programs available thru netflix from the last 20 years. We saw stuff before 1990, but little since. What with the strike and the TV offerings over here, repeats and dreadful reality shows I thought we'd catch up on what we've missed. Thank you.
Well I borrowed the entire collection of "Coupling" before Christmas and now I have moved on to "One Foot in the Grave".
Outside Edge was good -is that available?
they Have Absolutely Fabulous -have you seen that?
Cracker was OK
Watch, Johny Vegas in "Ideal", brilliant programe.
Coupling was great. We watched all 4 series in a week or two. Side splitting. The stuff in season 4 was even more funny when it was being shown on my local PBS station back in June/July last year.
I've been watching The Crystal Maze recently and have some other odd stuff to watch. I have a Kenny Everet show, the very first Adventure Game (childhood throwback) etc.
My Family was a pretty good comedy. The guy who played Citizen Smith is the father in this show. Forget his name now, it's on the tip of my tongue.
My Family was a pretty good comedy. The guy who played Citizen Smith is the father in this show. Forget his name now, it's on the tip of my tongue.
Robert Lindsay?
Was just talking about that show tonight with GF and turns out she was a big fan when it was on PBS - couldn't remember if I saw it or not until you mentioned it had Wolfy in it Nigel.
Thanks all. Coupling we've seen most of and lost interest when the Welsh guy left, his replacement was just that.
Ab Fab, seen it, mind will watch anything with Joanna Lumley in it.
Never heard of the Crystal Maze, Ideal or outside edge so am looking for those.
Cracker we didn't see them all and the Fast show, again never heard of it, so shall look for it.
Thanks again, should be better than our TV schedule, in case we missed the Cashmere Mafia they showed the program two days running and will possibly show it again.
Pay the writers or lose the network audience.
Waterloo Road
Inspector Lynley Mysteries
Waking The Dead
Spooks
Gil Mayo Mysteries
Shameless, Phoenix Nights, Early Doors, The Royle Family ....all good old northern comedies!!
Debs x )
The Sweeney just popped up on Netflix..nice!
Oh, The Crystal Maze doesn't show up on Netflix, it's not out on DVD. Such as shame. (
Well we began our own Brit programming fest with Not the Nine o clock news part 1. Fabulous, it had the Swedish pharmacy sketch, the four of them reading Abou Ben Adhem, may his tribe increase, with Rowan Atkinson doing his bit beautifully. Then we watched Keeping Mum, Maggie Smith in a delightful gentle little movie about a trunk killer.
Somehow part 2 of NtNOC News got lost and won't arrive until Monday.
Whatever will we watch tonight.
Certainly not American reality. Lordy, I watched a wife swap this year with a girlie who took part in pagaents, it was upchuck city. Lets hope the PBS stations have an English mystery.
Here's some stuff you might have missed
Spaced (brilliant sitcom about twenty-somethings in London - full of pop culture references, by the same people who did Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz)
Black Books (hilarious stuff about a drunken, obnoxious Irish bookshop owner)
Big Train (off-the-wall, somewhat surreal sketch show)
Little Britain (awesome show, with the most memorable characters in years)
The Catherine Tate Show (much like a female-fronted Little Britain - she's soon to be the Doctor's new assistant!)
The Mighty Boosh (great stuff about two friends and their zoo-related surreal adventures)
The League Of Gentlemen (dark but hilarious stuff about the inbred residents of a remote Northern town - Royston Vasey)
QI (pseudo-intellectual panel game hosted by Stephen Fry - hilarious stuff)
Never Mind The Buzzcocks (fantastic pop music quiz hosted originally by Mark Lamarr, and later, Simon Amstell - Phill Jupitus and Bill Bailey are team captains, and the other team members are usually various pop stars)
Mock The Week (satirical panel show hosted by Irish comedian Dara O Briain)