Anglophiles Unite! Your Favorite British Entertainment

[Elvis P]

Music: Beatles, Rolling Stones, Who, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Clash, The Kinks, Black Sabbath,

TV: Doctor Who, Monty Python, Sherlock, Peaky Blinders, Fleabag,

Movies: Alfred Hitchcock, Don't look now, 2001, Peter Cushing, Alec Guinness, Ewan McGregor, Liam Neeson,

Authors: Agatha Christie, Arthur C. Clarke, Arthur Conan Doyle, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Shakespeare, Mary Shelley, Tolkien, H. G. Wells, P. G. Wodehouse

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[Dr Pepper]

Music: Beatles, Pink Floyd, Oasis

TV/Movies: Snatch, Lock Stock & 2 Smoking Barrels, Monty Python

Authors: JRR Tolkein, Ian Fleming, Irvine Welsh

 

[NyQuil]

-Monty Python
-Q5
-Fawlty Towers
-Spitting Image
-Blackadder
-Black Books
-Spaced
-Dr. Who
-The Thick of It
-Mr. Bean
-Father Ted
-Derry Girls
-Sex Education
-Slow Horses
-Little Britain
-Sherlock
-IT Crowd
-Prime Suspect
-Cracker
-the Office (UK)
-Extras
-Life's Too Short
-Derek
-Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett)
-Poirot (David Suchet)
-Luther

 

[McGarnagle]

The Inbetweeners

 

[WetcoastOrca]

The Inbetweeners

I don’t think I’ve ever laughed out loud so much over any series!

 

[LeafalCrusader]

Black Adder
Fawlty Towers
Keeping Up Appearances
Are You Being Served
Luther
Poirot (David Suchet)
Broadchurch
Midsommer Murders
Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett)
The Last Kingdom
The Night Manager
Foyle's War
House of Cards

 

[NyQuil]

Broadchurch
The Last Kingdom
The Night Manager

A few that I missed as well.

 

[Hippasus]

Music: Brian Eno, Discharge, Naplalm Death, Bolt Thrower, Venom, Joy Division, The Sisters of Mercy, Witchfinder General, Carcass, The Cure, Electric Wizard, The Kinks, Sex Pistols, Aphex Twin, Autechre, Godflesh, Nitzer Ebb, Portishead, G.B.H., The Legendary Pink Dots, Black Sabbath, Talk Talk, Killing Joke, Siouxie and the Banshees, Depeche Mode, Rosetta Stone

Literature: J.R.R. Tolkien

Comedy: Monty Python's Flying Circus

Do Scotland, Ireland, Wales count? If so, The Exploited, Boards of Canada (music).

It's pretty incredible how such a relatively small population has produced so much talent in the last century or so. I'd say it's good interpretation as outsiders of others' creations and influences as well as geographically-condensed skill. Except punk and metal were arguably created by them.

 

[Elvis P]

... Do Scotland, Ireland, Wales count? If so, The Exploited, Boards of Canada (music). ...

Only Ireland does not. Liam Neeson is from N. Ireland.

 

[Jovavic]

Line of Duty
Muse
Top Gear

 

[Unholy Diver]

Music: Beatles, Rolling Stones, Rainbow, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, ELO, The Kinks, Black Sabbath, Van Morrison, Lonnie Donegan, Mark Knopfler, Tom Jones, Queen, Elton John, Iron Maiden, Deep Purple

TV: IT Crowd, Black Books, Spaced, Hyperdrive, Derek, Life's Too Short, Toast of London, David Attenborough's Wildlife and Nature programs, An Idiot Abroad

Movies: Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Attack the Block, The Worlds End, Snatch, Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later, Harry Brown, Kingsman the Secret Service, Kingsman the Golden Circle

 

[The Waffler]

Although it’s kind of lost it’s way the past few year it’s a Christmastime staple to watch The Big Fat Quiz of the Year.

 

[ItsFineImFine]

90s/00s British rock > pre-90s British rock (I am somewhat biased as I hate cheesy metal).

 

[HanSolo]

I'm too wiped from work to think of everything but Matt Berry is a world treasure and the IT Crowd is one of my go to Netflix comfort series in very large part because of him.

 

[Hippasus]

90s/00s British rock > pre-90s British rock (I am somewhat biased as I hate cheesy metal).

The Stone Roses debut album is from 1989 though.

 

[McGarnagle]

I don’t think I’ve ever laughed out loud so much over any series!

I was in my early 20s when it first came out and loved it. About a year and a half ago I wound up doing a rewatch since I was in a British humor mood and there was nothing else good on on whatever streaming app it was on (I think it was amazon prime), but I went into it with massive fear that it wasn't going to hold up now that I'm in my mid-30s and we're living in a much more sensitive 2020s world. But the humor really did hold up well, and if anything I appreciated it even more as an adult.

 

[ItsFineImFine]

The Stone Roses debut album is from 1989 though.

Sounds 90s though close enough.

 

[Hippasus]

Sounds 90s though close enough.

I agree, it really sounds 90s. Like a band from the same scene as Oasis or Blur. Noel Gallagher saw them live and was influenced by them. They are both from Manchester.

 

[NyQuil]

-The Fast Show
-Alexei Sayle's Stuff

 

[John Price]

Bad Education
Inbetweeners
Fresh Meat
Peep Show
This Country

Thick of It was pretty good too, seeing Malcolm go off is always a treat.

 

[John Price]

Disappointed I'm the only one who mentioned Peep Show which is arguably Jesse Armstrong's best British work



This Country is one of the most hilarious shows aired on British television.



"Never, ever joke about Swindon Football Club."

@Siamese Dream

 

[kihei]

A dozen of each, though all the lists would have an abundance of HMs.

Music: The Beatles, Radiohead, The Clash, The Kinks, Talk Talk, Led Zep, Roxy Music, Rolling Stones, Genesis, My Bloody Valentine, The Who, Portishead

TV shows: Monty Python, Luther, Inspector Morse, Doctor Who, Shetland, Sherlock, BBC Shakespeare series, Prime Suspect, Blackpool, The Last Kingdom, Life on Mars, Broadchurch

Movies: Blow Up, Don't Look Now, The Third Man, The 39 Steps, Lawrence of Arabia, Barry Lyndon, 45 Years, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, The Lady Vanishes, Great Expectations, Hunger, Local Hero

Authors: William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, V. S. Naipaul, Jane Austen, Virginia Woolfe, D. H. Lawrence, Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene, Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ian MacEwan, Martin Amis

Actors-- so many come to mind: Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Daniel Day Lewis, Dirk Bogard, Richard Burton, Idris Elba, Albert Finney, Ralph Fiennes, Tilda Swinton,, Charlotte Rampling, Alan Rickman, Michael Caine, Ralph Richardson, Gary Oldman, Michael Fassbender, Sean Connery, Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Bill NIghy, Julie Christie, Glenda Jackson, Vanessa Redgrave, Ewan McGregor, Sean Connery, David Tennant

 

[McGarnagle]

Disappointed I'm the only one who mentioned Peep Show which is arguably Jesse Armstrong's best British work



This Country is one of the most hilarious shows aired on British television.



"Never, ever joke about Swindon Town."

@Siamese Dream

Peep Show is amazing

 

[John Price]

don't think anyone has brought up blackadder

 

[NyQuil]

don't think anyone has brought up blackadder

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