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1) Funny girl
Author
Description
"From the bestselling author of High Fidelity, About a Boy, and A Long Way Down comes a highly anticipated new novel. Set in 1960's London, Funny Girl is a lively account of the adventures of the intrepid young Sophie Straw as she navigates her transformation from provincial ingenue to television starlet amid a constellation of delightful characters. Insightful and humorous, Nick Hornby's latest does what he does best: endears us to a cast of characters...
Publisher
Lifetime
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
AMERICAN PRINCESS is the story of an Upper East Side socialite whose storybook wedding plans are dramatically derailed when she violently reacts to her fiancé's affair, becomes a tabloid headline, suffers a nervous breakdown and ultimately runs off to join a Renaissance Faire.
Publisher
Verite Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Popular comedian Brent Butt returns to small town Saskatchewan to the life he would have led had he gotten a real job – pumping gas. Each episode of CORNER GAS delivers a half-hour of comedic voyeurism in a place where everyone knows everyone else’s business. The series is set in the fictional town of Dog River, Saskatchewan, and focuses on the life (or lack thereof) of gas station owner Brent Leroy (Brent Butt), coffee shop proprietor Lacey Burrows...
Publisher
Topic Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Writer, director, and performer Wyatt Cenac stars in this digital series about a Brooklyn resident moonlighting as a crime-fighting vigilante, confronting self-absorbed parents, upstart artisanal-mustard shops, and his own relevance in the world. Nominated for a 2018 Emmy for Outstanding Short Form Comedy or Drama Series.
6) Dead Like Me
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
You're about to be collected. This groundbreaking, original series delivers you into a realm of shockingly funny characters and twisted narratives you'll find addictive! When a toilet seat from the falling Mir space station puts an abrupt end to her life, George (Ellen Muth) discovers that death is nothing like she thought it would be. Recruited to collect the souls of others as they die, she suddenly finds herself an unwilling participant in a line...
7) Fresh Meat
Publisher
All3Media International
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
The perils and joys of house sharing and tutors in those first university years - a painfully amusing drama of self-discovery and errors of judgement, set on the brink of adult life…FRESH MEAT follows six fresher students, away from home for the first time. From awkward moments and dreaded silences, to frequent reinventions and appalling behaviour they are about to discover who they really are. How on earth will they cope with student life…?
Publisher
All3Media International
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
NOTHING TRIVIAL is a warm and light-hearted romantic drama about broken hearts, second chances and starting over at 40 and beyond… Questions about life, love and the pursuit of happiness are all revealed as the protagonists answer their weekly pub trivia questions.
10) Spin City
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1996.
Description
A New York City Deputy Mayor, supported by an unusual staff, must constantly bail out the Mayor who never knows what is going on.
11) Green Acres
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
1965.
Description
Revisit your favorite friends from Hooterville in this classic sitcom that provides a cornucopia of farm-to-table hilarity! Oliver Douglas (Eddie Albert) is a New York lawyer who has had enough of the hustle and bustle; so he pulls up stakes to settle down in a more pastoral setting… much to the dismay of his glamorous wife, Lisa (Eva Gabor)! Having said "goodbye, city life," the Douglases must contend with their new, bucolic and very eccentric...
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Based on the best-selling books for kids (and for adults, but they just won't admit it), HORRIBLE HISTORIES is an energetic, surprising and unconventional take on history's most gruesome, unpleasant yet funniest moments. From the woeful World Wars, the miserable Middle Ages and the savage Stone Age to cut-throat Celts, groovy Greeks, rotten Romans, vile Vikings and awful Egyptians, history has never been so naughty.
13) The Office
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2001.
Description
A brilliant and cringe-makingly funny 'mocusoap' set in a paper merchants in the heart of middle England. David Brent is a lower-middle-ranking manager in charge of a lower-middle-ranking office. His workplace is the antithesis of TV's glossy law firms full of bright professionals. Instead of mutual respect and intelligent dialogue, David's office is a place of backfiring practical jokes, failed flirting and bad showing off.
14) Stella
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
Ruth Jones stars in this heartwarming comedy drama portraying family life in working-class Wales.
15) Josh
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Sitcom about flatmates Josh, Kate and Owen, and their annoying landlord Geoff.
16) Enterprice
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Comedy written by Kayode Ewumi. Kazim and Jeremiah are two young entrepreneurs in the early stages of rolling out their home delivery service, Speedi-Kazz. Both are blessed with different skill sets: Kazim has the energy and confidence, Jeremiah has the brains - but on occasion these differences can leave them at loggerheads.
17) Semi-Detached
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Lee Mack stars in this farcical family sitcom about a divorced couple living on the same street. Playing out in real time, this madcap sitcom is packed with exquisitely timed mayhem. With each episode, a new crisis kicks off in Stuart’s life. Stuart hasn’t exactly made it easy for himself. His ex-wife lives across the street, his alcohol-swilling dad lives in the bedroom next door and his new girlfriend, not to mention his daughter, can be a tad...
18) Him & Her
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
An intimate anti-romantic comedy about real-life love in its lazy, messy, everyday glory.
19) Ballykissangel
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
1996.
Description
When Father Peter Clifford arrives from Manchester, he knows he will be facing some opposition. After all, what is a young, inexperienced English priest doing in Ireland, of all places? He soon finds out that the town of Ballykissangel poses many more challenges. Rural village life is very different from the big cities. Here everyone knows everyone else's business and a secret doesn't stay secret for long.
20) She's the Mayor
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
Iris Peters is a former school principal in her 60s. When she charged into her neighbourhood's all-candidates mayoral debate to speak her mind, something happened that she didn't expect. After being taunted by Deputy Mayor Bill Clarke, Iris decides by the end of the evening to run for mayor. Naturally, the political novice ends up winning the election and heads to City Hall, where she treats its denizens as if they're badly behaved schoolchildren....
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