation comedy programme produced for British television. [1]

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'Allo 'Allo!

Allo Allo! is a BBC television British sitcom that was first broadcast on BBC One from 1982 to 1992, comprising 85 episodes.

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Absolutely Fabulous

Absolutely Fabulous, also known as Ab Fab, is a BBC sitcom created by, written by and starring Jennifer Saunders.

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All Gas and Gaiters

All Gas and Gaiters is a British television ecclesiastical sitcom which aired on BBC1 from 1966 to 1971.

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All in the Family

All in the Family is an American sitcom TV-series that was originally broadcast on the CBS television network for nine seasons, from January 1971 to April 1979.

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Alternative comedy

Alternative comedy is a term coined in the 1980s for a style of comedy that makes a conscious break with the mainstream comedic style of an era but can also be found in cartoons.

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Are You Being Served?

Are You Being Served? is a British sitcom created and written by executive producer David Croft (Croft also directed some episodes), and Jeremy Lloyd with contributions from Michael Knowles and John Chapman, for the BBC.

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Are You Being Served? (Australian TV series)

The Australian version of British sitcom Are You Being Served? was produced by Network Ten in 1980.

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As Time Goes By (TV series)

As Time Goes By is a British romantic sitcom which aired on BBC One from 1992 to 2005, running for nine series and three specials.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) founded in 1929 is Australia's national broadcaster, funded by the Australian Federal Government but specifically independent of Government and politics in the Commonwealth.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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BBC America

BBC America is an American digital cable and satellite television network that is jointly owned by BBC Studios and AMC Networks.

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BBC Four

BBC Four is a British television channel operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation and available to digital television viewers on Freeview, IPTV, satellite, and cable.

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BBC Three

BBC Three was a British television channel operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation.

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BBC Worldwide

BBC Worldwide Ltd. was the wholly owned commercial subsidiary of the BBC, formed out of a restructuring of its predecessor BBC Enterprises in 1995.

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Ben Elton

Benjamin Charles Elton (born 3 May 1959) is a British-Australian comedian, author, playwright, actor and director.

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Big Top (UK TV series)

Big Top is a BBC television situation comedy series which first aired on 25 November 2009 and was set in and around a travelling circus, the show aired on BBC One and BBC HD simultaneously.

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Birds of a Feather

Birds of a Feather (commonly abbreviated to BOAF) is a British sitcom originally broadcast on BBC One from 16 October 1989 to 24 December 1998, then revived on ITV from 2 January 2014.

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Black Books

Black Books is a British sitcom created by Dylan Moran and Graham Linehan.

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Blackadder

Blackadder is a series of four BBC1 pseudohistorical British sitcoms, plus several one-off instalments, which originally aired in the 1980s.

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Bottom (TV series)

Bottom is a British television sitcom created by Adrian Edmondson and Rik Mayall that originally aired on BBC2 from 17 September 1991 to 10 April 1995 across three series.

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British comedy

British comedy, in film, radio and television, is known for its consistently peculiar characters, plots and settings, and has produced some of the most famous and memorable comic actors and characters.

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British humour

British humour is shaped by the relative stability of British society and carries a strong element of satire aimed at "the absurdity of everyday life".

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Carla Lane

Romana Barrack (5 August 1928 – 31 May 2016), known professionally as Carla Lane,, was an English television writer responsible for several successful sitcoms, including The Liver Birds (co-creator, 1969–78), Butterflies (1978–83) and Bread (1986–91).

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Carry On (franchise)

The Carry On series primarily consists of 31 classic British comedy motion pictures (1958–92), four Christmas specials, a television series of thirteen episodes, and three West End and provincial stage plays.

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CBS

CBS (an initialism of the network's former name, the Columbia Broadcasting System) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation.

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Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster that began transmission on 2 November 1982.

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Chelmsford 123

Chelmsford 123 is a British television situation comedy produced for Channel 4 by Hat Trick Productions.

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Comedy Central

Comedy Central is an American basic cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Global Entertainment Group, a unit of the Viacom Media Networks division of Viacom.

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Comedy-drama

Comedy-drama, also known as dramedy (portmanteau of words drama and comedy), is a genre in film and television works in which plot elements are a combination of comedy and drama.

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Connie Booth

Constance Booth (born 1941 or 1944) is an American-born writer, actress, comedian and psychotherapist based in Britain.

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Dad's Army

Dad's Army is a BBC television sitcom about the British Home Guard during the Second World War.

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David Croft (TV producer)

Major David John Croft OBE (born David John Andrew Sharland; 7 September 1922 – 27 September 2011) was an English writer, producer and director.

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David Jason

Sir David John White, (born 2 February 1940), known professionally by his stage name David Jason, is a British actor known especially for his comedic roles.

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Desmond's

Desmond's is a British television situation comedy broadcast by Channel 4 from 1989 to 1994.

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Dick Clement

Dick Clement, OBE (born 5 September 1937) is an English writer known for his writing partnership with Ian La Frenais.

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Doc Martin

Doc Martin is a British television medical comedy drama series starring Martin Clunes in the title role.

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Doctor Down Under

Doctor Down Under is an Australian television comedy series based on a set of books by Richard Gordon about the misadventures of a group of doctors.

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Doordarshan

Doordarshan (abbreviated in English as DD) is an autonomous public service broadcaster founded by the Government of India, which is owned by the Broadcasting Ministry of India and is one of two divisions of Prasar Bharati.

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Drop the Dead Donkey

Drop the Dead Donkey is a British situation comedy that first aired on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom between 1990 and 1998.

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Early Doors

Early Doors is a BBC sitcom written by Craig Cash and Phil Mealey who also appear in the series playing best friends Joe and Duffy.

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Episode

An episode is a coherent narrative unit within a larger dramatic work, such as a film or television series.

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Esmonde and Larbey

John Gilbert Esmonde (21 March 1937 – 10 August 2008) and Robert Edward "Bob" Larbey (24 June 1934 – 31 March 2014), better known as Esmonde and Larbey, were a successful British television comedy scriptwriting duo from the 1960s to the 1990s, creating popular sitcoms and hit comedy shows, such as Please Sir! (1968–72), The Good Life (1975–78), Get Some In! (1975–78), Ever Decreasing Circles (1984-89) and Brush Strokes (1986–91).

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Ever Decreasing Circles

Ever Decreasing Circles is a British situation comedy which ran on BBC1 for four series from 1984 to 1989.

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Family

Every person has his/her own family.mother reproduces with husband for children.In the context of human society, a family (from familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth), affinity (by marriage or other relationship), or co-residence (as implied by the etymology of the English word "family" from Latin familia 'family servants, domestics collectively, the servants in a household,' thus also 'members of a household, the estate, property; the household, including relatives and servants,' abstract noun formed from famulus 'servant, slave ') or some combination of these.

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Farce

In theatre, a farce is a comedy that aims at entertaining the audience through situations that are highly exaggerated, extravagant, and thus improbable.

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Father Ted

Father Ted is a British sitcom that was produced by British independent production company Hat Trick Productions for Channel 4.

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Father, Dear Father

Father, Dear Father is a British television sitcom produced by Thames Television for ITV from 1968 to 1973 starring Patrick Cargill.

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Fawlty Towers

Fawlty Towers is a British television sitcom broadcast on BBC2 in 1975 and 1979.

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Galton and Simpson

Ray Galton OBE (born 17 July 1930), and Alan Simpson OBE (27 November 1929 – 8 February 2017), were an English comedy scriptwriting partnership.

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Game On (UK TV series)

Game On, (alternatively Two Men and a Blonde in Finland and The Game of Life in Portugal) was a British sitcom which ran for three series, and aired on BBC2 from 27 February 1995 to 6 February 1998.

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Gavin & Stacey

Gavin & Stacey is a British sitcom, written by James Corden and Ruth Jones, that follows the long-distance relationship of an Englishman and a Welsh woman.

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George and Mildred

George and Mildred is a British sitcom that was produced by Thames Television that aired from 1976-79.

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Gliding On

Gliding On was a popular television sit-com in New Zealand in the early 1980s.

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Golden Globe Award

Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association beginning in January 1944, recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign.

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Goodnight Sweetheart (TV series)

Goodnight Sweetheart is a British sitcom that ran for six series on BBC1 from 1993 to 1999.

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Green Wing

Green Wing is an award-winning British sitcom set in the fictional East Hampton Hospital.

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Hamish Macbeth (TV series)

Hamish Macbeth is a comedy-mystery-drama series made by BBC Scotland and first aired in 1995.

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Hancock's Half Hour

Hancock's Half Hour was a BBC radio comedy, and later television comedy series, broadcast from 1954 to 1961 and written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.

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HBO

Home Box Office (HBO) is an American premium cable and satellite television network of Home Box Office, Inc..

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Hyperreality

In semiotics and postmodernism, hyperreality is an inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from a simulation of reality, especially in technologically advanced postmodern societies.

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I'm Alan Partridge

I'm Alan Partridge is a 1997 BBC situation comedy starring Steve Coogan and written by Coogan, Peter Baynham and Armando Iannucci.

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Ian La Frenais

Ian La Frenais, OBE (born 7 January 1936) is an English writer best known for his creative partnership with Dick Clement.

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In with the Flynns

In with the Flynns is a British sitcom created by Caryn Mandabach, produced by Caryn Mandabach Productions, and broadcast by the BBC.

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Institution

Institutions are "stable, valued, recurring patterns of behavior".

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ITV (TV network)

ITV is a British commercial TV network.

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ITV2

ITV2 is a 24-hour, free-to-air entertainment television channel in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands owned by ITV Digital Channels Ltd, a division of ITV plc.

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Jeff Evans

Jeff Evans (born 1960) is a British writer and journalist.

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Jeremy Lloyd

John Jeremy Lloyd, OBE (22 July 1930 – 23 December 2014) was an English writer, screenwriter, author, poet and actor, best known as co-author and writer of several successful British sitcoms, including Are You Being Served? and 'Allo 'Allo!.

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Jimmy Edwards

James Keith O'Neill Edwards, DFC (23 March 19207 July 1988) was an English comedy writer and actor on radio and television, best known as Pa Glum in Take It From Here and as headmaster "Professor" James Edwards in Whack-O!.

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John Cleese

John Marwood Cleese (born 27 October 1939) is an English actor, voice actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer.

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John Sullivan (writer)

John Richard Thomas Sullivan OBE (23 December 1946 – 22 April 2011) was an English television scriptwriter responsible for several British sitcoms, including Only Fools and Horses, Citizen Smith and Just Good Friends.

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Keeping Up Appearances

Keeping Up Appearances is a British sitcom created and written by Roy Clarke.

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Last of the Summer Wine

Last of the Summer Wine is the longest running British sitcom, created and written by Roy Clarke and originally broadcast by the BBC from 1973 to 2010.

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Laurence Marks (British writer)

Laurence Marks (born 8 December 1948) is a British sitcom writer and one half of writing duo Marks & Gran, his collaborator being Maurice Gran.

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Leonard Rossiter

Leonard Rossiter (21 October 1926 – 5 October 1984) was an English actor.

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List of American television series based on British television series

Many successful British television shows (particularly sitcoms and reality shows) have been remade for the American market.

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List of BBC sitcoms

This is a list of radio and television situation comedies produced by the BBC.

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List of comedies

This is a list of lists of comedies from different media and genre.

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List of films based on British television series

This is a list of theatrically released feature films that are based on British television programmes.

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Love Thy Neighbour

Love Thy Neighbour is a British sitcom, which was broadcast from 13 April 1972 until 22 January 1976, spanning seven series and fifty-four episodes.

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Man About the House

Man About the House is a British sitcom starring Richard O'Sullivan, Paula Wilcox and Sally Thomsett, with Yootha Joyce and Brian Murphy, that was broadcast for six series on ITV from 15 August 1973 to 7 April 1976.

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Marriage Lines

Marriage Lines is a British television sitcom first broadcast between 1963 and 1966.

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Mary Whitehouse

Constance Mary Whitehouse (née Hutcheson; 13 June 191023 November 2001) was an English social activist, known for her strong opposition to social liberalism and the mainstream British media, both of which she accused of encouraging a more permissive society.

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Maurice Gran

Maurice Bernard Gran (born 26 October 1949, London, England) is one half of scriptwriting duo Marks & Gran.

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Men Behaving Badly

Men Behaving Badly is a British sitcom that was created and written by Simon Nye.

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Millennium celebrations

The Millennium celebrations were a worldwide, coordinated series of events celebrating New Year's Eve in 1999–2000.

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Mind Your Language

Mind Your Language is a British sitcom that premiered on ITV in 1977.

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Miranda (TV series)

Miranda was a British television sitcom written by and starring comedian Miranda Hart.

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Misfits (TV series)

Misfits is a British science fiction comedy-drama television show, on E4, about a group of young offenders sentenced to work in a community service programme, where they obtain supernatural powers after a strange electrical storm.

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Mockumentary

A mockumentary (a portmanteau of mock and documentary) or docucomedy is a type of movie or television show depicting fictional events but presented as a documentary.

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Mr. Bean

Mr.

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Mrs. Brown's Boys

Mrs.

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Multiple-camera setup

The multiple-camera setup, multiple-camera mode of production, multi-camera or simply multicam is a method of filmmaking and video production.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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Not Going Out

Not Going Out is a British television sitcom that has aired on BBC One since 2006, currently starring Lee Mack, Sally Bretton, Finley Southby, Max Pattison and Francesca Newman.

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On the Buses

On the Buses is a British sitcom that was broadcast on ITV from 1969 to 1973.

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On the Buses (film)

On the Buses is a 1971 British comedy film directed by Harry Booth and starring Reg Varney and Doris Hare.

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One Foot in the Grave

One Foot in the Grave is a British dark comedy sitcom written by David Renwick.

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Only Fools and Horses

Only Fools and Horses is a British sitcom created and written by John Sullivan.

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Open All Hours

Open All Hours is a British sitcom created and written by Roy Clarke for the BBC.

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Outnumbered (UK TV series)

Outnumbered is a British sitcom starring Hugh Dennis as a father and Claire Skinner as a mother who are outnumbered by their three children (played by Tyger Drew-Honey, Daniel Roche and Ramona Marquez).

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.

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Peep Show (TV series)

Peep Show is a British sitcom starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb.

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Peter Eton

Peter Eton, (d. January 1980), was a producer for BBC radio and television.

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Phoenix Nights

Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights is a British sitcom about The Phoenix Club, a working men's club in the northern English town of Bolton, Greater Manchester.

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Pinwright's Progress

Pinwright's Progress was a British sitcom that aired on the BBC Television Service from 1946 to 1947 and was the world's first regular half-hour televised sitcom.

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Porridge (TV series)

Porridge is a British sitcom, starring Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale, written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, and broadcast on BBC One from 1974 to 1977.

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Prunella Scales

Prunella Margaret Scales (née Illingworth; born 22 June 1932), is an English actress best known for her role as Basil Fawlty's wife Sybil in the BBC comedy Fawlty Towers and her BAFTA award-nominated role as Queen Elizabeth II in A Question of Attribution (Screen One, BBC 1991) by Alan Bennett.

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Red Dwarf

Red Dwarf is a British science fiction comedy franchise which primarily consists of a television sitcom that aired on BBC Two between 1988 and 1999, and on Dave since 2009, gaining a cult following.

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Reggie Perrin

Reggie Perrin is a modern update of the 1970s BBC sitcom The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, which starred Leonard Rossiter.

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Richard Briers

Richard David Briers (14 January 1934 – 17 February 2013) was an English actor.

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Richard Waring (writer)

Richard Waring (born Brian Barton-Chapple, 26 June 1925 – 5 December 1994) was a British television scriptwriter.

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Rik Mayall

Richard Michael "Rik" Mayall (7 March 1958 – 9 June 2014) was an English comedian, actor and writer.

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Rising Damp

Rising Damp is a British sitcom produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV.

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Robin's Nest

Robin's Nest is a British sitcom starring Richard O'Sullivan as Robin Tripp, one of the lead characters in the sitcom, Man About the House, which had ended on 7 April 1976.

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Ronnie Barker

Ronald William George Barker, (25 September 1929 – 3 October 2005) was an English actor, comedian and writer.

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Roy Clarke

Royston Clarke OBE (born 28 January 1930) is an English comedy writer best known for creating the sitcoms Last of the Summer Wine, Keeping Up Appearances, Open All Hours and its sequel series, Still Open All Hours.

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Sanford and Son

Sanford and Son is an American sitcom that ran on the NBC television network from January 14, 1972, to March 25, 1977.

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Satire

Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.

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Seven Network

The Seven Network (commonly known as Channel Seven or simply Seven) is a major Australian commercial free-to-air television network.

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Sex and the City

Sex and the City is an American romantic comedy-drama television series created by Darren Star and produced by HBO.

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Sitcom

A sitcom, short for "situation comedy", is a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters who carry over from episode to episode.

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Spaced

Spaced is a British television sitcom created, written by and starring Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson, and directed by Edgar Wright, about the (often comic and sometimes surreal and absurd) exploits of Daisy Steiner and Tim Bisley, two twenty-something Londoners who, despite only having just met, decide to move in together after she gives up on squatting and he is kicked out by his ex-girlfriend.

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Steptoe and Son

Steptoe and Son is a British sitcom written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson about a father-and-son rag-and-bone business.

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Television in the United Kingdom

Television in the United Kingdom started in 1936 as a public service which was free of advertising.

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Television network

A television network is a telecommunications network for distribution of television program content, whereby a central operation provides programming to many television stations or pay television providers.

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Television New Zealand

Television New Zealand (Te Reo Tātaki o Aotearoa), more commonly referred to as TVNZ, is a state-owned television network that is broadcast throughout New Zealand and parts of the Pacific region.

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Terry and June

Terry and June is a BBC television sitcom, which was broadcast on BBC1 from 1979 to 1987.

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The Army Game

The Army Game is a British sitcom that broadcast on ITV from 1957 to 1961.

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The Brittas Empire

The Brittas Empire is a British sitcom created and originally written by Andrew Norriss and Richard Fegen.

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The Comedy Channel

The Comedy Channel (promoted on air as comedy) is an Australian subscription television channel available on Foxtel, and Optus Television.

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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin

The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin is a series of novels written by David Nobbs.

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The Good Life (1975 TV series)

The Good Life is a British sitcom, produced by BBC television.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Inbetweeners

The Inbetweeners is a British coming of age sitcom television series which originally aired on E4 from 2008–2010, created and written by Damon Beesley and Iain Morris.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The IT Crowd

The IT Crowd is a British sitcom produced by Channel 4, written by Graham Linehan, produced by Ash Atalla and starring Chris O'Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson, and Matt Berry.

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The Likely Lads

The Likely Lads is a British sitcom created and written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, and produced by Dick Clement.

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The Liver Birds

The Liver Birds is a British sitcom, set in Liverpool, North West England, which aired on BBC1 from April 1969 to January 1979, and again in 1996.

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The New Statesman

The New Statesman is a British sitcom made in the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the United Kingdom's Conservative Party Government of the period.

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The Office (U.S. TV series)

The Office is an American television sitcom that aired on NBC from March 24, 2005, to May 16, 2013, lasting nine seasons.

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The Office (UK TV series)

The Office is a British mockumentary sitcom, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Two on 9 July 2001.

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The Rag Trade

The Rag Trade is a British television sitcom broadcast by the BBC between 1961 and 1963 and by LWT between 1977 and 1978.

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The Ropers

The Ropers is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from March 13, 1979, to May 22, 1980.

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The Royle Family

The Royle Family is a British television sitcom produced by ITV Studios for the BBC, which ran for three series from 1998–2000, and specials from 2006–12.

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The Thick of It

The Thick of It is a British comedy television series that satirises the inner workings of modern British government.

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The Thin Blue Line (TV series)

The Thin Blue Line (a colloquial term for police forces) is a British sitcom starring Rowan Atkinson and written by Ben Elton.

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The Vicar of Dibley

The Vicar of Dibley is a British sitcom which originally ran on BBC One from 10 November 1994 to 22 January 1998 (with three sets of specials in the Winters of 1999/2000, 2004/2005 and 2006/2007).

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The Young Ones (TV series)

The Young Ones is a British sitcom, broadcast in the United Kingdom from 1982 to 1984 in two six-part series.

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Three's a Crowd

Three's a Crowd (also known as Three's Company, Too in the Three's Company syndication package) is an American sitcom produced as a spin-off and continuation of Three's Company that aired on ABC from September 25, 1984 (only one week after the final episode of Three's Company was broadcast) until April 9, 1985, with reruns airing until September 10, 1985.

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Three's Company

Three's Company is an American sitcom that aired for eight seasons on ABC from March 15, 1977, to September 18, 1984.

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Till Death Us Do Part

Till Death Us Do Part is a British television sitcom that aired on BBC1 from 1965 to 1975.

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Tony Hancock

Anthony John Hancock (12 May 1924 – 25 June 1968) was an English comedian and actor.

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Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps

Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps is a British sitcom that ran from 26 February 2001 to 24 May 2011.

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UKTV

UKTV is a British multi-channel broadcaster, jointly owned by BBC Studios (formerly BBC Worldwide) and Discovery, Inc. It was formed on 26 March 1992 through a joint venture between BBC and Thames Television.

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Up Pompeii!

Up Pompeii! is a British television comedy series broadcast between 1969 and 1970, starring Frankie Howerd.

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Veep

Veep is an American political satire comedy television series, starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, that premiered on HBO on April 22, 2012.

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Wendy Craig

Anne Gwendolyn "Wendy" Craig (born 20 June 1934) is an English actress who is best known for her appearances in the sitcoms Not in Front of the Children, Butterflies,...And Mother Makes Three and...And Mother Makes Five.

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WGBH-TV

WGBH-TV, virtual channel 2 (UHF digital channel 19), is a PBS member television station located in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

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Whack-O!

Whack-O! is a British sitcom TV series starring Jimmy Edwards, written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden, and broadcast from 1956 to 1960 and 1971 to 1972.

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Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?

Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? is a British sitcom which was broadcast between 9 January 1973 and 9 April 1974 on BBC1.

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Will & Grace

Will & Grace is an American sitcom created by Max Mutchnick and David Kohan.

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Workplace

A workplace is a location where someone works for his or her employer, a place of employment.

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Yes Minister

Yes Minister is a political satire British sitcom written by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn that was first transmitted on BBC Two from 1980 to 1984, split over three seven-episode series.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_sitcom

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