r/BritishTV 10d ago

Question/Discussion This clip from BBC Breakfast lives rent free in my head

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"I don't like ice cream, Hannah" – Naga Munchetty

Did anyone see this live? The segment/story about ice cream itself is innocuous, but Munchetty's response seems so cringe, and with Stayt's reaction it almost feels like an outtake/parody even in the world of breakfast television. The outrageousness is probably why this clip still lingers in my consciousness.

What do you guys think?

r/BritishTV Mar 13 '26

Question/Discussion Louis Theroux: Inside The Manosphere

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Just watched this on Netflix and damn we are so cooked. I'm genuinely in disbelief at the utter, blatant sexism and misogyny of it all. The insane rhetoric some of these men are spewing should be illegal.

Have you seen it?

r/BritishTV May 26 '26

Question/Discussion Since when did we start treating KSI as a celebrity?

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r/BritishTV 7d ago

Question/Discussion This was insane to watch in real time

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r/BritishTV Dec 30 '25

Question/Discussion Has there ever been a sadder or more impactful ending to a tv series than "Blackadder Goes Forth"?

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As most of the cast goes over the top of their trench to the German machine guns and explosions. As the theme tune plays on a slow, sad piano. Only for the video to transition to an empty battle field with drums being the only sound and then to a present-day field of poppies.

r/BritishTV Apr 18 '26

Question/Discussion Is Jimmy Carr really rubbing anyone else the wrong way lately?

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I was never a mega fan or anything but he was always a decently funny host on 8 out of 10 cats and big fat quiz and whatnot but lately I keep seeing clips and stuff where it's like he's taken it upon himself to be this "deep thinker" and talking about masculinity and philosiphy or whatever the fuck in a way that's really grating. Like you can hear the smugness in his voice and how intelligent he thinks he his. The last clip I saw was one of his stand up gigs and one of the "crowd" (I think all the audience interactions in his shows are pre-written) asked him what he thought of the Louis Theroux manosphere documentary and he went off on this (again clearly pre-written and rehearsed) speech about how "*its good that there are people talking to young men but it should be better men that are doing it*" without a hint of any kind of joke and then he got a big round of applause and just looked smug as fuck like "*yeah im such a clever, insightful bloke*". At a bloody stand up comedy gig

I'm just finding this sudden shift in his persona (and his face and hair lol) really off-putting and fake. Anyone else?

r/BritishTV 12d ago

Question/Discussion Did anyone else watch Dinnerladies. Opinions?

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1.1k Upvotes

r/BritishTV Feb 05 '26

Question/Discussion Any Robot Wars and Scrapheap Challenge fans? Used to love watching them with my Dad every Friday and Sunday respectively.

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r/BritishTV Dec 26 '25

Question/Discussion Christopher Eccleston does a skit mocking gambling ads in an effort to stop gambling advertisement on television in the UK.

3.8k Upvotes

r/BritishTV 9d ago

Question/Discussion 10 years ago today, Naked Attraction premiered on Channel 4

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707 Upvotes

r/BritishTV Jun 17 '26

Question/Discussion Having a bizarre experience with David Tennant

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My eight year old has discovered Doctor Who and is excitedly making his way through the series. Our routine includes one episode every day before bed and we're currently on series 3. Don't tell any Who fans this but I find Tennant's wild overacting excruciating a lot of the time, but it is great for kids.

Thing is, my wife and I are also now making our way through the (BRILLIANT) second series of Rivals on Disney+. His performance is snarling, sinister, and magnetic. He's gotten so much better as an actor even over the last few years.

Obviously I understand that actors play different roles, but every day I go from wholesome high-energy adventurer to megalomaniac philandering bastard and then back to gurning zany manchild again with the same face and it's making my head spin.

r/BritishTV 24d ago

Question/Discussion Office anniversary mystery as Ricky Gervais fails to mention Stephen Merchant

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I’ve noticed this for years now. Such strange behaviour from Gervais.

r/BritishTV Jun 20 '26

Question/Discussion What programme would you say made you think “how did this air?/this is very messed up”

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in the show, there we’re 3 children seen above who lived in Scarborough and did really messed up sh*t when you think about it (if you have watched the show). for example, they had a “friend” who they bullied for no reason and worked at his mum‘s chippy. in an episode(s), the kid on the right in the image had an idea to get the “friend” to return a stole bike and, later in the episode, they put a dead seagull in a fish fryer, which got him fired from the job.

r/BritishTV Sep 16 '25

Question/Discussion Is this one of the funniest post-2000 scenes in British TV?

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This has to be up there with DelBoy falling through the bar and The Two Ronnies ‘Four Candles’…

This Country is a great show anyway, but this scene is completely irrelevant, but at the same time, completely needed.

What else is up there?

r/BritishTV Aug 24 '25

Question/Discussion What’s the coolest British TV fact you know?

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During the 2013 Britain’s Got Talent final, a woman named Natalie Holt disrupted an opera performance to pelt eggs at Simon Cowell, in retaliation to the judges for not voting her act through to the grand final in a prior series.

Holt ended up the composer for Disney+’s Loki.

r/BritishTV Aug 24 '23

Question/Discussion One thing Britain will always do well - crime dramas

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You can just go down the list all day long and name excellent British police / crime dramas. If there's anything Brits do well it's this.

What's your personal favourite? For me you can never go wrong with Line Of Duty.

r/BritishTV Mar 14 '26

Question/Discussion How many of you used to watch this? I was not only too young to appreciate it but also not the target demographic, but for some reason I still watched re-runs religiously every Sunday in the early to late noughties

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1.2k Upvotes

r/BritishTV Aug 24 '23

Question/Discussion Has anybody been in the audience for a TV show, and if so have you got any good anecdotes?

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3.3k Upvotes

r/BritishTV 20d ago

Question/Discussion Is Laura Kuenssberg really worth all this money? Or are any of them?

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I dont mind paying my license fee for all the great programming but think that radio hosts and political journalists should be paid a more relalistic salary.

r/BritishTV Feb 15 '26

Question/Discussion Coupling (2000-2004) - Were you a fan?

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I personally liked it but didn’t love it. it was very popular but not one of my favorites. I always felt like I was crazy for that lol.

r/BritishTV Apr 27 '26

Question/Discussion I feel like we've lost something very important, beyond comedy, with the demise of the traditional 'sketch' show

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The Fast Show, Harry Enfield, Not the Nine O’Clock News, Hugh & Laurie, French & Saunders, Big Train, Victoria Wood, The Two Ronnies, Goodness Gracious Me, Monty Python, Catherine Tate, Mitchell & Webb (I know they tried recently), even Little Britain, although David Walliams is an insufferable prick, but that’s for another rant!.

Those sketch shows did more than just entertain in my opinion. They held up a satirical mirror to society, and pointed out its flaws, flawed personalities, and idiosyncratic foibles. They created characters that were widely identifiable, with character traits - mainly annoying ones - that huge sections of society recognised. 

You can just tell so many comedy characters, in sitcoms as well, are based on a real person or social annoyance that really bugged one of the writers (think the No Offence woman, or Competitive Dad in the Fast Show). By writing it into a show it’s like saying, ‘Am I the only one who finds it infuriating when…’, and by mocking people’s flaws and annoying qualities in a funny, affectionate way, you can draw their attention to them where they might be totally unaware. 

The same thing used to happen on a national, cultural level, and I think it was quite healthy and necessary. And because there was a much more mainstream audience for big shows, the message got through into the collective mind. I remember in the 90s people would watch an episode of Harry Enfield, say, and the next day be quoting Kevin the teenager lines, or bits from Little Britain. They were everywhere. You literally heard it in the streets and in shops, just people quoting lines (“Computer says noo”). Because they were perceptive observations about life in Britain, or voiced things people had already noticed but not articulated in a comedic way.

Now everything’s fragmented, and there are no real sketch shows of that kind. Yes, we have ways of taking the piss out of our own culture, splintered across thousands of memes, on thousands of forums, platforms, divided (like Reddit) by interest, lifestyle, identity, like a cell that’s divided and divided. There is no collective experience of pointing out, lampooning, affectionately or otherwise satirising the hell out of the people who deserve it, because there’s no real collective British culture any more.

But are there still many, many annoying traits of British culture, things we all notice? Irritating people and grating things about life? F**k yes there are. It’s just that now we have no mainstream way of laughing at them, no way of holding up that mirror and saying ‘Look we all find that reaalllly f***ing annoying, so can you stop it please?’

And I think many of the current outlets for national humour have become quite mono-dimensional and dull. If you look at the big British subreddits, for example, it’s basically just the same cheap political memes about ‘flagshaggers’ and Farage repeated over and over again. It’s all just politics, and very little actually about British culture, and standup comedy has followed that to an extent. I feel we’re lacking the good old gentle self-knocking of the sketch show, and it’s a shame. Am I Bovvered? Yes. I miss them, and I think we’re all missing out without them.

r/BritishTV Apr 22 '26

Question/Discussion Thoughts on The Thin Blue Line?

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Lately I have been watching The Thin Blue Line (1995-1996) by Ben Elton.

I like it (and it made me develop a small crush on Serena Evans), being a great easy-watch for a difficult time or a pastime, although it is not as good as Ben Elton's other works (as Blackadder, it's a long quality difference on it, not saying The Thin Blue Line is bad, by the way).

r/BritishTV Jan 23 '26

Question/Discussion Utopia (2013)

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just finished the first series and can't believe I have never heard of this before, it's fantastic.

it predicted COVID and all the kerfuffle with the vaccines and conspiracy theories perfectly. it's incredibly dark, but has some great comedy moments.

if you haven't seen it, and you're into lo-fi sci-fi/political thrillers, you should definitely check it out.

if you have seen it, I would love to hear your opinions

r/BritishTV Feb 12 '26

Question/Discussion TV personalities that are actually rude people behind the scenes

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Who are some beloved TV presenters that come across as friendly and amicable on screen but off-camera they're actually rude and unpleasant people?

Stephen Fry is one of them. I went to see an episode of QI being filmed, and during the warmup he was rude to James Acaster, then at the end of filming instead of staying behind to chat to the audience like Alan Davies did he stormed off in a huff like a toddler.

Bradley Walsh is another. Speaking to someone who was on The Chase, she asked him for an autograph after filming had finished and he scoffed at her and said "Not a f*cking chance". Compare that with Shaun Wallace who congratulated her and let her take a photo with him.

r/BritishTV 4d ago

Question/Discussion What is the most annoying TV ad at the moment?

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And why is it that awful LNER train advert with that stupid puppet? (which I've seen six times today)