Funny british comedy series

Shameless

The OG Shameless, the British original with the cast of now-bonafide movie stars (James McAvoy, Anne Marie Duff, Maxine Peake…) led by proper Shakespeare actor David Threlfall, is available in its entirety on Channel 4.

Revisit the Chatsworth Estate and the Gallagher family in Paul Abbott’s raucous comedy-drama.

Where to stream?Channel 4

Spaced

Jessica Hynes, Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright’s Spaced recently turned 20 (not a typo, you really are that old).

It’s two perfect series of pop culture spoofs and weird cutaway scenes, following the lives of 20-something slackers Daisy and Tim and their mad cast of friends and neighbours.

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It’s the sitcom that launched a thousand ships/other sitcoms that aspire to achieve the same heightened, imaginative energy.

Where to stream?Channel 4, BritBox

Stath Lets Flats

One of the very best British sitcoms of recent years, Jamie Demetriou‘s series about hapless (is there a word for more-than hapless?

Gormless? Witless? Both of those apply) Cypriot lettings agent Stath is a must-w

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