As a British citizen, I apologise to those exposed to the likes of Downton Abbey and The Only Way is Essex - itv, who are responsible for both shows, are an advertisement-revenue network who rely heavily on big numbers to generate a profit, and due to a lack of expensive period-dramas at the time (due to budget cuts across the British television sphere as a whole), Downton Abbey just happened to come along at the right time, a vibrant buoy amidst a sea of reality television and detective-/police-/murder-centric dross. I don't speak as a fan of it by the way - give me Call The Midwife any day. I can't explain The Only Way is Essex... I think that was itv cashing in on the un-reality fad networks here were going through (because they're very inexpensive to produce).
Anyway, staying on subject here, I remember this one very strange television show by the name of Greek. Maybe because it was so primarily aimed at American teenagers (or it's a neurotypical thing I have trouble understanding), but I found the manipulation of the main character (who desperately wanted to join a "fraternity") to do strange, borderline illegal things in the name of comedy very very disturbing. Thankfully, it didn't last long here in the UK but my word, it made me glad we over here didn't adapt that particular 'tradition'.
Otherwise, I didn't like Twenty-Twelve (a mock-documentary-comedy about the Olympics Planning Committee starring Hugh Bonneville) - I think the only reason everyone and their brother was raving about it was because it was timed to air in the middle of the Olympic hype last year. But hey, comedy's highly subjective at the best of times.