Items19The creator’s order
  1. 1Dreaming Whilst Black (2021)Dreaming Whilst Black (2021) 7.3/10 on IMDbFirst aired 19 Apr 2021Kwabena's ambition to make films has to survive rent, a recruitment job and rooms where the rules of belonging are never quite stated. Adjani Salmon's daydreams make the absurdity visible without removing the practical stakes. Start here for creative frustration with a very particular comic…0
  2. 2Timewasters (2017)Timewasters (2017) 6.7/10 on IMDbFirst aired 9 Oct 2017A South London jazz quartet finds itself in earlier versions of the city, taking musical confidence and very modern grievances along. Daniel Lawrence Taylor's comedy lets Black characters have the fun of a time-travel premise as well as confront its awkwardness. The band chemistry is the…0
  3. 3Champion (2023)Champion (2023) 6.8/10 on IMDbFirst aired 1 Jul 2023A sister's talent challenges a brother's established place at the centre of a musical family. Candice Carty-Williams makes career decisions and private loyalties difficult to separate. Choose it for performances and an original soundtrack that carry the argument about recognition, with a family…0
  4. 4Chewing Gum (2015)Chewing Gum (2015) 7.7/10 on IMDbFirst aired 6 Oct 2015Tracey's curiosity about sex crashes into a religious upbringing and a formidable capacity for embarrassment. Michaela Coel's physical comedy gives the estate setting a wonderfully unruly energy. The pleasure is being allowed a young Black woman who is awkward, horny, imaginative and frequently…0
  5. 5Queenie (2024)Queenie (2024) 6.9/10 on IMDbFirst aired 4 Jun 2024A breakup makes an already shaky young adult life much harder to hold together. Candice Carty-Williams gives Queenie friends, work and a Jamaican British family whose expectations cannot be reduced to one simple conflict. It is funny but emotionally raw, especially around damaging relationships and…0
  6. 6Supacell (2024)Supacell (2024) 7.0/10 on IMDbFirst aired 27 Jun 2024Rapman gives five ordinary South Londoners powers that interrupt lives already complicated by work, relationships and money. That local social world makes the superhero premise feel different before the larger mystery arrives. Pick it for the friction between familiar urban obligations and an…0
  7. 7Boarders (2024)Boarders (2024) 6.7/10 on IMDbFirst aired 20 Feb 2024Five Black scholarship pupils enter an elite school that wants the reputational benefit of their presence without necessarily welcoming their perspectives. Daniel Lawrence Taylor makes the individual ambitions and bad decisions matter alongside the institutional satire. The humour works because the…0
  8. 8Desmond's (1989)Desmond's (1989) 7.8/10 on IMDbFirst aired 5 Jan 1989The Peckham barber shop is a workplace, a meeting point and an arena for several generations to disagree. Trix Worrell's sitcom gives the regulars enough comic individuality to make the older studio rhythms inviting. This is the historical touchstone worth trying for its lived community and family…0
  9. 9Meet the Adebanjos (2012)Meet the Adebanjos (2012) 7.7/10 on IMDbFirst aired 1 Jul 2012A British-Nigerian household supplies a broad family sitcom about authority, changing habits and people talking past the generation next to them. The independent production's appeal is an ordinary domestic world with recurring comic personalities. Choose it when you want family banter and…0
  10. 10Famalam (2018)Famalam (2018) 6.6/10 on IMDbFirst aired 9 Apr 2018The sketch format gives its performers room to jump between genre parody, social observation and extravagant stupidity. That freedom is the point: Black British comic talent gets to be surreal as well as topical. It is a lively option for short bursts of comedy, with humour that can be deliberately…0