Favorite UK TV

I love Spooks on BBC One -- much better than 24 IMO.

Watching Downton Abbey at the minute, love the period drama stuff.  Also love X-Factor, of course, and watching Harry Hill and You've Been Framed beforehand have become a little tradition. 

Downton Abby ♥♥♥♥ I love this so much right now
QI
Have I got news for you
Michael McIntyre's comedy roadshow
Come Dine With Me (although I hate the cattiness sometimes)
Masterchef (just regular, not "the professionals" or "celebrity")
Location x 3
Mock the Week
Top Gear
Never mind the buzzcocks (does this still come on sometimes?)
Anything to do with Gordon Ramsey
Jamie's 30 minute meals (even though I'm not crazy about him)
ANYTHING to do with Nigella Lawson
English cooking shows (for some reason, I couldn't stand the American ones)
Something for the weekend
Saturday Kitchen

Everyone here must think all I do is watch TV.  But that's not true, those are just the shows I really like.

Peepshow, That Mitchell and Webb Look, and almost all of their side projects together and separate (for instance The Bubble).  Newswipe (and Charlie Brooker's other "wipes").  I really love Charlie Brooker.  Russell Howard's Good News. Outnumbered. BBC News.  Eastenders. Various k-rappy and not so k-rappy series such as Survivors, Being Human, and for contrast The Street.  Dr Who (mainly forced upon me, but it grew on me) and Torchwood (my revenge on my Whovian husband is we have to watch that as well).  Almost all documentaries even sometimes the ones on Channel 4.  The Catherine Tate Show and Little Britain (and practically all sketch shows for that matter).  Ab Fab. Coupling. The Royle Family. Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes.  Poirot and some of the other serial mysteries.  Yes Minister. How Clean is your House?

Okay, practically everything that doesn't involve dancing or ice or singing in front of a judging panel. I never really got into Big Brother either. I sometimes watch the fix em upper reality shows, but they're not my favourites.

I don't really watch telly constantly, but I love British telly, and if it's on, unless it's something brilliant, a documentary, or something my husband wants to watch from outside the UK, it's usually British. 

Okay, practically everything that doesn't involve dancing or ice or singing in front of a judging panel. I never really got into Big Brother either.

I'm with you there    I don't do reality either, except for the DIY type things (we get some good Canadian ones as well).

I do watch more t.v. than I should, but I love:

Gavin & Stacey, the Inbetweeners, QI, Law & Order: UK, Waterloo Road, Absolutely Fabulous, Location, Location..., Home or Away

And my son's Cbeebies faves---Chuggington, Balamory, In the Night Garden and Show Me Show Me.

The rest are all U.S. imports or *cough* Hulu *cough* downloads.

*cough* Hulu *cough* downloads.

That's a nasty cough you have there... did you get caught in a torrent of rain?

Really enjoying this Single Father show on the BBC

Really enjoying this Single Father show on the BBC

I want to like it, but I can't get into it. Does it get better?

Psychoville.

Hmmm... I think I should like Single Father, too, but I tried it and didn't really like it. 

An Idiot Abroad is my current fave.

I also watched Single Father and wanted to like it but didn't really.  I'm not sure what the point was meant to be, really.

My favorites have to be:

The IT Crowd
Fawlty Towers
Black Books
Spaced
and sometimes the Inbetweeners- it just seems too aimed at men for me.

I'm actually quite shocked that only one other person mentioned The IT Crowd and no one mentioned Spaced (creators of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz). They're HILARIOUS. 

I love Doc Martin!

I like Lovejoy a lot (being in East Anglia and all) and the secretary (an older very cool cheeky lady) where I once worked had a great Lovejoy-related story. The first episode was partially filmed on a small boat which happened to belong to her good friend. He tipped her off about the shoot and she showed up at the marina to see the goings on and met Ian McShane, who she described as the most conceited a$$ she had ever met. He was horrible she said.

So years later she is at some party and runs into Ian McShane whose career has come off the boil quite a bit at this point. Being very direct (and she is) she says to him, "Mr. McShane you are a horrible person!" And he goes completely red and admits it all, saying that when he was young he was completely full of himself. She said he couldn't have been nicer and in fact took her and her friend out to dinner.