Items25The creator’s order
  1. 1Early Doors (2003)Early Doors (2003) 8.6/10 on IMDbFirst aired 12 May 2003The Manchester pub feels inhabited because a pause or a familiar response can carry the joke. Craig Cash and Phil Mealey give the regulars small hopes and grievances without treating their world as negligible. Start here if you prefer an ensemble gradually becoming recognisable company to a premise…0
  2. 2Small Prophets (2026)Small Prophets (2026) 8.1/10 on IMDbFirst aired 9 Feb 2026Mackenzie Crook's 2026 comedy lets a lonely man's suburban shed become the entrance to something supernatural. Pearce Quigley's Michael remains grounded in ordinary routines and relationships, which gives the strangeness its character. Choose it for the collision between practical everyday life and…0
  3. 315 Storeys High (2002)15 Storeys High (2002) 8.1/10 on IMDbFirst aired 7 Nov 2002Sean Lock and Benedict Wong turn a cramped tower-block flat into a place where incompatible habits become almost a private language. The visual world is stranger and more carefully composed than the simple odd-couple premise suggests. Choose it if you like deadpan unease and small social rules…0
  4. 4PhoneShop (2010)PhoneShop (2010) 7.8/10 on IMDbFirst aired 7 Oct 2010A mobile-phone shop supplies a convincing hierarchy of confidence, bluff and aggressively maintained status. The sales patter matters as performance: people are continually auditioning for authority in front of colleagues. It is loud, profane and quick, with a specific verbal rhythm. The attraction…0
  5. 5The Smoking Room (2004)The Smoking Room (2004) 7.9/10 on IMDbFirst aired 29 Jun 2004A workplace's designated smoking room gives colleagues a temporary reason to remain in the same conversation. Small evasions and mismatched levels of interest become enough for a scene. The period-specific setting now feels like a time capsule, but the social observation remains recognisable. Pick…0
  6. 6Getting On (2009)Getting On (2009) 8.1/10 on IMDbFirst aired 8 Jul 2009Choose the 2009 UK original with Jo Brand, Joanna Scanlan and Vicki Pepperdine. A hospital ward makes the distance between managerial language and practical care painfully funny. Its deadpan patience can look slight until you notice who is doing the work and who is protecting their position.…0
  7. 7Rev. (2010)Rev. (2010) 7.8/10 on IMDbFirst aired 28 Jun 2010An inner-city vicar faces obligations that do not become easier simply because everybody expects him to be kind. Tom Hollander's performance gives professional inadequacy, faith and irritation room in the same person. The comedy grows from difficult encounters rather than treating religious belief…0
  8. 8Raised by Wolves (2015)Raised by Wolves (2015) 8.2/10 on IMDbFirst aired 16 Mar 2015The 2015 Wolverhampton family comedy has nothing to do with the science-fiction series of the same name. Caitlin and Caroline Moran give an unruly household its own confident logic rather than measuring every joke against middle-class approval. The language and behaviour are coarse. Choose it for…0
  9. 9People Just Do Nothing (2014)People Just Do Nothing (2014) 8.5/10 on IMDbFirst aired 20 Jul 2014Kurupt FM's pirate-radio operation makes an almost negligible audience compatible with enormous self-belief. The mockumentary is most rewarding when confidence encounters the practical business of having a life. Familiarity with UK garage adds texture, but the group's status negotiations are…0
  10. 10Ideal (2005)Ideal (2005) 8.2/10 on IMDbFirst aired 11 Jan 2005Johnny Vegas's small-time dealer has a flat that attracts an increasingly strange social world. The restricted setting lets eccentricity accumulate until apparently incidental visitors acquire their own comic logic. It is drug-heavy and often very dark. Choose it for an ensemble whose oddness has a…0