Shows Like The New Statesman

If you liked The New Statesman (1987), a comedy series, here are 20 shows with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Spitting Image (1984)
★ 7.2/10Also comedy
Spitting Image is an award winning British satirical puppet show, created by Peter Fluck, Roger Law and Martin Lambie-Nairn. The series was produced by Spitting Image Productions for Central Independent Television over…
2
Yes Minister (1980)
★ 8.3/10Also comedy
Satirical sitcom set in the office of a UK Cabinet minister, Jim Hacker MP, who struggles with Civil Service bureaucracy and political machinations as he tries to get on with government business.
3
The League of Gentlemen (1999)
★ 7.7/10Also comedy
The League of Gentlemen is a British sitcom broadcast on BBC Two over three series from 1999 to 2002. In the fictional Northern England town of Royston Vasey—based on Bacup, Lancashire—the lives are explored of dozens…
4
The Day Today (1994)
★ 8.3/10Also comedy
A spoof of the British news — including ridiculous stories, patronising vox pops, offensively hard-hitting research and a sports presenter clearly struggling for metaphors. Adapted from Radio 4 series 'On the Hour'.
5
Rising Damp (1974)
★ 7.4/10Also comedy
Set in a seedy bedsit, the cowardly landlord Rigsby has his conceits debunked by his long suffering tenants.
6
Little Britain (2003)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy
A zany comedy show with Matt Lucas and David Walliams, featuring characters from all over Little Britain.
7
Decker (2014)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy
The free world is in danger, and only one man can help. Jack Decker has sworn to defend America from foreign terrorists regardless of which spineless president is in charge. This is Decker: The Series.
8
The Mighty Boosh (2004)
★ 7.6/10Also comedy
A British comic fantasy containing humour and pop-culture references. Episodes often featured elaborate musical numbers in different genres, such as electro, heavy metal, funk, and rap. The show has been known for…
9
French & Saunders (1987)
★ 7.4/10Also comedy
French and Saunders is a British sketch comedy television series written by and starring comic duo Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. It is also the name by which the performers are known on the occasions when they…
10
I'm Alan Partridge (1997)
★ 7.4/10Also comedy
The fortunes of a former chat show host who is reduced to a lowly slot on Radio Norwich. Alan Partridge is divorced, living in a travel tavern, and desperate for a return to television.
11
Another Period (2015)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy
Set at the turn of the century, “Another Period” follows the misadventures of the Bellacourts, Newport, RI’s first family, who have absolutely nothing to offer to the world, but who have so much money it doesn’t…
12
Utopia (2014)
★ 7.2/10Also comedy
Set inside the offices of the “Nation Building Authority”, a federal government organisation responsible for overseeing major infrastructure projects, Utopia explores that moment when bureaucracy and grand dreams…
13
Phoenix Nights (2001)
★ 8/10Also comedy
The owner of The Phoenix Club is the wheelchair-bound Brian Potter, who has presided over two clubs in the past: the first (The Aquarius) flooded, the second (The Neptune) burned down. His ambition (with the help of…
14
Drop the Dead Donkey (1990)
★ 7/10Also comedy
A sitcom set in the offices of "GlobeLink News" after its acquisition by media mogul Sir Roysten Merchant. Led by editor George Dent, the staff of GlobeLink battle to maintain the company as a serious news organization…
15
Blackadder (1983)
★ 8/10Also comedy
Blackadder traces the deeply cynical and self-serving lineage of various Edmund Blackadders throughout British history, from the muck of the Middle Ages to the frontline of The Great War.
16
Ideal (2005)
★ 7.8/10Also comedy
Sitcom about a small-time dope dealer and his strange collection of acquaintances.
17
Shooting Stars (1993)
★ 7.7/10Also comedy
Shooting Stars is a British television comedy panel game broadcast on BBC Two as a pilot in 1993, then as 3 full series from 1995 to 1997, then on BBC Choice from January to December 2002 with 2 series before returning…
18
The Red Green Show (1991)
★ 7.5/10Also comedy
The Red Green Show is a Canadian television comedy that aired on various channels in Canada, with its ultimate home at CBC Television, and on Public Broadcasting Service stations in the United States, from 1991 until…
19
Reno 911! (2003)
★ 7.3/10Also comedy
This partially unscripted comedy brings viewers into the squad car as incompetent officers swing into action, answering 911 calls about everything from speeding violations and prostitution to staking out a drug den…
20
The Jeffersons (1975)
★ 7.3/10Also comedy
Sitcom following a successful African-American couple, George and Louise “Weezyö Jefferson as they “move on up” from working-class Queens to a ritzy Manhattan apartment. A spin-off of All in the Family.