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  1. Secret Service kept me hooked with tension alone 👀

    Even when the story plays out a little too safe, the atmosphere and performances, especially Mark Stanley’s make it worth watching.

    That ending though… I knew it 😭

    #SecretService #SpyThriller #TVReview #BritishTV

    Full #Seasonreview

    wornoutspines.com/2026/05/09/s

  2. Secret Service had me stressed 😅​

    What starts as a routine investigation quickly turns into something much bigger, and way more dangerous.

    Tense, timely, and driven by a great performance from #GemmaArterton.

    #SecretService #TVReview #SpyThriller #BritishTV

    Full pilot review ↓

    wornoutspines.com/2026/04/28/s

  3. @masp @astronomerritt At some point during the Covid lockdowns the BBC released a bunch of wallpaper/backgrounds for use in Zoom calls. You can keep your Tardises and Only Fools sets, this one is still my favourite (although the 80s-era Weather Presenter board comes a close second).

    #SwapShop #BritishTV

  4. "Garth Marenghi's DARKPLACE," broadcast in 2004, is one of our favorite surreal British comedies. A satire of Lars Von Trier's 1994 Danish horror hit "The Kingdon," "Darkplace" features many of our most admired actors, including Matt Berry and Richard Ayoade. #garthmarenghi #garthmarenghisdarkplace #darkplace #britishtv #britishtelevision #britcom #sitcom #surreal #surrealhumor #horror #humorhorror #horrorhumor #richardayoade #matthewholness #alicelowe #julianbarrat #grahamlineham #silly

  5. "Garth Marenghi's DARKPLACE," broadcast in 2004, is one of our favorite surreal British comedies. A satire of Lars Von Trier's 1994 Danish horror hit "The Kingdon," "Darkplace" features many of our most admired actors, including Matt Berry and Richard Ayoade. #garthmarenghi #garthmarenghisdarkplace #darkplace #britishtv #britishtelevision #britcom #sitcom #surreal #surrealhumor #horror #humorhorror #horrorhumor #richardayoade #matthewholness #alicelowe #julianbarrat #grahamlineham #silly

  6. "Garth Marenghi's DARKPLACE," broadcast in 2004, is one of our favorite surreal British comedies. A satire of Lars Von Trier's 1994 Danish horror hit "The Kingdon," "Darkplace" features many of our most admired actors, including Matt Berry and Richard Ayoade. #garthmarenghi #garthmarenghisdarkplace #darkplace #britishtv #britishtelevision #britcom #sitcom #surreal #surrealhumor #horror #humorhorror #horrorhumor #richardayoade #matthewholness #alicelowe #julianbarrat #grahamlineham #silly

  7. "Garth Marenghi's DARKPLACE," broadcast in 2004, is one of our favorite surreal British comedies. A satire of Lars Von Trier's 1994 Danish horror hit "The Kingdon," "Darkplace" features many of our most admired actors, including Matt Berry and Richard Ayoade. #garthmarenghi #garthmarenghisdarkplace #darkplace #britishtv #britishtelevision #britcom #sitcom #surreal #surrealhumor #horror #humorhorror #horrorhumor #richardayoade #matthewholness #alicelowe #julianbarrat #grahamlineham #silly

  8. "Garth Marenghi's DARKPLACE," broadcast in 2004, is one of our favorite surreal British comedies. A satire of Lars Von Trier's 1994 Danish horror hit "The Kingdon," "Darkplace" features many of our most admired actors, including Matt Berry and Richard Ayoade. #garthmarenghi #garthmarenghisdarkplace #darkplace #britishtv #britishtelevision #britcom #sitcom #surreal #surrealhumor #horror #humorhorror #horrorhumor #richardayoade #matthewholness #alicelowe #julianbarrat #grahamlineham #silly

  9. There’s something quietly extraordinary about the Up series — checking in every seven years and realising you’ve been growing older alongside them.
    I’ve followed it for decades, and every instalment feels like catching up with old friends… their lives, their choices, their joys and regrets. It’s one of the most human pieces of television ever made.
    Really looking forward to the final chapter, 70 Up, a fitting end to a series that has captured a lifetime.

    #documentary #70up #television #lifelongstories #britishtv

    theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2

  10. Just finished first season of Department Q on Netflix. A bit too much gore in the last couple of episodes, even for a procedural, but I really liked the characters and the humor. Has the feeling of finishing a great book that is setting up a series you know you're going to read all of.

    #TV #DepartmentQ #BritishTV

  11. One of the olden days telly channels is rebroadcasting Press Gang from the very first episode, and for some not-quite-understood reason my PVR has magically been recording them for me.

    That's Sunday afternoon sorted!

    #PressGang #BritishTV

  12. We've been watching Unforgotten. Two episodes/night.
    #BritishTV #TV

  13. Right well that's the holibobs nearly over, on our way back to smelly old London via Bridgwater. My mum gave me some TREASURE to bring home however. Ooh yeah that's the complete set of The Prisoner on VHS 📺

    #Prisoner #ThePrisoner #VHS #ClassicTV #BritishTV

  14. The show? Aquila. 🚀

    ​Does anyone else remember this one? Two boys find a centuries-old Roman spaceship buried in a field... now I just have to find somewhere to rewatch it! 🤣

    ​(3/3) #Aquila #BBC #90sTV #BritishTV #FoundIt

  15. An Englishman’s Castle (BBC 1978) 3 x 50 minute episodes
    It’s 38 years since Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany and is run by collaborationist fascist government. The economy is booming and on the surface life is good under the greater German empire. Peter Ingram (Kenneth More) writer of Britains favourite soap opera lives a comfortable life and is more than happy to toe the party line but can he continue to compromise?
    #BBC #drama #Britishtv #alternatehistory

    myreviewer.com/DVD/170794/An-E

  16. Undermind (1965) Sci-fi 11 episodes (60 minutes each.)
    Created by Robert Banks Stewart

    Undermind tells a story about alien subversion where an alien force seek to establish a foothold in Britain by undermining society and morale.
    #scifi #culttv #television #sciencefiction #britishtv

    ladydontfallbackwards.wordpres

    youtube.com/watch?v=cUwsWUY90FQ

  17. Object Z (1965)
    A mysterious object is sighted heading towards Earth and causes panic. But what is the nature & origin of the object, and how can it be stopped? A six-part British sci-fi drama written by director Christopher McMaster #Sciencefiction #television #1960s #scifi #britishtv #sf
    on-magazine.co.uk/arts/tv/obje
    starburstmagazine.com/reviews/

  18. ""If you are of an age to remember British TV in the eighties ... it is Kip Carpenter’s Robin of Sherwood that has probably done more to define your image of the Robin Hood myth than anything else. For by taking the quasi-mystical world ... adding the reality of post-Norman-conquest Britain and...characters whose personalities and problems are still familiar today, Carpenter created a series that ..."

    #RobinOfSherwood #80sTV #BritishTV #NothingIsForgotten

    authory.com/JohnBull/Nothing-i

  19. My favorite game to play with my dad is watching random, classic British movies or tv shows and then counting how many people we recognize as players on Midsomer Murders.

    #BritishTelevision #MidsomerMurders #BritishTV #BritishMovies #BritishCrimeTV

  20. A fun fact, that is almost on topic.

    One of Diana Rigg's last roles was in the series The Detectorists (a great series, worthy of a rainy Sunday watch).

    Diana Rigg played the mother to actress Rachael Sterling, who is Diana Rigg's actual daughter. What a great opportunity to collaborate.

    #DianaRigg #TheDetectorists #TheAvengers #BritishTV

  21. A fun fact, that is almost on topic.

    One of Diana Rigg's last roles was in the series The Detectorists (a great series, worthy of a rainy Sunday watch).

    Diana Rigg played the mother to actress Rachael Sterling, who is Diana Rigg's actual daughter. What a great opportunity to collaborate.

    #DianaRigg #TheDetectorists #TheAvengers #BritishTV

  22. A fun fact, that is almost on topic.

    One of Diana Rigg's last roles was in the series The Detectorists (a great series, worthy of a rainy Sunday watch).

    Diana Rigg played the mother to actress Rachael Sterling, who is Diana Rigg's actual daughter. What a great opportunity to collaborate.

    #DianaRigg #TheDetectorists #TheAvengers #BritishTV

  23. A fun fact, that is almost on topic.

    One of Diana Rigg's last roles was in the series The Detectorists (a great series, worthy of a rainy Sunday watch).

    Diana Rigg played the mother to actress Rachael Sterling, who is Diana Rigg's actual daughter. What a great opportunity to collaborate.

    #DianaRigg #TheDetectorists #TheAvengers #BritishTV

  24. A fun fact, that is almost on topic.

    One of Diana Rigg's last roles was in the series The Detectorists (a great series, worthy of a rainy Sunday watch).

    Diana Rigg played the mother to actress Rachael Sterling, who is Diana Rigg's actual daughter. What a great opportunity to collaborate.

    #DianaRigg #TheDetectorists #TheAvengers #BritishTV

  25. It's a rainy day, so watching a few classic episodes of The Avengers. The "original" one with Diana Rigg (passed away in 2020) and Patrick Macnee (passed away in 2015).

    #TheAvengers #BritishTV

  26. I'll watch anything written by Sally Wainwright, and anything with Tamsin Greig in. So that Riot Women is pretty much number one on my "new things to see" list.
    #TOTP #BritishTV #RiotWomen

  27. MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS debuted on the BBC #OTD in 1969.

    “Literally nothing was funny," TV GUIDE’s Cleveland Amory wrote when it aired on PBS in 1975. "And the less funny something was—such as a Spanish Inquisition sketch with three cardinals—the more you saw of it."

    #ClassicTV #montypython #BritishTV

  28. THE PRISONER ended its run on CBS #OTD in 1968.

    Originally broadcast on ITV in the UK, it aired on CBS Sat nights from June-Sept, 1968.

    Patrick McGoohan created and starred in this series about a secret agent held captive in a mysterious village. So prescient it's scary.

    #ClassicTV #BritishTV #1960sTV