Fleabag
- TV sitcom
- BBC Three
- 2016 - 2019
- 12 episodes (2 series)
Comedy series starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge as a woman living in London whose life is a mess. Also features Sian Clifford, Bill Paterson, Olivia Colman, Andrew Scott, Brett Gelman and more.
- Series 2, Episode 1 repeated Saturday at 12:15am on BBC3
Streaming rank this week: 208
Press clippings
Andrew Scott tells people who are still watching Fleabag to "go outside and get some fresh air"
The Irish actor delivered a frank message to fans of the show.
Ryan Price, JOE, 6th April 2024The Office named top landmark comedy of the last 50 years
The Office was the highest-placed comedy in a Broadcasting Press Guild list of the top 50 landmark programmes of the last 50 years.
British Comedy Guide, 13th March 2024How Messy Millennial Woman became TV's most tedious trope
She's charismatic, self-destructive, and increasingly tiresome: from Fleabag through to Everything I Know About Love, chaotic female leads now seem to be the default, one-note expression of womanhood. It's time to move on.
Rachel Aroesti, The Guardian, 9th June 2022Where are the new classic sitcoms?
When The One Show recently ran a poll to find the best-loved BBC shows ever, half of the top programmes were sitcoms - but none was launched within the last 15 years. So where are the future classics?
Ian Youngs, BBC, 14th May 2022Best British TV comedies of the last 15 years
Den of Geek's contributors and readers choose the best of the best British TV comedies from the past 15 years.
Louisa Mellor, Rosie Fletcher, Elizabeth Donoghue, Jamie Andrew and Juliette Harrisson, Den Of Geek, 13th May 2022Life after Fleabag: Sian Clifford on taming her inner 'Claire'
As sister Claire, Sian Clifford was a ball of pent-up rage and frustration in Fleabag. Now she is busier than ever. She talks about learning to soften her edges and making those 'what if' moments come true.
Emma Beddington, The Observer, 17th April 2022The dark side of 21st century TV comedy
Shows like Fleabag, BoJack Horseman, and Veep show how modern TV comedies have embraced pain and grief, writes Jennifer Keishin Armstrong.
Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, BBC, 4th November 2021BBC reveal poll of 100 greatest TV shows 21st century
BBC Culture polled 206 TV experts from 43 countries in order to find the greatest TV of the 21st century. The top comedy in the poll was British sitcom Fleabag at 4th. Also in the top 100 are The Office (9th, with the US version at 39th), The Thick Of It (20th), Black Mirror (22nd), Peep Show (42nd), Inside No. 9 (48th), Detectorists (64th) and Catastrophe (96th).
BBC, 19th October 2021Government plans "distinctively British" TV requirement
Media minister John Whittingdale was mocked online for listing Derry Girls, a sitcom set during the Northern Irish troubles of the 1990s, among his examples of 'clearly British' shows .
Isobel Lewis, The Independent, 16th September 2021How sitcoms got less white, less male, and funnier
In the Nineties, British sitcoms hit a dead end. Now, they're where our most exciting and original TV happens.
Tom Nicholson, Esquire, 20th July 2021