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Travel Man

Travel Man host Richard Ayoade (The IT Crowd, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace) travels to a city in Europe for 48 hours with an actor or comedian friend such as Paul Rudd, Chris O'Dowd or Noel Fielding. Equal parts travel show and buddy picture, the result is low-key, delightful banter between two witty people who suddenly find themselves in exotic and novel situations. I'd call it the television version of Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon's The Trip films, except that all of those films also have six-part television versions (which I believe are more watchable than the film versions).

Garth Marenghi's Darkplace

Garth Marenghi's Darkplace is a low-budget parody of a low-budget, 1980s horror television show. In many ways, Darkplace is truer to the form than 80s nostalgia shows such as Stranger Things. 

The conceit is that sometime in the early 1980s, hack horror writer Garth Marenghi (who proudly claims to have written more books than he's read) has teamed up with publisher and pornographer Dean Learner to bring Marenghi's dark tales of horror to the screen. What we're watching is not the original series, but rather the DVD re-release, containing the episodes interspersed with modern-day interviews with the cast. 

Lots of great people pop up in this series, including The IT Crowd creator Graham Linehan and The Mighty Boosh stars Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt. The series also features Alice Lowe playing actress Madeleine Wool in the role of Dr. Liz Asher. Most recently Lowe was seen as the psychiatrist in the Black Mirror interactive episode, "Bandersnatch."

Gogglebox, Series 13

Watching people watch television sounds awful—unless you watch the right people. Over 13 seasons Gogglebox on the UK's Channel 4 has succeeded by being part MST3k and part water cooler conversation. Personally, I find it all the more entertaining because I only have the vaguest familiarity with what they're watching. I have discovered a couple great shows by watching Gogglebox. And I do enjoy seeing how others view the US. But let's face it, I'm here for the snark. And no one snarks better than the English.