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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) 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…?
7) Stella
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
Ruth Jones stars in this heartwarming comedy drama portraying family life in working-class Wales.
8) 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.
9) Lead Balloon
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Jack Dee is at his grumpy best in this dark comedy about a disillusioned comedian.
10) Him & Her
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
An intimate anti-romantic comedy about real-life love in its lazy, messy, everyday glory.
11) The Cleaner
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
It’s the cops’ job to clean up the city, but it’s Wicky’s job to clean up the crime scenes. BAFTA-winner Greg Davies writes and stars in a truly arresting comedy.Wicky is a crime scene cleaner. When the detectives are done, he moves in, armed with his bleach and scrubbing brushes. His job brings him into contact with the strangest people: those who knew the victims, and sometimes even the killers themselves. But because he’s a chatty man,...
12) 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.
13) 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...
14) Stath Lets Flats
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Stath is a Greek-Cypriot lettings agent, working at the family business in North London. His eccentric dad Vasos is desperate to retire - and Stath is desperate to prove he can run the business when that happens. The only problem is Stath is rubbish at letting flats. His only moral support is his cheery sister Sophie, who dreams of being a professional dancer despite a complete lack of talent, and his painfully shy colleague Al. Can Stath earn his...
15) Give Out Girls
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Diana Vickers and Tracey Ann Oberman star in this sharply observed comedy about a gang of four girls (and a couple of guys) who work in the world of 'promotions'. A world that's instantly recognisable to anyone who's ever done a job simply to pay the rent, it's a show about doing a job rather than having a career, working hard at avoiding work and how, because you spend so much time with them, your work colleagues become your mates by default. They...
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
After a recent break-up, Alma tries to get her life back on track. But with no job, no qualifications and a rebellious streak a mile wide, it is not going to be easy. Meanwhile, her heroin-addicted mum has been sectioned for arson, and her vampish grandma Joan wants nothing to do with it. A bitingly funny and unflinching take on class, sexuality, mental health and substance abuse, celebrating women dealing with the hand they were dealt while doggedly...
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
1992.
Description
Edina runs a fashion agency, wears designer clothes and lives the life of a jet-setter. Her friend Patsy smokes like a chimney, drinks like a fish and dresses like a dream. Life would be one long party - if only Edina's swotty daughter would stop complaining and start joining in like a normal teenager…
18) Josh
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Sitcom about flatmates Josh, Kate and Owen, and their annoying landlord Geoff.
19) 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.
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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