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2001

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PEOPLE LIKE US is an inspired, award-winning spoof documentary series that follows filmmaker Roy Mallard (Chris Langham) as he makes six short films featuring fictional estate agents, headmasters, photographers, and others. Read more

Starring	Chris Langham
Genres	Documentary

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- - 18
  - 4
  Overlooked predecescor to
  
  This collection of six 'mockumentarys' is an almost overlooked classic of British comedy. Featuring many familiar comic actors from British Comedy (... read more »
  
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- 3852
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - Stephen McAulay
  - Paisley, Scotland
  - 28 Mar 2004 at 21:09
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- - 2
  - 0
  funny with inspired bouts of hilarious
  
  Only saw this in snippets when on the tv so wanted to catch up and glad I did.
  
  A forerunner of the mockumentary style with lot more broader ... read more »
  
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- - itstinks
  - 573 reviews
  - North of Reading
  - 03 Dec 2010 at 10:28
- - 2
  - 0
  Almost forgotten gem
  
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  It's criminal that series two has never been released on DVD.
  
  Some gems from this first series:
  
  Mallard (on his car): 'It's a ... read more »
  
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- 809785
- - SussexChris
  - 7 reviews
  - Seaford
  - 12 Sep 2009 at 13:45
- - 2
  - 0
  Excellent TV Series
  
  This series brilliantly parodies low budget TV documentaries, with the inept reporter, played by Chris Langham (who is usually only heard), asking a pre-... read more »
  
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- 760037
- - Philip283
  - 15 reviews
  - Bridgwater
  - 20 May 2009 at 05:49
- - 2
  - 0
  Customer Review
  
  Chris Langham stars as Roy Mallard, a very barrel scraping documentary maker. But the real stars are the supposed true life 'fly on the wall' PLU's... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - UK
  - 23 Jun 2008 at 15:22
- - 0
  - 0
  A good chuckle
  
  Very funny, but it gets a bit repetitive watching each of the half hour programmes back to back. Some subtle jokes, so I had a chuckle as I tried to remember ... read more »
  
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- - Rockinpaddy
  - 38 reviews
  - London
  - 15 Jun 2008 at 14:19
- - 3
  - 4
  Stay Away!
  
  I never write reviews normally, but I feel quite strongly about this one! There are some positive reviews here mixed with some negative - I was not quite swayed... read more »
  
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- - eltaxespeltax
  - 1 review
  - Birmingham
  - 17 Apr 2008 at 13:53
- - 2
  - 0
  A pinnacle of intelligent TV comedy
  
  I'm laughing again just thinking back to watching this. Much of the humour is more subtle than The Office, more intelligent, with little twists of language ... read more »
  
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- - Ben Wheeler
  - Southampton
  - 18 Jul 2007 at 00:31
- - 2
  - 0
  A touch of Genius
  
  I honestly think we are spoilt in this country. There is nowhere else on earth that a programme of this quality could receive so little recognition. This is ... read more »
  
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- - Zwanhunter
  - 26 reviews
  - London
  - 24 May 2007 at 11:10
- - 1
  - 0
  'I watched ten minutes then turned it off!' Muppets!
  
  Well, so some of you Office, Extras and Spinal Tap fans watched ten minutes of The Estate Agent and found your minds wandering? Well it may interest you to know... read more »
  
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- - John Goodfellow
  - York, England
  - 17 May 2007 at 11:41
- - 3
  - 6
  Very disappointing
  
  Having read the other reviews here, and being a fan of the 'mockumentry' style, I was eagerly looking forward to this. However, having only watched 10 ... read more »
  
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- - James UK
  - Chelmsford, Essex, England
  - 06 Mar 2007 at 08:05
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- - 18
  - 4
  Overlooked predecescor to
  
  This collection of six 'mockumentarys' is an almost overlooked classic of British comedy. Featuring many familiar comic actors from British Comedy (... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 3852
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - Stephen McAulay
  - Paisley, Scotland
  - 28 Mar 2004 at 21:09
- - 13
  - 0
  Absolute Genius!
  
  If you didn't catch this when it first aired on the BBC you missed a real treat!
  
  These days it seems impossible to escape the endless barrage of ... read more »
  
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- 97591
- - David
  - Spalding, England
  - 27 Apr 2005 at 23:03
- - 10
  - 0
  Ha!
  
  It's a sign of how good a spoof this is that DVDs on Tap have classified it as a documentary, rather than what it really is - one of the best comedy series ... read more »
  
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- 294525
- - unprinted
  - London
  - 02 Nov 2003 at 09:16
- - 8
  - 1
  Very good, but...
  
  If you want Roy Mallard at his finest, i can totally recommend you listen to the original Radio 4 versions. There are about 18 radio shows around (often re-... read more »
  
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  - kent
  - 24 May 2005 at 16:04
- - 7
  - 0
  Overlooked Classic
  
  For me, 'People Like Us' has to be one of the best comedy series of all time. The humour is on a similar level as 'The Office', with no canned ... read more »
  
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- - Seb74
  - Leicestershire
  - 04 May 2004 at 09:55
- - 7
  - 2
  Chris Langham at his best
  
  Like another reviewer, I first heard this on Radio 4. On first viewing I didn’t think it was as good as the radio show, but watching again it seems ... read more »
  
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- 281693
- - splodge
  - 104 reviews
  - Portsmouth
  - 02 Sep 2006 at 12:43
- - 6
  - 0
  Best mockumentary ever. Well, at least top ten.
  
  Hapless, inept, bumbling, tactless interviewer Roy Mallard (Chris Langham) visits people in ordinary professions, following them for a day to shed light on the ... read more »
  
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- - asteroceras
  - Suffolk
  - 06 Feb 2004 at 23:23
- - 5
  - 0
  The human condition.
  
  If you want an insight how incredibly funny 'normal' people can be and what a rich vein of character actors we have in this country, watch this DVD.read more »
  
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- 222641
- - a customer
  - Wales
  - 22 Mar 2006 at 15:16
- - 4
  - 0
  Wonderful, absolutely flippin wonderful.
  
  Basic premise is that this is a spoof documentary about “people like us” with rambling, bumbling fictional documentary maker Roy Mallard played buy ... read more »
  
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- 312005
- - kmcca5
  - East Sussex
  - 22 Oct 2004 at 09:56
- - 4
  - 0
  Good old British Satire
  
  I never saw the whole serious of this, but the episodes I saw were brilliantly scripted, and with Chris Langham narrating the show was the icing on an already ... read more »
  
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- 326358
- - ajfromuk
  - 44 reviews
  - Llandudno Junction, N. Wales
  - 09 Mar 2005 at 16:52

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  PEOPLE LIKE US is an inspired, award-winning spoof documentary series that follows filmmaker Roy Mallard (Chris Langham) as he makes six short films featuring fictional estate agents, headmasters, photographers, and others....