The Word's Best & Worst British TV Shows Ever

[loomer]

Wha?! How DARE they pick 'Enders at worst.

OK, I can see why they chose it, but life IS miserable a lot of the time - even if not to their exaggerated level obviously. I could not agree more with some selections, however, particularly THAT show that's on all summer.

This feature isn't meant to be taken seriously, I loved how they picked Mariah as worst female singer ever and Whitney as one of the best.

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[loomer]

lol @ Love Thy Neighbour, Children In Need and That's Life. And Bread was cunting AWFUL

But I LOVED Network 7/The Word :evil:

And frankly, yes.. 'Allo 'Allo was rotten to the core.

Leetsen carefully I shall say one of the only jokes we have (the others are the Madonna with the big boobies, the gay Germans, and you stupid woman! after being caught with horny French girl in cupboard, respectively) only about a MILLION times. :daf:

And I liked Red Dwarf at the time, but Craig Charles is an irritating cunt. The Brittas Empire was better.

[Ellie]

Red Dwarf and The Word? They can fuck off.

[Ellie]

Where's the feature on singers?

[loomer]

You not remember me posting it on MNation...?

[loomer]

They get the Brookie timeline wrong.. it SERIOUSLY jumped the shark with the whole Nat & Georgia incest thing. They broke the very last taboo.

[loomer]

I strongly disagree with The Office as one of the best! Fuck you, smug Gervais.

Steve Carell is better and much hotter. Well, I haven't seen the US version really, but I just have a weird thing for Carell.

[Ellie]

You not remember me posting it on MNation...?

Oh, was that months ago?

[loomer]

You can't beat a bit of PRIME Grange Hill.. the Zammo-Gonch years were just awesome.

[Ellie]

Prime Suspect can poo off.

[Eileen]

What SHIT. Harry Hill's TV Burp :manson:

[Jonfessions]

YAY for Corrie. So deserved.


I strongly disagree with The Office as one of the best! Fuck you, smug Gervais.

Steve Carell is better and much hotter. Well, I haven't seen the US version really, but I just have a weird thing for Carell.

Oh it's SO much better. I never thought I'd see a sweeter TV couple than Tim and Dawn before I saw Jim and Pam! :shy:

[Ellie]

I did like the US version of The Office for a while, but again it just suffers from too many episodes. Steve Carrell's character can be just as annoying and repetitive as Gervais.

[Jonfessions]

There's so much more depth to Michael Scott than David Brent though. They really develop him.

[Sild]

'Allo! 'Allo! remains GENIUS and DON'T YOU FORGET IT

[loomer]

Oh it's SO much better. I never thought I'd see a sweeter TV couple than Tim and Dawn before I saw Jim and Pam! :shy:

Madonna being a Gervais fan was an embarrassment.

[loomer]

Prime Suspect can poo off.

I liked it. Particularly the first couple. But Jimmy McGovern's (80s Brookside writer) Cracker shat all over it. Lynda La Plant sucks.

[loomer]

'Allo! 'Allo! remains GENIUS and DON'T YOU FORGET IT

Well, Sild, I'd say to that it's a generational/nostalgia thing isn't it.. I hated the likes of Fresh Bloody Fields and all the dying out class coms - bar the GODLIKE Keeping Up Appearances and One Foot In The Grave, natch.

As the 80s drew to a close I was a teen with more understanding, than as a kid and was watching Blackadder IV, hating Jason Donovan (and 1989 era Kylie, but liked her in 88 in primary school on Madonna's year-off). I was into the likes of Victor Lewis-Smith back then who had some skits on Club X, which was the follow-up yoof TV show to Network 7.

The Beeb responsed with Def TV.. and Snub TV had the fittie French Antoine De Caunes presenting indie bands. The mighty Janet-Street Porter was involved. Magenta De Vine may have been a cunt, but a fabulous one. Then there was The Clothes Show as well. Late 80s TV roolz. Post-modern tastic when they were influenced by MTV with their fast low attention span editing.

[loomer]

What SHIT. Harry Hill's TV Burp :manson:

I agree with that. But David Quantick is a writer of it and my journalistic hero, when the NME was good. He also helped write some of Brass Eye.

[loomer]

Oh, was that months ago?

Yeah. Fuck knows if the thread exists now! Major crash there.

[Zodiac]

I largely agree with those choices :D

Including Red Dwarf among the worst shows is quite SCANDALOUS though

And including The Office/Top Gear among the best is rather dubious... Gervais and Clarkson are probably two of the most irritatingly smug cunts to grace British TV in the past decade

[Andricicle]

'Allo 'Allo is quite possibly the most re-run British sitcom of all time on Flemish telly - perhaps along with Keeping Up Appearances! And it doesn't have any 'older people/nostalgia' tag on here, I don't think. Unlike a lot of other, more language/double entendre-bound, Britcoms it's just undeniably great comedy for people who don't have English as a first language.

[Toyah]

They're having a hard time dubbing Allo Allo into German, especially the double entendres.

[Jark]

The missing out of Bad Girls as one of our BEST is frankly a shun too far.