WELCOME to the World Cup of Sitcoms! Following your nominations, we now have our shortlist of 42 shows:

 

Absolutely Fabulous

Bad Education

Birds Of A Feather

Black Books

Blackadder

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Come Fly With Me

Community

Cuckoo

Dads Army

Derry Girls

Extras

Father Ted

Fawlty Towers

Fraiser

Friday Night Dinner

Friends

Gavin & Stacey

Ja'mie: Private School Girl

Keeping Up Appearances

Miranda

Modern family

Mr Bean

Mrs Browns Boys

My Family

Not Going Out

Only Fools and Horses

Open All Hours

Outnumbered

Parks & Recreation

Peep Show

Peter Kay's Car Share

Porridge

The Big Bang Theory

The Catherine Tate Show

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

The Good Life

The Inbetweeners

The IT Crowd

The Office

The Royle Family

The Vicar of Dibley

 

These have been split into 8 groups, look out for the first two groups coming tonight! There were 151 different shows nominated altogether, so sadly we have over 100 shows that didn't make it :( :

 

3 30 Rock

3 Arrested Development

3 Benidorm

3 Bottom

3 Citizen Khan

3 Dinnerladies

3 Fresh Meat

3 Hi-De-Hi

3 I'm Alan Partridge

3 It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

3 Little Britain

3 Malcolm in the Middle

3 Max & Paddy's Road to Nowhere

3 Phoenix Nights

3 Red Dwarf

3 Scrubs

3 Summer Heights High

3 The Good Place

3 The Office (US)

3 Trollied

3 Twenty Twelve

3 Two and a Half Men

3 Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps

3 W1A

3 Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads

2 3rd Rock from the Sun 

2 8 Simple Rules

2 Allo Allo

2 Are You Being Served

2 Back

2 Big School

2 Catastrophe

2 Cheers

2 Curb Your Enthusiasm 

2 Everybody Loves Raymond 

2 Gimme Gimme Gimme

2 The Golden Girls

2 Kath & Kim

2 Last of the Summer Wine

2 My Hero

2 My Name Is Earl

2 New Girl

2 Nighty Night

2 Seinfield 

2 Some Mothers Do 'Ave Em

2 The Monkees

2 The Thick of It

2 The Young Ones

2 White Gold

1 As Time Goes By

1 Atlanta

1 Bad Move

1 Black…ish

1 Brush Strokes

1 Butterflies

1 Champions

1 Chucklevision

1 Colin's Sandwich

1 Coupling

1 Dear White People

1 Don't Wait Up

1 Early Doors

1 Episodes 

1 Everybody Hates Chris

1 Full(er) House

1 Get Smart

1 Goodnight Sweetheart

1 Green Wing

1 How I Met Your Mother 

1 I Love Lucy

1 Jam and Jerusalam

1 Lame Ducks

1 Life's Too Short

1 Man About The House

1 Mom

1 My Parents Are Aliens

1 Newhart

1 One Foot In The Grave

1 Parker Lewis Can't Lose

1 Plebs

1 Police Squad

1 Sledge Hammer!

1 Soap

1 Sorry I'm A Stranger Here Myself

1 Spaced

1 Steptoe and Son

1 That 70s Show

1 The Addams Family

1 The Beverley Hillbillies

1 The Fall & Rise of Reginald Perrin

1 The Goodies

1 The Green Green Grass

1 The Job Lot

1 The King of Queens

1 The League of Gentleman

1 The Middle

1 The Munsters

1 The Phil Silvers Show (Bilko)

1 The Rise & Fall Of Reginald Perrin

1 The Thin Blue Line

1 This Country 

1 To The Manor Born

1 Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

1 Veep

1 We Can Be Heroe

1 Will & Grace

1 Yes (Prime) Minister

1 Yonderland

poor arrested development </3 </3

Golden Girls received two nominations (popchartfreak & me), not that it would've made a difference lmao.

 

(oh, I see 'Golden Girls' and 'The Golden Girls' have been separated, nevermind)

Edited August 16, 20186 yr by Mattias

only just realised The Office US didn't make it either :cry:

 

Golden Girls received two nominations (popchartfreak & me), not that it would've made a difference lmao.

 

(oh, I see 'Golden Girls' and 'The Golden Girls' have been separated, nevermind)

oops yep, merged them together!

30 Rock, The Office US, Arrested Development, It’s Always Sunny, Little Britain, Seinfeld, & Veep are all way better than half of the stuff that actually got through :(

 

The Office US is a thousand times better than the UK version

omg I completely forgot all about this :( Anyawy The Good Place/Little Britain/Citizen Khan/Dinnerladies would've been the only shows on 3 noms that would've got through had I remembered

Also how did Come Fly With Me get more noms than Little Britain when they are basically the exact same show? :lol:

Little Britain was only added to the OP last minute :kink:

ah no I forget It's Always Sunny cos it wasn't on the list! (it was but I'm clearly not good at looking/remembering oops) but it probably wouldn't have made it very far anyway. at least TBBT is through!

Little Britain was only added to the OP last minute :kink:

That’s a little annoying because I would have voted for that if I remembered.

Other than that I have no complaints about shows that didn’t make the cut, all my nominations qualified I think so that’s great

I didn't vote for Little Britain as its a sketch show,not a sitcom. I assumed those were excluded.

I didn't vote for Little Britain as its a sketch show,not a sitcom. I assumed those were excluded.

Same, I would have as well.

I know it’s a controversial part but my intention was more for scripted comedy, just sitcom is more snappy!! There’s only a couple of sketch shows made it through so it’s up to people whether they choose to vote for them or not!

Thanks everyone for voting in rounds C and D! Round E and F will be coming v soon!

GROUP A

 

01. Friends: 18

02. Parks & Recreation: 8

 

03. Birds of a Feather: 7

= Modern Family: 7

05. Cuckoo: 3

 

Friends is an obvious qualifier but the second qualifier was up for grabs all the way through voting! For up to 2 HOURS before the deadline, it looked to be a battle between Birds of a Feather and Modern Family as they were tying but then Parks & Recreation (thankfully) managed to sneak through and pass both of them!

 

GROUP B

 

01. The Inbetweeners: 18

02. Mr Bean: 12

 

03. Peter Kay's Car Share: 7

04. Porridge: 4

05. Extras: 3

06. Open All Hours: 1

 

Again, The Inbetweeners is another obvious qualifier but Mr Bean also proved to be a standout with its silent comedy in this battle of both classic and new British sitcoms.

 

GROUP C

 

01. The Vicar of Dibley: 21

02. Brooklyn Nine-Nine: 15

 

03. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: 14

04. Friday Night Dinner: 10

05. Black Books: 4

 

WHAT a battle this was!! The Vicar of Dibley looked to be a certainty but Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Fresh Prince and Friday Night Dinner were locked in a three way battle. Friday Night Dinner very sadly started to fall by the wayside and at the last moment Brooklyn Nine-Nine secured its winning vote. Good qualifiers but I'm also gutted to see The Fresh Prince and Friday Night Dinner out - two of my absolute favourites!!

 

GROUP D

 

01. Miranda: 18

02. Keeping Up Appearances: 12

 

03. Absolutely Fabulous: 11

04. Bad Education: 7

05. Fraiser: 5

 

Two strong female leads help see Miranda and Keeping Up Appearances through, with another female led sitcom in Ab Fab just losing out. 11 seasons of Fraiser don't garner the popularity here.

Poor will and grace :(

Right results, thank god Parks and 99 managed to get on the right side of the line, they’re two of the best shows in this whole thing.

Frasier is by faaaar the best in group D, but comes last ? Against Miranda, Keeping Up Appearances, Ab Fab, and Bad Education ?

 

*shakes head*

 

You people.

Frasier is by faaaar the best in group D, but comes last ? Against Miranda, Keeping Up Appearances, Ab Fab, and Bad Education ?

 

*shakes head*

 

You people.

 

Yes head shaking here too, must be cos it hasnt been on TV in years* and bloomin Hyacinth is on every bloomin day, I mean Best sitcom Keepin Up Appearances, hah :lol:

 

(*at a time a day when younger people are actually not in bed)

GROUP D

 

01. Miranda: 18

02. Keeping Up Appearances: 12

 

03. Absolutely Fabulous: 11

04. Bad Education: 7

05. Fraiser: 5

 

Man ALIVE

 

Fraiser and Ab Fab should have walked this atrocious group