Leaving home can be hard and moving to a new place even harder! Whether it’s your first year or last year, we’ve assembled some excellent comfort shows to get you into the university mood. From comedies to dramas to feel-good rom coms we’ve got it all!
Fresh Meat
Stream now on Channel 4 and STV player
Rotten Tomatoes: 🍅89%
Fresh Meat is essential when it comes to university shows! Brought to you be the creators of Peep Show, this comedy drama highlights the hilarious and often painful truths of being a student. Set at the fictional Manchester Medlock university, six students share a house off-campus and go through many ups and downs as they mature into adults!
Gilmore Girls
Stream on ITVX
Rotten Tomatoes: 🍅88%
One of the finest comfort shows, Gilmore Girls follows the life fiercely independent single mum Lorelai (Lauren Graham) as she raises her gifted intellectual daughter Rory (Alexis Bledel). The mother-daughter duo bond over everything and are essentially inseparable, their lives depending on each other and some close friends! This seven series drama is guaranteed to get you through your first term with easeeee!
Peep Show
Stream now on Channel 4
Rotten Tomatoes: 🍅96%
Now this one may not be about uni but not only is it a good comfort show, it’s also about life after uni as you enter the real world of work. Based in Croydon, Peep Show follows the hilarious duo of Mark Corrigan (David Mitchell) and Jez Usbourne (Robert Webb) as they go about their lives in their late twenties!
Community
Stream now on ITVX
Rotten Tomatoes: 🍅88%
This light-hearted show is guaranteed to have you in fits of laughter! Former lawyer Jeff (Joe Machale) attends a community college when it’s discovered he faked his bachelor’s degree, in an attempt to get with a fellow student he forms a fake Spanish study group but to his surprise many people attend, forming an unlikely community of misfits!
The Big Bang Theory
Available now on Channel4
Rotten Tomatoes: 🍅82%
A sitcom that’ll have you in stitches? Exactly what you need to cure your fresher’s week hangover! Follow the lives of four socially awkward friends as they attempt to navigate the most basic social situations, particularly those involving women!
Suits
Watch now on BBC iPlayer
Rotten Tomatoes: 🍅91%
We all loveeee a feel good tv classic! Suits is a smart, stylish legal drama with Grabriel Macht, Patrick J Adams and Meghan Markle. After a drug deal goes bad, Mike Ross, a college dropout with a photographic memory lands a job as an associate at a New York City law firm, despite having no legal qualifications. Follow Mike Ross and Harvey Specter as they win cases and close deals, all while keeping Mikes secret!
Vampire Diaries
Available now on ITVX
Rotten Tomatoes: 🍅86%
What better way to cure your hangovers than this coming-of-age legacy! Classic drama with a bite… this supernatural series is about teen Elena Gilbert (Nina Dobrev) who falls in love with two vampire brothers - one good, one evil. Who will she choose?
Ugly Betty
Watch now on Channel 4
Rotten Tomatoes: 🍅97%
Betty Suarez (America Ferrera) is a quirky 22-year-old Mexican American women from Queens, New York who severely lacks fashion sense. After graduating college, she is hired as an executive assistant for a fashion magazine! With heads turning at her fashion sense (for the wrong reasons) she must quickly learnt to adapt to the cutthroat world of fashionnnn!
All Creatures Great & Small
Stream now on My5
Rotten Tomatoes: 🍅99%
A historical drama with loads of cute animals? We loveeee it! It’s the 1930s and newly qualified veterinary surgeon James Herriot (Nicholas Ralph) moves from his home in Glasgow to the Yorkshire Dales! He swiftly becomes immersed in the local culture and experiences some hilarious adventures as he meets the locals and their animals!
Gavin and Stacey
Watch now on BBC iPlayer
A TV classic, Essex boy Gavin (Mathew Horne) and Barry Island girl Stacey (Joanna Page) begin a relationship over the phone when they are at work. This British sitcom follows them on their relationship journey from finally meeting to falling in love, getting married (despite some doubts) and hunting for their first home!
But we can’t have a roundup of some of the best shows to watch in between assignments and lectures and not include some of the absolute classics! Friends, Brooklyn nine-nine and Breaking Bad are perfect if you need something that can be background noise or the perfect binge, but if you have your mates over, then we defo recommend you add The Office (US) and Rick and Morty - guaranteed to have you in fits of laughter! Thank us later.
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