Channel 4

2003 · 9 Seasons · Channel 4 · Sitcom

Peep Show is the greatest cringe comedy ever made and one of the best British sitcoms of any era. David Mitchell and Robert Webb are a perfect comedy pairing, and the POV camera format gives the show an intimacy with its characters' worst impulses that's simultaneously hilarious and excruciating. Nine seasons over twelve years is a remarkable run that maintains quality far longer than most comedies manage, and the show's influence on modern British comedy is immeasurable. If you can handle the secondhand embarrassment, there's nothing else like it.

2006 · 4 Seasons · Channel 4 · Sitcom

The IT Crowd is a brilliantly silly workplace comedy that turns an IT department basement into one of the funniest locations in British television. Chris O'Dowd, Richard Ayoade, and Katherine Parkinson form a comic trio so perfectly calibrated that each of the show's twenty-five episodes delivers reliable laughs. The humor is broad, the characters are lovable, and the show's commitment to classic sitcom structure produces some of the most quotable moments of the 2000s. It's not trying to reinvent the form, and that's entirely to its credit.

2017 · 2 Seasons · Channel 4 · Dark Comedy Drama

The End of the F***ing World is a tight, darkly hilarious road trip through teenage alienation that manages to be both deeply cynical and surprisingly tender. Alex Lawther and Jessica Barden are extraordinary together, bringing life to two damaged teenagers whose journey from mutual exploitation to genuine connection is one of the most honest portrayals of adolescent loneliness on screen. The first season is near-perfect. The second season is good but unnecessary. Together, they make a compelling case for the short-form drama as a viable format.

2016 · 2 Seasons · Channel 4 · Dark Comedy

Flowers is one of the most unique shows British television has produced, a dark comedy about a deeply dysfunctional family that manages to be simultaneously hilarious, heartbreaking, and visually stunning. Will Sharpe's creation blends deadpan humor with genuine emotional devastation in ways that shouldn't work but absolutely do. It opens with a suicide attempt and somehow gets funnier from there, without ever making light of the pain at its center.

2015 · 3 Seasons · Channel 4 / AMC · Sci-Fi, Drama

Humans explored AI consciousness through the lens of a suburban family drama, asking thoughtful questions about what it means to be alive while examining how society would actually respond to sentient machines sharing our homes.