TV Comedy
Television comedy had a presence from the earliest days of broadcasting. The situation comedy, or sitcom, has been the most common, successful and culturally significant type of television comedy. As the name suggests, these programs feature recurring characters placed in humourous situations. Since the early 1950s with "I Love Lucy" in the US and "Hancock's Half Hour" in Britain, sitcoms have always had a special place in the hearts of viewers and gathered highly devoted followers, as the familar characters often become beloved. Below you may scroll though time to your fondly remembered telly programs. For Alice's motherlode of Television, stay with "Television Shows".
Pictured: Ricky Gervais as The Brentster in the BBC's brilliant 'The Office'.
True Blood: Season 1 (2008)
7.9/10
Director: Alan Ball, Michael Lehmann, John Dahl, Scott Winant, Daniel Minahan
Starring: Anna Paquin, Jim Parrack, Sam Trammell, Rutina Wesley, Stephen Moyer, Alexander...
Anna Paquin is a telepathic Louisiana barmaid in this gothically sexy and imaginatively peculiar show from Alan Ball ('Six Feet Under') and HBO. It is... Read more
Twelfth Night (BBC) (1980)
8.1/10
Director: John Gorrie
Starring: Alec McCowen, Robert Hardy, Felicity Kendal, Sinead Cusack, Trevor Peacock
Directed by John Gorrie, this BBC production of Shakespeare's romantic comedy stars Felicity Kendall as Viola, a shipwrecked girl who disguises hersel... Read more
Two and a Half Men: Season 1 (2003)
7.1/10
Starring: Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer, Melanie Lynskey, Holland Taylor, Angus T Jones, Marin...
Charlie Harper (Charlie Sheen) is a bachelor in paradise, complete with Malibu beach house, overpaid job and a very active dating life. Then his uptig... Read more
Two and a Half Men: Season 2 (2004)
7.1/10
Starring: Charlie Sheen, Denise Richards, Elvis Costello, Jon Cryer, Melanie Lynskey, Sean...
Welcome back to the Harpers' Malibu beach house, home to bachelor Charlie (Charlie Sheen), his uptight brother Alan (Jon Cryer) and Jake (Angus T Jone... Read more
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Two and a Half Men: Season 7 (2009)
8.8/10
Starring: Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer, Holland Taylor, Jennifer Taylor, Angus Jones, Conchata...
Charlie Harper (Charlie Sheen) has loved them and left them. In Season 7, he gets left. Charlie's fiancee, Chelsea (Jennifer Taylor), meets a doctor (... Read more
Two's Company: The Complete Series (1975)
8/10
Director: Stuart Allen, Humphrey Barclay
Starring: Elaine Stritch, Donald Sinden
American actress Elaine Stritch starred as Dorothy McNab, an acerbic Yankee writer who lived and worked on a country estate in Chelsea. Dorothy's pric... Read more
Ugly Betty: Season 1 (2006)
6.6/10
Starring: America Ferrera, Christopher Gorham, Eric Mabius, Alan Dale, Tony Plana, Ana Ort...
Young actress America Ferrara won an Emmy for her role as Betty Suarez, an overweight, ugly duckling who gets a job in the high-flying world of fashio... Read more
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Seasons 1 and 2 (2015)
7.7/10
Starring: Ellie Kemper, Tituss Burgess, Carol Kane, Jane Krakowski, Jon Hamm
A woman is rescued from a doomsday cult and starts life over again in New York City. After being rescued from an underground bunker in which she lived... Read more
Under The Vines. Series 1 (2021)
7.2/10
Starring: Rebecca Gibney, Cohen Holloway, Catherine Wilkin, Dean O'Gorman, Sara Wiseman, J...
Rebecca Gibney and Charles Edwards star as two city slickers who inherit a failing vineyard in rural New Zealand.. the only problems are that neither... Read more
Up Pompeii: The Complete BBC Collection (1969)
6/10
Director: David Croft, Sydney Lotterby
Starring: Frankie Howerd, Kerry Gardner, Elizabeth Larner
Frankie Howerd shines in this, the complete series (and more!) of his classic TV show. Howerd is the lazy, sex-crazed slave Lurcio who's constantly ge... Read more