Loading Page
The League of Gentlemen(1999)
76%
108 Votes
Overview
The League of Gentlemen is a British comedy television series that premiered on BBC Two in 1999. The show is set in Royston Vasey, a fictional town in Northern England based on Bacup, Lancashire. It follows the lives of dozens of bizarre townspeople, most of whom are played by three of the show's four writers—Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, and Reece Shearsmith—who, along with Jeremy Dyson, formed the League of Gentlemen comedy troupe in 1995. The series originally aired for three series from 1999 until 2002 followed by a film in 2005. A three-part revival mini-series was broadcast in December 2017 to celebrate the group's 20th anniversary.
Type: Scripted
Status: Ended
Languages: English
Countries:
United Kingdom
Networks:
Production Companies:
Top 5 Billed Cast
Mark Gatiss
Steve Pemberton
Reece Shearsmith
Paul Hays-Marshall
Jeremy Dyson
Recommendations TVs
69%
Mad Dogs (en)
2011-02-10
Mad Dogs is a British black comedy and psychological thriller television series created by Cris Cole that began airing on Sky1 on 10 February 2011. It is produced by Left Bank Pictures, and co-produced by Palma Pictures. The series stars John Simm, Marc Warren, Max Beesley, and Philip Glenister as four long-time and middle-aged friends getting together in a villa in Majorca to celebrate the early retirement of their friend Alvo. However, after Alvo is murdered, the group find themselves caught up in the world of crime and police corruption.
71%
Desmond's (en)
1989-01-05
Desmond's was a British television situation comedy broadcast by Channel 4 from 1989 to 1994. With 71 episodes, Desmond's became Channel 4's longest-running sitcom. The first series was shot in 1988, with the first episode broadcast in January 1989. The show was made in and set in Peckham, London, England and featured a predominantly Black British Guyanese cast. Conceived and co-written by Trix Worrell, and produced by Charlie Hanson and Humphrey Barclay, this series starred Norman Beaton as barber Desmond Ambrose. Desmond's shop was a gathering place for an assortment of local characters.
63%
Girlfriends (en)
2018-01-03
After the dramatic and sudden death of Linda's husband Micky, childhood friends Linda, Sue and Gail find themselves back together again. Each has their own problems to face; from a looming divorce from the husband she still loves and the loss of a high-powered job through age discrimination, to juggling the endless responsibilities of their grandchildren and aging mothers.
43%
Mission Unexplained (en)
2023-05-23
With the recent declassification of military records, service members are coming forward for the first time to share stories of unexplained events. Including first-hand eyewitness accounts, scientists and experts shed light on their experiences.
100%
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (ja)
1982-07-05
The drama depicts an ordinary high school student growing up by becoming a yakuza head.
78%
The Fast Show (en)
1994-09-27
The Fast Show is a multi BAFTA award winning sketch comedy show written and produced by Paul Whitehouse and Charlie Higson.
68%
Psychoville (en)
2009-06-18
Psychoville is a British dark comedy television . Pemberton and Shearsmith each play numerous characters, with Dawn French and Jason Tompkins in additional starring roles.
80%
Inside No. 9 (en)
2014-02-05
An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'.
77%
That Mitchell and Webb Look (en)
2006-09-14
A comedy sketch show featuring David Mitchell and Robert Webb.
67%
American Crime (en)
2015-03-05
An anthology drama focusing on all aspects of the U.S. criminal justice system dealing with crimes committed in America.
79%
Bottom (en)
1991-09-17
Richie Richard (socially awkward, sexually inexperienced) and Eddie Hitler (carefree alcoholic ) are two social outcasts living on the dole. Trapped together in a squalid flat in Hammersmith, London they are perpetually skint, bored and sexually frustrated. They spend their days scheming, bickering, and being nasty and sadistic to each other.
67%
Tin Star (en)
2017-09-07
The story of Jim Worth, an expat British police officer starting a new life with his family as police chief in Little Big Bear, an idyllic town near the Rocky Mountains. When his small town is overrun by migrant workers from a massive new oil refinery – the wave of drugs, prostitution and organised crime that follows them threatens to sweep away everything in its wake.
71%
Little Britain (en)
2003-09-16
A zany comedy show with Matt Lucas and David Walliams, featuring characters from all over Little Britain.
63%
Ugly Betty (en)
2006-09-28
Betty Suarez is smart, tough and tenacious, but also sensitive and loving. She hopes these skills will help her to get a job within the Meade Publishing Corporation. The fact that she isn’t traditionally attractive initially keeps her from getting hired by fashion bible, Mode. The magazine, however, is in flux, with power-hungry executives vying for dominance. Hoping to control the situation, the publisher gives his inexperienced son, Daniel, the position of Editor-in-Chief. He hires Betty as Daniel’s assistant after catching him in a compromising position with his secretary on his first day on the job. After a tough start, in which Daniel tries to force Betty into quitting by treating her terribly, he realizes her worth and the two pair up to be an effective team.
78%
Extras (en)
2005-07-21
Andy Millman gave up his day job five years ago in the hope of achieving the big time, but he’s yet to land a speaking part, let alone saunter down the red carpet to pick up an Oscar. He remains optimistic however, as rubbing shoulders with the A-list on-set only serves to reinforce his belief that the big time is just a job or two away.
80%
Red Dwarf (en)
1988-02-15
The adventures of the last human alive and his friends, stranded three million years into deep space on the mining ship Red Dwarf.
79%
Spaced (en)
1999-09-24
Spaced: the anti-Friends, in that it examines the lives of common 20 somethings, but in a way that is more down to earth and realistic. Here we have Daisy and Tim; two 'young' adults with big dreams just trying to get by in this crazy world. They are thrown together in a common pursuit of tenancy, which they find by posing as a couple. The house has a landlady and an oddball artist living there. The series explores the ins and outs of London living.
80%
Curb Your Enthusiasm (en)
2000-10-15
The off-kilter, unscripted comic vision of Larry David, who plays himself in a parallel universe in which he can't seem to do anything right, and, by his standards, neither can anyone else.
75%
Da Vinci's Demons (en)
2013-04-12
The series follows the "untold" story of Leonardo Da Vinci: the genius during his early years in Renaissance Florence. As a 25-year old artist, inventor, swordsman, lover, dreamer and idealist, he struggles to live within the confines of his own reality and time as he begins to not only see the future, but invent it.