TV series
Lovesick
(created by Tom Edge, written by Andy Baker & Ed Macdonald)
Highly Recommended! | TV series, British, drama, romance, comedy, Antonia Thomas, Tom Edge, Andy Baker, Ed Macdonald, Johnny Flynn, Daniel Ings, Joshua McGuire, Hannah Britland
Follow Your CuriosityDeadwood
(created by David Milch)
Highly Recommended! | TV series, crime, drama, historical, Timothy Olyphant, Gerald McRaney, John Hawkes, David Milch, Molly Parker, Brad Dourif, Ian McShane, W. Earl Brown, Paula Malcomson, Dayton Callie, Leon Rippy, William Sanderson, Robin Weigert, Sean Bridgers, Jim Beaver, Jeffrey Jones, Kim Dickens, Powers Boothe, Titus Welliver, Peter Jason, Anna Gunn, Ralph Richeson, Keone Young, Garret Dillahunt, Brent Sexton, Pasha D. Lychnikoff, Michael Harney, Ray McKinnon, Josh Eriksson, Franklyn Ajaye, Ricky Jay, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Brian Cox, Sarah Paulson, Zach Grenier, Cleo King, Stephen Tobolowsky, Allan Graf, Richard Gant
Follow Your CuriosityRiver
(written by Abi Morgan)
Highly Recommended! | TV series, British, crime, drama, romance, Stellan Skarsgård, Owen Teale, Abi Morgan, Lesley Manville, Eddie Marsan, Adeel Akhtar, Nicola Walker
Follow Your CuriosityFleabag
(written by Phoebe Waller-Bridge)
Highly Recommended! | TV series, British, drama, comedy, Hugh Skinner, Olivia Colman, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Bill Paterson, Sian Clifford, Ben Aldridge, Hugh Dennis
Follow Your CuriosityW1A
(written by John Morton)
Highly Recommended! | TV series, British, comedy, Salman Rushdie, Tom Basden, Joel Fry, Hugh Bonneville, Monica Dolan, Jessica Hynes, Sarah Parish, Hugh Skinner, Nina Sosanya, Jason Watkins, Jonathan Bailey, Ophelia Lovibond, David Tennant, Carol Vorderman, Sara Pascoe, Clare Balding, Olivia Colman, Alex Beckett, Elizabeth Berrington
Follow Your CuriosityPlanet Earth II
(presented by David Attenborough)
Highly Recommended! | nature, TV series, British, documentary, flora & fauna, David Attenborough
Follow Your CuriosityFlight of the Conchords
(created by James Bobin, Jemaine Clement & Bret McKenzie)
Highly Recommended! | TV series, comedy, music, musical, Jemaine Clement, James Bobin, Bret McKenzie, Rhys Darby, Kristen Schaal, Arj Barker, Eugene Mirman, David Costabile, Rachel Blanchard
Follow Your CuriosityLegion
(created by Noah Hawley)
Highly Recommended! | TV series, drama, sci-fi, action, thriller, Dan Stevens, Rachel Keller, Aubrey Plaza, Bill Irwin, Jean Smart, Jemaine Clement, Mackenzie Gray, David Ferry
Follow Your CuriosityDerek
(written by Ricky Gervais)
Highly Recommended! | TV series, British, drama, comedy, Ricky Gervais, Karl Pilkington, Tom Basden, Kerry Godliman
Follow Your CuriosityGame of Thrones
(created by David Benioff & D.B. Weiss, based on the novels by George R.R. Martin)
Highly Recommended! | TV series, drama, fantasy, adventure, Jacob Anderson, Mackenzie Crook, Jim Broadbent, George R.R. Martin, TV series based on novel, David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, James Cosmo, Pilou Asbæk, Susan Brown, Joe Dempsie, Michael McElhatton, Owen Teale, Michiel Huisman, Natalie Dormer, Charles Dance, Nathalie Emmanuel, Tim McInnerny, Jason Momoa, Sean Bean, Iwan Rheon, Richard Madden, Kristian Nairn, Hannah Murray, Stephen Dillane, Ian McElhinney, Michelle Fairley, Kristofer Hivju, Carice van Houten, Daniel Portman, Ben Crompton, Julian Glover, Rory McCann, Jerome Flynn, Liam Cunningham, Gwendoline Christie, Aidan Gillen, John Bradley, Alfie Allen, Iain Glen, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Maisie Williams, Sophie Turner, Emilia Clarke, Kit Harington, Lena Headey, Peter Dinklage
Follow Your Curiosity"From my own experiences I've learned that quirky, different, fringe projects that may only be cult, often travel a lot better internationally. Mainstream comedians and TV shows that might be the biggest thing, on say, UK TV for a while, often don't sell a sausage around the world. Comics selling out arenas in the UK often can't sell a ticket in America or many other places."
— Ricky Gervais
for Creatives | create for YOURSELF, TV series, comedy, the successful artist, reaching your audience, Ricky Gervais, TV writing, comedy writing
"The broadest, most inoffensive, mainstream hits are so often the least 'talked about.' They just happen and wash over a disconcerting majority once a week. Again, this is fine if you just want commercial success but it's soul destroying if you have loftier ambitions."
— Ricky Gervais
for Creatives | artist integrity, TV series, the successful artist, reaching your audience, Ricky Gervais, feedback/criticism/rejection, TV writing, break the rules, TAKE RISKS
"You should always try your hardest. The Office was the first thing I really tried my hardest at. I don't know why I started this radical new approach then, but I think it was one of those carpe diem type revelations. I came into the industry with a slightly older head on my shoulders than most and maybe deep down knew I shouldn't blow the opportunity. I put everything into it. A lifetime of experiences, and I couldn't have been prouder of the results. I don't even mean the success of the show, but simply the finished product. I was the laziest man in the world before I made The Office but now I'm addicted to that sort of success. Pride in my work. Now I'm a workaholic, because I realize that the hard work is sort of a reward in itself."
— Ricky Gervais
for Creatives | creating isn't easy, TV series, British, comedy, the successful artist, writing, Ricky Gervais, artists must EXPERIENCE, comedy writing
Follow Your Curiosity"Throw away your television. ... Okay, don't throw away your television. You'll miss it when the tornado's on the way. But, at least, like, unsubscribe from premium cable. ... No, seriously, step away from the remote. You'll never know how much free time you actually have until you give up TV. ... Don't even. If you're watching Game of Thrones, you have time to write. ... Okay, so there are some really good shows on HBO, especially The Wire, but you really, really have to be careful. ... Okay, Six Feet Under as well, but, seriously, that's it. And no more than one episode per day. ... Better yet, do throw away your television."
— David James Poissant
for Creatives | TV series, writing, the creative life, design your life, David James Poissant
Catastrophe
(written by Rob Delaney & Sharon Horgan)
Highly Recommended! | TV series, British, comedy, Ashley Jensen, Carrie Fisher, Rob Delaney, Sharon Horgan, Mark Bonnar, Daniel Lapaine
Follow Your CuriosityBad Education
(written by Freddy Syborn & Jack Whitehall)
Highly Recommended! | TV series, British, comedy, Freddy Syborn, Ethan Lawrence, Mathew Horne, Kae Alexander, Nikki Runeckles, Sarah Solemani, Michelle Gomez, Jack Bence, Harry Enfield, Layton Williams, Charlie Wernham, Samantha Spiro, Jack Binstead
Follow Your CuriosityMisfits
(created by Howard Overman)
Highly Recommended! | TV series, British, drama, sci-fi, fantasy, comedy, Howard Overman, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Joseph Gilgun, Iwan Rhein, Lauren Socha, Antonia Thomas, Craig Parkinson, Robert Sheehan, Ruth Negga
Follow Your CuriosityEastbound & Down
(created by Ben Best, Jody Hill & Danny McBride)
Highly Recommended! | TV series, drama, comedy, sport, Jody Hill, Danny McBride, Ben Best, Steve Little, Katy Mixon, Elizabeth De Razzo
Follow Your CuriosityVice Principals
(created by Jody Hill & Danny McBride)
Highly Recommended! | TV series, drama, comedy, Walton Goggins, Jody Hill, Danny McBride, Kimberly Hebert Gregory, Shea Whigham, Georgia King
Follow Your CuriosityFriday Night Dinner
(written by Robert Popper)
Highly Recommended! | TV series, British, comedy, Tamsin Greig, Tom Rosenthal, Robert Popper, Simon Bird, Paul Ritter, Mark Heap, Tracy Ann Oberman, Frances Cuka
Follow Your CuriosityView TV Abroad
all UK TV live and on-demand, wherever you are
Highly Recommended! | gadgets, TV series, British, film, sport, internet TV
Follow Your CuriosityPlebs
(written by Tom Basden and Sam Leifer)
Highly Recommended! | TV series, British, comedy, Doon Mackichan, Adrian Scarborough, Tom Basden, Sam Leifer, Karl Theobald, Ryan Sampson, Tom Rosenthal, Sophie Colquhoun, Lydia Rose Bewley, Joel Fry
Follow Your CuriosityCommunity
(created by Dan Harmon)
Highly Recommended! | TV series, comedy, Jonathan Banks, Joel McHale, Danny Pudi, Donald Glover, Gillian Jacobs, Alison Brie, Ken Jeong, Yvette Nicole Brown, Jim Rash, Chevy Chase, Richard Erdman, John Oliver, John Goodman, Dan Harmon
Follow Your Curiosity"A novel is perhaps better seen as a season of serialized (not episodic) television."
— Chuck Wendig
"Today, thanks to certain pioneering authors, some great books, and some great movies and TV series, the wall between genre and mainstream fiction has become not a wall, but a river. It can be forded or bridged."
— Russell Galen
for Creatives | books, artist integrity, TV series, film, novel writing, writing, genre, TV writing, creative freedom, Russell Galen
Happy Valley
(created by Sally Wainwright)
Highly Recommended! | TV series, British, crime, drama, Adam Long, Derek Riddell, Jill Baker, Charlie Murphy, Rhys Connah, Joe Armstrong, George Costigan, James Norton, Shane Zaza, Siobhan Finneran, Sarah Lancashire, Sally Wainwright
Follow Your CuriosityVeep
(created by Armando Iannucci)
Highly Recommended! | TV series, comedy, politics, Armando Iannucci, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Anna Chlumsky, Tony Hale, Reid Scott, Timothy Simons, Gary Cole, Kevin Dunn, Hugh Laurie, Dan Bakkedahl, Phil Reeves, Sam Richardson, Sarah Sutherland, Matt Walsh, Randall Park, Isiah Whitlock Jr.
Follow Your CuriosityWould I Lie to You?
(starring David Mitchell, Lee Mack & Rob Brydon)
Highly Recommended! | TV series, British, actor David Mitchell, Lee Mack, Rob Brydon
Follow Your CuriosityThe Street
(created by Jimmy McGovern)
Highly Recommended! | TV series, British, drama, Jimmy McGovern, Timothy Spall, Ger Ryan, Jim Broadbent
Follow Your CuriosityCracker
(created & written by Jimmy McGovern)
Highly Recommended! | TV series, British, crime, drama, mystery, Jimmy McGovern, Robbie Coltrane, Geraldine Somerville, Barbara Flynn
Follow Your CuriosityToast of London
(written by Matt Berry & Arthur Mathews)
Highly Recommended! | TV series, British, comedy, music, Matt Berry, Arthur Mathews, Robert Bathurst, Doon Mackichan, Shazad Latif, Tim Downie, Harry Peacock, Geoffrey McGivern, Tracy Ann Oberman
Follow Your CuriosityThe Mighty Boosh
(written by & starring Julian Barratt & Noel Fielding)
Highly Recommended! | TV series, British, fantasy, comedy, music, Richard Ayoade, Matt Berry, Noel Fielding, Julian Barratt, surreal
Follow Your CuriosityAn Idiot Abroad
(starring Karl Pilkington, Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant)
Highly Recommended! | TV series, British, comedy, Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, documentary, travel, Karl Pilkington
Follow Your CuriosityExtras
(written & directed by and starring Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant)
Highly Recommended! | TV series, British, drama, comedy, Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, Ashley Jensen
Follow Your CuriosityThe Wrong Mans
(written by & starring James Corden & Mathew Baynton)
Highly Recommended! | TV series, British, thriller, comedy, Dawn French, Mathew Baynton, James Corden
Follow Your CuriosityHyperdrive
(written by Kevin Cecil & Andy Riley)
Highly Recommended! | TV series, British, sci-fi, comedy, Kevin Cecil, Andy Riley, Nick Frost, Kevin Eldon, Miranda Hart
Follow Your CuriosityThe Office
(written & directed by Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant)
Highly Recommended! | TV series, British, drama, comedy, Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, Martin Freeman, Mackenzie Crook, Lucy Davis, Ewen MacIntosh
Follow Your CuriosityThe IT Crowd
(written & directed by Graham Linehan)
Highly Recommended! | TV series, British, comedy, Graham Linehan, geek, Chris O'Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson, Matt Berry, Christopher Morris, Noel Fielding
Follow Your CuriosityBlack Books
(created by Dylan Moran, written by Kevin Cecil)
Highly Recommended! | books, TV series, British, comedy, Dylan Moran, Kevin Cecil, Andy Riley, Graham Linehan, Bill Bailey, Tamsin Greig, bookstores
Follow Your CuriosityBreaking Bad
(created by Vince Gilligan)
Highly Recommended! | TV series, crime, drama, thriller, Bryan Cranston, Vince Gilligan, Jonathan Banks
Follow Your CuriosityThe Wire
(created by David Simon)
Highly Recommended! | TV series, Idris Elba, crime, drama, thriller, David Simon, Dominic West, Wendell Pierce, Lance Reddick, Clarke Peters, Andre Royo, Wood Harris, Michael Kenneth Williams, Frankie Faison, Jamie Hector, Isiah Whitlock Jr.
Follow Your CuriosityJustified
(written & based on the short story "Fire in the Hole" by Elmore Leonard, adapted by Graham Yost)
Highly Recommended! | TV series, crime, drama, action, Timothy Olyphant, Walton Goggins, Graham Yost, Elmore Leonard, film based on short story
Follow Your CuriosityPeaky Blinders
(created & written by Steven Knight)
Highly Recommended! | TV series, British, crime, drama, Tom Hardy, historical, Cillian Murphy, Steven Knight, Paul Anderson, Helen McCrory, Sophie Rundle, Sam Neill, Annabelle Wallis
Follow Your CuriosityThe Equalizer
(written by Richard Wenk, based on the TV series created by Richard Lindheim & Michael Sloan)
Highly Recommended! | TV series, crime, film, action, thriller, Denzel Washington, Antoine Fuqua, Richard Wenk, Richard Lindheim, Michael Sloan
Follow Your CuriosityLuther
(created by Neil Cross)
Highly Recommended! | TV series, Idris Elba, British, crime, drama, mystery, Neil Cross, Ruth Wilson, Michael Smiley, Warren Brown, Dermot Crowley
Follow Your Curiosity