What piece of media from the UK do you wish got more attention from the rest of the world?

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cheandbis@reddit

Inside Number 9

I have no idea if it's popular outside of these Isles but i would guess it should translate well.

I've said it before but The 12 Days of Christine, for me, is the best 30 minutes of a self-contained story ever on TV. A masterpiece in how to tell a captivating and emotional story in half an hour.

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c0tch@reddit

I keep wanting to watch it but then I see that guy from Benidorm and it puts me off

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cheandbis@reddit

Never seen Benidorm, you mean Steve Pemberton? He's great in all he does in my opinion.

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c0tch@reddit

I don’t know his name, just the show gives me mrs browns boys vibes. He wrote it I believe as well as acted in it.

It’s a show I’ve never understood I guess it’s for a different type of person.

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jelloandjuggernauts@reddit

I never thought I'd see Inside No. 9 compared to Mrs Brown's Boys, but here we are!

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c0tch@reddit

No im not comparing that to mrs browns boys im comparing Benidorm to it but a lesser evil.

I’ve never seen it so I can’t compare them. It’s just Benidorm was that sorta show where it appealed to those types who watch mrs browns boys just it’s not the worst thing ever.

I just hear a lot about it but him being in it made me worry he wrote it like he wrote Benidorm and therefore it’s going to be painful for me

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Lamenter_@reddit

Steve Pemberton didn't write Benidorm, Derren Litten did.

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c0tch@reddit

Oh really? I thought he wrote and starred in it my bad

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InviteAromatic6124@reddit

Give it a chance it's nothing like Benidorm it's a dark anthology series similar to Black Mirror and Tales of the Unexpected. Well worth a watch!

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c0tch@reddit

Awesome I’ll give it a go then when I’m done with the wire

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kc321363@reddit

So so brilliant. Criminally underrated.

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mordhoshogh@reddit

I was a wreck for about a week after that episode

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knight-under-stars@reddit

The 1994 masterpiece album Troublegum by the Northern Irish band Therapy?.

To be honest their two follow ups (Infernal Love and Semi-detached) are bloody brilliant too.

Had these guys been American they would have been one of the biggest metal bands of the 90's.

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OddlyDown@reddit

They are touring Troublegum for its 30th anniversary right now! :)

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knight-under-stars@reddit

Indeed they are, I have tickets for two dates.

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OddlyDown@reddit

I have tickets. I’ve seen them more than any other band, I think…

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knight-under-stars@reddit

I think they are probably second for me. Easily over 10 times.

Number one is probably Reel Big Fish, but then my buddy and I got it in our heads it would be cool to go to every date on one tour. Ended up drinking at the bar with the band one night which was cool.

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forfar4@reddit

It's amazing, the bands we latch on to. My most -seen band is Cardiacs (17 times), Rammstein (14 times) and then Super Furry Animals (9 times). Try explaining *that" list to someone who "likes a nice tune..."

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Hankstudbuckle@reddit

Upvote for Cardiacs. I've only seen them about ten times I think.

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forfar4@reddit

Hiya, fellow Pondie!

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g0ldcd@reddit

I am both looking forward to attending and cursing them for making me feel so old.

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daddy-dj@reddit

My claim to fame is I got called a cunt by Andy Cairns at the Phoenix Festival in '93 (I think). To be fair to him, I had just spilled a pint glass of water over him not long before they were due to go on stage, so it was probably merited.

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forfar4@reddit

I think it was that year that I - a rocker - wandered into a tent when Utah Saints were playing and fell in love with a "dance band". Incredible band, live.

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bubble12133@reddit (OP)

Ill definitely check this out, seems right up my alley. Thanks!

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chris_282@reddit

You might also enjoy Earth Vs The Wildhearts.

Ginger Wildheart is a national treasure.

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forfar4@reddit

"My Baby Is A Headfuck" is a tour de force of creative guitar playing. Love that Ginger is a Cardiacs fan.

Have to admit that on hearing the song several times at a loud Rock club, I thought it was called "My Baby Is A Bedbug". It didn't make sense until I saw the record in a shop...

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DW_555@reddit

Bloody love The Wildhearts, can't wait for the new album to come out.

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knight-under-stars@reddit

My pleasure, let me know what you think when you get round to it 🤘

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forfar4@reddit

I was mistaken for the lead singer in a noisy Rock club. I explained that I wasn't the guy but this gorgeous Goth-looking girl in vinyl miniskirt, corset and fishnet stockings said, "Ah... Close enough..." and so I owe that lead singer a debt of gratitude for one of the most biologically accommodating encounters of my life.

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ignatiusjreillyXM@reddit

Screw that, forget about that, I don't wanna know about anything like that 😀

Agreed they were brilliant and deserved more success than they had. Still one of the most revelatory gigs I went to was back in 1991 was Hole, supported by Therapy?, with PJ Harvey (who had just released their first single) third on the bill. Hole were really shit that night, but the other two acts were utterly outstanding....

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JackMythos@reddit

Gonna check them out

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Tom_Tower@reddit

One of my favourite albums of all time. Absolutely incredible. Really looking forward to seeing them live.

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Noesfsratool@reddit

Checked them out, wouldn't call them a metal band tho.

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chris_282@reddit

They killed at Donington Monsters of Rock '94, so we gave them a pass.

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Noesfsratool@reddit

Yeah very 90s alt rock vibe

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skippergimp@reddit

I swear I have never heard drums hit as hard as they were on Sreamager. How those drums weren’t torn I will never know.

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JackMythos@reddit

The UK Hip-Hop scene, I like Grime too but the homegrown Hip-Hop scene was always more my thing. Jehst, Kashmere, Ramson BadbonezRoots Manuva, Skinnyman, Task Force and a dozen other names I’m forgetting where the soundtrack to my life in a way the more mainstream UK artists never have been.

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wealllovefrogs@reddit

The Voice of the Great Outdoors and Falling Down are long lost masterpieces.

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WasabiMadman@reddit

Benny Harvey

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InviteAromatic6124@reddit

Chucklevision, in fact all.of the Chuckle Brothers stuff

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plantking9001@reddit

Red Dwarf

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InviteAromatic6124@reddit

There's a large following of Red Dwarf in the USA, Canada and Australia but still not on par with the UK1

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No_Tangelo4644@reddit

Miranda.

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Deep_Banana_6521@reddit

Still Game.

North of the border, it's cherished, but nobody else seems to know it exists (or can understand it)

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Paulstan67@reddit

It is good, but yes it's incredibly difficult to understand (for a hard of hearing Stopfordian at least).

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Lessarocks@reddit

Yeah a fair few of my friends have comprehension issues. It spoils the flow when they have to ask me what was said.

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Paulstan67@reddit

I'm a little deaf anyway so subtitles are on all the time to help me out.

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Shoddy_Juggernaut_11@reddit

Ya prick

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DrDaxon@reddit

I live in Bedford and binged watched it - my wife who’s Polish also enjoyed it, so it’s now officially internationally recognised. May I recommend a polish short film on Netflix called “fanatyk” - you can watch with subtitles, also amazing dry humour

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AdAffectionate2418@reddit

Surely if we're exporting something it's gotta be Rab C...

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Fred776@reddit

We're big fans in our house in southern England (though we are actually exiled northerners).

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Deep_Banana_6521@reddit

any scottish ties?

I'm an exiled southerner to the north with Glaswegian parents, so Scottish culture was forced upon me.

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Fred776@reddit

No strong ties. Even though my grandad was from Glasgow I never really knew him.

I have always enjoyed my visits to Scotland though - I haven't been all that many times, but I'd like to see a lot more of it.

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JudgeWhoOverrules@reddit

This is one of my favorite pieces of UK media.

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decentlyfair@reddit

Yup massive fan here. Just started series 2 on a rewatch. Even went up to that there Glasgow for the live shows.

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60sstuff@reddit

Love it and am a Londoner

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Ronsona@reddit

Love Still Game - I live in Berkshire

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MDFISDEAD@reddit

Garth Marenghi's Darkplace!

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dvnimvl4@reddit

Went to see the live show recently, and it was magnificent.

I'm not Jesus Christ, I've come to accept that now

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tobotic@reddit

I don't think this even got enough attention in the UK.

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Acciocomments@reddit

“She was like a candle in the wind. Unreliable” - I’ve not seen this in years! It’s hilarious but I don’t know many people who have seen it.

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MDFISDEAD@reddit

It's been some years for me too! Might be about time for a rewatch!

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Weedlefruit@reddit

I think you'd better had

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Omnissiah40K@reddit

As I rounded the corner, I felt muscular and compact, like corned beef.

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Shifty377@reddit

I'm sure we all feel he exploded too young

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Mr5wift@reddit

Peep Show. It's the best comedy this century.

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Gungadin34@reddit

Mark Corrigan is my spirit animal. “Dreams crumble to dust” is a phrase I live my life by

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55caesar23@reddit

Bodger and Badger

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Personal-Listen-4941@reddit

Sooty & Sweep should be Global megastars

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BuncleCar@reddit

Thanks to Oofle dust!

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Novel-Rip7071@reddit

Although Sooty waving his wand around and going "Izzy Wizzy, let's get busy" may have very different connotations in this day and age...

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LittleSadRufus@reddit

But keep Soo to ourselves, right.

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Lopsided_Soup_3533@reddit

Nah chuck soo in the bin the no good panda

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Martipar@reddit

Iron Maiden have definitely helped with their exposure to the world.

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_1489555458biguy@reddit

Half Man Half Biscuit.

Modern day bards and satirists of the human condition. Best described as a Northern version of Madness who never went Platinum.

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AdAffectionate2418@reddit

And inventor of the best Christmas present for the discerning music and baking aficionado

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forfar4@reddit

I keep wicket for the Quakers.

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AdAffectionate2418@reddit

Ooh ooh tickling the laird

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forfar4@reddit

I own a Dukla Prague away kit. I never got my hands on a tour jacket with detachable sleeves, though.

"The Ballad of Climie Fisher" always makes me smile and, for me, the wittiest record title, beating Butthole Surfers "Hairway to Steven" into second place is HMHB's "Trouble Over Bridgewater" - just genius. In fact, the Surfers are beaten into third place by a local musician who released an EP about the Christmas Day football match on No Man's Land in the First World War, entitled "God Rest Ye, Jerry Mental Men".

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LambriniBob@reddit

Brass Eye

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revolut1onname@reddit

This is the one thing we didn't want to happen.

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Ireallyamthisshallow@reddit

Robo-plegic wrong cock might be one of the most memorable names I've ever heard.

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forfar4@reddit

"Spazzed out on a lifeglug" always gets me... I still use "Proof - if proof be need be" but that might be from the equally brilliant "The Day Today"

Chris Morris and Armando Ianucci are incredible.

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BowTiesAreCool86@reddit

Ich….nichden lichden

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Shitelark@reddit

Only Trentapercenta of people know about it.

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redmolotov@reddit

It's noncesense that it's not been seen internationally.

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thebudofthebud@reddit

Was going to say this. Never seen anything funnier.

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Acciocomments@reddit

Love Brass Eye! Not sure they’d show it on telly now though.

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snowmanseeker@reddit

The Clangers

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LittleSadRufus@reddit

Narrated by William Shatner in the US, would you believe

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tobotic@reddit

would you believe

He's an actor, so it seems plausible, yes.

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KatVanWall@reddit

Misfits

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delazouch@reddit

The canned Channel 4 series Utopia.

It’s perfect.

And there was an American reboot that missed the point of everything in it, I shudder to think of people watching that version without knowing about the original.

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SceneDifferent1041@reddit

The Sbowman

Why does no other country watch this masterpiece?

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Drewski811@reddit

Blackadder Goes Forth

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danddersson@reddit

I (probably alone) think the first series was one of the best. It was before all the tiresome Baldrick 'catchphrases' and had some really funny episodes.

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forfar4@reddit

Agreed. The similes ("As cunning as a...") just sounded laboured to me.

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AdAffectionate2418@reddit

I actually think the writing is better in the first series, but Atkinson's fool (amazing as it is) just never quite worked in the context. Having him, instead, be surrounded by idiots made the whole premise stick together much better.

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danddersson@reddit

Fair comment. I don't think the series would/could have the legs it did without the change.

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DarrenTheDrunk@reddit

I prefer season 3, the fact that some people seem to view Blackadder Goes Forth almost as a documentary somewhat irks me.

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Deep_Banana_6521@reddit

I watched Blackadder: The Cavalier Years for the first time ever today actually, it's on youtube.

Really funny as well, Stephen Fry playing Charles 1st doing an impression of Charles 3rd. Was really good! only 15 mins long.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SXf9-Z3jwk

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Breakwaterbot@reddit

I'm pretty sure it gets plenty of attention all around the world.

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Drewski811@reddit

It should get more, is my point

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Gmotherlovin@reddit

Why? I honestly think people only find this funny because they think they’re supposed to

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Drewski811@reddit

Everybody's sense of humour is different, that's fine.

I personally find it an absolute classic example of British humour executed perfectly.

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Few-Inevitable-332@reddit

Red dwarf, come fly with me and most non linear UK shows. Modern family can’t hold a piss soaked candle to come fly with me, Benidorm, Friday night dinner etc. then you have the sketch shows. Little Britain, Mitchell and Webb, Bo selecta, phone jacker, fry and Laure Never mind outnumbered, black adder, bottom and only fools and horses our tiny island is the comedy capital of earth and I’d love to hear an argument that disputes my point

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ignatiusjreillyXM@reddit

"One Summer" a four-part drama from 1983 by Willy Russell (about he disagreed with some of the casting decisions, so dissociated himself from it for a time) about two tough lads from Liverpool growing up fast. Beautiful scenes in the North Welsh countryside, and a haunting soundtrack that is as filled with melancholy as the plot.

It's fantastic but barely known

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Choosinghalf@reddit

In the Night Garden should be a big hit in Amsterdam

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GaffaCharge@reddit

All the characters' names sound like sci-fi racial slurs

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wildOldcheesecake@reddit

My niece once shouted, what we thought to be, motherfucker at the tv. We all nearly got whiplash at her sudden swearing. Turns out, she was saying Makka Pakka

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UniversalJampionshit@reddit

My brother used to pronounce “Ninky Nonk” in a way that sounded… offensive

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Iwantedalbino@reddit

They know what they did.

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thehibachi@reddit

People Just Do Nothing.

It’s completely hilarious and so tightly written, but the thing I like in the context of this question is that it shows a side of UK culture which is usually either ignored or centered around crime etc.

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Disastrous_Basil_551@reddit

Rip off of the office

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Berookes@reddit

Do you think the office was the first mockumentary?

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Accomplished_Bake904@reddit

Absolutely brilliant show

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neonblue3612@reddit

Threads

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crucible@reddit

Traffic Wardens for some, miniature prawn cocktail crisps for others

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Tom_Tower@reddit

It has certainly been shown in North America. He‘s Ted Turner introducing it on WTBS. https://youtu.be/ZgNsD8iCFvA?si=K_l_ONC0ygHo6676

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bambaveli@reddit

Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace

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Which_Performance_72@reddit

Flowers

Man like mobeen

Inside number 9

Uncle

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mrh2756@reddit

Traitors

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pajamakitten@reddit

That's Dutch and there are many international versions.

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Vuldezad@reddit

Limmys Show.

It had some really unique sketches, and the mix of surrealism & comedy made it feel completely unique. The casting was also perfect.

Seeing Limmys success on TikTok, Vine; and even becoming a well-known Twitch streamer, I believe he truly had a lot of potential if he could do larger scale projects.

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Shitelark@reddit

Purple burglar alarm.

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kwakimaki@reddit

Did Father Ted make it over there at all?

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Shitelark@reddit

I hear your a racist now Father.

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Tashimo@reddit

4 Lions - what a brilliant film

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Shitelark@reddit

Proper rubber dinghy rapids.

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Fantastic-Bother3296@reddit

Jam. Or literally anything Chris Morris touches. Probably the most important person in comedy/entertainment in the last 30 years.

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AdThat328@reddit

The Blackout. Plus, the Carry On films. They're famous sure, but not so much in other places. They're dated, but surprisingly a lot still holds up.

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Crystalline_E@reddit

Unherd

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Breakwaterbot@reddit

Button Moon

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Tashimo@reddit

We’re off to button moon……

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MrSteveBob@reddit

Nathan Barley

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RoyalMaleGigalo@reddit

This is the one for me. Quote it all the time and usually met with bewilderment. I use it as a dog whistle.

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Weedlefruit@reddit

Keep it foolish

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Deep_Banana_6521@reddit

watched this again recently. It was like a snapshot of the early 2000s. I don't think younger brains could comprehend anything in it.

Look up nathan barley upscaled on youtube for a HD version of the full series.

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SSMicrowave@reddit

Anyone remember TV Go Home?

8.00 New Series Cheggers Plays God

Fascinating sociological experiment for the television age. In 1982 twelve abandoned babies were flown to a specially-constructed village in the thick of the Amazonian rainforest.

Totally isolated from the rest of the world, they have been raised to accept Keith Chegwin as their God. From his gold-plated observation tower in the centre of the village, the pudgy-faced manchild uses a combination of hidden cameras and state-of-the-art technology to control the hearts and minds of his people as they begin to give birth to a second generation of ‘Chegwinites’

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OddlyDown@reddit

First Charlie Brooker project I was ever aware of

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SSMicrowave@reddit

I weirdly remember Brooker’s name from some of his 90’s video game stuff. He got a shout out on Digitiser a few times. Although I don’t think he wrote for them.

I then remember his name on TV Go Home and thinking - that’s the video game guy!

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mordhoshogh@reddit

I think about Mick Hucknall’s Pink Pancakes far too much.

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Equal_Chemistry_3049@reddit

Peace and fucking

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RoyalMaleGigalo@reddit

Believe

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TommyAtoms@reddit

Totally fucking Mexico

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Nicstevenson@reddit

Trash bat dot cock

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Alive_Ice7937@reddit

I regularly use "does the pope fuck kids?"

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holytriplem@reddit

Big Train

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spicyzsurviving@reddit

Fawlty towers is comedy gold. But I don't think the current standards of political correctness would embrace it

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sjplep@reddit

Molesworth.

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hipposaregood@reddit

So niche but I have a job that very occasionally exposes me to insects going in my hair and every time it happens I say, "I toss my tawny head and a hail of beetles fall out," and no one ever gets that reference, they just gaze in horror, the cissy swots.

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sjplep@reddit

chiz!

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Thesleepingpillow123@reddit

I love how I'm from the uk and have no idea what any of these answers are lool.

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ScatterCushion0@reddit

Quite a lot of them are a little more on the... uh... older side.

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Thesleepingpillow123@reddit

Yh I've started to notice. It kind of reminds me of Facebook.

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ChangingMonkfish@reddit

The Fast Show, although whether the humour would work outside the UK, I dunno

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Duanedoberman@reddit

Detectorists

Absolute gem of a comedy.

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I watched it in the US in the early 2000s, long before I lived in England.

Still. Very cool show, very much of its time.

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