User:Kudpung/sandbox#Recurring themes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_reports/Potential_U5s/1
Link checker https://link-dispenser.toolforge.org/
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=Britcom 21stC=
- gang shows/ensemble cast, farce, class conflict
- Ingredients for a good sitcom: an ensemble piece, it has to be set in a workplace, being in a grim situation, cultural differences, the writing, and even the way it's filmed
Honey Bee (for Chan.5 Honey Bee Media Ltd 2023
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https://natcen.ac.uk/news/40-years-british-social-attitudes-class-identity-and-awareness-still-matter
https://yougov.co.uk/ratings/entertainment/popularity/all-time-tv-shows/all 2025 YouGov PLC Retrieved 1 June 2025 The most popular all-time TV shows (Q1 2025) Only Fools and Horses came first. 9 of the first 20 are sitcoms headed by Only Fools and Horses in the first place, with Porridge (6), Blackadder (7), Fawlty Towers (9), The Vicar of Dibley (15), and One Foot in the Grave (19) in the top 20 with a total of 25 sitcoms featuring in the to 100.
https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-best-british-sitcoms-of-all-time At Ranker's The Best British Sitcoms of All Time, Ranked 2025 Ranker. Fawlty Towers tops the list with Only Fools and Horse in second place followed by Blackadder (3), Mr Bean (4). Two thirds of the programmes in this ranking premiered in the 20th century.
In a 2016 Radio Times poll from a shortlist of 40 21st century sitcoms https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-37162569 'Mrs Brown's Boys named best British sitcom in audience poll ' 2016 BBC News 23 August 2016 best British sitcom of the 21st century
- Mrs Brown's Boys, BBC One (started 2011)
- The Office, BBC Two (2001)
- Peter Kay's Car Share, BBC One (2015)
- Count Arthur Strong, BBC Two (2013)
- The IT Crowd, C4 (2006)
- The Thick Of It, BBC Four (2005)
- Gavin & Stacey, BBC Three (2007)
- Miranda, BBC Two (2009)
- Raised By Wolves, C4 (2015)
- Outnumbered, BBC One (2007)
- Peep Show, C4 (2003)
- Black Books, C4 (2000)
- Green Wing, C4 (2003)
- The Inbetweeners, C4 (2008)
- Bad Education, BBC Three (2012)
- Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights, C4 (2001)
- Yonderland, Sky1 (2013)
- wenty Twelve/W1A, BBC Two (2011)
- Benidorm, ITV (2007)
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