TV Shows from Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Happy Valley

Happy Valley is a dark, funny, multi-layered thriller revolving around the personal and professional life of Catherine, a dedicated, experienced, hard-working copper. She is also a bereaved mother who looks after her orphaned grandchild.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Actress, Director, Screenwriter
When asked the writer she most looks up to in The Hollywood Reporter Full Comedy Showrunner Roundtable, she answered Sally Wainwright and recommended her show Happy Valley.
TV Shows from Phoebe Waller-Bridge

This Country

The lives of cousins Kerry and Kurtan in the rural village of Cotswolds.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Actress, Director, Screenwriter
In the Scriptnotes Live with Ryan Reynolds interview she mentioned watching This Country, a mockcumentary on BBC. I am watching it. Most episodes are not as funny at first but you’ll be laughing your heart out in the latter half.
TV Shows from Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Horace and Pete

The owners of a dive bar in Brooklyn, Horace and Pete, along with bar regulars share their experiences and lives with each other while drinking or working at the bar.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Actress, Director, Screenwriter
His FX show Louie and his self-funded epic Horace and Pete are some of the best TV I’ve ever seen. There is an honesty about his work that burns… I can be laughing one moment and contemplating the human condition in a whole new way the next.
TV Shows from Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Louie

Louis C.K. stars as a fictionalized version of himself; a comedian and newly divorced father raising his two daughters in New York City.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Actress, Director, Screenwriter
His FX show Louie and his self-funded epic Horace and Pete are some of the best TV I’ve ever seen. There is an honesty about his work that burns… I can be laughing one moment and contemplating the human condition in a whole new way the next. He’s the bollocks and I’d follow him anywhere.
TV Shows from Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Broad City

Broad City follows two women throughout their daily lives in New York City, making the smallest and mundane events hysterical and disturbing to watch all at the same time.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Actress, Director, Screenwriter
Abbi and Ilana from Broad City. I love that!
TV Shows from Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Homecoming

Heidi Bergman is a caseworker at Homecoming, a Geist Group facility helping soldiers transition to civilian life. Years later she has started a new life, living with her mother and working as a waitress, when a Department of Defense auditor questions why she left the Homecoming facility. Heidi quickly realizes that there's a whole other story behind the story she's been telling herself.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Actress, Director, Screenwriter
What's a show that you've binge-watched recently? - Homecoming.
TV Shows from Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Atlanta

Two cousins, with different views on art versus commerce, on their way up through the Atlanta rap scene; Earnest 'Earn' Marks, an ambitious college dropout and his estranged cousin, who suddenly becomes a star.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Actress, Director, Screenwriter
I was so excited, because obviously Atlanta inspired me and I've been a fan of it since a long time ago.
TV Shows from Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Blackadder

Through four series and a few specials, Edmund Blackadder and his greasy sidekick Baldrick conjure up cunning plans as Edmund tries to take advantage of desperate times. These situation tragedies had obvious parallels from the Dark Ages to Elizabethan times, the rule of mad George III, and The Great War.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Actress, Director, Screenwriter
Yeah. And I guess Blackadder as well – that really kind of eccentric humour.
TV Shows from Phoebe Waller-Bridge

The Young Ones

The Young Ones is a British sitcom, broadcast in Great Britain from 1982 to 1984 in two six-part series. Shown on BBC2, it featured anarchic, offbeat humour which helped bring alternative comedy to television in the 1980s and made household names of its writers and performers. In 1985, it was shown on MTV, one of the first non-music television shows on the fledgling channel.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Actress, Director, Screenwriter
-They also showed The Young Ones in America, on MTV. - Oh, yeah, yeah. Which was also just... Mad.
TV Shows from Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Gogglebox

Gogglebox is an entertaining television review programme in which some of Britain's most opinionated and avid telly viewers comment freely on the best and worst television shows of the past week, from the comfort of their sofas.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Actress, Director, Screenwriter
It's genious.
TV Shows from Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Love Island

A stunning cast engages in the ultimate game of love, as they land in a sunshine paradise in search of passion and romance. Each of the glamorous members of the public will live like celebrities in a luxury villa, but in order to stay there, they will not only have to win over the hearts of each other, but also the hearts of the public.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Actress, Director, Screenwriter
What junk-food daytime TV you watch when you're not making great stuff? -Mine is Love Island.
TV Shows from Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Absolutely Fabulous

Set in the world of fashion and PR, immature fun-loving mother Edina Monsoon and her best friend Patsy drive Eddie's sensible daughter, Saffron, up the wall with their constant drug abuse and outrageous selfishness. Numerous in-jokes and heavy doses of cruel humour have made this series a cult hit in the UK and abroad.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Actress, Director, Screenwriter
I think the one that I got really obsessed with was Ab Fab. That was the big TV thing that made a difference for me.
TV Shows from Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Into every generation a slayer is born: one girl in all the world, a chosen one. She alone will wield the strength and skill to fight the vampires, demons, and the forces of darkness; to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their number. She is the Slayer.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Actress, Director, Screenwriter
What TV did you watch growing up? It’s interesting to me to know what American things you had and what British things. Oh, loads of American things. Buffy The Vampire Slayer was a big one