Titles I‘d fully believe were British TV shows:

Beamish and Quigley

The Quite Corking Quiz Show

Shan’t We Tell the Vicar?

A Bee’s As Good As A Bonnet

Up Your Arse, Alistair!

That Isn’t How We Do It in Lincolnshire, That Isn’t How We Do It At All

Just Joanna Lumley
Mr Churchill Wants a Word

An Upstairs Murder at Downstairs Hall

Where’s Me Jumper, Julia?

Celebrities Shouldn’t Be Running a Surgery!

We’re Fighting France Again
OK, I need to sleep, but thank you, UK
Strictly Wickets

The Peasants! The Peasants!

Nan Says It’s Nice

And Jerry Plays the Old Joanna

Me Bruv’s the Guv’nor

These Aren’t My Pants!
Nan Says It’s Nice Would be about asking grandmothers their opinions on things
This En’t A Ride on Brighton Pier

Personally Speaking

Curry-ing Favour

Muddy Trousers

‘S A Fookin’ Rave, Innit
British rave culture has always been fascinatingly ridiculous to me. I watched Go with a twentysomething British woman and Scottish man I was working on Thomas, and the amount of scoffing at the inaccuracies was fantastic
This will be my legacy.
Anyway, back to Peep Show
Holding The Door Too Long

Pippa Meets The Poors

A Nod’s As Good As a Wink To A Blind Bat

You Will Get No Emotional Catharsis Here Unless You Watch the Extremely Hard to Find Christmas Episode

Eight Episodes Somehow Spread Out Over 5 Series and 11 Years
I have been able to get Channel 4 while traveling and last night I turned on the TV to find not only a show called “Celebs Go Dating” but to hear myself referenced in it
They were just namedropping me as a pop-culture reference but I would like to believe this is British television‘s revenge on me
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