Radio Times Top 40 TV Shows of 2016: 40 to 31

31. Flowers (C4)

This gem is proof that people don’t always know what’s good for them. It didn’t get lots of viewers, but those who did watch it were bowled over. Set in a fairytale-like, rambling house in the countryside, the story of depression, family and love starred Olivia Colman and Julian Barratt as a couple whose relationship was quietly splintering. Flowers flung you from laughter to tears in the space of a second and found humour in the bleakness of life. A beautiful, strange show from young writer Will Sharpe that Channel 4 rightly took a risk on. Kasia Delgado

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