"Red Dwarf"

-created by grant naylor
1988-
Well...
Entertaining comedy sci fi. Fun...and never, ever brilliant, which might be a cause for unending frustration, as you might feel this show DESERVES to be brilliant. It certainly had enough chances, with twelve series spread out over four decades. And the novel that inspired it, by rob grant and doug naylor, was smart and funny enough to beget brilliance.
What might Star Trek be if it refused to take itself seriously? The premise is dandy - a deep-space mining vessel suffers a cataclysm, and three million years later the sole remaining crew member, a happy-go-lucky ne'er-do-well, awakens from quantum suspension in the brig, and points the ship homeward. His companions are a senile ship's computer, a holo-projection of the arrogant coward responsible for the radiation disaster, a humyn/cat hybrid, and a service mechanoid he teaches to have a real personality (in other words, lie).
If you catch one of the show's better episodes, you might be charmed. And beneath the humor, they do have occasional legitimate sci fi premises. It's just neither smart nor consistently funny enough to be top-tier. If you commit to watching the whole thing, you may deal with unending finger-pointing over why it's not great. The acting of star craig charles is atrocious the first couple seasons. The cat is a poorly-conceived regular - how many ways can you have him say "I'm vain and dumb"? The writers really failed the actor there. Ultimately, your biggest finger-point might be embarrassment over a franchise created by two men starring four men. Gosh, what a surprise!
Still in all, not awful. If you're hospitalized and recovering from seventy-three broken bones, this might get you through a week or two.