Any Other British TV fans out there?

Not much for British TV except for one person that needs no words to describe him because he uses few words:

                                        MR. BEAN

I think I watched every episode of Dr. Who but it is getting too liberal by making him a transsexual woman.  I should have seen it coming with the spinoff, Torchwood, which I stopped watching because I couldn't stand the large amount of homosexual propaganda.   I also watch BBC news.  Fawlty Towers was very funny.

I think I mentioned this show elsewhere on the AARP site, but if you have Netflix, there's a Scottish show called "Still Game" which I like a lot. It's about a group of Scottish retirees ("pensioners"). The language can be a bit...salty, but it makes me laugh.

But — very important! Watch it with the subtitles on. The accents are very thick.

And a guilty pleasure: "Toast of London." Also on Netflix. The main character, Stephen Toast, is a struggling actor in London. The language on that show would make a sailor blush. I've watched the eighteen episodes of "Toast" over and over because they make me laugh very hard.   

But it may not be for everyone!

There was a British comedy called Miranda a while back that was off and on funny, if you get British humor, which often I don't. But it had one wet-your-pants-laughing-so-hard episode called Just Act Normal in which Miranda and her mother are mandated to a therapy session. If you've ever been to therapy, if you've had a less than ideal relationship with your mother, you have to watch this. It's viewable free on Amazon Prime:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/amzn1.dv.gti.34b4a28d-98f5-3663-ed52-f5039294c035?autoplay=1&ref_=atv_cf_strg_wb

There was a science fiction series, Blake's 7, that I enjoyed watching in the 1980s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake%27s_7

It was about seven people who escaped a prison ship to another uninhabited space ship that was better than anyone else's.  They were freedom fighters against an oppressive government.  But it had one of the worst endings of any series.  The oppressive government won in the end.

I am British but my husband is American, and he already loved to watch All Creatures Great and Small before he even met me. He's read all the books and we even visited James Herriot's home and surgery on one of our trips back home. We also love As Time Goes By, and most of the English Detective stories: Morse, Endeavor, Masterpiece Mysteries etc. We love all the old comedies. The Call Me Cat series with Mayam Bialik is based on the Miranda comedy that DeahWA was commenting on earlier, but nowhere near as funny (in my opinion).

Yes, I love British TV. Here are some of my favorites.

The earliest shows that I remember were the British comedies on PBS - Keeping Up Appearances, Are You Being Served?, Fawlty Towers, As Time Goes By. Then there was a “dramedy” series called Monarch of the Glen, set is Scotland, that I really enjoyed.

Then came the crime dramas (usually on Masterpiece or Masterpiece Mystery), Sherlock, Foyle’s War, Endeavour, Inspector Morse, Inspector Lewis, Broadchurch, Agatha Christie’s Poirot, DCI Banks, Midsomer Murders, The Bletchley Circle, Grantchester, Father Brown, Van der Valk (2020), Baptiste, Miss Scarlet and the Duke, and more.

Dramas and period shows - Poldark, Downton Abbey, Call the Midwife, The Crown (Netflix), The Last Kingdom (Netflix), The Musketeers (Netflix), All Creatures Great and Small, The Durrells, Hotel Portofino, Bleak House, The Forsyte Saga, The Hollow Crown (Netflix), Lark Rise to Candleford, and lots of other period dramas.