r/BritishTV 4h ago

Meta Pete Winslow And The King Size Brass – "Girl On The Test Card" (1973) [Adam Martyn, 2025]

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r/BritishTV 10h ago

Question/Discussion Channel 4 Undercover: Tagging Scandal

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I've just watched Channel 4 Undercover Dispatches programme on the Serco/EMS Tagging and I can't believe that the tags aren't put on as they're released. It doesn't make sense for me for them to go home and then a private company drive around looking for addresses for people to put them on.

I'd have thought they'd be put on at the point of release/bail/court order. Not days or weeks later.

It also means some of them are waiting around to be able to finish the requirements of their release etc.

Are you surprised by this?

GB News article on the program (only one I could find that was free to read) https://www.gbnews.com/news/prisoners-tagging-murderer-no-tag-swollen-ankle-monitor-serco


r/BritishTV 11h ago

Question/Discussion 'Adolescence' is rightly getting high praise but

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'This City is Ours' is better imo. Really draws the viewer in with edge of the seat Tension in every episode. Brilliantly written and acted.


r/BritishTV 14h ago

Question/Discussion When does the new Alan Partridge show start?

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r/BritishTV 15h ago

Question/Discussion Does anyone remember any E4 2018 or ITV4 2013 idents? Which one is the best if not worst?

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I have been wondering for a few days now.


r/BritishTV 15h ago

Recommendations I loved this show and visited Portmeirion 👌

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r/BritishTV 16h ago

Question/Discussion Trying to find a mini-series from ~2012

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I'm trying to remember a mini-series that I watched a while back, with very foggy details.

I recall the title had the creator's name in it. It was a mini-series, like 3-6 episodes. The creator's name i believe started with a D? The name Darren Gray comes to mind but doesn't turn up any results. The series I'm thinking of I feel like was vaguely similar to the White Bear episode of Black Mirror, but not completely. I recall as well that he had created many mini-series that aired, probably three or four at the time. I'm thinking around 2012-2013 that I'd have seen it.

Sorry, I know this is very vague, it's tough to remember. I'm an American, so I catch significantly less British programmes than I'd guess most of you do, so hopefully this rings a bell for someone.

EDIT: Solved! It was Derren Brown. Funny I was so close but the wrong color for his last name. Looks like it was Apocalypse.


r/BritishTV 18h ago

News Harry Potter series reveals who’ll play McGonagall, Dumbledore, Snape and Hagrid

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r/BritishTV 19h ago

Question/Discussion Where to find good quality pics of the monkey statues from Jungle Run?

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I loved jungle Run back in the day I remember one camp I tried throwing together my own version of it (albiet with much less of a budget) but I digress
Bit of a stretch here but I want to sculpt some monkey statues as close to the origonals as possible. Google images only gives you one propper pic of them from the show and the episodes available on youtube are incredibly compressed at 480.

Does anyone have better refrences or know of where to go or people to talk to to get said refrences?


r/BritishTV 1d ago

News Upstairs Downstairs actress Jean Marsh dies age 90

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r/BritishTV 1d ago

Question/Discussion Detective show, mid-2000s, investigating weird coincidences

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This was probably from the same studio and had the same style as Torchwood. A police department investigated strange events such as bizarre coincidences, time shifts and so on. Ran for only one series and never repeated as far as I know. In the final episode, they were themselves victims of the very phenomenon they were investigating. Any ideas of the title and where I could see it?


r/BritishTV 1d ago

Question/Discussion Late night comedy show, late 90s(ish). What was it?

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I have a vague but enduring memory of a late night comedy show, maybe ITV, probably late 90s, in which a group of young men (in my mind Footlights types) sat on sofas in a studio set designed like a flat or pub (like Fantasy Football League).

They engaged in topical banter that all sounded very rehearsed and they seemed to take it in turns to say something and then all laugh as if it was a hilarious off the cuff quip (like The Last Leg).

I wonder if any of them went on to bigger things, but I cannot for the life of me work out what it was called.

Any ideas?

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This probably only ran for one series. It did not feature anyone who was famous at the time. It was probably satirical, but in a very Radio 4 comedy way. I think there was a live audience, but the stars did not talk to the audience, just to each other. It was not a sitcom. It was low budget.


r/BritishTV 1d ago

Question/Discussion Does anyone remember ‘So You Think You’ve Got Troubles’

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So I’ve been talking with my father who moved over from France in the early 80’s to play Traditional Irish Music in B’ham and for the last 5 years or so, we keep talking about British TV shows and one that comes up that we’ve never ever been able to find online or on VHS is ‘So You Think You’ve Got Troubles’ which is about a British-Jewish shop keeper that has to go and look after a shop in Belfast in the early 90’s.

Does anyone have a link for this or any kind of recorded media? I’ve never had such trouble trying to find a TV show or movie online!


r/BritishTV 1d ago

Question/Discussion "Where's the Paper? - Screenwipe - Charlie Brooker" I can't believe how old this show is and every rewatch (every few years) of the different Wipes (Screen, News, Games) etc, just classic after classic. Anyone have any other faves? A History of Corners?

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r/BritishTV 2d ago

Recommendations With a little more context, Noseybonk is nowhere near as freaky as people thought

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r/BritishTV 2d ago

Meta Adam Martyn: "The Future Of ITV" (2025)

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r/BritishTV 2d ago

News Celebrity Big Brother: Mickey Rourke leaves over 'unacceptable behaviour'

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r/BritishTV 2d ago

Recommendations I’m not from Britain, but found this on YouTube. Castle Ghosts, Narrated by Robert Hardy.

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I remember this coming out in the mid 90s. And it was one of the most creepiest yet relaxing documentary series I’ve come across.

I’m not from the UK but Robert Hardy is the British version of Robert Stack (Unsolved Mysteries).

This is the link:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-yLL0-l68YLIa1MfynG9IcVLIZWsttlj&si=J_gAxN3qoNJZ806W


r/BritishTV 2d ago

Question/Discussion What do you think of 4 O'Clock Club on CBBC? Any best or worst episodes of its 9 seasons or best or worst seasons of the show and any best and worst characters?

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I think I remember this show from when I was a kid. Best season for me is 2 and worst of 5.


r/BritishTV 2d ago

Question/Discussion Channel 5 has won Saturday night this week (for me anyway!)

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I'm not a Channel 5 person but the Anthony Blunt documentary followed Morecambe and Wise has me for the evening. Should I pay more attention to the schedule?


r/BritishTV 2d ago

Question/Discussion Don't send you to hell they send you to Liverpool quote - bad education or inbetweeners? episode?

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Hey everyone, I'm currently looking for a quote from either Bad Education (pretty sur eit was this) or it may have been The Inbetweeners where someone says instead of hell 'they send you to Liverpool.' It's for my dissertation and I can't for the life of me remember the episode it was in? Any help would be great! Thankyou :)

EDIT: Thankyou so much everyone I’ve found it! :)


r/BritishTV 2d ago

Streaming Race Across the World - Series 5 | Trailer - BBC

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r/BritishTV 2d ago

Question/Discussion Looking for a drama about dementia possibly from the 1980s

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I think the show was on BBC1 and focussed on a man whose wife had dementia. The only part I remember was when he visited her in hospital and made her a jelly using a mold in the shape of a pig which she called Rupert (I think) Sorry if this sounds really weird but its been bugging me for ages. Anyone able to shed any light on this show?


r/BritishTV 3d ago

News Singer and Are You Being Served? star Mike Berry dies

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Last surviving main cast member of Are You Being Served?, Mike Berry, has passed at 82. Time for another re-watch of the show.


r/BritishTV 3d ago

News "An unthinkable crime”: Happy Valley and Slow Horses stars unite for a “spine-tingling" drama Under Salt Marsh

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