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Here’s something to have your Tivo fetch for you: I’ve become addicted to Black Books on BBC America, the tale of a prickly Irish bookstore owner and his crapulous antics with friends, customers and unsuspecting bottles of wine in London. The humor is hateful and biting but never too dark. Dylan Moran is great as […]

Here’s something to have your Tivo fetch for you: I’ve become addicted to Black Books on BBC America, the tale of a prickly Irish bookstore owner and his crapulous antics with friends, customers and unsuspecting bottles of wine in London. The humor is hateful and biting but never too dark. Dylan Moran is great as Bernard Black, and Bill Bailey does a massively amusing job as Bernard’s hapless sidekick, Manny.

BBC America is cycling through series one now, which is helping me fill in the blanks from the second and third series, which I’ve already seen. This is one of the funniest BBC America series I’ve stumbled across since Canada’s Trailer Park Boys.