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"The Inbetweeners" (Wednesdays at 9:30 p.m. ET/PT on BBC America)

Take the humor and sensibility of "Flight of the Conchords" and mix it with the honest awkwardness of "Freaks and Geeks" and you end up with this British coming-of-age comedy that follows four buddies navigating ... more sixth form (that's junior and senior year for us Yanks) in suburban London. Though the quartet partakes in many of the rituals familiar to high schoolers -- drinking, chasing girls, driving (though our heroes have little luck at any of them), the writing itself isn't predictable. Like a lot of British series, "The Inbetweeners" has very short seasons -- six episodes in total -- though BBC America is showing the series' first two seasons back to back (with a third on the way in England). The creators have also been tapped to adapt an American version of the series for ABC, though we can only hope it ends up more like "The Office" and less like "Life on Mars." Close