Popular Comedy TV Series on PBS

Great Performances

1971

Great Performances

1971
5.8
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.
All Creatures Great and Small

1978

All Creatures Great and Small

1978
7.7
The trials and misadventures of the staff at a country veterinary office in Yorkshire. James Herriot, a young animal surgeon, moves to a small Yorkshire town to begin his first job.
Pie in the Sky

1994

Pie in the Sky

1994
8.3
Pie in the Sky is a British offbeat police comedy drama programme starring Richard Griffiths and Maggie Steed, created by Andrew Payne and first broadcast in five series on BBC1 between 13 March 1994 and 17 August 1997 as well as being syndicated on other channels in other countries, including the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The series departs slightly from other police dramas in that the protagonist, Henry Crabbe, while still being an on-duty policeman, is also the head chef of the title restaurant set in the fictional town of Middleton and county of Westershire.
Kid vs. Kat

2008

Kid vs. Kat

2008
7.9
Ten-year-old Coop Burtonburger's life takes a turn for the worse when his little sister, Millie, brings home a mysterious stray cat who, in reality, is an evil cybernetic alien in disguise. To make matters worse, neither his family nor anyone else believes him, except for his best friend, Dennis. Now, Coop risks his life every day as he attempts to foil the cat's diabolical schemes and prove to the world that the family pet is an evil mastermind.
Limitless

2015

Limitless

2015
7.3
Brian Finch's life takes an extraordinary turn when he uses NZT-48, a neuroenhancing drug whose mystery and chaos lead him to working for the FBI and a senator who is not what he seems.
Rumpole of the Bailey

1975

Rumpole of the Bailey

1975
6.9
Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an aging London barrister who defends any and all clients, and has been spun off into a series of short stories, novels, and radio programmes.
The Durrells

2016

The Durrells

2016
7.4
In 1935, financially strapped widow Louisa Durrell, whose life has fallen apart, decides to move from England, with her four children (three sons, one daughter), to the island of Corfu, Greece. Once there, the family moves into a dilapidated old house that has no electricity and that is crumbling apart. But life on Corfu is cheap, it's an earthly paradise, and the Durrells proceed to forge their new existence, with all its challenges, adventures, and forming relationships.
Lovejoy

1986

Lovejoy

1986
7.3
The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers for recognising exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antique from clever fakes or forgeries.
One Step from Heaven

2011

One Step from Heaven

2011
5.1
The investigations and adventures of the Forestry Corps of San Candido.
L'allieva

2016

L'allieva

2016
7
Alice is a clumsy and passionate coroner resident. She fights between life and love complexities. Even tough she still has a lot to learn, she has a special quality: empathy with the victims that leads her to have crucial intuition in the cases that she works on.
The New Normal

2012

The New Normal

2012
6
Los Angeles couple Bryan and David have successful careers and a loving relationship and are ready for a baby. Just as they start to worry that they will never be blessed with parenthood, they meet Goldie, a waitress who has just moved to California with her precocious eight-year-old daughter to escape from her closed-minded grandmother and a life without a future. The guys quickly work out a deal with Goldie to become their surrogate, and in the process, the little group forms a unique family unit of its own.
Munch

2016

Munch

2016
8.1
Home Fires

2015

Home Fires

2015
8.2
The story of a group of inspirational women in a rural Cheshire community with the shadow of World War II casting a dark cloud over their lives. As the conflict takes hold and separates the women from their husbands, fathers, sons and brothers, the characters find themselves under increasing and extraordinary pressures in a rapidly fragmenting world. By banding together as the Great Paxford Women’s Institute, they help maintain the nation’s fabric in its darkest hour, and discover inner resources that will change their lives forever.
Comeback

2008

Comeback

2008
7.2
Comeback is a Czech television sitcom which premiered on TV Nova on September 4, 2008.
Lowdown

2010

Lowdown

2010
4.5
Lowdown shines a torch on the life of a man whose job it is to feed the public's insatiable appetite for celebrity gossip. Alex Burchill, the author of the Lowdown column which appears in the once great but now ailing tabloid newspaper – the Sunday Sun. Each week Alex interviews celebrities for his column, and each week at least one of those celebrities ruins his week. Sometimes the celebrity gets drunk and punches Alex out. Sometimes the celebrity gets him arrested. Usually the celebrity sleeps with his girlfriend, Rita. It may not sound like much of a life, but it invariably leads to great copy and the readers love it. In fact, it's the only thing standing between the Sunday Sun and oblivion.
The Boonies

2017

The Boonies

2017
Follows five former childhood best friends who embark on a $1,164,000 treasure hunt inside the haunted halls of Boone High School.
¿Qué Pasa, USA? (1977)

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¿Qué Pasa, USA? (1977)

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6.5
¿Qué Pasa, U.S.A.? is America's first bilingual situation comedy, and the first sitcom to be produced for PBS. It was produced and taped in front of a live studio audience at PBS member station WPBT in Miami, Florida and aired on PBS member stations nationwide. The program explored the trials and tribulations faced by the Peñas, a Cuban-American family living in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood, as they struggled to cope with a new country and a new language. The series was praised as being very true-to-life and accurately, if humorously, portraying the life and culture of Miami's Cuban-American population.
Stay Tuned

1976

Stay Tuned

1976
6
Stay Tuned was a Canadian improvised comedy television series broadcast on CBC Television throughout October 1976.

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