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The IT Crowd

Series Age rating: 12 Year: 2006 IMDB Rating: 8.5

Two I.T. nerds and their clueless female manager, who work in the basement of a very successful company. When they are called on for help, they are never treated with any respect at all.

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Peep Show

Series Age rating: 15 Year: 2003 IMDB Rating: 8.7

Peep Show follows the lives of two men from their twenties to thirties, Mark Corrigan, who has steady employment for most of the series, and Jeremy "Jez" Usbourne, an unemployed would-be musician.

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Green Wing

Series Age rating: 15 Year: 2004 IMDB Rating: 8.3

Follow new surgical registrar Dr Caroline Todd through her first day at work and beyond, starting out as she means to go on - dishevelled and under-deodorised! Along the way she meets an assortment of...

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Coupling

Series Age rating: 12 Year: 2000 IMDB Rating: 8.6

Six friends in their thirties navigate dating, sexual adventures, and mishaps on their quest to find love.

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Miranda

Series Age rating: 11 Year: 2009 IMDB Rating: 8.2

Socially inept Miranda always gets into awkward situations; working in her joke shop with best friend Stevie, being hounded by her pushy mother, and especially when she's around her crush Gary.

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Nathan Barley

Series Age rating: 13 Year: 2005 IMDB Rating: 8

Nathan Barley is a Channel 4 sitcom written by Charlie Brooker and Chris Morris, starring Nicholas Burns, Julian Barratt, Charlie Condou and Claire Keelan. The series of six weekly episodes began broa...

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The Thick of It

Series Age rating: 15 Year: 2005 IMDB Rating: 8.7

Set in the corridors of power and spin, the Minister for Social Affairs is continually harassed by Number 10's policy enforcer and dependent on his not-so-reliable team of civil servants.

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Spaced

Series Age rating: 12 Year: 1999 IMDB Rating: 8.5

Spaced: the anti-Friends, in that it examines the lives of common 20 somethings, but in a way that is more down to earth and realistic. Here we have Daisy and Tim; two 'young' adults with big dreams j...

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Life Is Ruff

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2005 IMDB Rating: 4.9

Calvin Wheeler is a scheming 13-year-old boy with everything going for him, except for an original issue of his precious comic book collection. When a prized show-dog chases him down while skateboardi...

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