List of Channel 4 sitcoms - FamousFix List (2024)

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Genre: Comedy

The exploits of four friends, who are socially only marginally above what one of them calls "the freaks"... more »

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The Inbetweeners is a British coming-of-age television teen sitcom, which originally aired on E4 from 2008 until 2010, that was created and written by Damon Beesley and Iain Morris. The series follows the misadventures of suburban teenager Will McKenzie (Simon Bird) and his friends Simon Cooper (Joe Thomas), Neil Sutherland (Blake Harrison) and Jay Cartwright (James Buckley) at the fictional Rudge Park Comprehensive. The programme involves situations of school life, uncaring school staff, friendship, male bonding, lad culture and adolescent sexuality.

• Coming-of-age television shows· 74T
• Television series about teenagers· 1,022T
• Television series about bullying· 52T

Desmond'sBritish television situation comedy

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Genre: Comedy

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Desmond's is a British television situation comedy broadcast by Channel 4 from 1989 to 1994. Conceived and co-written by Trix Worrell, and produced by Charlie Hanson and Humphrey Barclay, Desmond's stars Norman Beaton as barber Desmond Ambrose, whose shop is a gathering place for an assortment of local characters. The show is set in Peckham, London, and features a predominantly black British Guyanese cast. With 71 episodes, Desmond's became Channel 4's longest running sitcom in terms of episodes.

• 1990s British sitcoms· 149T
• 1980s British sitcoms· 155T
• 1990s British comedy television series· 253T

Fresh MeatBritish comedy-drama television series

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Genre: Comedy, Drama

A comedy that follows a group of six students about to embark on the most exciting period of their lives so far, university. more »

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Fresh Meat is a British comedy-drama television series created by Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain, who also created Peep Show.

• 2010s college television series· 22T
• 2010s British comedy-drama television series· 59T
• 2010s British sitcoms· 164T

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The comedic adventures of a rag-tag group of technical support workers at a large corporation. more »

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The IT Crowd is a British sitcom originally broadcast by Channel 4, written by Graham Linehan, produced by Ash Atalla and starring Chris O'Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson, and Matt Berry. Set in the offices of the fictional Reynholm Industries in London, the series revolves around the three staff members of its IT (information technology) department: computer programmer Maurice Moss (Richard Ayoade), work-shy Roy Trenneman (Chris O'Dowd), and Jen Barber (Katherine Parkinson), the department head/relationship manager who knows nothing about IT. The show also focuses on the bosses of Reynholm Industries: Denholm Reynholm (Chris Morris) and later, his son Douglas (Matt Berry). Goth IT technician Richmond Avenal (Noel Fielding), who resides in the dark server room, also features in a number of episodes.

• Television shows shot at Teddington Studios· 98T
• Television shows shot at BBC Elstree Centre· 51T
• 2010s British workplace comedy television series· 24T

Peep ShowBritish sitcom television series

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Genre: Comedy

Mark and Jez are a couple of twenty-something roommates who have nothing in common - except for the fact that their lives are anything but normal. Mayhem ... more »

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Peep Show is a British television sitcom starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb. It was written by Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain, with additional material by Mitchell and Webb, among others. It was broadcast on Channel 4 from 2003 until 2015. In 2010, it became the longest-running comedy in Channel 4 history in terms of years on air.

• 2010s British LGBT-related comedy television series· 22T
• 2000s British LGBT-related comedy television series· 22T
• British LGBT-related sitcoms· 12T

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Genre: Drama, Comedy

Funky hospital-based sketch-comedy-drama type show. more »

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Green Wing is a British sitcom set in the fictional East Hampton Hospital. It was created by the same team behind the sketch show Smack the Pony – Channel 4 commissioner Caroline Leddy and producer Victoria Pile – and stars Mark Heap, Tamsin Greig, Stephen Mangan and Julian Rhind-Tutt. Although set in a hospital, it uses no medical storylines; the action is produced by a series of soap opera-style twists and turns in the personal lives of the characters. They proceed through a series of often absurd sketch-like scenes, or by sequences where the film is slowed down or sped up, often emphasising the body language of the characters. The show had eight writers. Two series were made by the Talkback Thames production company for Channel 4.

• Surreal comedy television series· 47T
• 2000s British workplace comedy television series· 13T
• 2000s British medical television series· 25T

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Genre: Comedy

Crazy sitcom about 3 priests and their housekeeper who live on Craggy Island, not the peaceful and quiet part of Ireland it seems! more »

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Father Ted is a sitcom created by Irish writers Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews and produced by British production company Hat Trick Productions for Channel 4. It aired over three series from 21 April 1995 until 1 May 1998, including a Christmas special, for a total of 25 episodes. It aired on RTÉ Two in Ireland, on Nine Network (series 1) and ABC Television (series 2 and 3) in Australia, and on TV3 in New Zealand.

• Television series about Christian religious leaders· 8T
• Religious comedy television series· 38T
• Television shows filmed in the Republic of Ireland· 7T

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Genre: Comedy

Political satire about a TV news company. more »

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Drop the Dead Donkey is a British television sitcom that was first shown on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom between 1990 and 1998. It is set in the offices of "GlobeLink News", a fictional TV news company. Recorded close to transmission, it made use of contemporary news events to give the programme a greater sense of realism. It was created by Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin. The series had an ensemble cast, making stars of Haydn Gwynne, Stephen Tompkinson and Neil Pearson.

• 1990s British workplace comedy television series· 9T
• British workplace comedy television series· 10T
• 1990s British satirical television series· 26T

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• 1993 British novels· 90T
• 1993 children's books· 60T
• 2000s British comedy television series· 333T

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Stath Lets Flats is a British television sitcom co-written and created by Jamie Demetriou, who also co-wrote the first 3 episodes of series one with Robert Popper. The show premiered on Channel 4 on 27 June 2018 and stars Demetriou as a stupid, incompetent, socially inept Greek-Cypriot letting agent in London who only has his job because his father is the owner and manager of the company.

• 2020s British sitcoms· 50T
• 2020s British workplace comedy television series· 11T
• 2010s British workplace comedy television series· 24T