Fresh Meat (2011)

If 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 comedy-drama rather than a pure sitcom, with longer episodes of around 40 minutes that let relationships breathe and sour. Jack Whitehall's posh, oblivious JP and Zawe Ashton's chaotic Vod are the standouts, and Peep Show fans get Robert Webb as a geology lecturer. It ran on Channel 4 from 2011 to 2016 across four series, and the first one won Best New Comedy at the British Comedy Awards.