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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These are older but they remain my favorite British shows:

Peep Show (Olivia Colman rules in this too!)
anything Alan Partridge 
[b]The Mighty Boosh[/b]

[b]The Great British Baking Show[/b] is everything and more.
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New poster. PP, are you watching the older, Mel/Sue/Mary/Paul version of GBBO (as the Brits call the "Great British Bake-Off," titled "Baking Show" in the US due to that litigious Pillsbury Dough-Boy and his lawyers)?

Did you know that Noel Fielding (who starred in "The Mighty Boosh") is now one of the two hosts of the newer edition of GBBO? If you love Boosh, just wait until you see Noel and his legendary shirts inside the baking tent.

Anyway. Noel Fielding and Sandi Toksvig took over the hosting duties from Mel & Sue when GBBO, as the Brits call it, moved to another network. I personally love both Noel and Sandi, but just want baking show fans to know that the hosts do change. Stick with it -- it remains the most supportive and friendly competition ever. I loved Mel & Sue as well, but was tickled to see GBBO embrace the oddness of Noel, and I have always loved Sandi Toksvig.. It's an adjustment if you're a huge Mel & Sue fan but give Noel time to become your new, insanely dressed friend who rocks the guy-liner.

I also tip my hat to your Alan Partridge mention, PP. Knowing me, knowing you, a-haaaa.....

To the OP: Now, see what you started here? Bless you.

Randomly, another huge vote for "W1A" and its predecessor series, "2012." Both are "mockumentary" reports on, respectively, the inner workings of the BBC and the 2012 Olympic organizers. Either you will love them or hate them, especially W1A, which takes infuriatingly inane workplace communications to new heights (or depths) of pure repetitive idiocy. It's...genius, to me, but I guarantee you will want to chuck something at your TV when the characters start another circular conversation....[/quote]

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