Now, now, gentlemen, be nice. If there is a problem, we solve it the traditional way: by getting drunk, wear a blindfold and throw darts at each other until Noles tells us to stop.
Deadwood is great. Rome is absolutely amazing. For those of you who liked that show, I might recommend looking for "I, Claudius". It's really good.
"Hot Fuzz" is a good movie too. I am still trying to find the latest Simon Pegg one "How to lose friends and alienate people".
As for British comedy, one never goes wrong with "Fawlty Towers".
I like "Hornblower" but I thought the Sharpe series suffered a lot from a low budget. Especially in the major battle scenes. "Sharpe's Waterloo" was not impressive at all. The battle of Waterloo derserved better than that, but that's just me being nerdy
I think if people do not like to watch a show due to coarse language, it's their choice. There is nothing wrong with that. I don't listen to gangsta rap because, IMO, it's made by morons who should shut up, stop being silly and go back to school. Some might disagree but that's how I think of that particular genre. Same thing goes for teen comedies. Sexually frustrated teenagers and toilet humour is, to me, about as funny as being stabbed repeatedly in the face with an ice-pick.