10 Great Shows To Watch On Britbox UK

5. Red Dwarf

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In the current climate, we all need a good laugh- and there's nothing quite like the BBC's classic sci-fi sitcom to tickle our ribs. Debuting in the 90s, it made cult celebrities out of Craig Charles, Danny John Jules, Robert Llewelyn and Chris Barrie (formerly one of the voices of Spitting Image), as an unlikely ragtag quartet alone on a mining ship three million years from Earth. And you thought quarantined Britain was a nightmare.

It's one of those timeless creations that never quite seems to slip from the public consciousness; oft-belittled TV channel Dave rebooted the show in 2009 and it's been airing new series on and off ever since.

Britbox carries the first eight series of the original BBC run on its service; enough episodes to help us realise that social isolation isn't all that bad, compared to being Dave Lister, the last human being alive. At least we don't have an inept computer, snide hologram, pedantic android or self-obsessed anthropomorphic cat plaguing our every waking moment- small mercies, eh?

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I'm perfectly sane, or so the voices tell me. British, sarcastic, president of the European Slinky Association, have a tendency to lie when listing things about myself. 100% guilty of being a massive geek obsessed with Doctor Who, Harry Potter and video games. If you can't find me on the internet, I'm probably locked in a room playing Spyro the Dragon on my old PlayStation, or blowing everything to smithereens with a concrete donkey on Worms: Armageddon.