11 STRANGEST British TV Shows (as per me, a non-Brit!)
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- You ever turn on the TV in the UK and are shocked at what you see? Me, too. Here's 11 of the strangest British TV shows that surprised me as a foreigner living in England. I mean really - are these real?? Yes, yes they are.
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Hey! I'm Alanna - a twenty-something documenting my life as a Canadian living in England.
I share the ups and downs of an expat living abroad and what it's really like living in the UK. It's not always easy, but there's been so many wonderful experiences, too. I post a RUclips video every Tuesday and an additional video every Saturday on my Patreon account. I also livestream every Wednesday and Sunday at 6:30pm GMT on Twitch.
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Naked Attraction: the British television show which confirms that MOST of us look WAY better with our clothes on!
Nudity has never been less erotic.
That must be some kind of record.
Check out Euro trash it was on channel 4 during the 90s early 00s. Probably one of the weirdest shows I’ve seen.
Look at Lolo 😑
And hosted by Jean Paul Gaultier too... Yeah. THE Jean Paul Gaultier world famous fashion designer.
Channel 4 in the 90s was something. Remember Banzai?
@@ricey23 that was crazy, you also had TFI Friday and don’t forget your toothbrush on channel 4, I was only a kid at the time, but it was definitely post pub tv.
@@ricey23 i remember switching channel when that come on....
Due South was big in the UK in the 90's, fondly remembered from my childhood.
Still on Alibi that's how I watched every episode!
Due South although Canadian was funded by the BBC or should I say the British TV licence payers
@@bobbyboko6317 only the later series were supported by BBC money.
It was must watch growing up in my house
Absolutely love Due South. Great show
Good to see Alanna is no exception to the rule that you never hear anyone say they intentionally tuned into Naked Attraction. The TV always just happened to be on that channel one night when the programme started without warning.
2:30 What is good about the Naked Attraction series is that it shows peoples real bodies instead of the usual plastic surgery/airbrushed images given in magazines! People come in all shapes and sizes and it's all perfectly natural!
I'm happy that my childhood had Father Ted rather than Mrs Browns Boys.
Father Ted could probably be on Part 2! lol
@@AdventuresAndNaps yeah you have to do comedy's 😉👍
Father Ted best comedy ever , Mrs Brown's Boys the exact opposite
Secret Guy Mrs browns boys is rubbish should have been taken off air ages ago
@@AdventuresAndNaps I detest Mrs Brown's boys but men dressing up as women is part of English theatre.
See pantomimes, the ugly sisters are always played by men.
They wouldn't be pantomimes without it.
In Shakespeare's plays, the women were always played by men.
I know it’s finished now, but “Cardinal” is an excellent Ontario based crime drama based on a book series. It’s all on bbc4 too
I'd gladly watch 10 years of Trainspotting Live, taking great interest in what the squares have to say, rather than watch one more episode with vile individuals in Big Brother...if that shit still is on.
Big Brother UK has finished. Though it's heyday was with Channel 4. On Channel 5 it was cheap and desperate.
Prime Big Brother was immense.
i knew a guy that was on Embarassing Bodies, it was a bit of a shock flicking through the tv -as you do - then spotting someone you see fairly regularly.
It makes me happy that you think that _Mrs Brown's Boys_ "sucks". I find it revolting.
Yes, who the hell is watching that shite?
@@manfredwilliams9762 and why?
I love it
@@finleydavison5858 Me too! 😂
My Mother the Car was actually a U.S. show, but was shown in other countries.
"A 1928 Porter, that's my mother dear. She helps me through everything I do and I'm so glad she's here. My mother the car.... - This was preceded by Mr Ed the Taking Horse. Very silly shows.
A bit like, Mister Ed, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie or The Flying Nun! and run on NBC from Sept 1965 to Apr 1966
"My Mother The Car" was American starring Dick Van Dyke's brother Jerry
My Mother the Car was shown here in Australia, along with Mr Ed, The Beverly Hillbillies and My Favorite Martian, but that was the 60's.....and my childhood :-)
'Then all of a sudden, genitals' That must become a gif or whatever its called. Or a saying for 2020.
Meme it!
Not a British TV show but "The singing ringing tree " a kids show from the 1960 s , bizarre doesn't even come close , I'm still traumatized by it to this day , try and catch it on the internet and wonder , what were they thinking ?
That terrified me to this day !
Yeah, I remember that, nightmare stuff for kids!! Yikes!
The Fast Show version was amazing though. ruclips.net/video/7XqMF5ou7hE/видео.html
I remember a Canadian cartoon called the Raccoons that was shown in the UK. It was on CBBC, Saturday mornings during the '90s. It had characters like Burt Raccoon and Cyril Sneer not to mention a cracking end credits theme also.
That show was awesome. Best Cartoon on Saturdays during my early childhood.
@@LonKirk 100% agree👍
HA YES!!! Every Saturday morning just before Live n Kicking started! I remember it like it was yesterday!
The outro, Run With Us by Lisa Lougheed, was incredible.
I loved the Raccoons.
PS: I forgot Dave Allen. I know he is Irish but we got him on the BBC and he is the bee's knees.
Those were actually made by the BBC, I think. His shows were in fact banned in Ireland in the seventies.
all of those shows would be saved by adding Bob Mortimer
Ivavooo ! Iranoooo ! 🤣 I loved Shooting Stars !
Or Ant and Dec.
@@mikesomerset6338 Seriously ? I Can't stand them either !
Naked attraction with Bob Mortimer:
Barrier rises to reveal neatly maintained pubic hair.
Bob: "Ahh, very neat, reminds of the time I decided to cut my beard with a chainsaw while jumping on a trampoline".
And being Bob, you can't be sure if he's lying or not, because you can believe he might have tried this at some point 😄.
Loving the backdrop that the new editing software gives, it convincingly looks like you are outside as opposed to sitting in your bedroom.
I'm sure Naked Attraction took their inspiration from Japanese TV. Now THERE is a whirlpool of weirdness.
Nobody's mentioned One Man and His Dog?! It was literally a shepherd herding sheep into a pen using a dog and seeing who could do it the quickest. It ran for well over 20 years...
Not sure if it aired anywhere outside of the Southern region, but how about Jack Hargreaves Out Of Town-basically an old fart sitting in a shed rambling about the old ways of life & showing rural life like trout fishing, chopping wood etc for 20 odd years until they lost the franchise to TVS in 1981-then Channel 4 decided to pick it up under a new name for several years!
I think Gogglebox is like a TV version of a reaction video
You're totally right!
I've had a friend, who culled her FB friends list based upon whether they liked Mrs. Brown's Boys. I totally agree. I'd Rather gouge my eyes out that watch that muck, and it makes me embarassed to be Irish.
I'm suprised Peep Show didn't make the list, but if you suffer like myself from absolutely cringing watching people doing embarassing things it might not be your cup of tea lol. Sitcom based around two socially disfunctional lads ending up in ridiculous situations, but done via the inner monologue of the characters. Pure Car crash telly.
Peadar Ruane don’t like Mrs. Browns’ boys at all, but the guy (can’t remember his name) was on an episode of QI, and he was funny and interesting. Weird how likeable he was compared to his creation.
@@georgecaplin9075 Brendan O'Carroll can be funny enough... just not that work of his... its totally dated cringe
Mrs Brown's Boys seems to be one of those programmes that keeps getting made but no-one admits to watching. It's like something from the 70's
Funny tidbit about Mrs Brown's boys. They're was a movie in the 90s about THE SAME MRS BROWN, in which she was played by.... Angelica Houston. The movie is called Agnes Brown, look it up.
My parents love it. We've almost fallen out over that!
This was awesome! Can't wait for part 2...I also thought all English people were posh aristocrats, When I got there it was in the middle of a heatwave. Lots of puffy, tomato red English people soaking up the sun in their front yards. I then realized lots of Englishmen look like Onslow from "Keeping Up Appearances."
Canadian TV, we binge watched all 13 years of Heartland over a couple of months. Waiting for season 14.loved it.
Sony Channel is currently showing "Due South" reruns. I'd forgotten how funny it was, especially Gordon Pinsent. "Banzai" is worth a look - deliberately weird, but fun, rather than ill conceived. Best culture shock show I've seen though was the Icelandic version of "Blind Date", so much more wholesome than the British version: the contestants had clipboards with their (very serious) questions on, and the date was pony trekking and a paint your own pottery session.
Also very gratifying to see Pinsent pop up in "Private Eyes" the other week - I'd assumed he'd be dead by now.
When it was on originally I thought Banzai was downright incredible. One of the first ever shows on E4 I think. I'm pretty sure it wouldn't get aired nowadays because with hindsight it's kind of racist.
I'm watching two Canadian shows on Netflix now, Murdoch Mysteries and Heartland. Really good shows.
And both still running 13 seasons later 😄
M Atkins love Heartland. Try Republic of Doyle, a spoof on detective shows
One thing I do love about British television are the movie length quiz shows like Big Fat Quiz and 8 Out of 10 Cats. Both hosted by Jimmy Carr but an episode is absolute gold if Richard Ayoade and Noel Fielding are panelists.
I'm still waiting for Antiques Roadkill...
When I was in the States I watched a Canadian program parodying US talk shows. It was hilarious because it really captured the cringiness of US daytime talk shows. One of my favourite programs on Netflix was Schitts Creek (A Canadian produced comedy). They did a behind the scenes episode after it finished. It was really moving.
Canadian TV Shows. Orphan Black, Kim's Convenience, Primeval: New World, The Handmaid's Tale, Trailer Park Boys, Murdoch Mysteries, The Next Step, Continuum, Corner Gas, Schitt's Creek, Naked and Afraid, Ice Road Truckers just to name a few!
I'd rather watch Shooting Stars than Celebrity Juice. Less seedy, but more surreal.
Oh god, I saw naked jungle initially, the sight of Keith Chegwin scarred me for life. I think it’s older than 2000 though, I seem to remember a one off episode on a themed ‘nudist’ night that channel 4 did. They did those various themed nights every so often
Agree about Celebrity Juice - Lemon is very unfunny. Oh and please scrap I'm a Celebrity - utter tosh.
😱😱😱
I'd say Celebrity Juice has found it's own way for the past 8 years. But it did start of rubbish.
Celebrity SHIT
Adventures and Naps we need you back in the UK
As for great Canadian TV shows, Dark Matter is an awesome Canadian sci-fi show. Such a shame it was cancelled, but totally worth watching all the same.
Love Due South too, not only was it funny and hugely entertaining, it also set me off on a voyage of discovery of Canadian music through its soundtracks. A large section of my music collection remains Canadian to this day 🇨🇦🎧🎶
North America seems to have an issue with nudity/sex, but love violence.
You comment applies to the USA vs Canada. Most Canadians have no issue with nudity. And if you view most Canadian content, gratuitous violence is very rare.
@@newtron1 Did you watch the video? Alanna seems to have a huge problem with nudity.
@@chrisytfc879 I think she has a problem with nudity that seems out of place. I'm not sure if she would necessarily have the same reaction to something like nudity in a sex scene.
@@trickygoose2She would still get Second hand embarrassment
I can remember when we had just 2 channels and by the time we got to 4 the VCR had been invented and it transformed our viewing as you could watch one thing and record another. That was great till Christmas when there was on occasion more than 2 things on at the same time that you wanted to watch so then you were into swapping tapes with neighbours. Now we have so many free to air channels I can't count them all, but I struggle to find one thing that's worth watching. Hence I'm on RUclips!
Bless you for mentioning second hand embarrassment! I've often cringed, looked away, and sometimes left the room when anything embarrassing is clearly going to happen. And yes, I know it's not real( tv/movie). I like to think we're empathetic!
I have a very low cringe threshold, I just can't watch a load of stuff. Sitcoms are pretty much out, I watch them and I can feel my intestines crawling up my neck and strangling my brain.
me too !
And sometimes I experience embarrassment by proxy when the other person doesn’t realize that they are being thoroughly humiliated.
My Mother the Car is an American show!!!
Yeah I’d never heard of it lol
I am one of those people that loves Gogglebox, but I've only mostly seen the Irish Version. Also I agree with you about Mr Browns Boys, it's been awful recently.
Mrs Browns Boys finished a few years ago, there are just Christmas specials now
There are American and Australian versions out there too. Both worth a watch with a varied spectrum of cast much like the Brit version.
Mrs Brown's Boys is absolutely appalling and definitely not a good representative of decent British sitcoms :)
Kelp Kelp then you're a boring old Mrs Whitehouse.
Sarah Millican is crude but very funny
@@martinlewis1015 No she isn't. Mind you, I can't understand a fucking word she says.
@Garry Arden chubby brown funny? Hes is more foul than mrs brown. Sarah millican is funny but uses foul in a more less offensive format.
Orphan Black can be considered both Canadian and British and is arguablely the greatest programme ever made
Good choices Alanna, and there's probably enough material out there for a couple of sequels too. To my absolute shame, I actually did watch a few episodes of Mrs Brown's boys until it all got too much for me!
Hi Alanna, this is my second time watching this video!!! When I was working, one of my colleagues, originally from Italy, said "Your quiz shows are so strange here in Australia, no one ever takes off their clothes!!!". I really couldn't work out an answer to that one!!! Did you ever hear about the Japanese game show called "Gannon"? On one episode, they made all their contestants drink several buckets of water, then locked up all the rest rooms. You can imagine what happened!!! Talking about UK train TV shows; there was a show based on the life of the railway workers on a particular railways station in London. On one occasion, after a power blackout, they "lost" three suburban trains full of peak hour passengers. They eventually found the missing trains stuck in the tunnel near London Bridge Station. Without any power, they had no way to contact their base and the map showing the trains also went blank. Anyway, take care. Robert.
Shooting Stars was a good panel show!
Loved shooting stars. George Doors rocked.
What's the scores George Doors?
Loved Vic and Bob.
@@kevinthornley7659 Angelos was my favourite in the revival series.
Second hand embarrassment must be a Canadian affliction
Mrs Brown's Boys feels like a naff 1970s sitcom to me - maybe that's why some people like it, but I don't. The humour is so clichéd and obvious, I find it a real chore to watch.
Can’t say I’m a massive fan, but it is the closest TV has got to capturing the spirit of Panto (let’s face it when TV has attempted to stage an actual panto it’s always dreadful)
Soooo, um, don't watch it!
@@candidaburrows4284 I don't dictate what others in my household choose to put on.
To make Mrs Brown's Boys even weirder Brendan O'Carroll who plays Mrs Brown is the husband of Jennifer Gibney who plays his/her daughter Kathy in the show and it also includes a few other members of his family. I actually love the show and love how Agnes (Brendon O'Carroll) will ad lib with the sole intention of tripping up other members of the cast and how they carry on filming through those moments of corpsing. Don't take it too seriously or try to understand it and you'll enjoy it a whole lot more. Sorry but Mrs B's Boys gets my vote ... maybe I'm weird too :)
The BBC actually got into trouble for using old footage in Trainspotting Live in order to make it more exciting, train enthusiasts were steaming...
Oh my god 😂
I got it.. :-)))
Why did I not hear of this? Is it still on? Any repeats? Tell me! Tell me!
A neighbor of mine tells me that all or most of the Hallmark made for TV movies are made in Canada. Among other interesting facts the leadtime for getting them on TV means that the winter episodes are filmed in the summer and the summer episodes are filmed in winter. I can't imagine that wearing winter sweaters and jackets to film in the summer and summer outfits to film in the winter are exactly fun.
You should have included Big Brother, where people with nothing to do get to watch perfect strangers going to sleep, and wonder why nothing is happening..
Apparently Big Brother was started by the Dutch!
@@AdventuresAndNaps don't you have it aired in North America I think the whole idea came from George Orwell's 1984 where he mentions Big Brother
You forget about how in Vancouver quite a lot of television and movies are made for the USA.
True! But they're not Canadian tv/shows, they just use our sets lol
Hi Alanna, I was also cheered when you mentioned Mrs Brown's Boys - what an abomination.
I must apologise for all those terrible programmes, though as you say, we make enough that you can find a few good ones.
I haven't come across My Mother The Car, which I'll give a swerve, but I'll try to find Dogs Might Fly. You didn't make that up, did you ?
Very fun video. I'm convinced. I'll have to check out some of these strange British shows. There are some Canadian gems that aren't well known because a lot of content is never aired on broadcast TV any more. I really enjoy Wynonna Earp, and the Corner Gas Animated series is pretty fun, too.
People waffle about Breaking Bad , Sopranos , ER , Lost etc .....
We all KNOW that Bullseye is the greatest gift to television in the history of mankind.
No hyperbole . Just truth .
100% true
Can't beat a bit o' bully!
Let's 'ave a look at what you could've won!
“Take yer time love, just take yer time...”
Some bloke from Birmingham who wins a speed boat. 😁
Naked Attraction is a programme that everyone says is terrible and shouldn't be on TV, but when it's discussed at work or in the pub you find out that absolutely everyone has watched it. A winner for channel 4 and their advertisers. Incidentally, did you know that the presenter is the lesbian partner of Sue Perkins (of Mel & Sue comedy duo fame)?
Before celebrity juice, there was a show called Shooting Stars.
Though Shooting Stars was funny.
I love Bob!
The also had some catchy catchphrases like "Ulrikakakaka" 😂
And the random contests.
@@AdventuresAndNaps When you get back to the UK, you'll have to see if you can catch: "Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing" (just started it's third series.) It doesn't sound like much and at first thought, it might be classed as a bit weird. It's just Bob Mortimer (possibly the funniest man on British television,) and Paul Whitehouse (ditto, but also possibly the UK's finest living character actor too,) enjoying a bit of fishing in various locations in the British Isles.
Now this might sound a bit as if it's on a par with Trainspotting Live, but the beauty of it is in the glorious footage of the British countryside & coastline, and the comedy is in the interaction between Bob & Paul. It's real-life stuff, (kind of fly-on-the-wall, if the locations weren't almost all outside,) and neither Bob nor Paul are scripted.
Both have something in common having both recently undergone serious heart surgery, and both are trying to make lifestyle changes. Paul falls back on his lifelong hobby of angling, and Bob (who knows bugger all about fishing,) accompanies him, arranging accommodation, and trying to provide a heart-healthy diet for the pair of them.
It still doesn't sound astoundingly entertaining, but the laughs are only matched by the occasional touching moments. Highlights: Bob Mortimer getting so excited that he almost wets himself on landing his first fish, (then also his second, his third, etc. - Bob gets easily excited!) My favourite moment is when the pair are enjoying their dinner and Paul asks Bob what it is that he's drinking, Bob replies that it's a tradiionally brewed English pale ale from a local brewery and that he's supporting local producers. He then asks Paul what he's drinking to which Paul replies: "It red wine; it's French, and I don't give a F*#k!"
I hope you get a chance to catch it. It'll be one thing to make coming back to England particularly worthwhile, (but don't tell your boyfriend that!) 😃
One aspect of British TV shows is that many of them are not meant to be targeted towards the largest viewing audience. They are meant to target the minorities who would normally never have a chance to view shows they personally like. As long as it's cheap, the BBC will give many things a try for a short run. Most of the time, it's a bust but once in a while you get something surprisingly good. Monty Python was one example of this.
Sadly you missed my childhood in The Magic Roundabout. I remember rewatching an episode where Dougal attended a party and had no memory of it. He was so stoned he was having a conversation with a banana and a pear. Or the classic innuendo of Captain Pugwash! Good old Seaman Stains and Master Bates and who can forget Roger the Cabin boy!
Gotta love the urban myths of our childhood. The reason the characters often “acted” weird in M R was that the BBCs English script bore little resemblance to the on-screen action, which was based upon the quite different original French TV script! It’s easy to forget Roger the Cabin Boy because his character name was Tom, not Roger!
@Ian Brown ...Seaman Stains didn't exist, and there was a 'Master Mate' but no 'Master Bates'. As has already been said: the cabin boy's name was Tom not Roger.
All of this, that people claim to remember is a figment of their imagination, originally put about by pathetic little schoolboys with senses of humour about as inadequate as their intellect. But then there'll always be people who'll convince themselves that it's all true and be certain they remember it. (Perhaps YOU didn't "miss your childhood in The Magic Roundabout" but it would seem that you missed your childhood in Captain Pugwash... or perhaps never actually watched it, and just listened to all the crap you heard about it!)
The Mighty Boosh is pretty weird😆
I loved the mighty boosh
Pretty weird? It’s way weirder than that! Great stuff though, love NFs material
I've always found it wild how you can be watching a relaxing show about trains one moment and then the next moment you're watching crazy medical stuff
As a 32 year old brit, I've never heard of most of these. Quite glad of that actually.
Naked attraction is one programme every country should have.
“And then everyone started breaking their legs..” chuckle 🤣🤣🤣
Beth Tweddle the gymnast broke her neck, don't forget.
@@dave_h_8742 Someone who does somersaults on a narrow beam several feet off the ground hundreds of times but never broke her neck doing that.
How come Kevin Nash was never booked for it?
@@trickygoose2 luck ran out
@@dave_h_8742 She seriously injured her neck and spine and surgery to failed to help. She is suing the programme makers.
'Heil Honey, I'm Home' was a 1990s spoof sitcom that centres on Adolf Hitler & Eva Braun and their troubled relationship with their neighbours the Goldsteins. It was cancelled after one episode but can be seen on RUclips
Yes look up Splash with Olympian diver Tom Daley, where celebrities try and master the art of diving, almost as good as The Jump.... Eddie the Eagle did win this contest ....
Based at Inspire Swimming Pool in Luton.
Second hand embarrassment = "surrogate embarrassment". I suffer too!
I recommend Schitt’s Creek. Good slow burning Canadian comedy that grows on you. Great character development. 🇨🇦
When a Canadian uses the phrase 'Bear with me' it takes on a whole new meaning in my head
"a bit.. a bit too much for me... if you dont mind"
LOL! you sounded terribly british when you said that.
hope you're doing good.
Cheers pal, hope you're doing well, too!
@@AdventuresAndNaps All's grand
@@AdventuresAndNaps I share your second hand embarrassment.
I can't even watch a comedy film where characters are embarrassed or humiliated!
TV in the UK, you either pay for it or they come and kick your door in. Sometimes the UK is not so nice.
Not at the moment-just to be sure put up a Covid Quarantine sign.
Or you just cancel your tv license via the website and job done. I only watch netflix. Plus i hate the left wing leaning of the bbc personally.
@ Cool as I haven't watched in about fifteen years I'll try that.
A Brit
👍
Have you ever watched shooting stars??
Might need to include that one in Part 2!
Adventures and Naps I think it’s not only up there with the weirdest but also the funniest, even watching episodes I’ve already seen has me in tears
Ryan Jon Bob Mortimer asking Ulrika to sign a Head and Shoulders bottle had me in tears.
Not a massive fan of Juice, but SS was always a favourite!
Its forerunner Vic Reeves Big Night Out was even more outlandish.
Look into the aims of channel 4. It might explain a lot.
I haven’t seen ANY of these, or those mentioned (as a Brit) 😅 - rule of thumb is avoid Channel 4 😬👀. Definitely don’t feel like I’ve missed out or miss out on pop culture! We watch loads of US shows and BBC dramas for that in my circles (back to Class culture again 😅).
As for Canada, loooads of the biggest US shows are all filmed there! Don’t sell yourselves short :P.
True, lots are filmed in Canada! But they aren't Canadian productions - we're just cheaper than the US lol
Tax breaks make it a lot cheaper to film in Canada.
“Naked men running around an assault course”. A sentence I have never heard before! You’ll have a million subs one day great to see your Chanel grow. My partner is not English and your perspective really helps me see things through her eyes sometimes. Keep going!!!!!
You could say they were tackle-ing the assault course. 😂
My Mother the Car. "The kids are riding mom". This is wrong on so many levels.
A couple to add to your list. The Word a 1990's Channel4 music magazine show and Call My Bluff, a 1960's/1970's panel game show based on unusual words from the Oxford English Dictionary
Loved Call My Bluff; especially Patrick Campbell and Frank Muir, and later Alan Coren. 👍
@Darth Wheezius "
@Darth Wheezius lol
Many of these were some of the reasons I have not had a TV in 6 years. I don't miss it at all! There is more than enough to legally watch online with out a TV licence, so I save a few bob as well!
To clarify Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents. The premise of the show is to allow parents to spy on their teenage/early 20s son/daughter while they are on holiday. The young adults just party away and the parents go into the hotels and spy on their son/daughter. This is sometimes through video footage while at the hotel or sometimes the parents find like hiding places in the town to watch their son/daughter.
The location was commonly Ibiza, Magaluf or that sort of area but I do believe there were winter versions as well.
There was no sex or nudity. Generally the more raunchy it got was someone snogging someone else or a few of those raunchy bar games which apparently british people do when they are abroad.
Part 2 defo,funny insightful and witty to boot.proper enjoyed this,more please.
I watch every week and always fall for your enthusiasm. Keep up the good work. Hope you make it back to Kent soon,
There are also a few weird but good shows around, for example James May : The Reassembler where the presenter put things back together, including such highlights as a 1950's lawnmower, a 1960's food mixer and so on. The interest I suppose is whether you enjoy listening to James May talk about some of the social context or engineering ideas around the item being worked on.
Also James May Toy stories, where you take a classic childrens favourite toy and see how far you can push the idea. So, building a full size house out of Lego, a bridge out of Meccano, a 10 mile long model railway track and so on.
And then theres Time Team, after 20 seasons it had become well known and reasonably well respected, but it cant have been easy selling the idea of televising some archaeologists scraping away at dirt for three days with the risk of finding very little if anything. Or perhaps two of the series it inspired, Extreme Archaeology, similar to Time Team but smaller scale and much more dangerous locations, or Pub Dig, also smaller scale and as the name suggests looking for history underneath some of the UK's beer gardens. Initially it sounds daft, but some pubs have been at the same location for hundreds of years, protecting whats underneath them from later rebuilding etc.
As for Mrs Browns Boys, I havent watched it, so I can only point to the UK's long tradition of Drag Queens and Pantomime Dames.
As for the Trainspotting show, I flirted with the hobby very briefly as a child, (my older brother was a trainspotter,) but it was at one point very popular in this country. I guess it appeals to the collector in some people, and provides the opportunity to travel around the country and see different places, not just railway stations. Combine it with a visit to a museum or something if transpotting on its own sounds a bit dry.
We're British, we love a bit of eccentricity, a bit of smut, maybe a laugh and maybe learn something, ideally all of them. Which is why I like QI XL so much I guess.
I think Distraction counts - it was hosted by Jimmy Carr and was basically a variety gameshow based around wtaf
Another total gem of a video, Alanna. Thank you so much for doing this. I agree with you, someone in a boardroom authorised these shows! “Yes I agree we should in vest $500,000 in that show. That’ll rate its head off!” You are highly entertaining even when you’re talking about my number 1 worst show - embarrassing bodies. That even made it to Australia for a couple of seasons
.....on behalf of us Brits we can only apologise to you for the trauma you must have suffered watching some of this dreadful drivel.....
I have the entire series of Due South on DVD. How can you not know Corner Gas?, Red Green? DaVinci's Inquest? Anne of Green Gables? I can understand forgetting Robson Arms. But, hey, half of the best American actors are actually Canadian :)
Another great video , always makes me smile to see you smile and laugh so much , especially trainspotting live, fabulous
Thank you very much!
I watched a long running Canadian documentary series called 'Trailer Park Boys'.
I now know exactly what life in Canada is like! ;)
Btw if you want to know about quaint normal British village life there is a documentary about that too: 'The League of Gentlemen'.
only if you're "local"
@@niallrussell7184 you might even get some of Mr Briss' special stuff!
Niall Russell
A local programme for local people.
I haven't seen any of those programmes. I watched about 3 minutes of Mrs Brown and that was enough for me.
That's 3 more minutes than anyone should have to bear!
Two quick things;
1. Most of these are from Channel 4, the whole point of Channel 4 is to show series that you wouldn't find on the BBC or Itv.
2. Also alot of these seem to be shown after 9/ 10 a'clock at night which means it would have been shown after Watershed, being shown after watershed means that it is strictly geared to adults. NO kids allowed
And all of a sudden- genitals!! 👀
Hey Alanna.Yet another delightful vid. I'm with Secret Guy and many others when I say Mr's Brown's Boys has to be 'the' unfunniest thing I've ever had the misfortune to watch, never seen a whole show, 2min was my limit when I accidentally tuned in. Once. 😱.
My! You have some load buzzy things over there, 🦟 🐝.
Cool editing Miss. I trust all's well, as always. Greetings from Liverpool. ✌️ 🐝.
Poor Jamie Theakston
I don't think any kids' tv shows were conceptualised or produced without drugs… #FreeTheakston
Hey Alanna,
there is a lot of weird stuff on British TV and Channels 4 and 5 are good for that kind of stuff but you still have to love it although we can't take credit for My Mother the Car, it's even to strange for us. It was made in America by NBC in 1965.
One of the oddest British programmes shown in recent years for me was The Autopsy which showed a human dissection anatomist Gunther Von Hagens, even for channel 4 it was a bit out there.
By the way, nice work with the video editing, it's looking very professional.
I saw an American guy on YT talking about Countryfile and he said: “ It’s just the same every week. Yep. Green and wet , like last time.” I personally have always thought I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here is somewhat bizarre. Finally, can I say how grateful I am that you didn’t show any clips of these shows.
Lucky he never saw the nearly 40 years of Last Of The Summer Wine.
This rather shows the need for paying attention. Countryfile quietly turned itself into one of the most quietly thoughtful current affairs shows on TV. It’s segments, for example, on halal and kosher farming were an island of quiet reason in an ocean of Daily Mail hysteria.
You've got Letterkenny which can have some comical moments. I remember back in the '70s a sit-com called King of Kensington though it probably hasn't aged well. I haven't been in the UK for 18 years, so most of your choices I've never heard of, but I have seen a few hilarious clips of Mrs Brown's Boys ... found here on YT.
I do not get the point of goggle box lol - agree with you Alanna on that 😎
If you want a good representation of Irish television, my three choices are Father Ted, Father Ted and a comedy called Father Ted.
Feeling embarrassed for somebody else is a very British trait.
I like how she couldn't name any more Canadian TV shows. I'm Canadian and I'd probably struggle to name 5. We're so overwhelmed with American shows here that Canadian TV has a hard time breaking through. The only relatively modern Canadian show I like is Corner Gas and I asked around work here in Toronto and nobody's heard of it.
I didn't watch many episodes of embarrassing bodies, but there was one episode in particular that's always stuck in my mind. Some older guy went on there, think he was in his early 50's? And said he likes to go clubbing and stuff, but sometimes he has this problem where brown watery liquid would like seep out of his arse? Anyway, the doctors went away and did their "tests" or whatever, and came back and told this guy that there was nothing wrong with him, and that he basically just didn't know how to wipe his own arse properly, and the liquid was just his shltty bum hole and sweat mixing together and running out of his crack. So not only did this guy go on national TV to let everyone know about his runny arse, but then it was revealed that this man in his 50's didn't know how to do something that most people learn when they're about 6. Good times.
I can handle the nakedness its the personalities that make me put my head in my hands
"Six"? You mean should be three to four
Ian Brown Right, who wiped his bum if he went to the loo at school
That’s a cute top. Hope you’re having a wonderful day Alanna 😊