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Vote To Fill The Saturday Show Spot
🕑 Added 2024-08-03 23:00:04 +0000 UTCHey, folks please read this before you post a question. There's a chance I have already answered the question here or in a previous post, links are at the bottom.
You are allowed to vote on more than one show. Please pick all of the shows you would like to see.
Top 5 Shows from the Previous Poll
After Life 7 Episodes- 82 Vote
Wallace & Gromit 22 Episodes-77 Vote
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em-68 Episodes
Fleabag 12 Episodes - 55 Vote
Gimme Gimme Gimme 19 Episodes- 54 Vote
The shows below were removed to make space for other requests. You will have a chance to vote on these shows in a future poll. They will take the place of the bottom show or shows from future poll results.
Shows added to this Poll
Motherland 20 Episodes
The Cleaner Episodes 13 On Going Series
Shows that will be added to the next Poll if a show receives fewer votes
Avoidance 12 Episodes 0 Votes
Ladhood 18 Episodes 4 Votes
Chickens 6 Episodes 5 Votes
Murder Most Horrid 24 Episodes 5 Votes
Year of the Rabbit 6 Episodes 6 Votes
Here We Go 14 Episodes 7 Votes
Back 12 Episodes 7 Votes
Whites 6 Episodes 8 Votes
Human remains 6 Episodes 8 Votes
Zapped 15 Episodes 8 Votes
How Not To Live Your Life 20 Episodes 8 Votes
Dead Pixels 12 Episodes 9 Votes
The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret 18 Episodes 10 Votes
Catastrophe 24 Episodes 13 Votes
Below is the list of shows that were not added to the poll because they were too long. Remember these shows will have their own polls when What We Do in the Shadows, Taskmaster, or Fresh Meat ends.
Shows that were suggested but didn't meet the 26 episodes or less requirement.
Rising Damp 28 Episodes
Coupling 28 Episodes
Fresh Meat 30 Episodes
The Good Life 30 Episodes
Butterflies 30 Episodes
Bad Lads Army 32 Episodes
People Just Do Nothing 32 Episodes Counting 5 Episode web series
Cuckoo 33 Episodes
Misfits 37 episodes
Plebs Episodes 38 Episodes
Outnumbered 40 Episodes
What We Do in the Shadows 40 Episodes
Monty Python's Flying Circus 45 Episodes
Ideal 53 Episodes
Goodnight Sweetheart 59 Episodes
Steptoe and Son 57 Episodes
Two pints and a lager 80 Episodes
Not going out 83 Episodes
My Family 120 Episodes
Remember if it's a sketch show or has more than 26 episodes it will not make it to the poll. There will be an opportunity to vote on longer shows when Misfits , Taskmaster, or Jonathan Creek ends.
If you have more questions, please use the 8 links below to read the previous poll posts.
Previous Five poll posts.
Comments
John
I guess so. Angry boys was a much better Chris Lilley show. Derry girls was good though
Sean Riley
Did Derry Girls and Summer Heights High do that bad that they'll never be considered again?
John
Yeah I must agree. American comedy rules. Did we forget about norm? Norm is the fucking king and he's American/Canadian same thing
Saul
@Popadomzz - I hear good things about Eastbound and Down, and Always Sunny, I'd be up for either of those. I liked the Righteous Gemstones too. Danny McBride is a funny, funny mf.
PoPaDoMZz
I'd add Always Sunny + Eastbound & down to the list. I originally joined the channel watching Josh's reaction to Idiot abroad as I got enjoyment out of Josh laughing at Karl. I don't mind what country shows are from I would just like to see comedies Josh would enjoy/ laugh at.
Colin Bayley
I don't dislike US comedy shows. It's generally agreed that Bilko is the best written sitcom of all time and I would have to agree. Perhaps we should just all watch that then wrap it up and get on with our lives. My personal favourite US series is Soap from the late 70's. Its funny as fuck and totally surreal. Frasier is great and imports alot of Brian Rix style farce and uses it excellently. As that and big bang must be on every western country 4 or 5 times a day I don't see what's to be gained by having it on here also. What makes this site good at the moment is that it potentially introduces the opportunity for series that people may have missed for one reason or another a chance to see what other people like and recommend. So I would be totally against anything that's too wildly available elsewhere. No point. A byproduct of this system is people like to put shows forward for no other reason than they want something on they have recommended. Again I don't see the point. America couldn't broadcast married couples sleeping in the same bed until the late 70's. So the wise crack formula grew from the 50's until then. I have wondered if it was sale to the US that had Basil & Sybil sleeping in single beds. While Britain went for sex based comedy content America was constrained. I'm not convinced you'll get far adding US content but if you do try to keep away from things that are on TV every 5 mins anyway. No point. Be creative.
Saul
That's not at all fair to American comedy. American comedy has its rubbish like every country, but at its best it's also boundary breaking and original and funny and incisive. When you're criticing US comedy for being fomulaic and not taking risks you can't be talking about Curb, or Arrested Development, or Nathan Fielder's stuff, or Atlanta, or Bob's Burgers, Conan O'Brien, etc. If you don't have interest in the best US comedy that's fine, but some of these shows should at least be put up for a vote so we can see if people really don't want anything non-UK at all, or if it's just a few people who are dominating the narrative on this. And that actually, so long as it remains mostly UK-based, people don't mind having the best US/Australian/etc. comedy up for vote now and then. On a personal note; try watching some US comedy. It's not all 2 Broke Girls.
Will
People are still paying though, job or not. If the majority of comments are saying the same thing and felt they were heard, maybe there wouldn't be 'hundreds of other comments'.
Colin Bayley
I understand where you are coming from with your requests but I don't really agree. Generally I don't have much interest in watching an American watching a show made in America for American s aimed at Americans. There is no comparisons between the differences each country has. British comedy takes different forms and roads travelled. Not everyone works but at least they try. American sitcoms start with different types of characters but rapidly end up with a collection of equal wise crackers. There are still a lot more to discover in British sitcoms. For example Doctor In The House. Written mainly by Cleese & Chapman with Graeme Garden and Barry Cryer chipping in. Both masters of comedy writing in there own right. There is even a 2 parter featuring the first embryonic outing for Basil Fawlty. I do find it a little sad that shows like this have no chance of ever appearing on a platform that claims to be primarily about British comedy.
Saul
I'd like to suggest some of the premier American comedies to go along with the mostly British content. A handful, like Curb Your Enthusiasm, maybe Arrested Development. Hopefully there can be an introduction of the best US(or Australian, or New Zealand) shows, so that it isn't a dwindling list of UK only stuff that fewer and fewer people want to watch and that ends up scraping the barrel.
Manly Stump
Looks like John's comments have been deleted. He was accusing someone/some people of cheating the system to vote Wallace and Gromit in.
Saul
WTF is going on in this thread
Louise Wilson
I know, I want the rest of them 😁🙏🏻
VEGGIE GAMER
I think I am hoping for Some Mothers out of this list! The first 2 series are great fun, with a lot of camp, physical humour! From what I have seen, I do think it goes down hill a bit after that, but still worth watching for the good stuff (I know it is too many episodes for this poll, but it is crazy that Some Mothers is likely to get picked before Rising Damp! XD)
DS292
He's already done Inside No. 9. Not all of them, mind
VEGGIE GAMER
To be fair, Josh understood and really enjoyed The Thick of It. I think he will be able to keep up with the cat doing a woopsy on the carpet. XD Most of Some Mothers is physical comedy, after all! :) (though I do think it goes down after season 2, I think he will really like it)
Colin Bayley
How old is old? From my perspective most of the stuff that's played on here is new. Britain has a rich and diverse comedy history of which Josh has been shown at best 10% of it. And that is mainly due to only being shown new stuff. This is partly because patrons haven't seen much and not interested in British comedy to any extent. There are quite a lot of shows I would love to get Joshs take on but not really wanting to inflict 30 or 50 episodes onto him. But since the format doesn't allow that it's never going to happen. I think funny is funny in general and Josh has liked ... ..Fools and Horses and Red Dwarf which are not spring chickens in production terms The only issues are with series that rely on knowing cultural references. There has been a big push on here for Life On Mars but that requires almost totally on knowing the cultural references that most Brits would get almost instinctively but an American would have no chance.
WermalNihl27
Patreon charges local tax so you're going to pay VAT on top. Also Josh works full time and still continues to kick out content every day, so what if he doesn't respond to every comment. Message him directly if you're that bothered rather than just adding to the hundreds of other comments in his notifications.
Michael K
I know we all want an Americans response to certain things but I do kinda wish people would consider the references he's most likely to get. Maybe also work in some newer stuff with older stuff. "Upstart Crow" is a great modern way of presenting Shakespeare's life. Meanwhile the average American, and even most modern people in the UK, would struggle to understand many references in "Some Mothers Do Ave them".
John
True
Will
I left for this reason a while back. I joined again 2 months ago-ish as there were things I'd enjoy. Also, the price says £3.50 but it's actually £4.20, not much but it shows how much the page is monitored.
Sam
Yet he gives some comments likes...
Louise Wilson
inside no 9 pleeeeeease add it
Sam
I just watched the special as I wasn't aware of it! It's not included on Netflix. It was such a great send off. If Josh wants to miss out it's his loss.
Thomas McDonald
Firstly, that's rubbish, paranoid and insane. Secondly, if someone is prepared to PAY to tip the balance significantly (and considering there's hundreds and hundreds of votes on these polls, it would take almost a thousand pounds in £5 payments to have a significant enough impact where a show that literally nobody else cares about wins the poll (which is what you're seriously claiming)) then fair play to them. If they want Josh to watch Wallace and Gromit for six weeks so badly that they're prepared to pay him £1000, then they deserve to win, frankly. But, like I said, they don't exist and that's an insane conspiracy theory that doesn't make any sense at all.
James Brown
I voted for Wallace and Gromit too, haven’t seen them for decades and used to think they were brilliant as a kid 😎
BigChanChan
Why don't you take some of your own medicine then you hypocrite and get over the fact that Wallace and Gromit might win and that people in here might actually have different tastes!
James Brown
Love how blunt you are haha, i’ll get over it! Just hoped that there was a chance he didn’t realise and people telling him in the comments would prompt him to push the new show that wins by a week, or just push a one off video off as an extra to say to apologies thank for everyones support. 😅 Didn’t work with People Just Doing Nothing tho, so doubt it’ll work here
John
Sort of mostly? Which is it?
John
It's disappointing, yes. But unfortunately mate.. this is life. There's disappointing things in life. Just learn to let it go. It's much easier
John
Such a shame
James Brown
Unless you mean me specifically, which I agree with, he is meant to be trying to please everyone paying a subscription fee to watch this content. If he’s going to keep skipping final episodes of shows that have built up to that moment, like the People Just Doing Nothing Big In Japan, and now this…it’s just disapointing to go through a whole show and never get the conclusion. I’m not threatening to unsub because i’ve loved Josh and these reactions for years, it’s my favourite reaction channel, but I do think technically it is his job to please the people paying money. Again, if you meant me specifically, then you’re right, there’s loads of people to think about.
Manly Stump
Then why has it won the poll, you twat? It's literally got the most votes on the Tuesday poll.
James Brown
Even if he didn’t enjoy the series, I think Big in Japan he would have totally enjoyed the movie and it’s such a good conclusion. And as just a one off, it’s such a shame he never did it 🤷♂️
John
Yeah. The whole movie thing is fucking stupid. He's just depriving himself of joy for the sake of some fucked rule
John
I think it's much more likely that he doesn't ever read these comments
Kieran B
I think that’s the case
Chris
There's the final episode of Detectorists to go yet. A 75 min special from a couple of years ago
Dannythedoodle
Oh shit, yeah! I sort of mostly lost interest in the last couple of series.
Sam
He's been told countless times. He doesn't seem to care.
Jack Morgan
Because it's classified as a movie and Josh stopped movie reactions a while ago. But Big in Japan is actually more like 3 episodes mashed into one. A perfect continuation and ending to the show. So he missed out in that respect.
Liam
why was it missed?
(Just) Steve
Hoping for Him & Her, Game On or The Cleaner!
Mark garrett
Hi Josh another special episode to watch yet, definitely worth watching love this series
PoPaDoMZz
Him and her is shown twice...
Lauren likes History
Finish Inside No. 9
Jack Morgan
You've already missed the brilliant finale of people just do nothing. Please don't miss the finale of detectorists too!
Liam
The last two seasons...
Dannythedoodle
Good shout though 👍
Dannythedoodle
Already done it.
Manly Stump
Seems like Wallace and Gromit has disappeared but the Tuesday poll is still open? Has that already been decided as the winner and the poll just wasn't closed?
Kieran B
Haven’t you missed the last episode of Detectorists Josh?
James Brown
Does that mean no final episode of The Detectorists? 😣 Please don’t do another People Just Do Nothing Josh, my OCD hates leaving shows unfinished as intended like this when there’s only one more episode/special to go! 😋
Liam
Inside No. 9 👀
