With everything going on, if you want to take a break and have a good laugh I recommend Good Neighbors (also called Good Life). British show from the 70s about a guy with a 9 to 5 job that lives in the suburbs who decides to start a farm on his property with his wife and live off the land. I absolutely love it, but to be fair I have always been into British TV/have had a fascination with all things British since I was a kid for some reason. Sucks that they have gone so crazy with the diversity/inclusion obsession, but there is still a lot of older content I have yet to see and a good thing with the free streaming services is that they have quite a bit of older BBC shows or shows from Australia.
I did the ancestry DNA thing a while back and met some super distant British cousins online, but unfortunately they all live in the big cities so I'll have to wait for a cousin to pop up who has a fancy country estate where I can take a vacation.
Don't do British TV honestly, even the old stuff is mostly shit, there was some okay shows like Dad's Army which had it's moments but most of it even back then was just bad. The one thing I could maybe recommend is Top Gear, that's because it's James May, Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond though and it was pretty much the only British thing I watched.
Also don't get the international version of it if you do watch it, they make a lot of copyright references in the show and the international version ruined the series with bad music editing because they didn't want to pay for the music rights make sure you get the UK version. If you don't mind poor CGI and corny storytelling there's Dr.Who which people in Britain swear by but it was never really my thing and the fandom act like cultists and you also have Red Dwarf.
Most of British television is made up of either sports or awful reality and talk shows and this has been the case for a long while.
Like I said I’ve always love British stuff so there is that bias. I enjoyed Doctor who before they started attacking fans. Red Dwarf is really good. I’ve heard about Dad’s Army and am meaning to watch it. I’ve heard great things about Top Gear. They haven’t been bitten by the current year bug? Also, isn’t there a show called Clarksons Farm tied to Top Gear?
So bear with me on this because it gets a little bit complicated, there's the original UK version of Top Gear, there are International spin offs so if you download a different version you'll get different people who tried to copycat the format and have failed miserably. The Top Gear show with Clarkson, May and Hammond ended because Clarkson punched one of his producers in the face because he got served a cold meal after a long day and there was clearly some kind of drama behind the scenes.
The BBC then ended the contract with them which was due to expire anyway and that's when they started up The Grand Tour which is the new version of the same show but now they're with Amazon and it's a totally private enterprise. The Grand Tour is on it's last episode September 12th and they've decided to stop doing the show now because they're all getting very old which is fair enough.
Clarkson's Farm is Jeremy Clarkson by himself and that's his real farm he owns in the Cotswolds which he decided to take on as part of his retirement and also film everything going on, hope that clears everything up. Jeremy Clarkson is 62 now so it's no surprise he's calming things down a bit.
If you don't mind kid's shows which can be somewhat entertaining, there's also Wallace and gromit and Pingu which make use of claymation to animate, oh and the wombles I suppose lol.
I also enjoyed the show where Richard Hammond created tech on an island.
Brainiac?
Better than what happened on John Hammond's islands