Naomi (Lily Loveless) thinks she has the world worked out, and puts
people in their appropriate boxes. There's her hippy mum (Olivia
Colman); the adoration from Emily (Kathryn Prescott); Cook's (Jack
O'Connell) insulting misogyny; and her politics teacher, Kieran's
(Ardal O'Hanlon), flattery. She thinks she has them all sussed, and
that it's only her who can see the truth.
However,
the upcoming student elections leave her at a loss, and her
insecurities get the better of her. The trust and confidence inspired
by a friend encourages her to stand up to her arch rival, the
antithesis of everything she stands for, as her and Cook go head to
head; but Naomi learns that nothing is black and white anymore.
A veteran DCI and his young Sergeant investigate murders around the regional community of Midsomer. Olivia appears in one episode of the long established show
It's 1997. Thirteen-year-old Simon and his best friend Kyle can't open
a fridge door without belting out a show tune. And his family is even
more eccentric. Mum Debbie is a whirlwind of matriarchal warmth in
killer heels. Dad Andy is a lovable Irish softy and avid wine maker and
older sister Ashlene is a wannabe ghetto queen. Then there's family
lodger blind Aunty Hayley and lobotomised grandma Narg who lost God and
found a foul mouth.
Based on the childhood memoirs of window-dresser extraordinaire, style arbiter and writer Simon Doonan, Beautiful People
follows his childhood reminiscences of escaping the grey gloom of
suburban Reading to live amongst the Beautiful People - before coming
to the realisation that true beauty, as ever, is closer than we think.
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the popular romance publishing
phenomenon Mills and Boon, a colourful and camp drama which charts the
witty and moving stories of three very different women affected by the
brand's success: co-founder Charles Boon's wife Mary, daydreaming 1970s
writer Janet and modern day literature lecturer Kirstie.
Peep show follows the often
sexually-frustrated lives of two men in their late twenties, Mark (Mitchell)
and Jeremy (Webb). Having met while at the fictional Dartmouth University
together (they occasionally refer to themselves as 'The El Dude Brothers' in
reference to their student days), they now share a flat (Flat 5) in Apollo
House, London Road in Croydon, south London.
Mark is a loan manager and the more financially successful
of the two, but is extremely uncomfortable socially and pessimistic about
nearly everything. Jeremy, who at the start of the first series has recently
split up with his girlfriend 'Big Suze', now rents Mark's spare room. He
usually has a much more optimistic and energetic outlook on the world than
Mark, yet his self-proclaimed talent as a musician is yet to be recognised, and
he is not as popular or attractive as he would like to think himself.
That Mitchell and Webb Look is a BAFTA award winning British television
sketch show starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb, that has currently
run for one six-part series. The first episode originally aired 14
September 2006 on BBC Two.[1] A second series was commissioned later
that same year.[2] The new series, consisting of six episodes, is due
to be broadcast in early 2008. It is directed by David Kerr, who also
directed Mitchell and Webb's previous television sketch show The
Mitchell and Webb Situation. As well as Mitchell and Webb themselves,
the writers include Jesse Armstrong, James Bachman, Sam Bain, Mark
Evans, Toby Davies, Chris Pell and John Finnemore. It is produced by
Gareth Edwards. The other cast includes Olivia Colman, James Bachman,
Mark Evans, Abigail Burdess, Gus Brown, and Paterson Joseph.
Drama which tells the story of comedian Tony Hancock's love affair with
his friend's wife, and her fight to save the man and his career. Only
months into her marriage to John Le Mesurier, Joan fell in love with
Tony, who, despite his struggles with drink, remained charismatic and
funny. They embarked on a passionate affair, but Tony's demons were
never far away, and after months of turmoil Joan gave him an ultimatum:
If he made a go of a new series in Australia and stayed sober, she
would leave John.
A Gripping emotional thriller about the pain and confusion one woman
faces after waking from an 18-year coma, to a world where nothing is
the same. Attempting to piece together events of the past, she finds
her efforts thwarted at every turn, but resolves to work out how to
catch up on the time she has missed.
The shocking true story of Albert Fish, the most monstrous
yet least known serial killer in the history of true crime in America. In 1928,
the angelic 10-year-old Grace Budd is abducted by a kindly old grandfather and
never seen again. After scouring the country for her for six years, detectives
finally arrest Albert Fish for her kidnapping but are unprepared for the
horrors they are about to uncover... Aged 55 when the film opens, Hamilton
Fish, aka Albert Fish, is the father of six grown children whom he has raised
on his own after his wife abandoned the family to run off with their boarder. A
compulsive liar and letter writer, Fish corresponds with women through
"friendship" magazines, woos several under false pretenses, and even
marries a few -- even though he is still technically married to his first wife
-- but eventually repulsing all of them with his sexual perversions. Having
always struggled with leading his life according to his religious convictions,
Fish now teeters on the brink of complete surrender to his sadomasochistic
tendencies. It is the kidnapping of Grace Budd that leads to his downfall. When
he is finally arrested, the authorities discover a trail of murder, mutiliation
and cannibalism. Fish is found guilty despite overwhelming evidence of his
insanity, and promptly sentenced to die in the electric chair.
Set in a hospital and from the production team behind Smack The Pony,
Green Wing has been described as "part surreal soap, part innovative
comedy drama" and follows the sometimes strange, and often amusing,
antics of its staff.
There's new doctor Caroline Todd whose
first day on the job is far from perfect. Then there's Dr. Alan
Statham, the boring Consultant Radiologist who is constantly being
outsmarted by his juniors and who is having a secret affair with hot
tempered and no-nonsense Head of Human Resources Joanne Clore.
To
help the staff with any of their problems there is Staff Liaison Office
Sue White (who is more likely to laugh at, then help solve, your
troubles) and the object of her affection, smooth talking surgeon Dr.
"Mac" Macartney who spends most of his time making stupid competitive
bets with Anaesthetist Guy "I'm God's gift to women" Secretan.
Senior
Paediatrics Register Dr. Angela Hunter has very little problems, except
trying to get that kink out of her boyfriend's ‘perfect' nose, while
the girls in admin Kim, Harriet, Naughty Rachel and Karen spend more
time talking about their sex lives than actually doing any work.
And
then there are the junior doctors; the confident and sarcastic Boyce
and the drippy, useless Dr. Martin Dear who is hated by the patients
and desperate for a woman, preferably Dr. Todd if he can manage it.
Green Wing was devised and produced by Victoria Pile
Alice Chenery (Tamsin Greig) and Gil Raymond (Michael
Landes) are perfect for each other. They like the same things, respect the same
things, and share the same beliefs. The only problem is that they are
completely unaware of each other's existence.
The series follows their somewhat forlorn attempts to find
the perfect partner, whilst the viewer knows that Alice and Gil are the ideal
couple. The series itself follows each plot separately, cutting from Alice's
story to Gil's throughout the episode. The only exception is the final scene of
the series, which shows Alice in the theatre watching a comedy where she is the
only person in the entire audience not laughing - apart from Gil, who is
sitting two rows behind her. They still do not find each other.
When the bickering between broadcasters Beatrice and
Benedick gets too much to take, their colleagues at South West TV come
up with a cunning plan to shut the pair up. Meanwhile, lovely
weathergirl Hero and dashing reporter Claude are a match made in heaven
- but does everyone want to see them so happy?
Crime drama, starring Lisa Faulkner and Caroline Catz as Britain's
answer to Cagney and Lacey. Based in the fictional town of Middleford,
feisty duo DS Emma Scribbins and DI Kate Ashurst bring their own
distinctive style to ridding the streets of crime while at the same
time keeping an eye out for the men of their dreams
Sitcom following the life of Ed Robinson, the youngest son of a
well-to-do south London family. Blind to their own faults the family
consider Ed a loser. So does Ed, who hates his job and isn't having
much luck with his love life (he's fired at work by his ex-girlfriend).
Ed's older brother George is an over-strung time-management executive,
his sister is an obsessive interior designer who can't make her mind up
in regards to boyfriends and his parents... well they just bicker.
With rarely more than 2 characters on screen at any one time, Paul
Whitehouse plays every patient to Chris Langham's psychiatrist, as Help takes a comical look at the world of psychiatry.
Look around you. Look around you. Just look around you. What do you
see? A tree. A weather-vane. A discarded lollipop-wrapper. A traffic
shop. All of these things, and any other things you may care to
mention, have one thing in common. Can you work out what it is?
CORRECT! The answer is Science.
The first series of this British
comedy show, filmed in 2002, was a send-up of the earnest BBC
programmes for schools made in the 1960s and 1970s. The second series
(2005) is a friendlier spoof of the BBC's own slightly wacky Tomorrow's World programme (1965-2002), and it gives a view from somewhere around 1982 of what life might be like in the early 21st century.
The
new series is again written by Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz and
consists of six thirty-minute shows, a big improvement on the
ten-minute format of the first series. The new episodes are all
wonderfully daft...Remember to have your pencils and your copy books handy!
This drama series from Channel 4 follows the trans-Atlantic love affair
between New York record store clerk Edie (Rashida Jones) and London
banker Michael (Stephen Moyer), two very different personalities drawn
together by fabulous chemistry. Watch as they juggle travel, jobs, and
family responsibilities, whilst pursuing a deepening love against a
stupendous soundtrack that helps tell the story.
With his blonde quiff standing to attention and his grey shot-silk suit
sparkling under the showroom lights, Swiss Toni is the emperor of his
car emporium.
And yet the guy cannot sell an Allegro, is being taught to drive by his
long-suffering wife Ruth and is consistently out-performed by his
alcoholic employee, Geoff. Swiss Toni is cheesy, out-of-date and
chauvinistic – which is why everyone loves him.
Played by Charlie Higson and born from The Fast Show character who
claimed "Buying a car is like making love to a beautiful woman…" Swiss
Toni will no doubt entertain, enthral, evoke laughter and most of all
make you feel evolved.
Black Books is a second-hand bookshop in London run by an Irishman
named Bernard Black. He is probably the planet's least-suited person to
run such an establishment: he makes no effort to sell, closes at
strange hours on a whim, is in a perpetual alcoholic stupor, abhors his
customers (sometimes physically abusing them) and is often comatose at
his desk. Help comes in the lumpy shape of Manny Bianco, a hairy,
bumbling individual who (almost by osmosis) becomes Bernard's
assistant. Manny is not exactly great at the job either but he is a
million times better than Bernard. Next door is Fran, an anxious,
frustrated woman who (in the first series) runs a sort of new-age shop
selling the most unlikely bits of arty junk. (In the second, her shop
wasn't seen.) Fran is friends with Bernard and, through him, with
Manny; together the trio become embroiled in escapades that are
sometimes extreme fantastically ludicrous, and always bizarre. The show
has won two BAFTA awards and one Bronze Rose award.
Eyes Down was a short-lived comedy starring Paul
O'Grady as Ray Temple, the manager of a Bingo Hall in Liverpool, England called
The Rio, although the series was filmed in Rayners Lane in London. Although it
had moderate ratings, the programme only lasted for two seasons until it was
cancelled by the BBC in 2004.
The
show is filmed as “a fly-on-the-wall
documentary about modern office life”, but without any sort
of narrator as you might expect. There is a noticeable difference
in the way the characters
behave when they are being caught on film as opposed to playing to
the camera as they do most of the time. There are also often talking
head
moments where the four main characters are interviewed by the program
makers, but we never hear the questions being asked, and we have
no
idea
as to
the identity of anyone behind the camera.
A BBC drama following the personal and professional lives of the Drs and nurses in the cardiac unit of a London hospital. Olivia was in one episode New hearts, old scores.
Romantic comedy drama series about a thirtysomething writer who, while writing about love and romance for a glossy women's magazine, is trying to salvage her own crumbling marriage. Olivia appears in one episode.
The COMEDY LAB is C4's unique televisual comedy experiment
experiment, responsible for launching the careers of some of Britain's
favourite comics - from Trigger Happy TV's Dom Joly to Peter Kay. This
year's season includes an eclectic mix of animation, comedy performance
and innovative writing. COMEDY LAB goes out every Thursday.
Meet a charity boss with no compassion, no morals and no scruples. Mr.
Charity takes a satirical look at the inner workings of a small fund
raising organization run by a man who believes charity begins as close
to home as possible—with himself.
Before That Mitchell and Webb Look, That Mitchell and Webb Sound and even before Peep Show, David Mitchell and Robert Webb had their own sketch series on the now defunct channel Play UK.
The series featured many of Mitchell and Webb's trademark subjects,
such as spoofs of make-over shows and other dull forms of TV. This
series also co-starred their regular comedy partner Olivia Colman.
Mixing bizarre characters with send-ups of television genres
including satellite channels and BBC schools revision programmes, the
quick-fire style never failed to keep viewers guessing what might crop
up next.
The recurring gags often worked well, including
an appallingly thoughtless American TV reporter and the imagined hit
interview series 'Outdoor Wee': a set of mid-urination conversations
with the stars, among whom retired cricket umpire Dickie Harold gets
somewhat carried away.
A pre-Peep Show Mitchell and Webb
led both the cast and writing team and several sketches show early
hallmarks of their later TV and radio double act.
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