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  1. The Complete Guide to Everything: ‘Doctor Who’High concept experimental episode time! This week Tom spends 20 minutes trying to explain 50 years of Doctor Who lore to Tim, someone who does […]
    By Splitsider Editors
  2. Sponsored: Watch COPPER explore an 1860s brothelPremieres Sunday August 19th at 10/9c on BBC America.
  3. Henson is Producing a Show of British Puppets for British Humans If you liked the above video, you are in luck because the BBC is going to be airing a new Jim Henson Company produced puppet program (or […]
    By Jesse David Fox
  4. Andy Samberg to Star in the New BBC Sitcom ‘Cuckoo’Andy Samberg may be done with SNL, but that doesn’t mean he’ll stop appearing on your TV. At least if you live in the UK. He’s signed on to […]
    By Adam Frucci
  5. Lewis Black and BBC Radio Are Pairing Up for a Satirical Quiz ShowThe kindly Brits over at the BBC have decided to make an American version of their longtime news quiz satire show The News Quiz, called The […]
    By Hallie Cantor
  6. An Interview About The Day Today of Yesterday, Today, With David SchneiderHow many times did David Schneider pee his pants with laughter when making 90s BBC spoof news show The Day Today? Read the interview and let […]
    By Hallie Cantor
  7. Trade Roundup: Only Fools and Horses, Paul the Male Matchmaker, Lizzy […]Could Steve Carell be set to re-make a second popular British sitcom for American audiences? ABC is working on a US version of the BBC show […]
    By Hallie Cantor
  8. david bowie
    See Lost Footage of a 1973 Performance by David BowieThe BBC recently broadcast lost footage of Bowie performing on Top of the Pops, like, a million years ago (38, to be exact).
    By Eliot Glazer
  9. doctor who
    Watch Clips From Rediscovered Vintage Doctor Who EpisodesCongratulations, nerds! Christmas came early this year!
    By Eliot Glazer
  10. Watch the Ab Fab Holiday Special Preview in This Blog Flog Twitter Post A preview of the Absolutely Fabulous holiday special has been released, and it features Jennifer Saunders blogging and flogging and Twittering […]
    By Hallie Cantor
  11. tv
    HBO and BBC Developing Wolf Hall HBO and the BBC are developing the medieval mini-series.
    By Sarah Bennett
  12. tv
    Chris Noth and Neve Campbell Join Titanic Mini-seriesNoth will be doing what he does best.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  13. Absolutely Fabulous Is Returning to Celebrate/Get Drunk at the OlympicsCult classic Absolutely Fabulous is coming back, if but briefly, for three new specials that will lead up to the London Olympics. They’ll take […]
    By Adam Frucci
  14. Ricky Gervais on The Office 10 Years After Its PremiereThe original BBC Office premiered 10 years ago tomorrow. 10 years! In that time, it’s become one of the most successful sitcoms of all time, […]
    By Adam Frucci
  15. BBC to Make a Movie About Monty Python Making Life of BrianThe BBC is making a movie called Holy Flying Circus about the controversy surrounding the release of Monty Python’s classic Life of Brian. It […]
    By Adam Frucci
  16. Checking In With the Cast of the British OfficeWhatever happened to predictability, the milkman, the paperboy, evening TV…and the cast of one of the greatest comedies of all-time, The […]
    By Joshua Kurp
  17. Mind the Gap: A Series on Awkward Women in ComedyWe want to talk about life before Bridesmaids. You might be fatigued from all the talk about women in comedy, from sentences like “women aren’t […]
    By Lili Loofbourow and Danielle Roderick
  18. video
    Watch the Doctor Who Cast Challenge Each Other to Doctor Who PinballAnd in between grudge matches, we grill them about the new season of the show.
    By Sarah Frank and Gwynne Watkins
  19. clickables
    Meet the British Woman Who Dislocated Her Jaw With a Yawn“She’s going to stuff Holly’s mouth with small splints that look a bit like lolly sticks.”
    By Amanda Dobbins
  20. clickables
    Meet the British Man Who Superglued a Tiny Hat to His HeadHe had to go to the emergency room.
    By Amanda Dobbins
  21. clickables
    Watch the BBC’s Downton Abbey Spoof With Kim CattrallHer accent is not great.
    By Amanda Dobbins
  22. clickables
    Watch the CBBC’s Delightful Animated Series About a Crime-Fighting Rasta MouseKids, help your parents find their cheese.
    By Amanda Dobbins
  23. clickables
    Watch a Mesmerizing Trailer for the BBC’s Human PlanetHumans are the new animals.
    By Amanda Dobbins
  24. clickables
    Watch Nature Take Its Revenge on TV Spy CamerasThat’s a W for the polar bears.
    By Amanda Dobbins
  25. clickables
    Enjoy a Bunch of Fruit and Technology Puns, Courtesy of Two Elderly British MenIt’s charming!
    By Amanda Dobbins
  26. More Puns About Technology Crammed Into One Sketch Than Previously Though […] Here’s a preview sketch from the BBC’s upcoming The One Ronnie, starring Harry Enfield and Ronnie Corbett. It’s like a masterclass in puns.
    By Adam Frucci
  27. Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon’s Dueling Michael Caine Impressions Here’s a great clip from BBC Two’s The Trip, a series in which Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon play heightened versions of themselves traveling […]
    By Adam Frucci
  28. trailer mix
    Skins Trailer: A British Cult Classic Comes to MTVCan MTV pull this off?
    By Amos Barshad
  29. BBC’s New Rules On Comedy Forbid ‘Unduly Derogatory Remarks’The BBC just released a new list of rules for shows that it airs, including a couple focused on comedies. They are very British! One rule […]
    By Adam Frucci
  30. Hands Up, Who Likes Me?: Don’t PanicIn this weekly column, I’ll introduce you to the world of British comedy in the chronology of how I, an American anglophile, discovered it in […]
    By Curtis Gwinn
  31. Steve Coogan’s Alan Partridge May Be Returning to TVSteve Coogan’s production company is recutting a series of web shorts featuring character Alan Partridge into a real-deal TV show. The […]
    By Adam Frucci
  32. the office china
    The Office: China Coming Soon!It seems to be a go for a Mandarin ‘Office.’
    By Mike Vilensky
  33. the industry
    Elizabeth Banks Goes Directly to JailPlus: Justin Theroux is an evil magic wizard.
    By Amos Barshad
  34. awesome
    Spaced Arrives to HuluIf you were too cheap to buy the DVD set last year, rejoice!
    By Mark Graham
  35. regrets
    Is Renowned Evil Genius Simon Cowell Going Soft?If his column in this weekend’s ‘Daily Mail’ is to be believed, the answer is yes!
    By Mark Graham
  36. disappointments
    New Doctor Who to Ruin Series With His Youthful HandsomenessBritons have been up in arms all weekend over Saturday’s surprise announcement that random 26-year old Matt Smith has been cast as the eleventh Doctor Who.
    By Lane Brown
  37. the industry
    Nastia Liukin and Mario Cantone to Star in Worst Movie EverPlus: Michael Keaton will play a Ken doll in ‘Toy Story 3.’
  38. the industry
    Ellen Page Not a Plain ‘Jane’Plus: New projects for Ben Kingsley, Samantha Morton, Josh Hartnett, Eva Mendes, and Woody Harrelson.
  39. agenda
    The Wickedly Sexy Helen Mirren You Haven’t SeenWe adore the young, wickedly sexy Helen Mirren seen in this collection of her breakthrough made-for-TV flicks, filmed between 1974 and 1982.
  40. the industry
    Scorsese, DiCaprio Follow in the Afflecks’ FootstepsPlus industry news on Jay-Z, Ghostface, and Will Oldham.
  41. the industry
    Mark Ruffalo and Julianne Moore Go Blind
  42. the take
    Hanif Kureishi’s Censored Story