10 Best Horror Comedy TV Shows You Need To See

10. Dead Set

What if zombies... but in the Big Brother house? So asks Charlie Brooker's 2008 miniseries Dead Set. This 5-part comedy drama conjures a zombie apocalypse in which one of the last safe spaces in its infested Britain is Channel 4's Big Brother house. When the outside world begins to fall apart, the contestants within must decide between holing up in their reality TV fortress, or making a run for it outside...

Kudos to Channel 4 for going along with the whole thing - and presenter Davina McCall too, gamely playing a zombified version of herself on the show. The extreme gore on show and misery heaped upon its survivors (including Jaime Winstone, and genre favourite Andy Nyman) makes for bleak viewing, but Brooker's on-brand satirical eye is on point.

There's plenty of laughs too, even if you do have to look past all the guts and grue to get to it. Only slightly more grotesque and upsetting than your average episode of Big Brother, then.