There was a time in my life when I was mired in the vast and wasting expanse of a concept called high school, trapped by my rural surroundings and complete lack of a nearby municipal infrastructure. To put it lightly, it was complete hell. I survived this period in my life only through a combination of interests and media that had nothing to do with my immediate environment, namely esoteric foreign music, a subscription to Netflix and a slight obsession with British television.
As time passed I finally escaped that tax funded hellhole, went to college, and was much happier. Still, as a freshman in college who didn’t own a TV sometimes I craved the mind numbing comfort of the boob tube in a way I can’t express to you. Maybe it was because at this time the whole network TV online thing hadn’t caught on in the US, maybe I missed those same old shows that I found comfort in before, maybe I identify with the British soul. Or maybe I was just weird. At any rate (to paraphrase my mother), I was back on the hook of British “tele” in no time with the help of YouTube. I’d like to spread the addiction to you, the viewer. A quick viewing of any of these shows and you’ll see that although separated by an ocean there’s not an insurmountable pop cultural difference between the two countries. Ok, I say that because most of my favorite shows are either trivia based of feature witty banter and references wherein it is necessary to have knowledge of these things. Oh, how post-modern of me. For everything else you can use google, just like I do every other time the internet brings me something I’m not cool enough to know. Without further ado, awaaaaaaaaaaay we go!

Dr. Who
Television’s longest running show ever and the most successful sci-fi show of all time. It has gone through many incarnations and 11 “Doctors” to date but the plot synopsis is as follows:

The character of the Doctor was initially shrouded in mystery. All that was known about him in the programme's early days was that he was an eccentric alien traveler of great intelligence who battled injustice while exploring time and space in an unreliable old time machine called the TARDIS, an acronym for Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space. As it appears much larger on the inside than on the outside, the TARDIS has been described by the Third Doctor as "dimensionally transcendental"[40] and, because of a malfunction of its Chameleon Circuit, is stuck in the shape of a 1950s-style British police box.
As a Time Lord, the Doctor has the ability to regenerate his body when near death. Introduced into the storyline as a way of continuing the series when the writers were faced with the departure of lead actor William Hartnell in 1966, it has continued to be a major element of the series, allowing for the recasting of the lead actor when the need arises. The serial The Deadly Assassin established that a Time Lord can regenerate twelve times, for a total of thirteen incarnations. To date, the Doctor has gone through this process and its resulting after-effects on ten occasions, with each of his incarnations having his own quirks and abilities but otherwise sharing the memories and experience of the previous incarnations
Yeah, I wiki’d it. Sue me; it’s been on for 40 years, that’s a bit long to write a blurb about.

The Doctor reunites with an old travel companion:

The Doctore causes the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius!

Never Mind the Buzzcocks
A long running comedy “quiz show” that focuses on music and is notable for its camp and insulting jokes. Though it has had several hosts in its history Never Mind the Buzzcocks is unique in the pure joy each host takes in expressing their disgust with vapid pop music and not even the guests invited onto the show are spared the vitriol as each one is routinely plumbed for laughs.

The evil genius of Josh Groban:

Infamous walk-off of panel guest Preston:

Sunday Night Project
Like SNL. Except silly. And good. This weekly sketch comedy/chat show is hosted by comedians Alan Carr and Justin Lee Collins is helmed by a different celebrity every episode. Hilarity ensues along with mock news segments, cross dressing and music performances.
UK's Channel 4 doesn't want me embedding this so here are the links:

The Sunday Night Project | Lily Allen's News

Electro-shock quiz time with Martin Sheen

Big Fat Quiz of the Year
An annual rehash of the year’s events both political and pop in the form of a quiz show with some of Britain’s favorite personalities. My personal favorite is a round where panelists have to guess which news stories are being acted out as plays by elementary school children.

Mitchell Brook Primary presents the Da Vinci Code plagiarism scandal:

The Mighty Boosh
A surreal, comical, whimsical adventure sitcom which follows the tragically un-hip, jazz loving Howard Moon and ultra cool Vince Noir and friends on kooky flights of fancy in pursuit of their dream of musical success. I became hooked on it as a freshman and it’s now syndicated to Adult Swim in the U.S.