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Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
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…
62) Wannabe
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Maxine used to be famous. Shiny, fabulous famous. Back in the '90s, Maxine released a hit single with teenage girl group Variety. But success was short-lived. Now Maxine's husband writes cheesy jingles for a living, her PA is a mobile phone app and the girl band she manages are threatening to fire her. Maxine decides to form Mum Pop, a girl band made up entirely of mums. Now Maxine just needs to find some mums. And music. And an audience.
64) The break-up
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Brooke calls it quits with her boyfriend Gary. Neither one is willing to move out of the condo they once shared. Taking the advice of their repsective friends and confidants, including a few complete strangers, they both engage in mental warfare designed to force the other person to flee the premises. But they might just realize that they might be fighting to keep their relationship alive.
65) Lead Balloon: S2
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
As world-weary comedian and writer Rick Spleen will tell you, he's on the up, his career is going from strength to strength. In other words, nothing much has changed. As his career lurches from one disaster to the next, Rick also has to cope with crises on the domestic front - not the least of which is a bedridden Mel, who has to battle to recover from the flu before Rick manages to lose every C-list client her agency has on its books. Rick even manages...
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
English
Description
This production is part of a famous series produced by BBC of all of William Shakespeare's plays. The resulting films, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilized the best theatrical and television directors and brought highly praised performances from leading contemporary actors. Shakespeare uses one of this favorite devices -- trickery -- in a plot relished by Elizabethan playgoers. The new wife of a young count resorts to chicanery to win...
67) Josh: S2
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Josh Widdicombe returns for a second series of this quirky comedy about the highs and lows of life as an anxious old man trapped in a young man's body. Things don't run smoothly for Josh as he gets embroiled with a sexually voracious older woman, attempts to evict a drug-taking squatter from his flat and tries to end ten years of friendship with the world's most boring man, aka Pete the Human Potato. Expect plenty of high-pitched grumbling, a glossary...
68) Lead Balloon: S4
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Hapless Rick Spleen is back, and in this series, his career hits an all-time low - even by his own dismal standards. From public humiliation on live TV to private embarrassment at a comedy workshop, it seems everything Rick touches turns to mould. His idea of writing a novel gets stuck on page one, and when he lands a job as a presenter on a shopping channel, it seems he has finally found his niche. But when he's taken hostage by a knife-wielding...
69) The Kind Words
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This quirky and wry comedy follows three Jewish Israeli siblings – Dorona and brothers Netanel and Shai – who, in the wake of their mother’s death, learn the man who raised them is not their biological dad. The revelation sends them on a road trip from Israel across France to discover the truth about their real father. The sixth feature from writer-director Shemi Zarhin explores an unraveling family secret and the bittersweet journey of self-discovery...
70) Josh: S1
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A flat-share sitcom about the minutiae of modern life, written by and starring fast-rising comedian Josh Widdicombe. Frustrated, single and reliably grumpy, Josh shares a flat with his two best friends: Owen, a romantic Welshman as laid-back as Josh is uptight; and Kate, a perfectionist who spends her life pursuing every trend from A to Zumba. This trio of twenty-somethings also have to contend with Geoff, their irritating landlord. Josh is hampered...
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Don Alfonso plays the marimba for a living. When he meets an old underground heavy-metal legend, they decide to do something radical and fuse both sounds. A fresh and hilarious documentary-fiction hybrid about the fusion between tradition and modernity that conveys a moving and authentic sense of Guatemalan life.. Official Selection at the Toronto International Film Festival.. “This largely comic look at one determined marimba player’s struggles...
Publisher
National Film Board of Canada
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
This hilarious short animation offers over 40 safety tips for homes with infants and young children. The film's hero is a very earnest, somewhat pompous, but endearing dog called Wally. A "professional" in home safety, Wally is assigned to a house with an infant whose parents have little safety consciousness. Accidents and near-accidents succeed each other with lightning speed, constantly putting Wally to the test.. Winner of the Special Prize for...
73) Twelfth Night
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Description
This production is part of a famous series produced by BBC of all of William Shakespeare's plays. The resulting films, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilized the best theatrical and television directors and brought highly praised performances from leading contemporary actors.. With practical jokes, poetry and haunting songs, this is the most subtle of Shakespeare's comedies. In an aristocratic country house, we see the infatuation of Orsino,...
74) Exit Elena
Publisher
Factory 25
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Elena takes a job as a live-in aide and is thrust into the middle of a family crisis. She strikes a balance until the family's prodigal son comes home.. Nominated for Best Film at the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema.. "[Director Nathan] Silver locates the ordinary madness bubbling just beneath the surface of his own life, and flickers of lunacy abound ..." - Calum Marsh, Village Voice. "Nathan Silver's film is a quiet and...
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Will Packham is an idealistic pupil barrister - or idealistic for now. His clients are at least as guilty as sin. His pupilmaster Caroline thinks he is a gutless snowflake. His fellow pupils want the same job as him and would stab each other to get it. Over the course of two days, Will has to defend a would-be murderer, keep a young slam poet out of custody and fetch Caroline a range of pastries. Can Will hold onto his principles and prove he has...
76) McLintock!
Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
1963.
Language
English
Description
In this classic comic western, aging rancher George Washington McLintock (John Wayne), a wealthy self-made man, is forced to deal with numerous personal and professional problems. Seemingly everyone wants a piece of his enormous farmstead, including high-ranking government men, McLintock's own sons and nearby Native Americans.. As McLintock tries to juggle his various adversaries, his wife, who left him two years previously, suddenly returns. But...
77) Lead Balloon: S3
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Jack Dee returns once again to the screens as the hapless Rick Spleen. Despite professional and domestic crises, Rick manages to hold his head up high and retain his self-respect. Well, actually, no he doesn't - getting the worst score of all time on a much-loved radio panel show, and the disclosure of his real name on a show about family trees certainly does away with any remaining pride. Domestic chaos, social mishaps and professional disasters...
78) Lead Balloon: S1
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Jack Dee stars as Rick Spleen, a disillusioned stand-up comedian and writer. His career has not quite gone the way he had hoped; hosting corporate events and appearing on second-rate daytime chat shows was not meant to be part of the plan. Worse still, he's stuck with a lousy stage name that he chose twenty years ago. Whether he is being accused of putting on weight, suspected of being gay or worried about accidentally poisoning another performer,...
79) Semi-Detached
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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...
80) Give Out Girls
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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...
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