What is the best Olivia Colman TV show?

Sitcom bit parts, sketch shows and a Golden Globe-winning monarch sit side by side here, because her television CV refuses to stay in one lane. Comedy fans and drama fans will not agree.

1. 1
   Fleabag

   Phoebe Waller-Bridge's 2016-2019 comedy in which Colman plays the passive-aggressive Godmother, earning two Emmy nominations.
   1000pts
2. 2
   The Crown

   Netflix's royal drama in which Colman played Queen Elizabeth II across seasons three and four, winning an Emmy and a Golden Globe.
   959pts
3. 3
   Mr. Sloane

   Robert B. Weide's 2014 Sky Atlantic comedy set in 1969, with Colman as the estranged wife of Nick Frost's downtrodden accountant.
   921pts
4. 4
   The 7.39

   David Nicholls's 2014 two-part BBC drama about two commuters who fall into an affair, with Colman as David Morrissey's betrayed wife.
   831pts
5. 5
   Broadchurch

   ITV's 2013-2017 seaside murder drama with Colman as DS Ellie Miller opposite David Tennant, the role that won her a BAFTA.
   643pts
6. 6
   Landscapers

   The 2021 HBO-Sky true-crime drama reuniting Colman with David Thewlis as a mild-mannered couple who buried her parents in the garden.
   643pts
7. 7
   The Night Manager

   The 2016 BBC le Carre thriller in which Colman's pregnant intelligence officer Angela Burr runs the operation against Hugh Laurie's arms dealer.
   575pts
8. 8
   Look Around You

   The cult BBC parody of science programmes whose 2005 second series cast Colman as presenter Pam Bachelor.
   575pts
9. 9
   Heartstopper

   Netflix's 2022 teen romance in which Colman plays Sarah Nelson, Nick's warm and accepting mother.
   575pts
10. 10
    Green Wing

    Channel 4's 2004-2007 surreal hospital comedy with Colman as the perpetually mistreated HR assistant Harriet Schulenburg.
    499pts
11. 11
    Secret Invasion

    Marvel's 2023 Disney+ series in which Colman steals scenes as the ruthless MI6 agent Sonya Falsworth.
    411pts
12. 12
    Great Expectations

    Steven Knight's 2023 BBC-FX Dickens adaptation starring Colman as a chilling, opium-smoking Miss Havisham.
    411pts
13. 13
    Peep Show

    Channel 4's long-running 2003-2015 sitcom where Colman played Sophie, the long-suffering colleague and eventual wife of Mark Corrigan.
    411pts
14. 14
    Beautiful People

    The 2008-2009 BBC comedy about a flamboyant teen in 1990s Reading, with Colman as his overbearing mother Debbie Doonan.
    310pts
15. 15
    Flowers

    Will Sharpe's 2016-2018 Channel 4 dark comedy in which Colman plays Deborah Flowers, matriarch of a deeply dysfunctional family.
    310pts
16. 16
    That Mitchell and Webb Look

    The 2006-2010 BBC sketch show on which Colman was a regular supporting player alongside her Peep Show co-stars.
    310pts
17. 17
    Twenty Twelve

    The 2011-2012 BBC mockumentary about the London Olympics organising committee, with Colman as the devoted PA Sally Owen.
    310pts
18. 18
    Rev.

    The 2010-2014 BBC sitcom about an inner-city vicar, with Colman as his sharp-tongued solicitor wife Alex, a role that earned her a BAFTA.
    310pts
19. 19
    Les Miserables

    Andrew Davies's 2018 BBC adaptation of Victor Hugo, with Colman as the venal innkeeper Madame Thenardier.
    192pts

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