British TV Comedies on Netflix
Last updated March 09, 2025
The Inbetweeners
2008 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsThis rib-tickling series follows English lad Will McKenzie and his best mates, Neil Sutherland, Jay Cartwright and Simon Cooper, as they try -- and fail spectacularly -- to navigate the wretched no-man's land known as adolescence.
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The IT Crowd: Series 1
2006 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsEnter the glamorous offices of Reynholm Industries, then take the elevator to the basement, where you'll find the decidedly unglamorous IT support team: slacker Roy, social misfit Moss and technically ignorant supervisor Jen.
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The IT Crowd: Series 2
2007 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsThe inaction continues in the second round of this comedy series that follows the desperate lives of three miserable members of a corporate IT support team. Season 2 finds a new boss shaking things up, and Jen lands herself a promotion.
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The IT Crowd: Series 3
2008 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsIn the third season of this acclaimed comedy series about tech support geeks and slackers, Jen seeks a new job after her sexual harassment lawsuit ends unsatisfactorily. Later, Moss and Roy turn on Jen when she goes overboard with her role as boss.
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The Inbetweeners: Season 1
2008 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsToo geeky to be cool and too cool to be nerds, schoolmates and best friends Will, Simon, Jay and Neil tackle the most pressing issues of their teenage lives -- girls, sex and cheap booze -- in this sitcom.
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The Inbetweeners: Season 2
2009 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsFour geeky friends and schoolmates -- Will, Simon, Jay and Neil -- continue to stumble gracelessly through the many ups and downs of teenage life in Season 2 of this award-winning sitcom.
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Spaced: Series 1
1999 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsHapless and loveless pair Tim and Daisy set their sights on a London flat, but it's available to "professional couples only." With some creative bluffing, they convince landlady Marsha they're loving soul mates.
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Spaced
1999 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsIn this surreal sitcom, slacker artist Tim Bisley and brooding writer Daisy Steiner meet in a café and decide to pose as a young professional couple so they can move into an affordable flat, where they do everything possible to avoid adulthood.
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The Inbetweeners: Season 3
2010 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsWill, Simon, Neil and Jay are busy trying to navigate their way through sixth form while their hormones run rampant in Season 3. Catch more mishaps as the quartet continues on their mission to lose their virginity and become men.
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The IT Crowd
2006 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsIn the age-old clash of IT vs. the corporation, a pair of basement-dwelling dweebs squares off against their cloddish owner-come-lately, with their ambitious but tech-illiterate manager running interference.
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The IT Crowd: Series 4
2010 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsFrom their basement digs in the swank high-rise offices of Reynholm Industries, the firm's in-house tech support staff continue to bump heads, maintain an uneasy coexistence and delight in defying their clueless but ambitious supervisor.
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Spaced: Series 2
2001 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsTim and Daisy's rocky relationship faces its greatest challenge. Tim finds true love, while Daisy's romantic prospects are looking a tad peaky. Meanwhile, Brian is paranoid that his affair with Twist is draining his artistic juices.
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Derek: Season 1
2012 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsWhile filming at a nursing home, a documentary crew's cameras capture the life of socially awkward caregiver Derek Noakes, a 49-year-old bachelor whose passions include Jesus Christ, animals and autographs.
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Kingdom: Series 2
2008 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsSet a year after the end of Series 1, Series 2 begins with life-changing news from Beatrice and the return of Peter's long-missing brother, Simon. Meanwhile, Peter handles cases pertaining to an injured dog and stolen scientific research.
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Kingdom: Series 3
2009 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsCounty solicitor Peter Kingdom (Stephen Fry) returns for a third season to handle the legal cases of small-town Market Shipborough's quirky residents while dealing with the antics of his unstable sister, Beatrice (Hermione Norris).
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Fawlty Towers: Series 1
1975 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsJohn Cleese stars as Basil Fawlty, the manic and much-put-upon hotel manager whose life is plagued by dead guests, hotel inspectors and riffraff. His biggest headache, though, is his "little nest of vipers" -- nagging wife Sybil.
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Fawlty Towers: Series 2
1979 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 Stars"Fawlty Towers" returns for a second madcap series with Basil once again hampered at every turn by his scathing wife Sybil and the hapless Manuel. It would almost be possible to feel sorry for him, if it wasn't for his appalling rudeness.
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Derek
2012 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsRicky Gervais created and stars in this heartwarming comedy-drama as Derek, a loyal nursing home caretaker who sees only the good in his quirky co-workers as they struggle against prejudice and shrinking budgets to care for their elderly residents.
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Kingdom: Series 1
2007 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsCounty solicitor Peter Kingdom takes on a string of quirky legal cases for the offbeat residents of Market Shipborough, including the kidnapping of a local child and a clash between a gas company and sheep owners over land.
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Kingdom
2007 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsStephen Fry stars as Peter Kingdom, a Norfolk solicitor whose quirky clientele supplies him with a bounty of unusual cases, which he juggles with tending to his unbalanced half-sister, Beatrice, and searching for their long-lost brother.
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Fawlty Towers
1975 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsHaughty, misadventure-prone Basil Fawlty and his bossy wife, Sybil, try to raise the profile of their "English Riviera" operation -- the Fawlty Towers Hotel -- but never-ending misunderstandings arise, leading to constant farcical lunacy.
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Shameless: Series 3
2006 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsOff-his-head of the family, Frank, embarks on more misadventures despite the best efforts of his remarkably well-balanced children: Fiona, Lip, Ian, Debbie, Carl and Liam (plus the other two nippers from Frank's increasingly hazy lover, Sheila).
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Red Dwarf: Series 2
1988 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsSeries 2 unfolds as the mining vessel's crew, summoned by a distress signal, heads to the site of a downed spacecraft and takes on a new passenger: a service android named Kryten, who can't seem to relax.
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Shameless: Series 4
2007 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsThe lives of the Gallagher children are thrown into disarray with the return of their supposedly gay mother, Monica. Meanwhile, the Maguires -- a local gangster family -- move in next door.
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Shameless
2004 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsThis addictive series follows the Gallaghers -- a brood of six led by jobless single father Frank -- who live in public housing and are blissfully unaware of the family's dysfunction, while dad tries to maintain his sanity with help from a bottle.
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