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The 100 best TV shows of the 21st century
The Thick Of It is the highest rated British comedy in fourth place. Also listed: The Office (6), Fleabag (8), Peep Show (9), Nighty Night (16), Black Mirror (23), Spaced (29), Catastrophe (34), Brass Eye (37), Detectorists (38), Nathan Barley (47), Black Books (53), Inside No. 9 (66), Shameless (70), The Inbetweeners (74), Gavin and Stacey (81), Fresh Meat (86), Garth Marenghi's Darkplace (92), The Trip (95) and The Mighty Boosh (98).
The Guardian, 16th September 2019How the Edinburgh Fringe transformed TV comedy
As the Edinburgh Fringe begins again, we examine how the festival spawned shows like Taskmaster, Fleabag, and The League Of Gentlemen...
Mark Harrison, Den Of Geek, 2nd August 201913 modern TV comedies set in the 80s and 90s
Here are thirteen other modern TV comedies set in the recent past...
Louisa Mellor, Den Of Geek, 16th February 2018Five classic comedies that owe a debt to TLOG
The taboo-busting grotesques of Royston Vasey were a breath of fresh air when they first appeared on stage 20 years ago quickly followed by appearances on BBC Radio and TV. Here are the shows that might not have existed in the same way without them...
Ben Dowell, Radio Times, 18th December 2017Garth Marenghi's Darkplace: a 'lost classic'
It's hard to believe that Garth Marenghi's Darkplace first screened on Channel 4 a full 13 years ago.
Alex Nelson, i Newspaper, 11th May 2017Garth Marenghi's Darkplace: reviewing the sci-fi spoof
At its core, Darkplace is the ultimate lampoon of low-production-value paranormal horror shows.
Alex Carchidi, Sci-Fi Addicts, 16th January 2017Great TV sitcoms that started at the Edinburgh Fringe
Here are seven sitcoms that would never have made it to our screens if it weren't for the Fringe.
Tristram Fane Saunders, The Telegraph, 18th August 2016Rewind: "Garth Marenghi's Darkplace" revisited
A decade after it originally aired, we take a look back at Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, Channel 4's spoof of bad 80's horror television.
John Larkin, Cult Box, 29th October 2015Garth Marenghi's Darkplace was weird, but also truly original and brilliantly funny. A show-within-a-show, it saw Matthew Holness and Richard Ayoade's popular Edinburgh Fringe character, the eponymous horror writer and egomaniac (played by Holness), present his fictional, never-aired TV show, intercut with interviews with cast and crew. It captured the spirit of hammy Eighties action shows, with acting and special effects appalling enough to make Ed Wood look like Steven Spielberg. Being aired late at night with very little advertising actually worked in the show's favour: Garth Marenghi's Darkplace became the true "lost classic" that Marenghi himself always proclaimed it to be.
Chris Taylor, The Telegraph, 13th September 2014The cast of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace: 10 years on
What have Matthew Holness, Richard Ayoade, Alice Lowe and Matt Berry been up to in the decade since Garth Marenghi's Darkplace?
Sarah Dobbs, Den Of Geek, 3rd April 2014