BBC television sitcoms

The Royle Family

Series Age rating: 11 Year: 1998 IMDB Rating: 8.2

British comedy series focusing on the lives of a working-class family in Manchester who love the TV.

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Ideal

Series Age rating: 15 Year: 2005 IMDB Rating: 8.2

Sitcom about a small-time dope dealer and his strange collection of acquaintances.

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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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In My Skin

Series Age rating: 15 Year: 2018 IMDB Rating: 8.1

Coming-of-age story of 16-year-old Bethan, who we follow as she deals with the comical but painfully real anxieties and insecurities of teenage life, along with the stark reality of a home life that i...

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Getting On

Series Age rating: 14 Year: 2009 IMDB Rating: 8.1

Darkly comic series about life on a hospital ward and a nursing team who have to get on with the job despite challenges thrown up by the modern NHS.

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Nighty Night

Series Age rating: 17 Year: 2004 IMDB Rating: 8.1

Nighty Night is a British dark comedy sitcom written by and starring Julia Davis. It was first broadcast on 6 January 2004 on BBC Three before moving to BBC2. Notorious for its dark humour, the show...

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Roger & Val Have Just Got In

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 2010 IMDB Rating: 8.1

Comedy starring Dawn French and Alfred Molina following their lives as a middle-aged couple and their first half an hour back home

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Outnumbered

Series Age rating: 13 Year: 2007 IMDB Rating: 8.1

Partly-improvised sitcom looking at the trials and tribulations of bringing up three young children - a regal five-year-old girl with a talent for interrogation, a seven-year-old boy who could fib for...

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Chef

Series Age rating: 10 Year: 1993 IMDB Rating: 8.1

Sharp knives and even sharper tongues! Meet Britain's finest, most short-fused chef, Gareth Balckstock.

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Absolute Power

Series Age rating: 14 Year: 2003 IMDB Rating: 8.1

Stephen Fry and John Bird star as spin doctors Charles Prentiss and Martin McCabe as they bring the popular and satirical Radio 4 comedy Absolute Power to BBC Two. Stephen as Prentiss and John as McCa...

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