Items6The creator’s order
  1. 1Peep Show (2003)Peep Show (2003) 8.7/10 on IMDbFirst aired Sep 19, 2003Start here, because everything else on this list grows out of it. David Mitchell's uptight Mark and Robert Webb's feckless Jez share an apartment, and the camera shows you what each of them sees while a voice-over gives you every petty, panicked thought they are too cowardly to say out loud. That…0
  2. 2The Old Guys (2009)The Old Guys (2009) 7.2/10 on IMDbFirst aired Jan 31, 2009The odd one out, and worth knowing as such. This is the partnership in a gentler, more traditional BBC One mode: two aging housemates, Roger Lloyd-Pack's Tom and Clive Swift's Roy, both quietly sweet on Jane Asher's Sally across the street, with Roy convinced he is one of the country's leading…0
  3. 3Fresh Meat (2011)Fresh Meat (2011) 7.8/10 on IMDbFirst aired Sep 21, 2011If Peep Show is about men in their thirties failing at adulthood, Fresh Meat is the prequel nobody asked for and everyone needed: six students thrown together in a shared house off campus at a fictional Manchester university, all trying to reinvent themselves and mostly making it worse. It is a…0
  4. 4Babylon (2014)Babylon (2014) 7.1/10 on IMDbFirst aired Nov 13, 2014The missing link between the sitcoms and Succession, and the one most fans have never seen. Brit Marling plays Liz Garvey, an American brought in as communications director to modernize London's Metropolitan Police, with James Nesbitt as the commissioner she has to manage. The comedy comes from…0
  5. 5Ill Behaviour (2017)Ill Behaviour (2017) 6.7/10 on IMDbFirst aired Jul 22, 2017Sam Bain's first series written on his own, and proof that the bone-deep awkwardness of Peep Show was not all Armstrong. Charlie, played by Tom Riley, is diagnosed with a readily treatable cancer and decides coffee enemas and homeopathy will do the job, so his friends Joel and Tess lock him in a…0
  6. 6Succession (2018)Succession (2018) 8.8/10 on IMDbFirst aired Jun 3, 2018Jesse Armstrong's solo creation, and the same joke as Peep Show played for billions. Brian Cox's Logan Roy runs the media and entertainment conglomerate Waystar RoyCo, and his children circle the throne while undermining themselves at every turn, with insults as finely tooled as anything Mark ever…0