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'.
Black Books: Series 3 (2004)
8.5/10
Director: Martin Dennis
Starring: Dylan Moran, Bill Bailey, Tamsin Greig
The third and final series of the British cult comedy set in a second-hand bookshop. Dylan Moran stars as the bohemian, and frequently drunk, owner wh... Read more
Blackadder 1 (1983)
Director: Martin Shardlow
Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Brian Blessed, Tim McInnerny, Elspet Gray, Robert...
Throughout the ages men of flair, faculty and outstanding courage have contributed to England's glorious heritage. Others, like the snivelling worm Ed... Read more
Blackadder 2 (1985)
Director: Mandie Fletcher
Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Tim McInnerny, Miranda Richardson, Stephen Fry, P...
England 1558-1603. The filthy genes of the Blackadder dynasty bubble back to the surface of the melting pot of history as Lord Edmund, arrogant peer-a... Read more
Blackadder 3 (1987)
Director: Mandie Fletcher
Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Hugh Laurie
England 1760-1815. The Blackadder family's fortunes have rather plummeted with the advent of the Regency period. Edmund Blackadder, butler to the Prin... Read more
Blackadder 4 (1989)
Director: Richard Boden
Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Tim McInnerny
The Western Front 1917: Captain Blackadder joined the British Army when it was little more than a travel agency for gentlemen with an abnormally high... Read more
Blackadder's A Christmas Carol (1988)
Director: Richard Boden
Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Robbie Coltrane, Hugh Laurie, Miranda Richardson
Take a laugh-filled look at Christmas through the centuries past and into the future with the Blackadder families in this spoof of the Charles Dickins... Read more
Blackadder: Back and Forth (1999)
8.8/10
Director: Paul Weiland
Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Stephen Fry
New Year's Eve 1999 and Lord Edmund Blackadder and his friends gather to celebrate the Millennium. As they sit and discuss the future, Blackadder reve... Read more
Blackadder: The Complete Series (1983)
8.8/10
Director: Mandie Fletcher, Martin Shardlow, Richard Boden
Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Brian Blessed, Tim McInnerny, Elspet Gray, Robert...
Throughout the ages men of flair, faculty and outstanding courage have contributed to England's glorious heritage. Others, like the snivelling worm Ed... Read more
Blackpool (2004)
8.2/10
Director: Coky Giedroyc, Julie Anne Robinson
Starring: David Morrissey, David Tennant, Sarah Parish, Steve Pemberton, David Bradley, Jo...
It's a musical, a murder mystery and a black comedy all rolled into one! Set in the famous English seaside resort this fabulous BBC series follows th... Read more
Blandings: Series 1 (2013)
6.9/10
Starring: Jennifer Saunders, Mark Williams, Timothy Spall, Tim Vine, Jack Farthing
1929. Blandings Castle is dysfunction junction, the home of a chaotic family struggling to keep itself in order. Clarence Emsworth, ninth earl and mas... Read more