[TV] Good British TV series & movies?

[Grombleton]

Thomas the Tank Engine

 

[Easy 10]

You have to include Get Carter in that list....

And Mona Lisa

Decent.

I didn't want to overload him though.

 

[Swansman]

Lots of promising stuff here and I havent seen any of it except for some of the movies Easy10 suggested.

 

[jakarta]

The World at War, possibly the best History TV series in, er, TV History.

 

[Lyndhurst 14]

The Avengers with Dianna Rigg and Patrick McNee as Emma Peel and John Steed.

Witty, stylish, very tongue in cheek and so British

"We're needed Mrs Peel"

 

[basque seagull]

Seconded The IT crowd - very funny
Peep Show (Channel 4) is also very good
For films, if you like social realism Mike Leigh has some good films and of course Ken Loach.

 

[half time scores]

Withnail and I

 

[loz]

This sporting life...the best sports related film ever made.

Kes, Shows life as it was,

Two excellent British classics

 

[loz]

Oh and IF...Teenage reble film.

 

[FamilyGuy]

As Ive said here before:

This Happy Breed. British cinema at its very best, Noel Coward was a genius.

 

[Palacefinder General]

Shane Meadows is a great British director. Dead Mans Shoes is gritty and worth a watch.

DMS is excellent, no question, but some of his other stuff misses the mark imho (A Room for Romeo Brass, Somers Town and Once Upon a Time in the Midlands as three examples) in spite of being well-intentioned homages to the British working class experience.

As for This is England, some really poor acting from several of the leads (Turgoose, Mclure & Gilgun) lets down what is otherwise a decent film.

 

[Rugrat]

The Party (Kristin Scott Thomas, Timothy Spall) won't be everyone's cuppa but had me fixated

 

[Is it PotG?]

DMS is excellent, no question, but some of his other stuff misses the mark imho (A Room for Romeo Brass, Somers Town and Once Upon a Time in the Midlands as three examples) in spite of being well-intentioned homages to the British working class experience.

As for This is England, some really poor acting from several of the leads (Turgoose, Mclure & Gilgun) lets down what is otherwise a decent film.

All down to opinions I guess, but I basically disagree with every word there.

 

[Is it PotG?]

The Party (Kristin Scott Thomas, Timothy Spall) won't be everyone's cuppa but had me fixated

Was that where Murphy was a druggy?

 

[Rugrat]

Was that where Murphy was a druggy?

That's the one

 

[Surrey_Albion]

The film was created by New Zealanders and the TV spin off is American I think.

But anything with Matt Berry in is very watchable. Toast of London is superb

Youre right film was NZ its one of the flight of the concords,Jermaine, the three vampires in the tv series are all english but set in usa. Still very good

 

[Palacefinder General]

All down to opinions I guess, but I basically disagree with every word there.

So you thought Dead Man’s Shoes was crap?

 

[Is it PotG?]

So you thought Dead Man’s Shoes was crap?

Nope, but I think you knew that, you little rascal you.

 

[BeHereNow]

Great shows:

Only Fools and Horses
Blackadder
One Foot in the Grave
IT Crowd
Father Ted
I’m Alan Partridge
The Office
Extras
The Mighty Boosh
Peep Show
Red Dwarf
Spaced

As for films that haven’t already been mentioned:
Mean Machine (there’s a nice piece of Albion memorabilia in it)
Sex Lives of the Potato Men

 

[vegster]

The World at War, possibly the best History TV series in, er, TV History.

Sir Laurence Olivier's narration is superb.