PARKS AND RECREATION
Filmed in a mockumentary style, and led by a stellar cast
starring Blades Of Glory’s Amy
Poehler, Stepbrothers’ Adam Scott and
I Love You Man’s Rashida Jones, Parks centres around Leslie Knope
(Poehler) and her team trying to improve their hometown of Pawnee, Indiana.
BETTER OFF TED
Similar to the deadpan nature of things like The Office, workplace comedy Better Off Ted focuses on a young man,
working in a product-research office under the scrutiny of his comical stern
boss Veronica.
COMMUNITY
As if Chevy Chase wasn’t reason enough to watch this show, the
ensemble cast give him a run for his [comedy] money! Community follows Jeff, a
smug lawyer, whose education is said to be unfit by the bar, is forced to
attend a local community college with an extremely unusual teaching staff and
students.
PORTLANDIA
Saturday Night Live’s Fred Armisen, is half of the duo that created and
stars in Portlandia. The programme is
quite simply a series of small sketches satirising the lives of American people
who live in the area of Portland. Slapstick, silly but smart.
GIRLS
Created by up-and-coming writer, Emmy-nominated Lena Dunham.
Girls is about a group of four
20-something girls, living out their mishap careers and love lives in New York
City fresh out of college. Think Sex & The City meets New Girl.
RAISING HOPE
On it’s third season, this sitcom tells the story of Jimmy,
raising his new born daughter Hope singlehandedly after he sleeps with an
escaped criminal. But not without the hilarious, but sometimes hindering, help
of his redneck parents, and local supermarket girl/love interest Sabrina
(Shannon Woodward).
ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT
Originally broadcast in 2003, even after 3 series Arrested Development was still
relatively under the radar, particularly in England. Despite critical acclaim
and recognisable cast (Jason Bateman, Michael Cera, Will Arnett), it was
short-lived. But now they’re dusting themselves on and filming a fourth series,
almost a decade on!
Watch any of these if you enjoy 30 Rock, Spaced, Modern Family, The IT
Crowd, New Girl, Phone Shop or Curb Your Enthusiasm.
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