a good Saturday night Britcom schedule

[icecream]

My PBS affiliate used to air Britcoms in all of Saturday primetime, has been reducing them for awhile. Now they just air from 8:00-9:00 or 8:00-9:30 depending on the cycle. Fawlty Towers has been on the schedule two different times but quickly gets pulled after it cycles, was sadly replaced with a documentary series the last time. Some of what they air is really mediocre like Moone Boy and Still Open All Hours, and the 8-9 staples Keeping Up Appearances and As Time Goes By seem like they have been on for centuries. Plus Doctor Who taking up Saturday from 9:30-11:00 has greatly reduced the sitcom coverage, it already airs a lot on BBC America. a schedule I would like a lot more

6:00 PM Outnumbered
6:30 PM The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole
7:00 PM Mr. Bean
7:30 PM Blackadder
8:00 PM Fawlty Towers
8:30 PM Yes, Minister/Yes, Prime Minister- for a long time this was my favorite Britcom until I discovered Fawlty Towers.
9:00 PM The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
9:30 PM Colin's Sandwich
10:00 PM Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em- Michael Crawford has been one of my favorite singers for a long time. I recently found out he starred in this Britcom.
10:30 PM Monty Python's Flying Circus
11:00 PM Red Dwarf
11:30 PM Birds of a Feather
12:00 AM Are You Being Served?
12:30 AM One Foot in the Grave

[icecream]

Originally Posted by Alan Brady's Hair

Mr. Bean, Red Dwarf, and Keeping Up Appearances have always been a mystery to me.

I liked Mr. Bean when I was younger, my PBS affiliate has not aired it in a very long time though. It is because of Mr. Bean that I want to see Rowan Atkinson in Blackadder, have never seen it. Red Dwarf I have not seen but have heard good things about, and I like a lot of fantasy/sci-fi comedies like Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie, The Munsters and The Addams Family, and alien comedies like Mork and Mindy and ALF. Keeping Up Appearances can get old fairly quick, it is basically the same thing every episode. Airing the Britcoms mainly between 1-3AM seems like a waste, I would not be able to check out The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin or Monty Python's Flying Circus much at those late hours. Might be different if it was a station airing all classic shows, but most of what PBS airs does not appeal to me.

[icecream]

I edited my schedule above to add an hour, with Reginald Perrin and Colin's Sandwich added.

[Edison]

Commonly confused, but one of them will
make you laugh so hard that a cunning plan will be to not binge-watch.

[Steve_uk]

Fawlty Towers was one of the best, though only 12 episodes were made. Yes Minister was well written, though I'm surprised it travelled for American audiences. Are You Being Served jumped the shark, though a handful of episodes were gems. Blackadder I didn't like, though Rowan Atkinson was good with his co-stars in Not the Nine o' clock News.

[icecream]

Originally Posted by Steve_uk

[I]Yes Minister was well written, though I'm surprised it travelled for American audiences.[I]

My PBS affiliate aired Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister in the Saturday 10PM hour, but sadly that was over a decade ago.

[Edison]

Hear, hear !