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There are, by my count, a surprising number of these at the minute.
WRECKED
We're currently working our way through the new season of this. This show took a little while to get going but it has become very fucking funny indeed. It started off as Lost send up, had a second season mostly concerned with pirates and the new one is a Hunger Games/Most Dangerous Game parody. Took us a little while to get into because you kind of need to like the characters but once you're in it's a grand time.
NORSEMEN
One of my favourite shows on tv at the minute. It is, I think, Norwegian, but they were savvy enough to shoot the show twice. Once in Norwegian and then again in English. It's a Vikings send up with a strong scent of Monty Pyton about it and some of the most fun accents on telly. Basically it's about a happy tribe of Vikings who get derailed when one of the slaves convinces them to become a cultural centre of Europe. Very deadpan, very, very funny.
THE DETOUR
Okay this one is up and down. It's a kind of a bad taste tv version of The Hangover or some such modern movie. It gets strained trying to pull a plot out over ten episodes each season but it's firing it should be quite capable of dragging a chuckle out of you.
UPSTART CROW
Ben Elton returns to studio based Brit sitcoms in an attempt to recapture his Blackadder magic. This is nowhere near as good as Blackadder. Still if you like classic Brit sitcoms, and I grew up on them, this is a nice nostalgia trip.
WRECKED
We're currently working our way through the new season of this. This show took a little while to get going but it has become very fucking funny indeed. It started off as Lost send up, had a second season mostly concerned with pirates and the new one is a Hunger Games/Most Dangerous Game parody. Took us a little while to get into because you kind of need to like the characters but once you're in it's a grand time.
NORSEMEN
One of my favourite shows on tv at the minute. It is, I think, Norwegian, but they were savvy enough to shoot the show twice. Once in Norwegian and then again in English. It's a Vikings send up with a strong scent of Monty Pyton about it and some of the most fun accents on telly. Basically it's about a happy tribe of Vikings who get derailed when one of the slaves convinces them to become a cultural centre of Europe. Very deadpan, very, very funny.
THE DETOUR
Okay this one is up and down. It's a kind of a bad taste tv version of The Hangover or some such modern movie. It gets strained trying to pull a plot out over ten episodes each season but it's firing it should be quite capable of dragging a chuckle out of you.
UPSTART CROW
Ben Elton returns to studio based Brit sitcoms in an attempt to recapture his Blackadder magic. This is nowhere near as good as Blackadder. Still if you like classic Brit sitcoms, and I grew up on them, this is a nice nostalgia trip.
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