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India runner OP Jaisha 'not given water' at Rio

Deep Blue Something - Breakfast At Tiffany's

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Benidorm features an ensemble cast of holiday makers and staff workers at an all inclusive hotel in the Spanish resort. Starring the likes of Steve Pemberton, Jake Canuso, Johnny Vegas and Sherrie Hewson, the show has won two NTA’s in its eight series on the air.

Peter Kay has been a heavyweight of British Comedy in the 21st Century. This sitcom, set in the working men’s club in Farnworth, Greater Manchester introduced us to Brian Potter, a wheelchair-bound owner of Phoenix Club who, with the help of Jerry St. Clair, wants to see the club become the most popular of its kind, outdoing his nemesis Den Perry, owner of rival club The Banana Grove. Running for two seasons in 2001 and 2002, Phoenix Nights won the People’s Choice Award at the 2002 British Comedy Awards.

The longest running comedy in Channel 4 history, Peep Show stars David Mitchell and Robert Webb as Mark Corrigan and Jeremy Usbourne, two flatmates who live in Croydon. Shot mainly through the viewpoint of one of its two main characters, it enjoyed much critical acclaim over the course of its nine seasons. The show has won multiple awards over its run, including six Comedy.co.uk Awards – five for the show, one for Mitchell’s performance – and the BAFTA in 2008 for Best Sitcom.

Miranda Hart stars in this semi-autobiographical account of her own everyday life. Alongside Patricia Hodge, Sarah Hadland and Tom Ellis, the show proved remarkably popular with audiences and critics alike. It ran for three seasons and a host of specials, including a two-part finale during the Christmas period of 2014. It earned Hart a multitude of awards and nominations, including Best TV Comedy Actress at the 2010 British Comedy Awards.

This Ruth Jones and James Corden-penned sitcom followed the lives of the Shipman’s of Essex and the West’s of Barry, as they are brought together by the meeting and marriage of the show’s titular characters. Running for three seasons and one hugely popular Christmas Special in 2008, the show was the most nominated show at the 2007 British Comedy Awards and won the BAFTA Audience Award and Best TV Comedy Award at the British Comedy Awards in 2008.

Focusing on the relationships between workers in a supermarket, Peter Kay’s Car Share proved to be one of the big hits of 2015. Starring Kay alongside Sian Gibson, the show follows the pair as they invest in the supermarket’s car share scheme. The show won Best Male Comedy Performance (Kay) and Best Scripted Comedy at the 2016 BAFTAs. A second series began filming in May this year.

Ricky Gervais’ turn as David Brent in the defining BBC Sitcom of the early 2000s, proved immensely popular with viewers and critics alike. Pioneering the ‘mockumentary’ style of comedy, subsequently used in its American remake and shows such as Parks And Recreation, Gervais rebooted the character this year to star in a standalone movie, showing Brent’s life after the TV cameras left. For three successive years, the show won Best Situation Comedy at the BAFTAs.

Brendan O’Carroll’s Mrs. Brown’s Boys first hit our screens in 2011, after many years as a stage show and a book series. Containing an ensemble cast, mainly made up of members of O’Carroll’s real life family, the show is delivered in front of a live studio audience and often features outtakes in its final cut. The show’s recent live episode, aired to coincide with the BBC’s sitcom season, saw nearly 9 million people tune in.

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