i love top gear.

i loved it when geri haliwel was on it.

Brian Cox was on it tonight - new series

Did Phoenix Nights make it to Australia?

i also liked it when the dude from the show tried to top this chicks time around Nürburgring. and failed. it may have been the same episode. i may have only seen one episode.

Any sign yet of:

• Nathan Barley
• The IT Crowd
• Hyperdrive
• The Thick Of It
• Bo' Selecta!

???

Oh....

.....and what about Sean Lock's wonderful Fifteen Storeys High?

I love top gear, wish it was up to date though.

Is Extras scheduled to appear on oz tv?

I jsut bought Nathan Barley and Extras from amazon for a very decent price.

did nathan barley screen here? i no longer know whether i've seen something or read a thread about it on here mighty boosh anyone?

bugger

And then there was Snuffbox, the sketch show from Matt Berry and Rich Fulcher [from The Mighty Boosh and Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, and script edited by Arthur Father Ted Matthews].

ABC will be showing Extras shortly

Nathan Barley

The IT Crowd

Hyperdrive

The Thick Of It

Bo' Selecta!

Fifteen Storeys High

Berry and Fulcher's Snuff Box

HEBtacular- I'm glad they aint playing all this- would do even less uni work. :( Blessing in disguise, I spose.

snuff box! rich fulcher is god.

goes torrent hunting

Peep Show http://mono.whatevz.net/images/PeepShowLgaYmW.jpg

Peep Show

Did Bruiser ever see the light of day?

Cast:

• Olivia Colman
• Matt Holness
• Charlotte Hudson
• Martin Freeman
• Robert Webb
• David Mitchell

Writers included David Mitchell, Robert Webb, Matt Holness and Ricky Gervais...

Then there's Saxondale

IS it just me or does TV seem like it will never recover from the beating the Internet has given?

BTW, Fresh Meat has been recommissioned

hmmmm. it's really not that good.

Not new, but ABC is finally showing The Trip. Started last night, but it's on iView. I saw the movie version of this and loved it, so looking forward to the more expansive version.

Saw it last night yeah, enjoyed it.

Pedantically speaking, the movie was the cut version, rather than the series being an expanded one...

BTW
The British Comedy Awards are on this Friday
Some strange omissions in the nominations

Meanwhile
The best new comedy on British TV (especially as Him & Her is done till series 3) at the moment is The Cafe - try it if you liked Early Doors or Gavin & Stacey

Expansive, not expanded. As in, more of it!

thanks for the news about the trip. i've been wanting to watch that series for like, forever.

also, life's too short is pretty piss funny. If they manage to pull off anything as surprising as liam neeson's ''improv'' i'll be verrrry impressed.

Green Wing blows. Does it get better in later series? that zany editing etc is fucking annoying. Some of the characters are good, but it just tries way too hard.

Didn't think i'd bother with The Trip after seeing the movie, but watching it again was easy, and the bits that were chopped out were still funny/interesting.

Green Wing blows. Does it get better in later series? that zany editing etc is fucking annoying. Some of the characters are good, but it just tries way too hard.

Completely agree - you have to sit through so much zany shit before you get the occasional laugh. Not worth the effort. Getting On however, was fucking awesome.

also, life's too short is pretty piss funny. If they manage to pull off anything as surprising as liam neeson's ''improv'' i'll be verrrry impressed.

I never saw the hoohaa about this? To me it was tired and not funny, at all. And Gervais just became even more punchable?

The Green Guide loved Green Wing's wacky editing (I found it distracting at first but eventually the characters won out over it), but then again they did review it like it was a fully new show rather than one that's taken almost a decade to get to out antipodean backwater.

(our)

British Comedy Awards 2011: The Winners

A bit of embarrassment for the Beeb here - two of the winners are shows they've recently axed - Psychoville (best comedy-drama) and Shooting Stars (best panel show). Meanwhile winner of two categories Stewart Lee is yet to have his Comedy Vehicle recommissioned for a third series, causing Armando Iannucci to take a pop at Aunty when he accepted his Writer's Guild award. Elsewhere Tamsin Greig was robbed and Twenty Twelve was just plain awful (regardless of its links [or not] to The Games).

Full list of nominations and awards (winners are in bold italics) below...

Best Comedy Panel Show
Celebrity Juice (ITV2)
Have I Got News For You (BBC1)
Shooting Stars (BBC2)
Would I Lie To You? (BBC1)

Best Comedy Entertainment Programme
Harry Hill's TV Burp (ITV1)
Alan Carr: Chatty Man (Channel 4)
An Idiot Abroad (Sky1)
Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle (BBC2)

Best Comedy Drama
Comic Strip Presents: The Hunt For Tony Blair (Channel 4)
Fresh Meat (Channel 4)
Misfits (E4)
Psychoville (BBC2)

Best Comedy Entertainment Personality
Alan Carr
Charlie Brooker
Harry Hill
Graham Norton

Best Male TV Comic
Charlie Brooker
Harry Hill
Rob Brydon
Stewart Lee

Best Female TV Comic
Jo Brand
Sarah Millican
Miranda Hart
Victoria Wood

Best New Comedy Programme
Fresh Meat (Channel 4)
Friday Night Dinner (Channel 4)
Spy (Sky1)
Twenty Twelve (BBC3)

Best Comedy Breakthrough Artist
Dan Skinner
Greg Davies
Micky Flanagan
Tom Rosenthal

Best Sketch Show
Come Fly With Me (BBC1)
Horrible Histories (CBBC)
The One Ronnie (BBC1)
This Is Jinsy (Sky Atlantic)

Best Sitcom
Miranda (BBC1)
Friday Night Dinner (Channel 4)
Peep Show (Channel 4)
Twenty Twelve (BBC3)

Best TV Comedy Actor
Darren Boyd
Hugh Bonneville
Hugh Dennis
Jack Whitehall

Best TV Comedy Actress
Claire Skinner
Dawn French
Miranda Hart
Tamsin Greig

People's Choice Award For The King Or Queen Of Comedy
David Mitchell
Graham Norton
Jack Whitehall
Miranda Hart
Jo Brand
Sarah Millican

Lifetime Achievement Award
Have I Got News For You?

Writer's Guild Award
Armando Iannucci

Would I Lie To You was robbed. Fresh Meat is kinda crap. I do like Miranda Hart, and while I like Sarah Millican, surely Graham Norton is a million times funnier? Jack Whitehall is punchable. Also Friday Night Dinner was complete arse.

Any new recommendations?

you've seen The Book Group right?

Him and Her is awesome

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJJgG46U-PI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b8GdzLjseY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ8R-UDx2Fc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3S--HmVP8c

PS don't think it on OZ tv yet

Him & Her discussions are up the thread

Nothing new of note here since The Cafe finished (see up the thread)
Noel Fielding's new series for E4 started last week, but I'm yet to catch it

Whatever you do avoid ''The One .......'' series
Lenny Henry, Jasper Carrott and Griff Rhys_Jones show how the world has left them behind
Although the Ronnie Corbett Blackberry sketch was good

Ben Elton's recent 2 hr special of 80s comedy was worth a look though

Haven't seen The Book Club - grabbing some now. Also grabbing The Cafe and Him & Her.

The Book Group is one of my all time faves.

the woman who made it, Annie Griffin, also made Coming Soon, which has Julia Davis and is pretty OK but not sensational. she also made one episode of Edinburgh, which would have been a classic but was never commissioned :(

eventually i'll watch Fresh Meat.