TV shows (dramas/comedies etc) about TV shows (real and fictional)

[DaveCinzano]

For Epona

What about TV dramas about the creation and filming of real life TV shows?
There was one about Doctor Who (An Adventure in Time and Space)
There was one about the whole Crossroads thing (Nolly)
There was one about Coronation Street (The Road to Coronation Street)

Probably others, but those are the ones that were off the top of my head.

 

[Epona]

For Epona

You're a star, ty

I am sure I can think of others, this is a sub-genre I like, I am a sucker for dramas about this sort of thing!

 

[Epona]

There was one about Steptoe & Son with Phil Davis playing Will Bramble, I'll have to google for the name of it

EDIT: The Curse of Steptoe

 

[May Kasahara]

Drop The Dead Donkey. Sitcom about the fictional GlobeLink News and the cast of malcontents who work there.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Also mentioned on the other thread:

Dead Set - Charlie Brooker's zombie dramedy based in the Big Brother house [per Artaxerxes]
The Newsroom - ‘A high-profile team of journalists comes together to push the limit to delivering all of the news that changes the world,’ it says here [per pesh]
Columbo - episodes like ‘Make Me A Perfect Murder’ [per Santino]

Edited cuz I got summat wrong

 

[DaveCinzano]

KYTV - sort of a TV version of Radio 4 sitcom Radio Active, but set in a (then) nascent low budget satellite broadcasting station instead of a radio station

 

[DaveCinzano]

Fear Of Fanny - Julia Davis and Mark Gatiss as TV chef Fanny Cradock and her husband Johnnie

 

[Humberto]

The Larry Sanders Show

 

[DaveCinzano]

Dream On - man-child who grew up as a member of the first TV generation sees everything as clips from ancient shows; his best friend is basically an alternative Arsenio Hall with his own talk show

 

[belboid]

30 Rock
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
It’s Gary Shandling’s Show

 

[belboid]

The Newsroom - period drama set around the production team at a 1960s current affairs show [per pesh]

also, The Newsroom, a preening preaching show about, uhh, well, the obvious, set in the modern day, Sorkin.

 

[DaveCinzano]

also, The Newsroom, a preening preaching show about, uhh, well, the obvious, set in the modern day, Sorkin.

WALK WITH ME

 

[belboid]

Akshully, I think that that was the show pesh meant, anyway. Your description fits The Hour, the British thing with Dominic West.

So, that.

And: The Newsreader, an Aussie thing about…

 

[DaveCinzano]

Akshully, I think that that was the show pesh meant, anyway. Your description fits The Hour, the British thing with Dominic West.

Oooh yes, my bad, I will correct

 

[DaveCinzano]

People Like Us - mockumentary series (reworked from a radio show) with Chris Langham as a documentarian following people with various occupations. Unlikely to be repeated

 

[danny la rouge]

Screen Test with Micheal Rodd. (Rudd?)

Clips of films are shown to kids and then they’re asked questions about them, like “how many times did Stan Laurel spill the cups of tea?”

 

[danny la rouge]

Rodd.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Screen Test with Micheal Rodd. (Rudd?)

Clips of films are shown to kids and then they’re asked questions about them, like “how many times did Stan Laurel spill the cups of tea?”

Dammit, Danny, WRONG THREAD

 

[danny la rouge]

Dammit, Danny, WRONG THREAD

Oh, fuck, what? Are you trying to confuse me?

 

[DaveCinzano]

Oh, fuck, what? Are you trying to confuse me?

Is that a question you don't know the answer to?

 

[krtek a houby]

Pulaski

American in UK fish out of water cop drama. Except the cop Pulaski is actually an actor and the show is a fictional show, within a show about an actor playing an American cop in the UK. Shown on the BBC in the 80s.

 

[Fez909]

The Day Today & Brass Eye

Mocking Panorama-type current affairs programmes.

 

[petee]

SCTV

It’s Gary Shandling’s Show

also The Larry Sanders Show

 

[krtek a houby]

Bob Martin

Michael Barrymore plays a chat show host. Very much inspired by The Larry Sanders Show.

 

[SpookyFrank]

30 Rock

 

[belboid]

Sports Nighrt
Being the Ricardos

I think that's all the Sorkin's now

 

[girasol]

Recently watched this on Amazon Prime: Watch The Greatest Show Never Made | Prime Video
"The greatest show never made". Mildly interesting, more so for those of us interested in the birth of reality TV and the consequences.

 

[A380]

Sports Night Written by Aaron Sorkin, I think his first TV.

It's amazing and I'd recommend it as you can see him develop. The first episodes are a conventional, but good, US sitcom, complete with canned laughter by the end the writing is like West Wing. Brilliant.

 

[A380]

The Morning Show. Really good, but not brilliant, take on US corporate media and me too and BLM. Worth a look.

 

[A380]

There was a weird one that each episode consisted of half a programme about making a day time beachfront soap and the other half was the soap. It was a bit shit though.